Massachusetts · Private foundation
Obermayer Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $42k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 10
- Grants FY2025
- 15
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 20%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $1,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $25,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 2 to 25
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 3
- Total assets, FY2025
- $4.1M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 20% of the organizations Obermayer Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 10% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4k 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 | 10 | $42k | 20% |
| FY2024 | 15 | $41k | 20% |
| FY2023 | 2 | $12k | 50% |
| FY2022 | 5 | $21k | 40% |
| FY2021 | 17 | $88k | 88% |
| FY2020 | 7 | $104k | 71% |
| FY2019 | 3 | $14k | 0% |
| FY2018 | 25 | $146k | 44% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 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, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Leo Baeck Institute Inc | $80,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Trustees of Boston University | $60,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Jewish Alliance for Law and Social Action Inc | $25,500 | 2 | 3% |
| Inquiring Systems Inc | $20,250 | 3 | 0% |
| Social Venture Partners Boston Inc | $16,500 | 2 | 2% |
| American Jewish Historical Society | $12,500 | 3 | 0% |
| Carnegie Mellon University | $10,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Swarthmore College | $7,500 | 2 | 0% |
| Chakana Media Inc | $6,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Social Innovation Forum Inc | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
Show all 41 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 17 recipients with no EIN on record ($306k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Obermayer 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: Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc · Proteus Fund Inc · The San Francisco Foundation · Tides Foundation · Impactassetsinc · West Family Foundation · Jewish Communal Fund · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Boston Foundation Inc · Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust
How this is measured
About Obermayer Foundation Inc
- How much does Obermayer Foundation Inc give?
- Obermayer Foundation Inc reported 10 grants totaling $42,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 25 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Obermayer Foundation Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Religion (29%), Arts & Culture (26%), Education (14%).
- Who are Obermayer Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Leo Baeck Institute Inc ($80k), Trustees of Boston University ($60k), Jewish Alliance for Law and Social Action Inc ($26k).
- Does Obermayer Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 20% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Obermayer Foundation Inc accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Obermayer Foundation Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc, Proteus Fund Inc, The San Francisco Foundation.
- Where is Obermayer Foundation Inc based?
- Obermayer Foundation Inc is based in MA.
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