Massachusetts · Private foundation
Spooner John and Susan Charitable Trust
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.
- $29k
- Granted FY2023
- 11
- Grants FY2023
- 9
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 33%
- First-time grantees FY2023
Read this first · the figures below need context
78% of Spooner John and Susan Charitable Trust’s FY2024 grant dollars went to President And Fellows Of Harvard College, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2024 names 0 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2023, the last year Spooner John and Susan Charitable Trust named its own grantees at scale: 6 organizations, $29k. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
- Median grant, FY2023
- $2,000
- Largest grant, FY2023
- $10,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 9 to 19
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2023
- 2
- Total assets, FY2023
- $99k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 33% of the organizations Spooner John and Susan Charitable Trust funded were first-time grantees, receiving 9% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 91% 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2023 | 9 | $25k | 33% |
| FY2022 | 11 | $27k | 45% |
| FY2021 | 19 | $67k | 32% |
| FY2020 | 15 | $38k | 47% |
| FY2019 | 10 | $55k | 30% |
| FY2018 | 12 | $47k | 67% |
| FY2017 | 10 | $57k | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Huntington Theatre Co Inc | $38,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc | $16,000 | 4 | 0% |
| New Bedford Light | $15,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Trustees of Boston University | $9,000 | 6 | 0% |
| The Wheeler School | $7,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Community Servings Inc | $2,500 | 3 | 0% |
| The Authors Guild Foundation Inc | $2,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Brookline Education Foundation | $2,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Our Sisters School | $1,500 | 3 | 0% |
| Boston Health Care for the Homeless Program Inc | $1,500 | 2 | 0% |
Show all 27 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 16 recipients with no EIN on record ($214k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Spooner John and Susan Charitable Trust 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
Compare Spooner John and Susan Charitable Trust with peer funders
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About Spooner John and Susan Charitable Trust
- How much does Spooner John and Susan Charitable Trust give?
- Spooner John and Susan Charitable Trust reported 11 grants totaling $29,300 in its FY2023 IRS filing. It funded between 9 and 19 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does Spooner John and Susan Charitable Trust fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Youth Development (37%), Science & Tech (26%), Arts & Culture (15%).
- Who are Spooner John and Susan Charitable Trust's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Huntington Theatre Co Inc ($38k), Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc ($16k), New Bedford Light ($15k).
- Does Spooner John and Susan Charitable Trust fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 33% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Spooner John and Susan Charitable Trust 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 Spooner John and Susan Charitable Trust?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Highland Street Connection and Subsidiaries, Boston Foundation Inc, Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc.
- Where is Spooner John and Susan Charitable Trust based?
- Spooner John and Susan Charitable Trust is based in MA.
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