Massachusetts · Public charity
Massachusetts Medical Society
To advance medical knowledge, to develop and maintain the highest professional and ethical standards of medical practice and health care, and to promote medical institutions formed on liberal principles for the health, benefit, and welfare of the citizens of massachusetts.
- $648k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 5
- Itemized grants FY2025
- 6
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 17%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Itemized, FY2025
- $518k
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2025
- $29,382
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $408,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 5 to 14
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $310M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 17% of the organizations Massachusetts Medical Society funded were first-time grantees, receiving 1% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $9k 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 | 5 | $518k | 20% |
| FY2024 | 6 | $623k | 17% |
| FY2023 | 6 | $687k | 17% |
| FY2022 | 5 | $1.0M | 0% |
| FY2021 | 6 | $926k | 0% |
| FY2020 | 10 | $1.0M | 20% |
| FY2019 | 14 | $1.1M | 57% |
| FY2018 | 10 | $1.2M | 40% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Physician Health Services Inc | $4,473,000 | 9 | 30% |
| Massachusetts Medical Society and Alliance Charitable Foundation | $1,313,000 | 8 | 46% |
| Massachusetts Medical Benevolent Society | $750,000 | 9 | 51% |
| Massachusetts Medical Society Alliance Inc | $160,000 | 7 | 99% |
| Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center Inc | $150,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Boston Medical Library | $75,000 | 3 | 4% |
| Direct Relief | $69,900 | 1 | 0% |
| Foundation for Healthy Floridians | $25,000 | 1 | 4% |
| Texas Medical Association Foundation | $25,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Massachusetts Health Quality Partners Inc | $20,000 | 2 | 0% |
Show all 23 grantees
Plus 1 recipient with no EIN on record ($1.1M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Massachusetts Medical Society supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 4 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 19 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: Eastern Bank Foundation · Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
About Massachusetts Medical Society
- How much does Massachusetts Medical Society give?
- Massachusetts Medical Society reported 5 itemized grants totaling $518,382, out of $647,962 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 5 and 14 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Massachusetts Medical Society fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (69%), Community Improvement (16%), Public Safety & Disaster (2%).
- Who are Massachusetts Medical Society's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Physician Health Services Inc ($4.5M), Massachusetts Medical Society and Alliance Charitable Foundation ($1.3M), Massachusetts Medical Benevolent Society ($750k).
- Does Massachusetts Medical Society fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 17% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Massachusetts Medical Society?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Eastern Bank Foundation, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center Inc, Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund.
- Where is Massachusetts Medical Society based?
- Massachusetts Medical Society is based in MA.
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