Massachusetts · Private foundation
Melrose Cooperative Bank Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $145k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 26
- Grants FY2025
- 20
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 5%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $2,500
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $27,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 19 to 30
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 2
- Total assets, FY2025
- $2.3M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 5% of the organizations Melrose Cooperative Bank Foundation 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; $1k 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 | 26 | $145k | 15% |
| FY2024 | 20 | $113k | 5% |
| FY2023 | 29 | $126k | 24% |
| FY2022 | 22 | $111k | 27% |
| FY2021 | 19 | $108k | 26% |
| FY2020 | 30 | $106k | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mission of Deeds Inc | $83,500 | 6 | 1% |
| Greater Boston Stage Company | $75,500 | 6 | 1% |
| The Food Drive Inc | $72,500 | 5 | 3% |
| Melrose Orchestral Association Inc | $65,000 | 6 | 8% |
| Follow Your Art Community Studios Inc | $60,500 | 6 | 8% |
| Mystic Valley Aging Services Inc | $30,000 | 6 | 0% |
| The Friends of the Middlesex Fells Reservation Inc | $28,000 | 6 | 2% |
| Community Coalition of Melrose Inc | $27,600 | 5 | 5% |
| Polyminia Choral Society | $27,500 | 6 | 44% |
| Melrose Affordable Housing Corporation | $26,500 | 5 | 5% |
Show all 40 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 13 recipients with no EIN on record ($73k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Melrose Cooperative Bank Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 40 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 · Cambridge Savings Charitable Foundation Inc · Adelaide Breed Bayrd Foundation · Cummings Foundation Grants Inc (Fka Oneworld Boston Inc) · People's United Community Foundation of Eastern Massachusetts Inc · Boston Foundation Inc · American Tower Corporation Foundation Inc · Salem Five Charitable Foundation Inc · Rockland Trust - East Boston Savings Bank Foundation Inc · Bushrod H Campbell & Adah F Hall Charity Fund · Arbella Insurance Foundation · Piccolo Family Charitable Foundationinc
How this is measured
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About Melrose Cooperative Bank Foundation
- How much does Melrose Cooperative Bank Foundation give?
- Melrose Cooperative Bank Foundation reported 26 grants totaling $145,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 19 and 30 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does Melrose Cooperative Bank Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (34%), Human Services (19%), Food & Nutrition (14%).
- Who are Melrose Cooperative Bank Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Mission of Deeds Inc ($84k), Greater Boston Stage Company ($76k), The Food Drive Inc ($73k).
- Does Melrose Cooperative Bank Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 5% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Melrose Cooperative Bank Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Melrose Cooperative Bank Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Eastern Bank Foundation, Cambridge Savings Charitable Foundation Inc, Adelaide Breed Bayrd Foundation.
- Where is Melrose Cooperative Bank Foundation based?
- Melrose Cooperative Bank Foundation is based in MA.
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