Massachusetts · Private foundation
Richard and Diane Schmalensee 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.
- $52k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 12
- Grants FY2025
- 13
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 8%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $3,500
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $10,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 13 to 18
- FY2019 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 4
- Total assets, FY2025
- $537k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 8% of the organizations Richard and Diane Schmalensee Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 1% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $500 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 | 11 | $51k | 9% |
| FY2024 | 13 | $53k | 8% |
| FY2023 | 14 | $192k | 29% |
| FY2022 | 18 | $41k | 17% |
| FY2021 | 18 | $45k | 39% |
| FY2020 | 14 | $29k | 43% |
| FY2019 | 17 | $29k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 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, FY2019 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Boston Ballet Inc | $133,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Pioneer Institute Inc | $74,500 | 6 | 1% |
| Resources for the Future Inc | $55,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Church of the Redeemer | $21,800 | 7 | n/a |
| Wellesley College | $7,500 | 6 | 0% |
| Safe Passage | $7,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Cambodian Village Fund | $6,250 | 6 | 1% |
| Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc | $4,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Pine Street Inn Inc | $3,500 | 4 | 0% |
| Hawaii Foodbank Inc | $3,000 | 3 | 0% |
Show all 27 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 12 recipients with no EIN on record ($96k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Richard and Diane Schmalensee 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: Boston Foundation Inc · Riley Mabel Louise Tr Uwill · Bushrod H Campbell & Adah F Hall Charity Fund · Amelia Peabody Charitable Fund Trust · Liberty Mutual Foundation Inc · Citizens Charitable Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc
How this is measured
Compare Richard and Diane Schmalensee Foundation with peer funders
About Richard and Diane Schmalensee Foundation
- How much does Richard and Diane Schmalensee Foundation give?
- Richard and Diane Schmalensee Foundation reported 12 grants totaling $52,250 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 13 and 18 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2024.
- What does Richard and Diane Schmalensee Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (31%), Education (22%), Environment (12%).
- Who are Richard and Diane Schmalensee Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2019 to FY2025: Boston Ballet Inc ($133k), Pioneer Institute Inc ($75k), Resources for the Future Inc ($55k).
- Does Richard and Diane Schmalensee Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 8% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Richard and Diane Schmalensee 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 Richard and Diane Schmalensee Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Boston Foundation Inc, Riley Mabel Louise Tr Uwill, Bushrod H Campbell & Adah F Hall Charity Fund.
- Where is Richard and Diane Schmalensee Foundation based?
- Richard and Diane Schmalensee Foundation is based in MA.
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