Massachusetts · Private foundation
The Access Strategies Fund
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $427k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 15
- Grants FY2024
- 2
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 0%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $30,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $110,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 2 to 14
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 2
- Total assets, FY2024
- $7.7M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 0% of the organizations The Access Strategies Fund funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 11 | $287k | 64% |
| FY2023 | 2 | $8k | 0% |
| FY2021 | 5 | $6k | 40% |
| FY2020 | 6 | $5k | 17% |
| FY2019 | 8 | $44k | 13% |
| FY2018 | 14 | $58k | 50% |
| FY2017 | 13 | $16k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Third Sector New England Inc | $72,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Resist Inc | $48,500 | 6 | 0% |
| Massachusetts Voter Education Network Inc | $48,500 | 3 | 8% |
| Massachusetts Senior Action Council Inc | $30,000 | 1 | 6% |
| Right to the City Alliance | $30,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Pioneer Valley Project Inc | $30,000 | 1 | 5% |
| Arise Inc | $30,000 | 1 | 4% |
| Worcester Interfaith Inc | $25,000 | 1 | 10% |
| Solidago Foundation | $20,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Center for Labor Education and Research Inc | $6,000 | 3 | 0% |
Show all 27 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 4 recipients with no EIN on record ($49k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Access Strategies 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: The Hyams Foundation Inc · Barr Foundation · Boston Foundation Inc · Center for Economic Democracy Inc · Third Sector New England Inc · Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc · Solidago Foundation · Herman and Frieda L Miller Foundation · Haymarket People's Fund Inc · Proteus Fund Inc · Josephine and Louise Crane Foundation · The Lenny Zakim Fund
How this is measured
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About The Access Strategies Fund
- How much does The Access Strategies Fund give?
- The Access Strategies Fund reported 15 grants totaling $426,500 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 14 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does The Access Strategies Fund fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Civil Rights (29%), Philanthropy (26%), Community Improvement (18%).
- Who are The Access Strategies Fund's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Third Sector New England Inc ($72k), Resist Inc ($49k), Massachusetts Voter Education Network Inc ($49k).
- Does The Access Strategies Fund fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Access Strategies Fund accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Access Strategies Fund?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Hyams Foundation Inc, Barr Foundation, Boston Foundation Inc.
- Where is The Access Strategies Fund based?
- The Access Strategies Fund is based in MA.
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