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The 300 Foundation

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.

$450k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
1
Grants FY2024
4
Organizations funded FY2018
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100% of The 300 Foundation’s FY2024 grant dollars went to Boston Foundation Inc, 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.

Organizations named directly on the return

4
’18
0
’19
0
’20
0
’21
0
’22
0
’23
0
’24

Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.

Median grant, FY2024
$450,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$450,000
States reached, FY2024
1
Total assets, FY2024
$784k
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.

Philanthropy$10MCrime & Legal$165kCivil Rights$40kEducation$10k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2018 to FY2018, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Vera Institute of Justice Inc$165,00010%
NEO Philanthropy Inc$84,00010%
American Civil Liberties Union Foundation Inc$40,00010%
Tailored for Education Inc$10,0001n/a

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How do I get to The 300 Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The 300 Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

About The 300 Foundation

How much does The 300 Foundation give?
The 300 Foundation reported 1 grants totaling $450,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing.
What does The 300 Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2018, its largest causes are Philanthropy (98%), Crime & Legal (2%), Civil Rights (0%).
Who are The 300 Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2018 to FY2018: Vera Institute of Justice Inc ($165k), NEO Philanthropy Inc ($84k), American Civil Liberties Union Foundation Inc ($40k).
Does The 300 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.
Where is The 300 Foundation based?
The 300 Foundation is based in MA.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 5 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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