Massachusetts · Private foundation
Popplestone 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.
- $51M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 24
- Grants FY2024
- 49
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 65%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $825,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $10,000,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 5 to 49
- FY2019 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 5
- Total assets, FY2024
- $28M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 65% of the organizations Popplestone Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 68% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 32% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $97M 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 | 22 | $51M | 41% |
| FY2023 | 49 | $142M | 65% |
| FY2022 | 29 | $20M | 72% |
| FY2021 | 9 | $2.8M | 11% |
| FY2020 | 12 | $4.1M | 83% |
| FY2019 | 5 | $1.2M | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| William J Brennan Center for Justice Inc | $20,500,000 | 3 | 17% |
| New England Conservatory of Music | $14,500,000 | 3 | 14% |
| Protect Democracy Project | $10,000,000 | 1 | 18% |
| NAACP Legal Defense & Educ Fund Inc | $10,000,000 | 1 | 34% |
| The Campaign Legal Center Inc | $10,000,000 | 3 | 23% |
| The Voter Participation Center | $10,000,000 | 1 | 44% |
| Boston Youth Symphony Orchestras Inc | $6,400,000 | 1 | 34% |
| Project STEP Inc | $5,500,000 | 2 | 76% |
| Room to Grow National Inc | $5,000,000 | 1 | 37% |
| States United Democracy Center Inc | $5,000,000 | 1 | 15% |
Show all 54 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 24 recipients with no EIN on record ($54M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Popplestone Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 17 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 52 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 · The Klarman Family Foundation · Liberty Mutual Foundation Inc · Eastern Bank Foundation · Linde Family Foundation · William E Schrafft and Bertha E Schrafft Charitable Trust · D'Addario Foundation Inc · Barr Foundation · Ramsey McCluskey Family Foundation · Ploughshares Foundation · The Cabot Family Charitable Trust · The Hamilton Company Charitable Foundation
How this is measured
About Popplestone Foundation
- How much does Popplestone Foundation give?
- Popplestone Foundation reported 24 grants totaling $51,278,754 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 5 and 49 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2023.
- What does Popplestone Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2024, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (32%), Public Benefit (28%), Education (18%).
- Who are Popplestone Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2019 to FY2024: William J Brennan Center for Justice Inc ($21M), New England Conservatory of Music ($15M), Protect Democracy Project ($10M).
- Does Popplestone Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 65% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Popplestone 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 Popplestone Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Boston Foundation Inc, The Klarman Family Foundation, Liberty Mutual Foundation Inc.
- Where is Popplestone Foundation based?
- Popplestone Foundation is based in MA.
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