Massachusetts · Private foundation
New Balance Foundation
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.
- $17M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 85
- Grants FY2025
- 86
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 21%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $50,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $2,450,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 67 to 86
- FY2021 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 11
- Total assets, FY2025
- $242M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 21% of the organizations New Balance Foundation 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; $1.1M 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 | 84 | $16M | 2% |
| FY2024 | 86 | $12M | 21% |
| FY2023 | 74 | $10M | 15% |
| FY2022 | 67 | $8.4M | 9% |
| FY2021 | 79 | $8.0M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.
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, FY2021 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Boys & Girls Clubs of Dorchester Inc | $3,220,000 | 5 | 7% |
| Squashbusters Inc | $2,802,000 | 5 | 17% |
| Harlem Lacrosse and Leadership Corporation | $2,410,000 | 5 | 7% |
| World Central Kitchen Inc | $2,000,000 | 3 | 0% |
| The Childrens Museum | $1,700,000 | 5 | 10% |
| Lawrence Boys & Girls Club Inc | $1,675,000 | 5 | 8% |
| Two Ten Footwear Foundation Inc | $1,405,000 | 5 | 7% |
| Beyond Sport Foundation Inc | $1,258,575 | 2 | 4% |
| America Scores New England DBA Boston Scores | $1,175,000 | 3 | 10% |
| Tenacity Inc | $1,025,000 | 5 | 8% |
Show all 91 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 25 recipients with no EIN on record ($21M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
New Balance Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 3 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 87 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
Tap a dot to name the grantee.
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: Cummings Foundation Grants Inc (Fka Oneworld Boston Inc) · Eastern Bank Foundation · Boston Foundation Inc · United Way Of Massachusetts Bay Inc · Yawkey Foundation II · Riley Mabel Louise Tr Uwill · Amelia Peabody Foundation · The Hamilton Company Charitable Foundation · GivenGain Foundation USA · Dick's Sporting Goods Foundation · Maine Community Foundation Inc · Essex County Community Foundation Inc
How this is measured
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About New Balance Foundation
- How much does New Balance Foundation give?
- New Balance Foundation reported 85 grants totaling $16,796,311 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 67 and 86 organizations a year over FY2021 to FY2024.
- What does New Balance Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2021 to FY2025, its largest causes are Youth Development (27%), Health (21%), Recreation & Sports (15%).
- Who are New Balance Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2021 to FY2025: Boys & Girls Clubs of Dorchester Inc ($3.2M), Squashbusters Inc ($2.8M), Harlem Lacrosse and Leadership Corporation ($2.4M).
- Does New Balance Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 21% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does New Balance 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 New Balance Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Cummings Foundation Grants Inc (Fka Oneworld Boston Inc), Eastern Bank Foundation, Boston Foundation Inc.
- Where is New Balance Foundation based?
- New Balance Foundation is based in MA.
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