Massachusetts · Private foundation
MFS Investment Management 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.
- $2.3M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 46
- Grants FY2025
- 35
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 60%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $999,998
- Organizations funded a year
- 25 to 35
- FY2022 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 10
- Total assets, FY2025
- $35M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 60% of the organizations MFS Investment Management Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 51% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 49% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $493k 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 | 40 | $1.3M | 45% |
| FY2024 | 35 | $974k | 60% |
| FY2023 | 25 | $617k | 72% |
| FY2022 | 25 | $399k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2022 to 2024.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| City Year Inc | $640,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Horizons for Homeless Children | $311,403 | 2 | 1% |
| Squashbusters Inc | $255,976 | 4 | 2% |
| Cradles to Crayons Inc | $250,000 | 3 | 0% |
| World Central Kitchen Inc | $165,000 | 3 | 0% |
| American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches | $125,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Boston Medical Center Corporation | $125,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Greater Boston Food Bank Inc | $112,852 | 2 | 0% |
| Bridge Over Troubled Waters Inc | $79,049 | 3 | 0% |
| Sifma Foundation for Investor Education (Fie) Inc | $75,000 | 1 | 2% |
Show all 71 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 11 recipients with no EIN on record ($171k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget MFS Investment Management Foundation 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: Eastern Bank Foundation · Cummings Foundation Grants Inc (Fka Oneworld Boston Inc) · Boston Foundation Inc · Liberty Mutual Foundation Inc · Highland Street Connection and Subsidiaries · American Tower Corporation Foundation Inc · Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc · Riley Mabel Louise Tr Uwill · The Cabot Family Charitable Trust · The Klarman Family Foundation · Fidelity Foundation · Bushrod H Campbell & Adah F Hall Charity Fund
How this is measured
Compare MFS Investment Management Foundation Inc with peer funders
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About MFS Investment Management Foundation Inc
- How much does MFS Investment Management Foundation Inc give?
- MFS Investment Management Foundation Inc reported 46 grants totaling $2,254,762 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 25 and 35 organizations a year over FY2022 to FY2024.
- What does MFS Investment Management Foundation Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2022 to FY2025, its largest causes are Philanthropy (45%), Education (17%), Human Services (7%).
- Who are MFS Investment Management Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2022 to FY2025: City Year Inc ($640k), Horizons for Homeless Children ($311k), Squashbusters Inc ($256k).
- Does MFS Investment Management Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 60% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does MFS Investment Management 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 MFS Investment Management Foundation Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Eastern Bank Foundation, Cummings Foundation Grants Inc (Fka Oneworld Boston Inc), Boston Foundation Inc.
- Where is MFS Investment Management Foundation Inc based?
- MFS Investment Management Foundation Inc is based in MA.
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