Massachusetts · Private foundation
Neil & Anna Rasmussen 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.
- $6.2M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 48
- Grants FY2024
- 54
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 39%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $15,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $3,012,500
- Organizations funded a year
- 41 to 54
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 4
- Total assets, FY2024
- $52M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 39% of the organizations Neil & Anna Rasmussen Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 77% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 23% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4.6M 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 | 48 | $6.2M | 13% |
| FY2023 | 54 | $6.0M | 39% |
| FY2022 | 44 | $813k | 5% |
| FY2021 | 41 | $621k | 7% |
| FY2020 | 42 | $858k | 10% |
| FY2019 | 45 | $1.8M | 4% |
| FY2018 | 46 | $7.9M | 22% |
| FY2017 | 46 | $8.3M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 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, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Concord Antiquarian Society D/B/A Concord Museum | $1,381,938 | 7 | 18% |
| Children's Hospital Corporation | $1,100,000 | 5 | 0% |
| The Walden Woods Project | $847,570 | 7 | 7% |
| Wesleyan University | $450,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Save Our Heritage Inc | $430,000 | 8 | 76% |
| Emerson Health Care Foundation Inc | $401,000 | 6 | 4% |
| Harwich Conservation Trust | $380,000 | 8 | 3% |
| Deployus Inc | $325,000 | 5 | 17% |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson Memorial Association | $300,000 | 6 | 42% |
| Concord Academy | $265,000 | 8 | 0% |
Show all 64 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 30 recipients with no EIN on record ($23M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Neil & Anna Rasmussen Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 3 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 61 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: Boston Foundation Inc · Highland Street Connection and Subsidiaries · Kane Wallace Foundation · Massachusetts Foundation for the Humanities & Public Policy Inc · Ibm International Foundation · The Diomedes Foundation · The Loring Wolcott & Coolidge Charitable Trust-I · Rosse Family Charitable Foundation Inc · Pobble Stone Foundation · Community Foundation for MetroWest Inc · Eastern Bank Foundation · Zachary and Lindsey Gund Foundation
How this is measured
About Neil & Anna Rasmussen Foundation
- How much does Neil & Anna Rasmussen Foundation give?
- Neil & Anna Rasmussen Foundation reported 48 grants totaling $6,249,353 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 41 and 54 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does Neil & Anna Rasmussen Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Health (19%), Arts & Culture (15%), Environment (7%).
- Who are Neil & Anna Rasmussen Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Concord Antiquarian Society D/B/A Concord Museum ($1.4M), Children's Hospital Corporation ($1.1M), The Walden Woods Project ($848k).
- Does Neil & Anna Rasmussen Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 39% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Neil & Anna Rasmussen 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 Neil & Anna Rasmussen Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Boston Foundation Inc, Highland Street Connection and Subsidiaries, Kane Wallace Foundation.
- Where is Neil & Anna Rasmussen Foundation based?
- Neil & Anna Rasmussen Foundation is based in MA.
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