Massachusetts · Private foundation
Rita A DiMento 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.
- $189k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 8
- Grants FY2025
- 8
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 25%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $100,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 5 to 9
- FY2021 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 2
- Total assets, FY2025
- $867k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 25% of the organizations Rita A DiMento Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 10% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k 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 | 8 | $189k | 38% |
| FY2024 | 8 | $58k | 25% |
| FY2023 | 9 | $240k | 67% |
| FY2022 | 5 | $421k | 80% |
| FY2021 | 6 | $425k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2021 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Saint Anthony Shrine | $401,000 | 4 | n/a |
| Saint Francis House Inc | $327,500 | 5 | 1% |
| The Boston Home Inc | $170,000 | 4 | 0% |
| The Community Family Inc | $26,000 | 3 | 1% |
| Italian Home for Children Inc | $15,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Viking Pride Foundation Inc | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| St Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center Inc | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Blood Cancer United Inc | $2,500 | 1 | 0% |
| American Heart Association Inc | $2,000 | 1 | 0% |
Plus 11 recipients with no EIN on record ($369k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Rita A DiMento 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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.
Open a dossier: Cummings Foundation Grants Inc (Fka Oneworld Boston Inc)
How this is measured
About Rita A DiMento Foundation
- How much does Rita A DiMento Foundation give?
- Rita A DiMento Foundation reported 8 grants totaling $189,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 5 and 9 organizations a year over FY2021 to FY2024.
- What does Rita A DiMento Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2021 to FY2025, its largest causes are Religion (40%), Health (27%), Housing & Shelter (24%).
- Who are Rita A DiMento Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2021 to FY2025: Saint Anthony Shrine ($401k), Saint Francis House Inc ($328k), The Boston Home Inc ($170k).
- Does Rita A DiMento Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 25% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Rita A DiMento 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 Rita A DiMento Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Cummings Foundation Grants Inc (Fka Oneworld Boston Inc).
- Where is Rita A DiMento Foundation based?
- Rita A DiMento Foundation is based in MA.
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