· Private foundation
Saquish Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- $10k–50k36 grants · $1.1M
- $50k–250k2 grants · $120k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| PROJECT PLACE | $65,000 |
| CROSSROADS FOR KIDS | $55,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $40,000 |
| THE RED SOX FOUNDATION | $40,000 |
| THE WOMEN'S LUNCH PLACE | $30,000 |
| FRIENDS OF THE PUBLIC GARDEN AND COMMON | $30,000 |
| LEND A HAND SOCIETY | $30,000 |
| HALE-BARNARD CORPORATION | $30,000 |
| ROSIE'S PLACE | $30,000 |
| NEW ENGLAND AQUARIUM | $30,000 |
| PINE STREET INN | $30,000 |
| SOUTHCOAST HEALTH SYSTEMS | $30,000 |
| BOSTON PUBLIC LIBRARY | $30,000 |
| LLOYD CENTER FOR THE ENVIRONMENT | $30,000 |
| THE HOME FOR LITTLE WANDERERS | $30,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $710k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
47 repeat relationships: 38 still active in FY2025, 9 since wound down.
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
CROSSROADS FOR KIDS INC9× · 2017–2025 · $415k · revenue +27%- TRTHE RED SOX FOUNDATION INC8× · 2018–2025 · $315k · revenue +34%
- HMHERITAGE MUSEUMS AND GARDENS INC9× · 2017–2025 · $272k · revenue +150%
Funded once
BOSTON PUBLIC LIBRARY FUND INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $15k · revenue +159%- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2022 · $10k
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
Organization's mission statement true to the ambitious vision of its founder and her spirit of creative risk-taking, the mission of the isabella stewart gardner museum is: - to bring to life and preserve the rich historic collection; - to…
The Boston Public Library provides educational and cultural enrichment free to all by engaging the public through programming and active spaces, restoring and preserving our history, providing access to borrow from our vast collection of…
Bringing people together for experiences that spark creativity and innovative thinking by making inspiring educational connections among art, history, and natural science.
Overview - founded in boston by pioneering landscape architect and open space visionary charles eliot in 1891, the trustees is the nation's first and the commonwealth's largest conservation and preservation nonprofit.
New england museum association's mission is to connect a community engaged in learning, collaboration, and action to cultivate a better museum world.
How this is measured
22 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 22 of the 49 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds CROSSROADS FOR KIDS INC ↗
- Who funds THE RED SOX FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds HERITAGE MUSEUMS AND GARDENS INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF BOSTON INC ↗
- Who funds LLOYD CENTER FOR THE ENVIRONMENT INC ↗
- Who funds THE HOME FOR LITTLE WANDERERS INC ↗
- Who funds OLD STURBRIDGE INC ↗
- Who funds WOMEN'S LUNCH PLACE INC ↗
- Who funds LEND A HAND SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds PINE STREET INN INC ↗
- Who funds MASSACHUSETTS AUDUBON SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds NEW BEDFORD WOMEN'S CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds HALE-BARNARD CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds SOCIETY FOR THE PRESERVATION OF NEW ENGL ↗
- Who funds DUXBURY BAY MARITIME SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds MUSEUM OF SCIENCE ↗
- Who funds BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC ↗
- Who funds SOUTHCOAST HEALTH SYSTEM INC ↗
- Who funds NEW ENGLAND AQUARIUM CORPORATION ↗
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: Arbella Insurance Foundation · Boston Foundation Inc · Eastern Bank Foundation · The Carney Family Charitable Foundation · Highland Street Connection and Subsidiaries · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Saquish Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Saquish Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- New Bedford Women's Center Inc: 84% of income from government
- The Home for Little Wanderers Inc: 38% of income from government
- Hale-Barnard Corporation: 36% of income from government
- New England Aquarium Corporation: 12% of income from government
- Pine Street Inn Inc: 11% of income from government
- Women's Lunch Place Inc: 8% of income from government
- Old Sturbridge Inc: 4% of income from government
- Lloyd Center for the Environment Inc: 3% of income from government
- Society for the Preservation of New Engl: 2% of income from government
- Boys & Girls Clubs of Boston Inc: 2% of income from government
- The Red Sox Foundation Inc: 2% of income from government
- Crossroads for Kids Inc: 1% of income from government
- Massachusetts Audubon Society Inc: 1% of income from government
- Boston Symphony Orchestra Inc: 0% of income from government
- Museum of Science: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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