Massachusetts · Private foundation
Pdb 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.
- $4.4M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 29
- Grants FY2024
- 31
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 29%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $50,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $830,233
- Organizations funded a year
- 9 to 31
- FY2019 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 7
- Total assets, FY2024
- $80M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 29% of the organizations Pdb Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 10% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $513k 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 | 29 | $4.4M | 10% |
| FY2023 | 31 | $5.0M | 29% |
| FY2022 | 19 | $3.0M | 16% |
| FY2021 | 18 | $2.5M | 28% |
| FY2020 | 23 | $4.2M | 65% |
| FY2019 | 9 | $1.0M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 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, FY2019 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mass Liberation | $6,189,542 | 6 | 94% |
| Proctor Academy | $1,355,000 | 6 | 1% |
| The Carroll School | $1,155,000 | 6 | 1% |
| International Institute of New England Inc | $1,087,000 | 6 | 4% |
| Wentworth Institute of Technology Inc | $1,044,200 | 6 | 0% |
| Year Up Inc | $920,000 | 6 | 0% |
| West End House Inc | $710,000 | 4 | 5% |
| Cambridge Health Alliance Foundation Inc | $705,000 | 4 | 8% |
| Boston Public Library Fund Inc | $559,607 | 5 | 3% |
| Saltire Foundation (Usa) | $399,250 | 6 | 75% |
Show all 28 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 16 recipients with no EIN on record ($4.9M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Pdb Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 28 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: Boston Foundation Inc · Eastern Bank Foundation · Cummings Foundation Grants Inc (Fka Oneworld Boston Inc) · Richard K Lubin Family Foundation · Cambridge Savings Charitable Foundation Inc · Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc · Fidelity Foundation · Liberty Mutual Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · The Ayco Charitable Foundation
How this is measured
About Pdb Foundation
- How much does Pdb Foundation give?
- Pdb Foundation reported 29 grants totaling $4,411,495 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 9 and 31 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2023.
- What does Pdb Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2024, its largest causes are Crime & Legal (31%), Education (28%), Health (14%).
- Who are Pdb Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2019 to FY2024: Mass Liberation ($6.2M), Proctor Academy ($1.4M), The Carroll School ($1.2M).
- Does Pdb Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 29% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Pdb 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 Pdb Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Boston Foundation Inc, Eastern Bank Foundation, Cummings Foundation Grants Inc (Fka Oneworld Boston Inc).
- Where is Pdb Foundation based?
- Pdb Foundation is based in MA.
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