Massachusetts · Private foundation
Sound Foundation Inc
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.
- $61k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 5
- Grants FY2025
- 2
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 0%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $9,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $26,137
- Organizations funded a year
- 2 to 10
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $783k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 0% of the organizations Sound Foundation Inc 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; $0 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 | 5 | $61k | 20% |
| FY2024 | 2 | $127k | 0% |
| FY2023 | 7 | $100k | 29% |
| FY2022 | 6 | $102k | 0% |
| FY2021 | 4 | $85k | 50% |
| FY2020 | 4 | $83k | 100% |
| FY2019 | 10 | $82k | 70% |
| FY2018 | 7 | $89k | 29% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Martha's Vineyard Regional High School | $200,021 | 6 | n/a |
| Equal Justice Initiative | $50,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Sima Studios | $30,000 | 3 | 3% |
| Island Autism Group Inc | $19,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Friends of Chilmark Pre-School Inc | $5,400 | 2 | 1% |
| Vineyard Conservation Society Inc | $5,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Misty Meadows Equine Learning Center Inc | $2,625 | 1 | 0% |
| Island Children's School Inc | $2,180 | 2 | 0% |
| Vineyard Montessori School Inc | $540 | 1 | n/a |
Plus 14 recipients with no EIN on record ($494k), 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: The Peter and Elizabeth C Tower Foundation · Slough Farm Foundation · South Mountain Company Foundation · Martha's Vineyard Bank Charitable Foundation Inc · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
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About Sound Foundation Inc
- How much does Sound Foundation Inc give?
- Sound Foundation Inc reported 5 grants totaling $61,288 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 10 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Sound Foundation Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (86%), Crime & Legal (6%), Arts & Culture (4%).
- Who are Sound Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Martha's Vineyard Regional High School ($200k), Equal Justice Initiative ($50k), Sima Studios ($30k).
- Does Sound Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Sound Foundation Inc 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 Sound Foundation Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Peter and Elizabeth C Tower Foundation, Slough Farm Foundation, South Mountain Company Foundation.
- Where is Sound Foundation Inc based?
- Sound Foundation Inc is based in MA.
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