Massachusetts · Private foundation
Rockwell Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $76k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 15
- Grants FY2025
- 13
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 38%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $10,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 11 to 19
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 2
- Total assets, FY2025
- $1.9M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 38% of the organizations Rockwell Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 38% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 63% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $30k 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 | 15 | $76k | 33% |
| FY2024 | 13 | $80k | 38% |
| FY2023 | 14 | $91k | 29% |
| FY2022 | 11 | $70k | 0% |
| FY2021 | 14 | $86k | 0% |
| FY2020 | 13 | $81k | 23% |
| FY2019 | 19 | $86k | 26% |
| FY2018 | 19 | $95k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2018 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Boys and Girls Club of Worcester Inc | $50,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Worcester Historical Museum | $46,000 | 7 | 1% |
| Worcester Youth Center Inc | $42,500 | 8 | 1% |
| Pan-Massachusetts Challenge Inc | $40,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Neads Inc | $37,500 | 7 | 0% |
| Nativity School of Worcester Inc | $35,000 | 5 | 0% |
| The Carroll Center for the Blind Inc | $35,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Old Sturbridge Inc | $30,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Music Worcester Inc | $22,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Becker College | $20,000 | 2 | 0% |
Show all 26 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 15 recipients with no EIN on record ($179k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Rockwell 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: The Fletcher Foundation · Greater Worcester Community Foundation Inc · Ruth H & Warren a Ellsworth Foundation · Stoddard Charitable Trust · The Fred Harris Daniels Foundation · Wyman Gordon · The George I Alden Trust · Mildred H McEvoy Foundation · Webster Five Foundation Inc · Schwartz Charitable Foundation · Berkshire Bank Foundation Inc · United Way of Central Massachusetts Inc
How this is measured
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About Rockwell Foundation
- How much does Rockwell Foundation give?
- Rockwell Foundation reported 15 grants totaling $75,500 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 11 and 19 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Rockwell Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (20%), Education (19%), Youth Development (13%).
- Who are Rockwell Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2018 to FY2025: Boys and Girls Club of Worcester Inc ($50k), Worcester Historical Museum ($46k), Worcester Youth Center Inc ($43k).
- Does Rockwell Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 38% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Rockwell Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Rockwell Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Fletcher Foundation, Greater Worcester Community Foundation Inc, Ruth H & Warren a Ellsworth Foundation.
- Where is Rockwell Foundation based?
- Rockwell Foundation is based in MA.
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