Massachusetts · Private foundation
Rubblestone Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $32k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 25
- Grants FY2024
- 14
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 21%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $500
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $6,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 14 to 73
- FY2019 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 11
- Total assets, FY2024
- $624k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 21% of the organizations Rubblestone Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 6% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 25 | $32k | 32% |
| FY2023 | 14 | $32k | 21% |
| FY2022 | 73 | $129k | 26% |
| FY2021 | 32 | $71k | 28% |
| FY2020 | 54 | $71k | 37% |
| FY2019 | 48 | $53k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2019 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Infact DBA Corporate Accountability | $43,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Green America | $27,500 | 5 | 0% |
| Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals | $14,924 | 4 | 0% |
| National Women's Health Network | $14,000 | 4 | 0% |
| The Trustees of Mount Holyoke College | $14,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Best Friends Animal Society | $12,500 | 5 | 0% |
| The Footlight Club | $8,000 | 3 | 2% |
| The Story of Stuff Project | $7,750 | 3 | 0% |
| Planned Parenthood Federation of America Inc | $7,500 | 3 | 0% |
| 350org | $5,500 | 3 | 0% |
Show all 70 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 37 recipients with no EIN on record ($126k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Rubblestone Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 63 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: Boston Foundation Inc · Eastern Bank Foundation · Barr Foundation · Bushrod H Campbell & Adah F Hall Charity Fund · Patagoniaorg · Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc · Analog Devices Foundation · Impactassetsinc · Jewish Communal Fund · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Network for Good · The Pfizer Foundation Inc
How this is measured
About Rubblestone Foundation
- How much does Rubblestone Foundation give?
- Rubblestone Foundation reported 25 grants totaling $31,545 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 14 and 73 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2023.
- What does Rubblestone Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2024, its largest causes are Environment (26%), Animals (12%), Philanthropy (8%).
- Who are Rubblestone Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2019 to FY2024: Infact DBA Corporate Accountability ($43k), Green America ($28k), Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals ($15k).
- Does Rubblestone Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 21% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Rubblestone 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 Rubblestone Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Boston Foundation Inc, Eastern Bank Foundation, Barr Foundation.
- Where is Rubblestone Foundation based?
- Rubblestone Foundation is based in MA.
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