Massachusetts · Private foundation
The Boger Charitable Trust
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.
- $253k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 43
- Grants FY2025
- 45
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 11%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $1,040
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $61,157
- Organizations funded a year
- 40 to 47
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 7
- Total assets, FY2025
- $1.3M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 11% of the organizations The Boger Charitable Trust funded were first-time grantees, receiving 2% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k 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 | 43 | $253k | 14% |
| FY2024 | 45 | $252k | 11% |
| FY2023 | 40 | $247k | 8% |
| FY2022 | 47 | $223k | 21% |
| FY2021 | 42 | $248k | 36% |
| FY2020 | 40 | $204k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 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, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mass General Brigham Incorporated | $346,430 | 6 | n/a |
| Emerson Hospital | $245,321 | 6 | 0% |
| Runway for Recovery Inc | $162,580 | 6 | 6% |
| Edvestors Inc | $65,563 | 5 | 0% |
| World Central Kitchen Inc | $56,280 | 6 | 0% |
| Meadowbrook School of Weston Incorporated | $41,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Greater Boston Food Bank Inc | $33,895 | 6 | 0% |
| Families First Parenting Program Inc | $29,707 | 6 | 0% |
| Food for Free Committee Inc | $28,235 | 5 | 0% |
| Museum of Fine Arts | $25,140 | 3 | 0% |
Show all 55 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 24 recipients with no EIN on record ($243k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Boger Charitable Trust 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) · Fidelity Foundation · United Way Of Massachusetts Bay Inc · American Tower Corporation Foundation Inc · Liberty Mutual Foundation Inc · Bny Mellon Charitable Gift Fund · Zachary and Lindsey Gund Foundation · Rosse Family Charitable Foundation Inc · Wellington Management Foundation · Yawkey Foundation II
How this is measured
About The Boger Charitable Trust
- How much does The Boger Charitable Trust give?
- The Boger Charitable Trust reported 43 grants totaling $252,625 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 40 and 47 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does The Boger Charitable Trust fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (53%), Education (13%), Civil Rights (6%).
- Who are The Boger Charitable Trust's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Mass General Brigham Incorporated ($346k), Emerson Hospital ($245k), Runway for Recovery Inc ($163k).
- Does The Boger Charitable Trust fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 11% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Boger Charitable Trust 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 Boger Charitable Trust?
- 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 Boger Charitable Trust based?
- The Boger Charitable Trust is based in MA.
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