Massachusetts · Private foundation
Sawyer Parks Charitable Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $258k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 69
- Grants FY2025
- 70
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 4%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $1,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $66,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 46 to 70
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 16
- Total assets, FY2025
- $2.0M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 4% of the organizations Sawyer Parks Charitable Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $450 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 | 68 | $257k | 4% |
| FY2024 | 70 | $275k | 4% |
| FY2023 | 66 | $250k | 5% |
| FY2022 | 64 | $214k | 8% |
| FY2021 | 60 | $245k | 3% |
| FY2020 | 57 | $223k | 9% |
| FY2019 | 54 | $224k | 17% |
| FY2018 | 46 | $181k | 0% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 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, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Suffolk University | $518,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Massachusetts Eye & Ear Infirmary | $262,500 | 9 | 0% |
| Rosie's Place Inc | $215,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals | $181,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Family Reach Foundation | $97,500 | 7 | 0% |
| National Braille Press Inc | $82,500 | 9 | 0% |
| Greater Boston Food Bank Inc | $75,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Haitian Health Foundation | $50,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Lawrence Catholic Academy of Lawrence Massachusetts Inc | $49,000 | 8 | n/a |
| The Hundred Club of Mass Inc | $46,000 | 6 | 1% |
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What it could do for these grantees
Plus 31 recipients with no EIN on record ($191k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Sawyer Parks Charitable 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.
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How this is measured
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About Sawyer Parks Charitable Foundation
- How much does Sawyer Parks Charitable Foundation give?
- Sawyer Parks Charitable Foundation reported 69 grants totaling $257,708 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 46 and 70 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Sawyer Parks Charitable Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (29%), Health (20%), Housing & Shelter (13%).
- Who are Sawyer Parks Charitable Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Suffolk University ($518k), Massachusetts Eye & Ear Infirmary ($263k), Rosie's Place Inc ($215k).
- Does Sawyer Parks Charitable Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 4% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Sawyer Parks Charitable Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Sawyer Parks Charitable Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Eastern Bank Foundation, Amica Companies Foundation, Ge Aerospace Foundation.
- Where is Sawyer Parks Charitable Foundation based?
- Sawyer Parks Charitable Foundation is based in MA.
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