Massachusetts · Private foundation
Massachusetts Charitable Fire Society
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $137k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 7
- Grants FY2025
- 6
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 0%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $20,604
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $27,471
- Organizations funded a year
- 4 to 6
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $1.5M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 0% of the organizations Massachusetts Charitable Fire Society funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 7 | $137k | 29% |
| FY2024 | 6 | $114k | 0% |
| FY2023 | 6 | $133k | 17% |
| FY2022 | 6 | $127k | 33% |
| FY2021 | 4 | $109k | 0% |
| FY2020 | 5 | $94k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Last Call Foundation Inc | $155,201 | 6 | 7% |
| Massachusetts Corps of Fire Chaplains | $150,769 | 6 | 80% |
| Charitable Association of the Boston Fire Department | $139,472 | 6 | 34% |
| Boston Firefighters Burn Fnd Inc | $69,680 | 4 | 13% |
| Boston Firefighters Local 718 Children's Fund Inc | $13,736 | 1 | n/a |
| Cocoanut Grove Memorial Committee Inc | $5,000 | 1 | 40% |
Plus 4 recipients with no EIN on record ($180k), not named here.
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About Massachusetts Charitable Fire Society
- How much does Massachusetts Charitable Fire Society give?
- Massachusetts Charitable Fire Society reported 7 grants totaling $137,358 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 4 and 6 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does Massachusetts Charitable Fire Society fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Public Safety & Disaster (82%), Health (18%), Human Services (1%).
- Who are Massachusetts Charitable Fire Society's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Last Call Foundation Inc ($155k), Massachusetts Corps of Fire Chaplains ($151k), Charitable Association of the Boston Fire Department ($139k).
- Does Massachusetts Charitable Fire Society fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Massachusetts Charitable Fire Society accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Where is Massachusetts Charitable Fire Society based?
- Massachusetts Charitable Fire Society is based in MA.
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