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Malcolm and Elizabeth Fraser Foundation Inc

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$79k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
9
Grants FY2025
5
Organizations funded FY2024
100%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$10,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$15,000
Organizations funded a year
3 to 23
FY2019 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
5
Total assets, FY2025
$314k
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 100% of the organizations Malcolm and Elizabeth Fraser Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 100% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $25k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’20’21’22’23’24
InternationalEnvironmentEducationHuman ServicesHealthCrime & LegalOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving8$79k50%
FY20245$25k100%
FY20233$29k67%
FY20226$33k67%
FY202123$306k70%
FY20205$32k60%
FY201914$88kn/a
95% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.

Religion$282kHealth$52kEnvironment$50kInternational$40kFood & Nutrition$32kPublic Safety & Disaster$30kHuman Services$21kArts & Culture$21kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

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MA
IA
CA
VA
AZ
TN
DC
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Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2019 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Solid Rock Ministries Inc$42,000325%
The 300 Committee Land Trust Inc$25,00021%
Greater Boston Food Bank Inc$23,50020%
Buzzards Bay Coalition$22,00030%
Operation Smile Inc$15,00020%
World Central Kitchen Inc$14,50020%
Carousel of Light Inc$14,0001n/a
The Carter Center Inc$10,00010%
Mercy Ships International$10,00010%
Falmouth Service Center Inc$10,00020%
Show all 31 grantees

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 17 recipients with no EIN on record ($330k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Malcolm and Elizabeth Fraser Foundation Inc supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSolid Rock Ministries Inc: $42,000 over 3y, 25% of budgetThe 300 Committee Land Trust Inc: $25,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetGreater Boston Food Bank Inc: $23,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBuzzards Bay Coalition: $22,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetOperation Smile Inc: $15,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWorld Central Kitchen Inc: $14,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Carter Center Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMercy Ships International: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFalmouth Service Center Inc: $10,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetFalmouth Academy Inc: $9,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCreative Play Children's Learning Center Inc: $8,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $7,774 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRecovery Without Walls Inc: $7,000 over 2y, 2.9% of budgetMercy Corps: $7,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSouthern Poverty Law Center Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFalmouth Road Race Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetUnited States Fund for Unicef: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetInternational Rescue Committee INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSt Petersburg Free Clinic Inc: $4,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetR'Club Child Care Inc: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNeighborhood Falmouth Inc: $1,500 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetFeeding America Tampa Bay Inc: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Friends of the Ocean Cleanup Foundation: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOceana Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOne Tree Planted Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Council On Renewable Energy: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmazon Conservation Association: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 28.

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Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Hermann Foundation IncMA15.7× affinity5 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Hermann Foundation Inc · Martha's Vineyard Bank Charitable Foundation Inc · Fraser Family Foundation Inc · Caithness Foundation · Cape Cod Five Cents Savings Bank Charitable Foundation Trust · Cape Cod Foundation Inc · Network for Good · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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Find your warmest path to Malcolm and Elizabeth Fraser Foundation Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

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About Malcolm and Elizabeth Fraser Foundation Inc

How much does Malcolm and Elizabeth Fraser Foundation Inc give?
Malcolm and Elizabeth Fraser Foundation Inc reported 9 grants totaling $79,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 3 and 23 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2024.
What does Malcolm and Elizabeth Fraser Foundation Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2025, its largest causes are Religion (48%), Health (9%), Environment (8%).
Who are Malcolm and Elizabeth Fraser Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2019 to FY2025: Solid Rock Ministries Inc ($42k), The 300 Committee Land Trust Inc ($25k), Greater Boston Food Bank Inc ($24k).
Does Malcolm and Elizabeth Fraser Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 100% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Malcolm and Elizabeth Fraser Foundation Inc accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as Malcolm and Elizabeth Fraser Foundation Inc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Hermann Foundation Inc, Martha's Vineyard Bank Charitable Foundation Inc, Fraser Family Foundation Inc.
Where is Malcolm and Elizabeth Fraser Foundation Inc based?
Malcolm and Elizabeth Fraser Foundation Inc is based in MA.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 48 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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