Massachusetts · Private foundation
The Bessie Rattner Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $161k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 15
- Grants FY2024
- 20
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 0%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $50,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 2 to 24
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 6
- Total assets, FY2024
- $3.2M
- 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 Bessie Rattner Foundation 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 | 15 | $161k | 7% |
| FY2023 | 20 | $167k | 0% |
| FY2022 | 20 | $178k | 40% |
| FY2021 | 17 | $176k | 35% |
| FY2020 | 9 | $177k | 33% |
| FY2019 | 20 | $180k | 10% |
| FY2018 | 24 | $226k | 92% |
| FY2017 | 2 | $60k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
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 FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Capital Area Food Bank Inc | $70,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Pancreatic Cancer Action Network Inc | $45,000 | 4 | 0% |
| World Central Kitchen Inc | $43,132 | 4 | 0% |
| Temple Beth Zion | $40,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Trevor Project Inc | $39,500 | 7 | 0% |
| The Food Bank of Western Massachusetts Inc | $37,000 | 7 | 0% |
| National Breast Cancer Foundation Inc | $35,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Wikimedia Foundation Inc | $27,890 | 5 | 0% |
| Multiplier | $17,933 | 2 | 0% |
| Soul Fire Farm Institute Inc | $15,000 | 5 | 0% |
Show all 18 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Capital Area Food Bank Inc | $70,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Pancreatic Cancer Action Network Inc | $45,000 | 4 | 0% |
| World Central Kitchen Inc | $43,132 | 4 | 0% |
| Temple Beth Zion | $40,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Trevor Project Inc | $39,500 | 7 | 0% |
| The Food Bank of Western Massachusetts Inc | $37,000 | 7 | 0% |
| National Breast Cancer Foundation Inc | $35,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Wikimedia Foundation Inc | $27,890 | 5 | 0% |
| Multiplier | $17,933 | 2 | 0% |
| Soul Fire Farm Institute Inc | $15,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Glsen Inc | $15,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Sunrise Day Camps Association Inc | $12,500 | 3 | 0% |
| New York Public Radio | $10,950 | 3 | 0% |
| Media Matters for America | $10,000 | 2 | 0% |
| C&O Canal Trust Inc | $10,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Blueprint Geneva Inc | $7,500 | 3 | 2% |
| Embrace Your Sisters | $2,500 | 1 | 4% |
| Westfield Homeless Cat Project | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 26 recipients with no EIN on record ($884k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Bessie Rattner 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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.
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How this is measured
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About The Bessie Rattner Foundation
- How much does The Bessie Rattner Foundation give?
- The Bessie Rattner Foundation reported 15 grants totaling $160,864 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 24 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does The Bessie Rattner Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Religion (25%), Philanthropy (14%), Food & Nutrition (10%).
- Who are The Bessie Rattner Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Capital Area Food Bank Inc ($70k), Pancreatic Cancer Action Network Inc ($45k), World Central Kitchen Inc ($43k).
- Does The Bessie Rattner Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Bessie Rattner Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Bessie Rattner Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Amazonsmile Foundation.
- Where is The Bessie Rattner Foundation based?
- The Bessie Rattner Foundation is based in MA.
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