Massachusetts · Private foundation
The Bigbird Fund
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $175k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 20
- Grants FY2025
- 22
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 18%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $8,400
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $34,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 18 to 33
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 5
- Total assets, FY2025
- $5k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 18% of the organizations The Bigbird Fund funded were first-time grantees, receiving 30% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 70% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $75k 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 | 19 | $167k | 21% |
| FY2024 | 22 | $247k | 18% |
| FY2023 | 19 | $767k | 42% |
| FY2022 | 18 | $1.1M | 22% |
| FY2021 | 20 | $299k | 45% |
| FY2020 | 23 | $597k | 39% |
| FY2019 | 22 | $579k | 50% |
| FY2018 | 33 | $801k | 52% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
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 FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Huntington Theatre Co Inc | $2,598,150 | 9 | 3% |
| The Food Project Inc | $482,184 | 5 | 5% |
| The Baseball Inc | $259,000 | 6 | 2% |
| Aquidneck Island Land Trust | $112,300 | 9 | 2% |
| Massachusetts College of Art and Design Foundation Inc | $111,950 | 7 | 1% |
| Massachusetts Audubon Society Inc | $100,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Horizons for Homeless Children | $67,200 | 4 | 0% |
| Site Santa Fe | $62,500 | 3 | 1% |
| Watertown Boys and Girls' Club Inc | $50,000 | 1 | 4% |
| The Institute of Contemporary Art Inc | $49,100 | 6 | 0% |
Show all 77 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 20 recipients with no EIN on record ($309k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Bigbird Fund supplied at peak.
Tap a dot to name the grantee.
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) · Fidelity Foundation · Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc · Rockland Trust Charitable Foundation Inc · Liberty Mutual Foundation Inc · Van Beuren Charitable Foundation Inc · The Hamilton Company Charitable Foundation · Eastern Cambridge Foundation · Mass General Brigham Incorporated & Affiliates Group Return · Cambridge Savings Charitable Foundation Inc
How this is measured
About The Bigbird Fund
- How much does The Bigbird Fund give?
- The Bigbird Fund reported 20 grants totaling $174,941 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 18 and 33 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does The Bigbird Fund fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (59%), Food & Nutrition (12%), Education (7%).
- Who are The Bigbird Fund's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Huntington Theatre Co Inc ($2.6M), The Food Project Inc ($482k), The Baseball Inc ($259k).
- Does The Bigbird Fund fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 18% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Bigbird 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 Bigbird 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 Bigbird Fund based?
- The Bigbird Fund is based in MA.
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