Massachusetts · Private foundation
Savage Family 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.
- $219k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 18
- Grants FY2025
- 14
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 7%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $7,500
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $50,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 9 to 14
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 4
- Total assets, FY2025
- $3.5M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 7% of the organizations Savage Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 4% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8k 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 | 18 | $219k | 28% |
| FY2024 | 14 | $184k | 7% |
| FY2023 | 12 | $150k | 0% |
| FY2022 | 14 | $170k | 0% |
| FY2021 | 12 | $147k | 25% |
| FY2020 | 12 | $151k | 17% |
| FY2019 | 9 | $140k | 0% |
| FY2018 | 11 | $168k | 0% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Maine Central Institute | $478,000 | 9 | 1% |
| Waldo County YMCA | $174,000 | 9 | 1% |
| Boston Medical Center Corporation | $93,334 | 6 | 0% |
| New England Baptist Hospital | $80,000 | 5 | 0% |
| The Charles River School Inc | $50,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Community Art Center Inc | $46,000 | 9 | 1% |
| Project STEP Inc | $39,000 | 9 | 1% |
| Families First Parenting Program Inc | $23,500 | 5 | 0% |
| Oasis Health Network Inc | $20,000 | 5 | 1% |
| Cultural Alliance of Medfield Dba Bellforge Arts Center | $20,000 | 2 | 1% |
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| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Maine Central Institute | $478,000 | 9 | 1% |
| Waldo County YMCA | $174,000 | 9 | 1% |
| Boston Medical Center Corporation | $93,334 | 6 | 0% |
| New England Baptist Hospital | $80,000 | 5 | 0% |
| The Charles River School Inc | $50,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Community Art Center Inc | $46,000 | 9 | 1% |
| Project STEP Inc | $39,000 | 9 | 1% |
| Families First Parenting Program Inc | $23,500 | 5 | 0% |
| Oasis Health Network Inc | $20,000 | 5 | 1% |
| Cultural Alliance of Medfield Dba Bellforge Arts Center | $20,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Life Flight Network Foundation | $15,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Penobscot Marine Museum | $11,000 | 3 | 1% |
| The Epiphany School Inc | $10,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Horizons for Homeless Children | $7,500 | 3 | 0% |
| Wayfinder Schools | $5,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Charles River Watershed Association Inc | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Katie Brown Educational Program Inc | $5,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Project Home | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Silver Lining Mentoring Inc | $3,500 | 2 | 0% |
| Waldo County General Hospital | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 7 recipients with no EIN on record ($485k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Savage Family 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 · Eastern Bank Foundation · Maine Community Foundation Inc · Haven Trust · Middlecott Foundation · Davis Family Foundation · Liberty Mutual Foundation Inc · Agnes M Lindsay Trust · Fidelity Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program
How this is measured
About Savage Family Foundation
- How much does Savage Family Foundation give?
- Savage Family Foundation reported 18 grants totaling $218,667 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 9 and 14 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Savage Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (49%), Health (15%), Human Services (13%).
- Who are Savage Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Maine Central Institute ($478k), Waldo County YMCA ($174k), Boston Medical Center Corporation ($93k).
- Does Savage Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 7% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Savage Family 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 Savage Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Boston Foundation Inc, Eastern Bank Foundation, Maine Community Foundation Inc.
- Where is Savage Family Foundation based?
- Savage Family Foundation is based in MA.
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