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Ploughshares Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$3.6M
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
368
Grants FY2025
359
Organizations funded FY2024
6%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$6,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$85,000
Organizations funded a year
331 to 365
FY2020 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
30
Total assets, FY2025
$81M
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 6% of the organizations Ploughshares Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 5% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $164k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesInternationalHealthCivil RightsEnvironmentEducationOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving359$3.5M5%
FY2024359$3.4M6%
FY2023361$3.3M6%
FY2022365$3.2M7%
FY2021351$3.0M7%
FY2020331$3.0Mn/a
98% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

International$5.9MCivil Rights$2.1MEnvironment$1.6MPhilanthropy$1.5MEducation$1.3MArts & Culture$1.2MCrime & Legal$1.1MHuman Services$926kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

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Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation$570,00060%
Medecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc$540,00060%
The Lenny Zakim Fund$475,00069%
International Rescue Committee INC$365,00060%
Unitarian Universalist Service Committee Inc$360,00061%
Earlham College Inc$360,00060%
Direct Relief$360,00060%
Mercy Corps$330,00060%
Save The Children Federation Inc$330,00060%
American Friends Service Committee$305,0006n/a
Show all 326 grantees
All grantees of Ploughshares Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation$570,00060%
Medecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc$540,00060%
The Lenny Zakim Fund$475,00069%
International Rescue Committee INC$365,00060%
Unitarian Universalist Service Committee Inc$360,00061%
Earlham College Inc$360,00060%
Direct Relief$360,00060%
Mercy Corps$330,00060%
Save The Children Federation Inc$330,00060%
American Friends Service Committee$305,0006n/a
First Parish in Cambridge$300,0006n/a
United Midcoast Charities Inc$300,00069%
Planned Parenthood Federation of America Inc$242,00060%
Americares Foundation Inc$230,00060%
Greater Boston Food Bank Inc$213,00060%
Museum of Fine Arts$200,00060%
Oxfam-America Inc$195,00060%
Cooperative for Assistance and Relief Everywhere Inc$180,00060%
Natural Resources Defense Council Inc$163,00060%
350org$160,00060%
United States Fund for Unicef$153,00060%
Project Bread-The Walk for Hunger Inc$152,00060%
Catholic Relief Services$150,0006n/a
Globalgiving Foundation Inc$142,00060%
Amnesty International of the USA Inc$141,00040%
Cure Violence Global$132,00061%
Greater Boston Legal Services Inc$125,00060%
Maine Coast Heritage Trust$120,00060%
World Monuments Fund Inc$120,00060%
Benevolent Fraternity of Unitarian Churches$120,00061%
New England Conservatory of Music$120,00060%
Mills College$115,00040%
Casa Myrna Vazquez Inc$110,00060%
Natural Resources Council of Maine Inc$105,00061%
Greenpeace Fund Inc$100,00060%
Equal Justice Initiative$97,00060%
Charity Global Inc$90,00060%
Hope for Haiti Inc$90,00040%
Brookline Community Mental Health Center Inc Dba the Brookline Center$90,00060%
Habitat for Humanity International Inc$90,00060%
The Carter Center Inc$90,00060%
Human Rights Watch Inc$90,00060%
World Central Kitchen Inc$89,00040%
Rosie's Place Inc$88,00060%
The Andrew Goodman Foundation Inc$88,00061%
Seeds of Peace Inc$83,00060%
Cambridge Public Library Foundation Inc$81,00063%
De Novo Center for Justice and Healing$77,00061%
Environmental Defense Fund Incorporated$75,00060%
Justice Resource Institute Inc$75,00060%
Hias Inc$75,00060%
Homeboy Industries$72,00060%
Saint Francis House Inc$72,00060%
The Brookline Library Foundation Inc$72,00066%
Horizons for Homeless Children$72,00060%
Island Institute$70,00060%
American Civil Liberties Union Foundation Inc$67,00030%
Hand in Hand American Friends of the Center for Jewish-Arab Education in Isra$67,00060%
Cambridge Community Chorus$66,000621%
Stop Handgun Violence Inc$65,000613%
Georges River Land Trust$64,00061%
HomeStart Inc$63,00060%
Southern Poverty Law Center Inc$63,00060%
The Innocence Project Inc$62,00060%
All Hands and Hearts Smart Response Inc$61,00050%
Committee to Protect Journalists Inc$61,00050%
Jewish Council on Urban Affairs$60,00061%
Healthright International Inc$60,00060%
Boston Health Care for the Homeless Program Inc$60,00060%
Global Water Challenge$60,00061%
A Far Cry Inc$60,00061%
Global Links$60,00060%
Accion International$60,00060%
Physicians for Human Rights Inc$60,00060%
Global Fund for Women Inc$60,00060%
Dudley Street Neighborhood Initiative Inc$60,00061%
Friends of the World Food Program Inc$60,00060%
Margaret Fuller Neighborhood House$60,00061%
Stonehouse Inc$60,0004n/a
United States Association for UNHCR$60,00060%
Waterorg$58,00060%
Restorative Justice Project Maine$58,00062%
The Abraham Initiatives Inc$56,00061%
Homeworthy$55,00060%
Roca Inc$54,00060%
Bma Tenpoint Inc$54,00062%
Concern Worldwide (Us) Inc$52,00060%
Action Against Hunger - USA$52,00060%
Barakat Inc$51,00068%
Children's Defense Fund$50,00060%
Food for Free Committee Inc$48,00060%
Syrian American Medical Society Foundation$48,00060%
Penquis Cap Inc$48,00060%
Centro Presente Inc$48,00062%
The Trust for Public Land$48,00060%
Families Against Mandatory Minimums$48,00066%
American Civil Liberties Union Foundation$45,0003n/a
The Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press$45,00060%
Women for Afghan Women Inc$44,00050%
Green America$44,00060%
USA for Unfpa Inc$43,00060%
Pine Street Inn Inc$42,00060%
The Bottom Line Inc$42,00060%
Somerville Homeless Coalition Inc$42,00060%
Louis D Brown Peace Institute Corp$41,00060%
Interfaith Welcome Coalition$41,00062%
Evkids Inc$40,00061%
Unrwa USA National Committee Inc$40,00020%
Borderlinks$40,00062%
Giffords Law Center to Prevent Gun Violence$39,00060%
Immigrants Rising$38,00050%
Violence Policy Center$37,00061%
NAACP Legal Defense & Educ Fund Inc$37,00030%
Boston Medical Center Corporation$37,00060%
Breakthrough Greater Boston Inc$37,00060%
American Friends of Combatants for Peace Inc$36,00061%
Refugee & Immigrant Center for Education & Legal Services$36,00060%
Conservation Law Foundation Inc$36,00060%
The Trustees of Reservations$36,00060%
Political Asylumimmigration Representation Project Inc$36,00060%
Earthjustice$36,00060%
Dr Susan Love Research Foundation$35,00051%
Friends of Matenwa Inc$35,00061%
Bridge Over Troubled Waters Inc$34,00060%
AIDS Action Committee of Massachusetts Inc$34,00040%
Habitat for Humanity Greater Boston Inc$34,00060%
Global Response Management Inc$34,00030%
Florence Immigrant & Refugee Rights Project Inc$33,00060%
Ploughshares Fund Inc$33,00060%
Boston Singers Resource Inc$33,000620%
Climate Xchange Education and Research Inc$32,00065%
Children of the Night$32,00060%
Death Penalty Focus$32,00062%
Ashoka$32,00060%
International Refugee Assistance Project Inc$32,00050%
Texas Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty$31,00053%
Partakers Inc$31,00062%
Conservatory Lab Foundation Inc$31,00060%
Better Future Project Inc$30,00061%
Somali Development Center Inc$30,00062%
Project STEP Inc$30,00061%
Communities for Restorative Justice Inc$30,00061%
Franklin Park Coalition$30,000615%
Boston Baroque Inc$30,00060%
Inquilinos Boricuas En Accion Inc$30,00060%
RESPOND Inc$30,00060%
Transition House Inc$30,00060%
Handel and Haydn Society$30,00060%
First Nations Development Institute$30,00060%
Friends of the Children - Boston Inc$30,00060%
Polaris Project$30,00060%
Grassroots International Inc$30,00060%
Zumix Inc$30,00060%
Friends of Boston's Homeless Inc$30,00061%
The William a Farnsworth Library and Art Museum Inc$30,00060%
On the Rise Inc$30,00060%
Haley House Inc & Affiliates$30,00060%
Roxbury Stone House Inc$30,00020%
Acadia Center$30,00051%
Friends of the Earth$29,00060%
The Young Center for Immigrant Childrens Rights$29,00060%
Institute Justice and Democracy in Haiti Inc$28,00051%
Beyond Conflict Inc$28,00061%
Peace First Inc$28,00062%
Refugepoint Inc$28,00060%
Cradles to Crayons Inc$27,00060%
Haymarket People's Fund Inc$27,00060%
Facing History & Ourselves Inc$27,00060%
More Than Words Inc$27,00060%
Groundswell Fund$26,00060%
New Jewish Narrative Inc$26,00050%
Sunrise Movement Education Fund$26,00060%
Cambridge Community Center Inc$26,00060%
Planned Parenthood South Texas$25,00030%
The Center for Teen Empowerment Inc$24,00060%
Youthbuild Boston Inc$24,00060%
The Mentoring Center$24,00060%
The Lionheart Foundation Inc$24,00061%
Sphinx Organization Inc$24,00060%
Freedom for Immigrants$24,00061%
Health Care Without Walls Inc$24,00060%
The Food Project Inc$24,00060%
Bread of Life Inc$24,00060%
The Young People's Project Inc$24,00060%
The Union of Concerned Scientists Inc$23,00050%
The Global Hunger Project$23,00060%
Rehearsal for Life Inc$22,00050%
Anti-Defamation League$22,00060%
The Fistula Foundation$21,00060%
Alliance for Middle East Peace Inc$21,00030%
Everytown for Gun Safety Support Fund Inc$21,00060%
Brookline Greenspace Alliance Inc$21,00069%
Midcoast Habitat for Humanity$20,00030%
Women's Reproductive Rights Assistance Project$20,00040%
The Children's Health Fund$20,00040%
HBCU Foundation Inc$20,0004n/a
Maine Public Broadcasting Corporation$20,00010%
Juvenile Law Center$19,00060%
International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War$19,00062%
Familyaid Boston Inc$19,00040%
Race Forward$18,00060%
Community Music Center of Boston Inc$18,00060%
William J Brennan Center for Justice Inc$18,00050%
Huntington Theatre Co Inc$18,00060%
International Crisis Group$18,00060%
Hardy Girls Healthy Women Inc$18,00062%
Fonkoze USA Inc$18,00060%
Musiconnects Inc$18,00062%
Community Servings Inc$18,00060%
Worcester County Food Bank Inc$18,00060%
Boston City Singers Inc$18,00061%
Boston Children's Chorus Inc$18,00060%
Finca International Inc$18,00060%
Trust Women Foundation Inc$18,00050%
Beyond Bond and Legal Defense$18,00031%
Environmental Investigation Agency$18,00040%
Greater Four Corners Action Coalition$18,00064%
The Home for Little Wanderers Inc$16,00020%
The Alliance for Climate Protection$16,0001n/a
The Mystic Chorale Inc$16,00063%
National Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty$16,00029%
I Can Fly International$16,00061%
Y2y Network Inc$16,00021%
Charles River Conservancy Inc$16,00031%
Kind Inc$15,00060%
Asylum Seeker Network Of Support$15,000311%
New Hope for Women Inc$15,00040%
Center for Courage & Renewal$15,00060%
Edna Adan Hospital Foundation$15,00036%
Catholic Charities of the Rio Grande Valley$15,00060%
Refugee Immigration Ministry Inc$15,00060%
Center for American Progress$14,00060%
Panzi Foundation$14,00060%
Youth Uprising$14,00060%
White Ribbon Alliance Inc$14,00051%
Hope for Justice Inc$14,00040%
Center for Constitutional Rights$14,00060%
Matthew Shepard Foundation$14,00060%
Futures Without Violence$14,00020%
Camfed USA Foundation$13,00050%
Psychologists for Social Responsibility Inc$13,0006n/a
Women Encouraging Empowerment Inc$12,00061%
Health in Harmony$12,00060%
First Book$12,00060%
Friends of the Community Learning Center Inc$12,00043%
La Casa de las Madres$12,00060%
Maine Farmland Trust$12,00050%
A Better Chance Inc$12,00060%
Teambrownsville Inc$12,00051%
Boys & Girls Clubs of Dorchester Inc$12,00060%
youthSpark Inc$12,00060%
Samaritans Inc$12,00060%
National Alliance on Mental Illness of Massachusetts Inc$12,00030%
Girls Inc$12,00030%
The Black Star Project$12,00061%
Innercity Weightlifting Inc$12,00050%
Wayfinder Schools$12,00060%
Women for Women International$11,50060%
V-Day$11,00060%
Boston Area Gleaners Inc$11,00040%
Nuclear Age Peace Foundation$11,00061%
Thistle Farms Inc$11,00060%
Greenroots Inc$10,00050%
Showing Up for Racial Justice Inc$10,00050%
Maine Coast Fishermens Assn$10,00020%
Sidewalk School Inc$10,0003n/a
Brady Center to Prevent Gun Violence$10,00030%
Scholarmatch Inc$10,00060%
NAMI National$10,00030%
Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund$9,00061%
Islamic Relief USA$9,00020%
Jane Doe Inc the Ma Coalition Against Sexual Assault and Domestic Violence$9,00060%
Virginians for Alternatives to the Death Penalty Inc$9,00037%
Artists for Humanity Inc$9,00040%
Missionsafe a New Beginning Inc$9,00060%
Death Penalty Action$9,00031%
Rain for the Sahel and Sahara Inc$9,00051%
Neighbor to Neighbor Massachusetts Education Fund Inc$9,00060%
University of Massachusetts Foundation Inc$8,00020%
Midcoast Recovery Coalition$8,00032%
UTEC Inc$8,00040%
Chameleon Arts Ensemble of Boston Inc$8,00061%
Thurgood Marshall College Fund$8,00020%
Capracare Inc$8,00052%
Boston Area Rape Crisis Center Inc$8,00020%
Dove Inc$7,00040%
Chicago Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights Under Law Inc$7,00060%
Family to Family Project Inc$7,0002n/a
Mothers in Charge$7,00060%
Harlem Children's Zone Inc$7,00030%
Mothers for Justice and Equality Inc$7,00060%
Churches for Middle East Peace$7,00031%
States United to Prevent Gun Violenc Co Gpec-Ichv$6,00013%
Gulf of Maine Research Institute$6,00020%
Vital Voices Global Partnership Inc$6,00060%
Women's Lunch Place Inc$6,00020%
Win Without War Education Fund$6,0001n/a
Playworks Education Energized$6,00030%
Too Young to Wed Inc$5,00050%
Educational Fund to Stop Gun Violence$5,00030%
United Cajun Navy$5,00011%
Hispanic Federation Inc$5,00010%
Friends of the New Orleans Public Library$5,00051%
American Near East Refugee Aid$5,00010%
Voice of Witness a Nonprofit Public Benefit Corporation$4,00040%
The Algebra Project Inc$4,00040%
Diocesan Migrant & Refugee Services Inc$4,00020%
Food Runners$4,00030%
Valentino Achak Deng Foundation$4,00040%
The Valedictorian Project Inc$4,00020%
American Friends of Neve Shalomwahat Al-Salam Inc$3,00010%
International Justice Mission$3,00020%
El Sistema USA$3,00031%
National Network of Abortion Funds$3,00010%
Learning Ally Inc$3,00030%
Boston Arts Academy Foundation Inc$3,00010%
Dorchester Youth Collaborative$3,0002n/a
Humanitarian Social Innovations$3,0001n/a
Bill Wilson Center$2,00010%
Showing Up for Racial Justice Education Fund Inc$2,0001n/a
Enroot Inc$2,00020%
MedGlobal Inc$2,0001n/a
Black Lives Matter Global Network Foundation Inc$2,00010%
Boston Ten Point Coalition Inc$2,000144%
Friends United Meeting Inc$2,0001n/a
United Way of Genesee County$1,50020%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 114 recipients with no EIN on record ($2.8M), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Ploughshares Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 200 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetPartners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation: $570,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetMedecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc: $540,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetThe Lenny Zakim Fund: $475,000 over 6y, 8.7% of budgetInternational Rescue Committee INC: $365,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetUnitarian Universalist Service Committee Inc: $360,000 over 6y, 0.6% of budgetEarlham College Inc: $360,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetDirect Relief: $360,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetMercy Corps: $330,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetSave The Children Federation Inc: $330,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetUnited Midcoast Charities Inc: $300,000 over 6y, 9.2% of budgetPlanned Parenthood Federation of America Inc: $242,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetAmericares Foundation Inc: $230,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetGreater Boston Food Bank Inc: $213,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetMuseum of Fine Arts: $200,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetOxfam-America Inc: $195,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetCooperative for Assistance and Relief Everywhere Inc: $180,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetNatural Resources Defense Council Inc: $163,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budget350org: $160,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetUnited States Fund for Unicef: $153,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetProject Bread-The Walk for Hunger Inc: $152,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetGlobalgiving Foundation Inc: $142,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetAmnesty International of the USA Inc: $141,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetCure Violence Global: $132,000 over 6y, 0.6% of budgetGreater Boston Legal Services Inc: $125,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetMaine Coast Heritage Trust: $120,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetWorld Monuments Fund Inc: $120,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetBenevolent Fraternity of Unitarian Churches: $120,000 over 6y, 1.5% of budgetNew England Conservatory of Music: $120,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetMills College: $115,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetCasa Myrna Vazquez Inc: $110,000 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetNatural Resources Council of Maine Inc: $105,000 over 6y, 0.7% of budgetGreenpeace Fund Inc: $100,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetEqual Justice Initiative: $97,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetCharity Global Inc: $90,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetHope for Haiti Inc: $90,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetBrookline Community Mental Health Center Inc Dba the Brookline Center: $90,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetHabitat for Humanity International Inc: $90,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetThe Carter Center Inc: $90,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetHuman Rights Watch Inc: $90,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetWorld Central Kitchen Inc: $89,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetRosie's Place Inc: $88,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetThe Andrew Goodman Foundation Inc: $88,000 over 6y, 1.3% of budgetSeeds of Peace Inc: $83,000 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetCambridge Public Library Foundation Inc: $81,000 over 6y, 3.4% of budgetDe Novo Center for Justice and Healing: $77,000 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetEnvironmental Defense Fund Incorporated: $75,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetJustice Resource Institute Inc: $75,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetHias Inc: $75,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 200.

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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.

Boston Foundation IncMA72.3× affinity80 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Boston Foundation Inc · Cummings Foundation Grants Inc (Fka Oneworld Boston Inc) · Liberty Mutual Foundation Inc · Eastern Bank Foundation · Bushrod H Campbell & Adah F Hall Charity Fund · The Klarman Family Foundation · United Way Of Massachusetts Bay Inc · Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc · Cambridge Community Foundation · Adelard & Valeda Roy Foundation · The Hamilton Company Charitable Foundation · Barr Foundation

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.

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How do I get to Ploughshares Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Ploughshares Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

About Ploughshares Foundation

How much does Ploughshares Foundation give?
Ploughshares Foundation reported 368 grants totaling $3,619,399 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 331 and 365 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
What does Ploughshares Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are International (29%), Civil Rights (10%), Environment (8%).
Who are Ploughshares Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation ($570k), Medecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc ($540k), The Lenny Zakim Fund ($475k).
Does Ploughshares Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 6% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Ploughshares Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as Ploughshares Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Boston Foundation Inc, Cummings Foundation Grants Inc (Fka Oneworld Boston Inc), Liberty Mutual Foundation Inc.
Where is Ploughshares Foundation based?
Ploughshares Foundation is based in IL.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 451 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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