Massachusetts · Private foundation
Tapper Charitable 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.
- $1.8M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 49
- Grants FY2025
- 47
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 38%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $793,580
- Organizations funded a year
- 30 to 68
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 8
- Total assets, FY2025
- $17M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 38% of the organizations Tapper Charitable Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 11% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $155k 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 | 46 | $1.7M | 13% |
| FY2024 | 47 | $1.5M | 38% |
| FY2023 | 49 | $902k | 27% |
| FY2022 | 68 | $667k | 54% |
| FY2021 | 53 | $519k | 36% |
| FY2020 | 50 | $598k | 40% |
| FY2019 | 38 | $172k | 29% |
| FY2018 | 30 | $140k | 30% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 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, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Amt Theater Inc | $1,687,580 | 3 | 85% |
| City Lore Inc | $1,167,500 | 4 | 11% |
| Trustees of Boston University | $300,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Capitol Squash Inc | $161,680 | 7 | 8% |
| The Woodlynde School Corporation | $137,500 | 4 | 1% |
| Trustees of Clark University | $125,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Fans for the Cure | $78,500 | 8 | 9% |
| Hartford Promise Inc | $73,000 | 8 | 1% |
| Greater Cleveland Food Bank Inc | $62,500 | 9 | 0% |
| Jewish Alliance for Law and Social Action Inc | $57,500 | 7 | 2% |
Show all 107 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 67 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.6M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Tapper Charitable Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 97 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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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: Hartford Foundation for Public Giving · Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc · Farmington Bank Community Foundation Inc · Aetna Foundation Inc · J Walton Bissell Foundation Inc · United Way Inc United Way of Cent & Ne Connecticut · Lincoln Financial Foundation Inc · Eversource Energy Foundation Inc · The William and Alice Mortensen Foundation · Boston Foundation Inc · Cheryl Chase & Stuart Bear Family Foundation Inc · The Betty Knox Foundation Inc
How this is measured
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About Tapper Charitable Foundation
- How much does Tapper Charitable Foundation give?
- Tapper Charitable Foundation reported 49 grants totaling $1,809,559 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 30 and 68 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Tapper Charitable Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (41%), Education (22%), Health (9%).
- Who are Tapper Charitable Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Amt Theater Inc ($1.7M), City Lore Inc ($1.2M), Trustees of Boston University ($300k).
- Does Tapper Charitable Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 38% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Tapper Charitable 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 Tapper Charitable Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Hartford Foundation for Public Giving, Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc, Farmington Bank Community Foundation Inc.
- Where is Tapper Charitable Foundation based?
- Tapper Charitable Foundation is based in MA.
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