Massachusetts · Private foundation
Schoolbell 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.
- $19k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 14
- Grants FY2025
- 14
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 14%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $1,500
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $2,250
- Organizations funded a year
- 1 to 15
- FY2017 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 4
- Total assets, FY2025
- $197k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 14% of the organizations Schoolbell Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 11% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 89% 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 14 | $19k | 14% |
| FY2024 | 14 | $20k | 14% |
| FY2023 | 13 | $19k | 38% |
| FY2022 | 15 | $20k | 13% |
| FY2021 | 14 | $18k | 29% |
| FY2020 | 10 | $17k | 20% |
| FY2019 | 9 | $15k | 100% |
| FY2017 | 1 | $1k | n/a |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oxfam-America Inc | $12,500 | 7 | 0% |
| Vineyard Conservation Society Inc | $7,500 | 7 | 0% |
| The Tulgey Wood Inc | $7,000 | 7 | 1% |
| Centre Street Food Pantry Inc | $7,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Givedirectly Inc | $6,500 | 3 | 0% |
| The Clear Fund | $6,500 | 3 | 0% |
| Island Housing Trust Corporation | $4,500 | 3 | 0% |
| Martha's Vineyard Shellfish Group Inc | $4,200 | 4 | 0% |
| Refugee & Immigrant Assistance Center | $4,000 | 2 | 0% |
| YMCA of Martha's Vineyard Inc | $2,500 | 3 | 0% |
Show all 15 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oxfam-America Inc | $12,500 | 7 | 0% |
| Vineyard Conservation Society Inc | $7,500 | 7 | 0% |
| The Tulgey Wood Inc | $7,000 | 7 | 1% |
| Centre Street Food Pantry Inc | $7,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Givedirectly Inc | $6,500 | 3 | 0% |
| The Clear Fund | $6,500 | 3 | 0% |
| Island Housing Trust Corporation | $4,500 | 3 | 0% |
| Martha's Vineyard Shellfish Group Inc | $4,200 | 4 | 0% |
| Refugee & Immigrant Assistance Center | $4,000 | 2 | 0% |
| YMCA of Martha's Vineyard Inc | $2,500 | 3 | 0% |
| Martha's Vineyard Community Services Inc | $2,500 | 3 | 0% |
| Vineyard Committe on Hunger | $1,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Island Grown Initiative Ltd | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Featherstone Center for the Arts Inc | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Harbor Homes of Martha's Vineyard Inc | $800 | 1 | 0% |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 12 recipients with no EIN on record ($58k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Schoolbell 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: Martha's Vineyard Bank Charitable Foundation Inc · Boston Foundation Inc · The Kohlberg Foundation Inc · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
About Schoolbell Foundation
- How much does Schoolbell Foundation give?
- Schoolbell Foundation reported 14 grants totaling $18,500 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 15 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2024.
- What does Schoolbell Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Human Services (18%), Food & Nutrition (17%), International (15%).
- Who are Schoolbell Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Oxfam-America Inc ($13k), Vineyard Conservation Society Inc ($8k), The Tulgey Wood Inc ($7k).
- Does Schoolbell Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 14% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Schoolbell 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 Schoolbell Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Martha's Vineyard Bank Charitable Foundation Inc, Boston Foundation Inc, The Kohlberg Foundation Inc.
- Where is Schoolbell Foundation based?
- Schoolbell Foundation is based in MA.
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