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Ronald M Ansin Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$155k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
23
Grants FY2024
13
Organizations funded FY2023
54%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$5,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$26,666
Organizations funded a year
1 to 16
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
8
Total assets, FY2024
$2.6M
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 54% of the organizations Ronald M Ansin Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 38% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 62% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $69k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’20’21’22’23
Civil RightsEducationArts & CultureHealthPhilanthropyHuman ServicesOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving23$155k65%
FY202313$179k54%
FY202216$160k69%
FY20218$155k88%
FY20201$10k100%
FY20171$100kn/a
97% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Philanthropy$431kEducation$273kCivil Rights$145kHousing & Shelter$60kHealth$31kReligion$30kArts & Culture$23kCrime & Legal$21kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

VT
NH
NY
MA
CT
CA
VA
MD
NC
AL
FL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 30 grantees

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 12 recipients with no EIN on record ($196k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Ronald M Ansin Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTrustees of Lawrence Academy at Groton Ma Corp: $107,500 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetHealing Hearts Changing Minds Inc: $61,166 over 3y, 10% of budgetLambda Legal Defense & Education Fund Inc: $50,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetNorth Star Family Services Inc: $40,000 over 2y, 2.5% of budgetApplewild School Incorporated: $34,160 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetLexington Montessori School Inc: $30,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetRallysound Inc: $20,000 over 1y, 5.9% of budgetGlbtq Legal Advocates & Defenders Inc: $20,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetNewvue Communities Inc: $20,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetThe Rivers School Corporation: $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThe Winchendon School Inc: $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGlsen Inc: $20,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetAshoka: $15,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNorth County Land Trust Inc: $13,500 over 3y, 2.0% of budgetGirls at Work Inc: $11,666 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetAthlete Ally Inc: $10,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetThe Michael J Fox Foundation for Parkinson's Research: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFood Link Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMental Health Leadership Initiative Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCommunity Health Connections Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGaining Ground Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetHumane Society of Chittenden County: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFenway Community Health Center Inc: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAshburnham Conservation Trust: $2,500 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetPatient Airlift Services Inc: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetEqual Justice Initiative: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKhan Academy Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 27.

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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.

United Way of North Central Mass IncMA24.1× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: United Way of North Central Mass Inc · Community Foundation of North Central Ma · Boston Foundation Inc · Douglas & Isabelle Crocker Foundation · Rollstone Charitable Foundation Inc · Greater Worcester Community Foundation Inc · Analog Devices Foundation · Fidelity Foundation · George R Wallace Foundation · Main Street Group Foundation Inc · Greater Lowell Community Foundation Inc · Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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About Ronald M Ansin Foundation

How much does Ronald M Ansin Foundation give?
Ronald M Ansin Foundation reported 23 grants totaling $154,992 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 16 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Ronald M Ansin Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Philanthropy (39%), Education (25%), Civil Rights (13%).
Who are Ronald M Ansin Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Trustees of Lawrence Academy at Groton Ma Corp ($108k), Healing Hearts Changing Minds Inc ($61k), Lambda Legal Defense & Education Fund Inc ($50k).
Does Ronald M Ansin Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 54% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Ronald M Ansin Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as Ronald M Ansin Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include United Way of North Central Mass Inc, Community Foundation of North Central Ma, Boston Foundation Inc.
Where is Ronald M Ansin Foundation based?
Ronald M Ansin Foundation is based in MA.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 46 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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