Massachusetts · Public charity
Metrowest Women's Fund Inc
To invest in women and girls in the metrowest through community building, education, and grant making.
- $204k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 10
- Itemized grants FY2025
- 6
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 17%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Itemized, FY2025
- $163k
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2025
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $67,500
- Organizations funded a year
- 2 to 7
- FY2022 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $1.6M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 17% of the organizations Metrowest Women's Fund Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 9% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $13k 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 | 10 | $163k | 50% |
| FY2024 | 6 | $133k | 17% |
| FY2023 | 7 | $137k | 71% |
| FY2022 | 2 | $81k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2022 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2022 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Massachusetts Bay Community College Foundation Inc | $259,055 | 4 | 6% |
| Metrowest Legal Services Inc | $59,250 | 4 | 0% |
| Wellesley College | $50,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Women's Bar Foundation of Massachusetts | $30,000 | 3 | 2% |
| Reach Beyond Domestic Violence Inc | $26,500 | 3 | 0% |
| Domestic Violence Services Network Inc | $22,500 | 2 | n/a |
| One Family Inc | $14,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Waltham Boys & Girls Club Inc | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Women's Money Matters Inc | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| South Middlesex Opportunity Council Inc | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
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| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Massachusetts Bay Community College Foundation Inc | $259,055 | 4 | 6% |
| Metrowest Legal Services Inc | $59,250 | 4 | 0% |
| Wellesley College | $50,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Women's Bar Foundation of Massachusetts | $30,000 | 3 | 2% |
| Reach Beyond Domestic Violence Inc | $26,500 | 3 | 0% |
| Domestic Violence Services Network Inc | $22,500 | 2 | n/a |
| One Family Inc | $14,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Waltham Boys & Girls Club Inc | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Women's Money Matters Inc | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| South Middlesex Opportunity Council Inc | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| RIA Inc | $9,250 | 1 | 1% |
| Justice Resource Institute Inc | $6,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Safe Exit Initiative (Sei) Inc | $6,000 | 1 | 0% |
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Metrowest Women's Fund Inc supplied at peak.
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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: Community Foundation for MetroWest Inc · Eastern Bank Foundation · Boston Foundation Inc · Cummings Foundation Grants Inc (Fka Oneworld Boston Inc) · Middlesex Savings Charitable Foundation Inc · Rockland Trust Charitable Foundation Inc · Massachusetts Bankers Association Charitable Foundation Inc · Avidia Charitable Foundation Inc · George H & Jane a Mifflin Memorial Fund · Eastern Cambridge Foundation · Cambridge Savings Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program
How this is measured
About Metrowest Women's Fund Inc
- How much does Metrowest Women's Fund Inc give?
- Metrowest Women's Fund Inc reported 10 itemized grants totaling $162,500, out of $204,250 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 7 organizations a year over FY2022 to FY2024.
- What does Metrowest Women's Fund Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2022 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (60%), Crime & Legal (24%), Human Services (9%).
- Who are Metrowest Women's Fund Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2022 to FY2025: Massachusetts Bay Community College Foundation Inc ($259k), Metrowest Legal Services Inc ($59k), Wellesley College ($50k).
- Does Metrowest Women's Fund Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 17% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Metrowest Women's Fund Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Community Foundation for MetroWest Inc, Eastern Bank Foundation, Boston Foundation Inc.
- Where is Metrowest Women's Fund Inc based?
- Metrowest Women's Fund Inc is based in MA.
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