Massachusetts · Private foundation
Running Deer Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $298k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 30
- Grants FY2025
- 36
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 28%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $1,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $235,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 30 to 57
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 9
- Total assets, FY2025
- $1.4M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 28% of the organizations Running Deer Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 5% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 95% 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 | 28 | $296k | 7% |
| FY2024 | 36 | $648k | 28% |
| FY2023 | 37 | $142k | 24% |
| FY2022 | 34 | $131k | 26% |
| FY2021 | 57 | $498k | 40% |
| FY2020 | 32 | $139k | 25% |
| FY2019 | 38 | $167k | 34% |
| FY2018 | 30 | $153k | 50% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
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, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Navy Seabee Foundation | $150,000 | 1 | 8% |
| Wellesley Congregational Church | $130,250 | 2 | n/a |
| Westwood Hills Congregational Church | $105,850 | 8 | n/a |
| Williams College | $52,400 | 9 | 0% |
| Cec Seabee Historical Foundation | $47,250 | 4 | 2% |
| Illinois Institute of Technology | $37,000 | 3 | 0% |
| The Carroll School | $27,500 | 7 | 0% |
| Malayaka House Inc | $23,750 | 7 | 5% |
| Friends of Fumbelo Inc | $21,000 | 5 | 7% |
| For His Children | $17,250 | 7 | 1% |
Show all 73 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 55 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.6M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Running Deer 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: Boston Foundation Inc · The Arons Family Foundation · Liberty Mutual Foundation Inc · American Tower Corporation Foundation Inc · Conroy Family Foundation · Chubb Charitable Foundation · Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc · Cape Cod Five Cents Savings Bank Charitable Foundation Trust · Amica Companies Foundation · Eastern Cambridge Foundation · Fidelity Foundation · Cummings Foundation Grants Inc (Fka Oneworld Boston Inc)
How this is measured
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About Running Deer Foundation
- How much does Running Deer Foundation give?
- Running Deer Foundation reported 30 grants totaling $297,705 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 30 and 57 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Running Deer Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Religion (61%), Education (23%), Arts & Culture (5%).
- Who are Running Deer Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Navy Seabee Foundation ($150k), Wellesley Congregational Church ($130k), Westwood Hills Congregational Church ($106k).
- Does Running Deer Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 28% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Running Deer Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Running Deer Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Boston Foundation Inc, The Arons Family Foundation, Liberty Mutual Foundation Inc.
- Where is Running Deer Foundation based?
- Running Deer Foundation is based in MA.
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