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.

New Balance Foundation

New Balance Foundation at a glance Also receives grants: funding profile →

· 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 FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$2.5M

Largest

01What it funds

0195% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.

Youth Development$15MHealth$12MRecreation & Sports$8.4MPublic Safety & Disaster$5.4MHuman Services$2.3MEmployment$2.1MArts & Culture$2.0MHousing & Shelter$2.0MOther$0

02FY2025 · 85 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k2 grants · $8k
$10k–50k31 grants · $772k
$50k–250k38 grants · $3.7M
$250k+14 grants · $12M

$50,000

Median grant

States reached

$242M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
WEST END BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB	$2,450,000
BOSTON CHILDRENS HOSPITAL	$1,750,000
BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF DORCHESTER	$1,550,000
WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN	$1,250,000
BEYOND SPORTS FOUNDATION	$1,073,775
AMERICAN RED CROSS	$1,025,000
HARLEM LACROSSE	$600,000
HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF GREATER LOS ANGELES	$500,000
CALIFORNIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION	$500,000
LAWRENCE BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB	$390,000
TWO TEN FOOTWEAR FOUNDATION	$350,000
REDINGTON FAIRVIEW HOSPITAL	$323,436
ESPERANZA ACADEMY	$300,000
MAINE 4-H FOUNATION	$250,000
SUMMER SEARCH BOSTON	$200,000

02The need

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY21–25, $1.1M) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 55% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

How this is measured

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

How this is measured

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.

03Its grantees

repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$53M · 92 repeat orgs$2.0M to everyone else

92 repeat relationships: 82 still active in FY2025, 10 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$53M

$1.5M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+14%

+19%

Still filing today

77%

68%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $525k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

Recreation & SportsYouth DevelopmentHuman ServicesHealthFood & NutritionEducationOther

How this is measured

First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF DORCHESTER INC
5× · 2021–2025 · $3.2M · revenue +127%
HL
HARLEM LACROSSE AND LEADERSHIP CORPORATION
5× · 2021–2025 · $2.4M · revenue +57%
WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC
3× · 2023–2025 · $2.0M · revenue +36%

Funded once

CS
CAMP SUNSHINE AT SEBAGO LAKE INCgraduated
one grant, 2021 · $333k · revenue +28%
WF
WESTERN FOOTHILLS LAND TRUSTgraduated
one grant, 2023 · $250k · revenue +51%
WS
WEST SUBURBAN YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION
one grant, 2021 · $250k · revenue +19%

How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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Massachusetts Higher Education Assistance Corporation

The organization's primary exempt purpose is to provide access to and conduct activities in furtherance of higher education.

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Children's Hospital Corporation

Provider of pediatric healthcare, education, research & community service

Health

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education

Central Maine Healthcare Corporation

To provide exceptional healthcare services in a safe and trustful environment through the expertise, committment, and compassion of our family of caregivers.

Health

Brighton Marine Inc

Brighton marine, inc. provides military and veteran families with comprehensive campus-based quality health care, as well as affordable and supportive housing for at-risk veterans and their families.

Health

MaineGeneral Health

To enhance, every day, the health of our patients, our families and our communities. We do that through a range of health care services for people of all ages, in a variety of care settings.

Health

Boston Harbor Now Inc

Our mission is to ensure that the people of greater boston benefit from a vibrant, resilient, and inclusive waterfront, harbor, and islands; these spaces are equitable, accessible, and adapted to climate change; and to ensure our public,…

Environment

Commonwealth Care Alliance Inc

Commonwealth care alliance, inc.'s mission is to improve the health and well-being of people with significant needs by innovating, coordinating and providing the highest quality, individualized care.

Health

Mass General Brigham Health Plan Inc

Mass general brigham health plan's mission is to promote the health and wellness of our members, and to help ensure equitable, affordbale health care for the diverse communities we serve.

Health

Massachusetts Housing Investment Corporation

Mhic's mission is to be an innovative private financier of afforable housing and community development throughout new england, providing financing that would not otherwise be available, and extending the impact of that financing to ensure…

Housing & Shelter

Northeast College of Health Sciences

Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.

Education

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Philanthropy Massachusetts Inc; the most unlike its peers is Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

04the grantee network

91 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 91 of the 118 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

90/91

Grantees still filing

55/91

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$29,864,434Youth Development$11,410,575Recreation & Sports$5,636,334Health$2,681,735International$2,000,000Arts & Culture$1,820,100Education$1,804,131

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

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.

Cummings Foundation Grants Inc (Fka Oneworld Boston Inc)MA42.2× affinity19 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization New Balance Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from New Balance Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

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’20’21’22’23’24’25

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

11get no government money at all

24report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

1rely on government for over half their income

typical government reliance, FY20–25

How this is measured

Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12 to 24 months.

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The unnamed billions

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The regranting layer

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The camps

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By state

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