Massachusetts · Private foundation
Move the World Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $263k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 27
- Grants FY2024
- 26
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 15%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $8,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $20,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 26 to 36
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 2
- Total assets, FY2024
- $4.6M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 15% of the organizations Move the World Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 8% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $23k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 27 | $263k | 15% |
| FY2023 | 26 | $300k | 15% |
| FY2022 | 31 | $316k | 19% |
| FY2021 | 31 | $231k | 19% |
| FY2020 | 33 | $258k | 33% |
| FY2018 | 36 | $218k | 22% |
| FY2017 | 30 | $192k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wellington Management Foundation | $156,750 | 7 | 0% |
| Social Innovation Forum Inc | $100,000 | 2 | 2% |
| Museum of Science | $97,000 | 7 | 0% |
| LEAP for Education Inc | $75,000 | 7 | 1% |
| Raw Art Works Inc | $72,500 | 7 | 1% |
| The Massachusetts Institute for a New Commonwealth Inc | $60,000 | 3 | 1% |
| Thrive Scholars | $52,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Girls Incorporated of Boston and Lynn | $45,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Icivics Inc | $42,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Trustees of Tufts College | $40,000 | 5 | 0% |
Show all 39 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 30 recipients with no EIN on record ($573k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Move the World Foundation 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 · Boston Foundation Inc · Cummings Foundation Grants Inc (Fka Oneworld Boston Inc) · Amelia Peabody Foundation · Rockland Trust Charitable Foundation Inc · Wellington Management Foundation · United Way Of Massachusetts Bay Inc · The John H and H Naomi Tomfohrde Foundation · Richard & Susan Smith Family Foundation · Salem Five Charitable Foundation Inc · William E Schrafft and Bertha E Schrafft Charitable Trust · Essex County Community Foundation Inc
How this is measured
About Move the World Foundation
- How much does Move the World Foundation give?
- Move the World Foundation reported 27 grants totaling $263,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 26 and 36 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does Move the World Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (30%), Youth Development (24%), Community Improvement (9%).
- Who are Move the World Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Wellington Management Foundation ($157k), Social Innovation Forum Inc ($100k), Museum of Science ($97k).
- Does Move the World Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 15% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Move the World Foundation 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 Move the World Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Eastern Bank Foundation, Boston Foundation Inc, Cummings Foundation Grants Inc (Fka Oneworld Boston Inc).
- Where is Move the World Foundation based?
- Move the World Foundation is based in MA.
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