Massachusetts · Private foundation
Stephen D and Susan W Paine 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.
- $29k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 27
- Grants FY2025
- 29
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 0%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $500
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $5,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 29 to 32
- FY2019 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 4
- Total assets, FY2025
- $130k
- 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 Stephen D and Susan W Paine Foundation 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 | 26 | $26k | 0% |
| FY2024 | 29 | $227k | 0% |
| FY2023 | 29 | $171k | 10% |
| FY2022 | 29 | $21k | 3% |
| FY2021 | 29 | $21k | 0% |
| FY2020 | 31 | $22k | 3% |
| FY2019 | 32 | $122k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2019 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Boston Symphony Orchestra Inc | $350,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Proprietors of the Boston Athenaeum | $100,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Boston Ballet Inc | $22,500 | 7 | 0% |
| The Vermont Center for Ecostudies Inc | $17,500 | 7 | 0% |
| Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art Foundation Inc | $7,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Manomet Inc | $7,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Enroot Inc | $7,000 | 7 | 0% |
| American Academy of Arts & Sciences | $7,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Boston Children's Chorus Inc | $7,000 | 7 | 0% |
| The Royal Oak Foundation Inc | $4,500 | 3 | 0% |
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What it could do for these grantees
Plus 9 recipients with no EIN on record ($32k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Stephen D and Susan W Paine 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: Boston Foundation Inc · Eastern Bank Foundation · Stevenson Family Charitable Trust · Alchemy Foundation · Middlecott Foundation · Ploughshares Foundation · Barr Foundation · The Louis Foundation · M Holt Massey Charitable Trust · Robert and Iris Fanger Family Foundation · Cambridge Community Foundation · Adelard & Valeda Roy Foundation
How this is measured
Compare Stephen D and Susan W Paine Foundation with peer funders
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About Stephen D and Susan W Paine Foundation
- How much does Stephen D and Susan W Paine Foundation give?
- Stephen D and Susan W Paine Foundation reported 27 grants totaling $29,100 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 29 and 32 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2024.
- What does Stephen D and Susan W Paine Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (82%), Philanthropy (6%), Environment (4%).
- Who are Stephen D and Susan W Paine Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2019 to FY2025: Boston Symphony Orchestra Inc ($350k), Proprietors of the Boston Athenaeum ($100k), Boston Ballet Inc ($23k).
- Does Stephen D and Susan W Paine Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Stephen D and Susan W Paine 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 Stephen D and Susan W Paine Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Boston Foundation Inc, Eastern Bank Foundation, Stevenson Family Charitable Trust.
- Where is Stephen D and Susan W Paine Foundation based?
- Stephen D and Susan W Paine Foundation is based in MA.
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