Massachusetts · Private foundation
Sens Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $55k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 4
- Grants FY2024
- 7
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 57%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $15,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $25,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 6 to 7
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 3
- Total assets, FY2024
- $1.3M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 57% of the organizations Sens Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 39% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 61% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $22k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 4 | $55k | 0% |
| FY2023 | 7 | $57k | 57% |
| FY2022 | 6 | $70k | 0% |
| FY2021 | 6 | $83k | 33% |
| FY2020 | 6 | $62k | 17% |
| FY2019 | 6 | $62k | 17% |
| FY2018 | 6 | $68k | 33% |
| FY2017 | 7 | $83k | n/a |
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 FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Colorado College | $80,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Cambridge Insight Meditation Center Inc | $78,500 | 6 | n/a |
| University of Oklahoma Foundation Inc | $67,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Cambridge Neighbors Inc | $57,500 | 7 | 4% |
| The Arnold Gold Foundation | $45,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Lake Forest Academy | $41,375 | 7 | 0% |
| Watertown Boys and Girls' Club Inc | $20,000 | 2 | 0% |
| The Dorothy and Charles Mosesian Center for the Arts Inc | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
Plus 9 recipients with no EIN on record ($145k), not named here.
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: Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
About Sens Foundation
- How much does Sens Foundation give?
- Sens Foundation reported 4 grants totaling $55,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 6 and 7 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does Sens Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (38%), Religion (22%), Health (10%).
- Who are Sens Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: The Colorado College ($80k), Cambridge Insight Meditation Center Inc ($79k), University of Oklahoma Foundation Inc ($67k).
- Does Sens Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 57% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Sens 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 Sens Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund, Amazonsmile Foundation.
- Where is Sens Foundation based?
- Sens Foundation is based in MA.
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