Massachusetts · Private foundation
Rollstone Charitable Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $209k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 46
- Grants FY2025
- 1
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 100%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $2,500
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $18,750
- Organizations funded a year
- 1 to 59
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 2
- Total assets, FY2025
- $2.5M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 100% of the organizations Rollstone Charitable Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 100% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $171k 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 | 44 | $184k | 34% |
| FY2024 | 1 | $171k | 100% |
| FY2023 | 52 | $167k | 38% |
| FY2022 | 58 | $170k | 41% |
| FY2021 | 44 | $128k | 41% |
| FY2020 | 48 | $137k | 35% |
| FY2019 | 59 | $192k | 54% |
| FY2018 | 47 | $204k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| North Star Family Services Inc | $94,332 | 7 | 2% |
| Newvue Communities Inc | $66,000 | 7 | 1% |
| Umass Memorial Health Care Inc | $53,500 | 5 | n/a |
| Habitat for Humanity North Central Massachusetts Inc | $50,000 | 5 | 1% |
| Groton Hill Music Inc | $45,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Henry Heywood Memorial Hospital | $40,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Ginny's Helping Hand Inc | $37,500 | 6 | 5% |
| Wachusett Business Incubator Inc | $34,000 | 7 | 59% |
| Fitchburg State University Foundation Inc | $31,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Making Opportunity Count Inc | $24,000 | 4 | 0% |
Show all 73 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 101 recipients with no EIN on record ($529k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Rollstone Charitable Foundation Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 65 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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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: Community Foundation of North Central Ma · United Way of North Central Mass Inc · Douglas & Isabelle Crocker Foundation · Greater Worcester Community Foundation Inc · George R Wallace Foundation · Hometown Bank Community Foundation Inc · Avidia Charitable Foundation Inc · Main Street Group Foundation Inc · Reliant Foundation Inc · The Health Foundation of Central Massach · The Fred Harris Daniels Foundation · The Nypro Foundation Inc co Nypro Inc
How this is measured
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About Rollstone Charitable Foundation Inc
- How much does Rollstone Charitable Foundation Inc give?
- Rollstone Charitable Foundation Inc reported 46 grants totaling $209,045 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 59 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Rollstone Charitable Foundation Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2025, its largest causes are Housing & Shelter (15%), Philanthropy (13%), Education (12%).
- Who are Rollstone Charitable Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2018 to FY2025: North Star Family Services Inc ($94k), Newvue Communities Inc ($66k), Umass Memorial Health Care Inc ($54k).
- Does Rollstone Charitable Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 100% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Rollstone Charitable Foundation Inc accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Rollstone Charitable Foundation Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Community Foundation of North Central Ma, United Way of North Central Mass Inc, Douglas & Isabelle Crocker Foundation.
- Where is Rollstone Charitable Foundation Inc based?
- Rollstone Charitable Foundation Inc is based in MA.
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