Massachusetts · Private foundation
Press Family 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.
- $42k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 40
- Grants FY2025
- 27
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 30%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $1,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $3,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 20 to 32
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 8
- Total assets, FY2025
- $629k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 30% of the organizations Press Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 25% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 75% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k 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 | 37 | $40k | 27% |
| FY2024 | 27 | $40k | 30% |
| FY2023 | 21 | $33k | 14% |
| FY2022 | 20 | $34k | 25% |
| FY2021 | 29 | $42k | 52% |
| FY2020 | 32 | $44k | 53% |
| FY2019 | 23 | $33k | 48% |
| FY2018 | 25 | $48k | 64% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 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, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Plymouth Philharmonic Orchestra Inc | $39,000 | 7 | 1% |
| Jewish Family Service of Metrowest Inc | $19,400 | 8 | 0% |
| Martha's Vineyard Cerebral Palsy Camp Inc | $15,500 | 7 | 0% |
| Congregation Sha Aray Shalom | $12,644 | 2 | n/a |
| Temple Beth Shalom | $12,000 | 6 | n/a |
| Metrowest Jewish Day School Inc Attn F David Rothkopf | $9,500 | 8 | 0% |
| Hillel Foundation of Cambridge Inc | $6,810 | 6 | 0% |
| Friends of Yad Sarah Inc | $6,500 | 6 | 0% |
| Vassar College | $5,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Environmental Defense Fund Incorporated | $5,000 | 5 | 0% |
Show all 47 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 59 recipients with no EIN on record ($154k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Press Family Foundation 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 · Arbella Insurance Foundation · Eastern Bank Foundation · Boston Foundation Inc · Rockland Trust Charitable Foundation Inc · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Jewish Communal Fund · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · Charities Aid Foundation America · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc
How this is measured
About Press Family Foundation
- How much does Press Family Foundation give?
- Press Family Foundation reported 40 grants totaling $41,987 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 20 and 32 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Press Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (23%), Arts & Culture (21%), Religion (12%).
- Who are Press Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Plymouth Philharmonic Orchestra Inc ($39k), Jewish Family Service of Metrowest Inc ($19k), Martha's Vineyard Cerebral Palsy Camp Inc ($16k).
- Does Press Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 30% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Press Family 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 Press Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc, Arbella Insurance Foundation, Eastern Bank Foundation.
- Where is Press Family Foundation based?
- Press Family Foundation is based in MA.
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