Massachusetts · Private foundation
Rowland Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $2.3M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 41
- Grants FY2025
- 34
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 97%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $50,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $200,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 33 to 39
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 2
- Total assets, FY2025
- $36M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 97% of the organizations Rowland Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 95% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 5% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.9M 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 | 39 | $2.2M | 10% |
| FY2024 | 34 | $2.0M | 97% |
| FY2023 | 39 | $2.1M | 8% |
| FY2022 | 37 | $2.2M | 8% |
| FY2021 | 36 | $1.8M | 6% |
| FY2020 | 39 | $2.1M | 18% |
| FY2019 | 35 | $1.7M | 23% |
| FY2018 | 33 | $1.4M | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Familyaid Boston Inc | $1,080,000 | 6 | 2% |
| Rosie's Place Inc | $532,000 | 6 | 1% |
| The Institute of Contemporary Art Inc | $450,000 | 6 | 1% |
| Uaspire Inc | $425,000 | 6 | 1% |
| Literations Corp | $420,000 | 6 | 7% |
| Casa Myrna Vazquez Inc | $415,000 | 6 | 1% |
| Refugee & Immigrant Assistance Center | $415,000 | 5 | 7% |
| Smart From the Start Inc | $400,000 | 6 | 4% |
| Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum Inc | $390,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Political Asylumimmigration Representation Project Inc | $375,000 | 5 | 5% |
Show all 43 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 50 recipients with no EIN on record ($5.0M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Rowland Foundation Inc 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 · Eastern Bank Foundation · Liberty Mutual Foundation Inc · Cummings Foundation Grants Inc (Fka Oneworld Boston Inc) · Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc · Bushrod H Campbell & Adah F Hall Charity Fund · The Klarman Family Foundation · United Way Of Massachusetts Bay Inc · Edvestors Inc · William E Schrafft and Bertha E Schrafft Charitable Trust · Riley Mabel Louise Tr Uwill · The Cabot Family Charitable Trust
How this is measured
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About Rowland Foundation Inc
- How much does Rowland Foundation Inc give?
- Rowland Foundation Inc reported 41 grants totaling $2,325,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 33 and 39 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Rowland Foundation Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (24%), Education (17%), Human Services (15%).
- Who are Rowland Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2018 to FY2025: Familyaid Boston Inc ($1.1M), Rosie's Place Inc ($532k), The Institute of Contemporary Art Inc ($450k).
- Does Rowland Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 97% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Rowland Foundation Inc accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Rowland Foundation Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Boston Foundation Inc, Eastern Bank Foundation, Liberty Mutual Foundation Inc.
- Where is Rowland Foundation Inc based?
- Rowland Foundation Inc is based in MA.
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