Massachusetts · Private foundation
Tbd Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $681k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 29
- Grants FY2025
- 20
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 15%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $2,500
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $252,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 10 to 20
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 6
- Total assets, FY2025
- $3.9M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 15% of the organizations Tbd Foundation 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; $7k 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 | 25 | $640k | 28% |
| FY2024 | 20 | $324k | 15% |
| FY2023 | 18 | $407k | 11% |
| FY2022 | 17 | $254k | 0% |
| FY2021 | 19 | $302k | 21% |
| FY2020 | 17 | $546k | 35% |
| FY2019 | 14 | $173k | 43% |
| FY2018 | 10 | $178k | 40% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Boston Symphony Orchestra Inc | $831,682 | 8 | 0% |
| American Jewish Committee | $530,400 | 9 | 0% |
| Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum Inc | $350,000 | 5 | 1% |
| Hebrew Senior Life Inc | $170,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Institute for Nonprofit Practice Inc | $145,600 | 7 | 1% |
| American Friends of Reichman University Inc | $90,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Protect Democracy Project | $90,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Vet Voice Foundation Inc | $40,000 | 3 | 1% |
| Boys & Girls Clubs of Boston Inc | $33,475 | 8 | 0% |
| Bowdoin College | $30,000 | 6 | 0% |
Show all 29 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 9 recipients with no EIN on record ($444k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Tbd 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 · Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc · Liberty Mutual Foundation Inc · Eastern Bank Foundation · Riley Mabel Louise Tr Uwill · State Street Foundation Inc · Highland Street Connection and Subsidiaries · Barr Foundation · Cummings Foundation Grants Inc (Fka Oneworld Boston Inc) · Charities Aid Foundation America · Jewish Communal Fund · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program
How this is measured
About Tbd Foundation
- How much does Tbd Foundation give?
- Tbd Foundation reported 29 grants totaling $681,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 10 and 20 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Tbd Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (39%), Civil Rights (18%), Philanthropy (13%).
- Who are Tbd Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Boston Symphony Orchestra Inc ($832k), American Jewish Committee ($530k), Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum Inc ($350k).
- Does Tbd Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 15% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Tbd Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Tbd Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Boston Foundation Inc, Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc, Liberty Mutual Foundation Inc.
- Where is Tbd Foundation based?
- Tbd Foundation is based in MA.
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