Massachusetts · Private foundation
The Am Fund
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.
- $462k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 28
- Grants FY2024
- 18
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 28%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $80,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 14 to 26
- FY2020 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 6
- Total assets, FY2024
- $1.9M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 28% of the organizations The Am Fund funded were first-time grantees, receiving 11% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $38k 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 | 25 | $357k | 40% |
| FY2023 | 18 | $348k | 28% |
| FY2022 | 15 | $328k | 20% |
| FY2021 | 14 | $485k | 43% |
| FY2020 | 26 | $445k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| J Street Education Fund Inc | $340,000 | 5 | 1% |
| The Rivers School Corporation | $250,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Dedham Country Day School | $152,500 | 2 | 1% |
| Nuya Inc | $127,000 | 5 | 4% |
| Issue One | $102,500 | 4 | 1% |
| Lawrence Catholic Academy of Lawrence Massachusetts Inc | $100,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum Inc | $100,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Institute Justice and Democracy in Haiti Inc | $100,000 | 4 | 3% |
| Roger Williams University | $100,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Massachusetts Budget and Policy Center Inc | $60,000 | 4 | 1% |
Show all 43 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 7 recipients with no EIN on record ($203k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Am 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: Boston Foundation Inc · Eastern Bank Foundation · Cummings Foundation Grants Inc (Fka Oneworld Boston Inc) · Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc · United Way Of Massachusetts Bay Inc · Children's Hospital Corporation · Bushrod H Campbell & Adah F Hall Charity Fund · Fidelity Foundation · Citizens Charitable Foundation · Cambridge Savings Charitable Foundation Inc · Liberty Mutual Foundation Inc · The John H and H Naomi Tomfohrde Foundation
How this is measured
About The Am Fund
- How much does The Am Fund give?
- The Am Fund reported 28 grants totaling $461,600 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 14 and 26 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2023.
- What does The Am Fund fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (33%), International (24%), Religion (14%).
- Who are The Am Fund's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2024: J Street Education Fund Inc ($340k), The Rivers School Corporation ($250k), Dedham Country Day School ($153k).
- Does The Am Fund fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 28% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Am Fund 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 The Am Fund?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Boston Foundation Inc, Eastern Bank Foundation, Cummings Foundation Grants Inc (Fka Oneworld Boston Inc).
- Where is The Am Fund based?
- The Am Fund is based in MA.
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