· Private foundation
Sholley Foundation
Its FY2026 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, FY2019 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2026
- Under $10k55 grants · $106k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $85k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BRIGHAM & WOMENS HOSPITAL INC | $30,000 |
| COMMONWEALTH SHAKESPEARE COMPANY INC | $20,000 |
| SAN MIGUEL SCHOOL | $12,500 |
| COOLIDGE CORNER THEATRE FDN INC | $12,500 |
| WEST FALMOUTH LIBRARY INC | $10,000 |
| FALMOUTH ACADEMY INC | $7,500 |
| BOWDOIN COLLEGE | $7,000 |
| THEATER OFFENSIVE INC | $6,000 |
| CHAPOQUOIT YACHT CLUB | $5,000 |
| FRIENDS OF WLRN | $5,000 |
| ASHMONT HILL CHAMBER MUSIC INC | $4,000 |
| FRIENDS OF CULEBRA ANIMALS INC | $2,500 |
| RUNWAY FOR RECOVERY INC | $2,500 |
| FRENCH-AMERICAN SCHOOL OF RI | $2,500 |
| FOURWANDS WILDLIFE REHABILITATION | $2,500 |
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 (FY20–26, $19k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 73% 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
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
79 repeat relationships: 46 still active in FY2026, 33 since wound down; 14 grantees were first funded in FY2026 (too recent to call).
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 FY2026, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $38k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- TCThe Commonwealth Shakespeare Co Inc8× · 2019–2026 · $134k · revenue +98%
- CCCOOLIDGE CORNER THEATRE FOUNDATION INC6× · 2021–2026 · $65k · revenue +61%
BUZZARDS BAY COALITION8× · 2019–2026 · $61k · revenue +83%
Funded once
- MBMARINE BIOLOGICAL LABORATORYone grant, 2019 · $10k · revenue +7%
- NNNEFA NEW ENGLAND FDN FOR THE ARTS INCone grant, 2024 · $4k
- CCCOOLIDGE CORNER THEATREone grant, 2020 · $4k
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.
The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.
Wheaton college provides a transformative liberal arts education, combining theory and practice, for intellectually curious students within a collaborative and vibrant extended community and network that values and strives to create an…
Bates is a college of the liberal arts and sciences, and is a coeducational, nonsectarian, residential college with special commitments to academic rigor, and to assuring in all of its efforts the dignity of each individual, and access to…
The organization's primary exempt purpose is to provide access to and conduct activities in furtherance of higher education.
Saint anselm is a catholic, benedictine college providing all of its students a distinctive liberal arts education that incorporates opportunities for professional and career preparation. it does so in a learning community that encourages…
New england law/boston dedicates itself to preparing students to be successful lawyers and leaders in the public and private sectors through integrated practical, theoretical and ethical education of the highest caliber and to contributing…
Seeks to expand the boundaries of theater, producing, performing and presenting works of literary, experimental and educational value. provide a home for outstanding artists, a training ground for young artists (including an extensive…
Dartmouth College educates the most promising students and prepares them for a lifetime of learning and of responsible leadership, through a faculty dedicated to teaching and the creation of knowledge.
Organization's mission: boston university is an international, comprehensive, private research university, committed to educating students to be reflective, resourceful individuals ready to live, adapt, and lead in an interconnected world.…
Bb&n, an all gender day school in cambridge, massachusetts, was established in 1974 by the merger of two independent schools, the buckingham school and the browne & nichols school, founded respectively in 1889 and 1883. located on multiple…
Wentworth institute of technology is a nationally recognized private coeducational and residential university of higher education with a mission to empower, inspire and innovate through experiential learning with a core purpose of career…
How this is measured
92 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 92 of the 120 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 The Commonwealth Shakespeare Co Inc ↗
- Who funds COOLIDGE CORNER THEATRE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds BUZZARDS BAY COALITION ↗
- Who funds WEST FALMOUTH LIBRARY INC ↗
- Who funds NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds THE THEATER OFFENSIVE INC ↗
- Who funds NOBLE AND GREENOUGH SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF MOUNTS BOTANICAL GARDEN INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF CULEBRA ANIMALS INC ↗
- Who funds BANCROFT SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds Bowdoin College ↗
- Who funds FALMOUTH ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds YEAR UP INC ↗
- Who funds SUITS FOR SENIORS INC ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD LEAGUE OF MASSACHUSETTS INC ↗
- Who funds PRO PUBLICA INC ↗
- Who funds VASSAR COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds SAN MIGUEL EDUCATION CENTER ↗
- Who funds THE EPIPHANY SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds MARINE BIOLOGICAL LABORATORY ↗
- Who funds THE CERES COMMUNITY PROJECT ↗
- Who funds Captain Forbes House Museum ↗
- Who funds DUKE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds MILTON ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds BRIDGE BOSTON FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE ELEPHANT SANCTUARY IN TENNESSEE ↗
- Who funds DANA HALL SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds MILTON LIBRARY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SALT POND AREAS BIRD SANCTUARIES INC ↗
- Who funds BERKSHIRE WALDORF SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds THE COLLEGE LIGHT OPERA COMPANY INC ↗
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 · Berkshire Taconic Community Foundation Inc · Jane and Jack Fitzpatrick Trust · The Feigenbaum Foundation Inc · The Buchwald Family Foundation · Dr Robert C & Tina Sohn Foundation · Martha's Vineyard Bank Charitable Foundation Inc · Fidelity Foundation · Lee Bank Foundation Inc · Janey Fund Charitable Trust · Eastern Bank Foundation · Cape Cod Foundation Inc
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Sholley Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Sholley Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Captain Forbes House Museum: 100% of income from government
- New England Forestry Foundation Inc: 88% of income from government
- Buzzards Bay Coalition: 37% of income from government
- Berkshire Grown Inc: 28% of income from government
- Boston Medical Center Corporation: 23% of income from government
- Marine Biological Laboratory: 20% of income from government
- Community Servings Inc: 12% of income from government
- Courageous Sailing Center for Youth Inc: 10% of income from government
- Planned Parenthood of Southern New England Inc: 10% of income from government
- Volunteers in Medicine-Berkshires Inc: 10% of income from government
- Northeastern University: 7% of income from government
- Greenagers Inc: 7% of income from government
- Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: 7% of income from government
- Huntington Theatre Co Inc: 4% of income from government
- Planned Parenthood League of Massachusetts Inc: 3% of income from government
- Third Sector New England Inc: 3% of income from government
- West Falmouth Library Inc: 2% of income from government
- Community Access to the Arts Inc: 2% of income from government
- The Theater Offensive Inc: 2% of income from government
- Martha's Vineyard Film Society Inc: 2% of income from government
- Berkshire Natural Resources Council Inc: 1% of income from government
- Massachusetts Audubon Society Inc: 1% of income from government
- Guthrie Center Corp: 1% of income from government
- Edith Wharton Restoration Inc: 1% of income from government
- Shakespeare & Company Inc: 1% of income from government
- Circuit Arts Inc: 1% of income from government
- Healing Meals Foundation Corporation: 0% of income from government
- Coolidge Corner Theatre Foundation Inc: 0% of income from government
- Year Up Inc: 0% of income from government
- The Epiphany School Inc: 0% of income from government
- Our Sisters School: 0% of income from government
- Emerson College: 0% of income from government
- Pan-Massachusetts Challenge Inc: 0% of income from government
- Milton Academy: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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