Massachusetts · Private foundation
Sylvester Memorial Fund
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $17k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 21
- Grants FY2025
- 13
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 8%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $500
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $2,600
- Organizations funded a year
- 13 to 29
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 7
- Total assets, FY2025
- $243k
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 8% of the organizations Sylvester Memorial Fund funded were first-time grantees, receiving 2% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $200 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 | 21 | $17k | 24% |
| FY2024 | 13 | $12k | 8% |
| FY2023 | 19 | $14k | 32% |
| FY2022 | 22 | $14k | 32% |
| FY2021 | 29 | $13k | 59% |
| FY2020 | 28 | $13k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
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, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Norwell Visiting Nurse Association Inc | $8,100 | 5 | 0% |
| Youth Across Borders Inc | $7,000 | 4 | 15% |
| Compassion International Incorporated | $4,000 | 4 | n/a |
| St Mary Episcopal Church | $1,590 | 3 | n/a |
| Cushing Pond Preservation Group | $1,500 | 3 | n/a |
| Florida Oceanographic Society Inc | $1,225 | 6 | 0% |
| Wildlands Trust Inc | $1,200 | 1 | 0% |
| The Trustees of Reservations | $1,020 | 6 | 0% |
| Strafford Historical Society Inc | $1,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Church Hill Cemetery Corp | $750 | 2 | n/a |
Show all 30 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 34 recipients with no EIN on record ($50k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Sylvester Memorial Fund 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: Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
About Sylvester Memorial Fund
- How much does Sylvester Memorial Fund give?
- Sylvester Memorial Fund reported 21 grants totaling $16,895 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 13 and 29 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does Sylvester Memorial Fund fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Religion (32%), Education (24%), Environment (15%).
- Who are Sylvester Memorial Fund's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Norwell Visiting Nurse Association Inc ($8k), Youth Across Borders Inc ($7k), Compassion International Incorporated ($4k).
- Does Sylvester Memorial Fund fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 8% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Sylvester Memorial Fund accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Sylvester Memorial Fund?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program, The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc, Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund.
- Where is Sylvester Memorial Fund based?
- Sylvester Memorial Fund is based in MA.
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