Massachusetts · Private foundation
The Bulens Family Foundation
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.
- $1.2M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 56
- Grants FY2025
- 67
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 19%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $2,551
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $370,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 55 to 72
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 12
- Total assets, FY2025
- $2.8M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 19% of the organizations The Bulens Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 4% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $39k 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 | 55 | $1.2M | 25% |
| FY2024 | 67 | $956k | 19% |
| FY2023 | 72 | $1.4M | 38% |
| FY2022 | 58 | $769k | 28% |
| FY2021 | 61 | $911k | 26% |
| FY2020 | 63 | $1.0M | 30% |
| FY2019 | 55 | $1.2M | 35% |
| FY2018 | 56 | $836k | 59% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Children's Hospital Corporation | $2,634,385 | 9 | 0% |
| Mass General Brigham Incorporated | $901,250 | 5 | n/a |
| Family Services of the Merrimack Valley Inc | $350,360 | 8 | 2% |
| St Anns Episcopal Church | $231,000 | 6 | n/a |
| The Sports Museum of New England Inc | $225,400 | 9 | 3% |
| Year Up Inc | $170,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Proctor Academy | $151,150 | 1 | 1% |
| The Pike School Inc | $127,500 | 7 | 0% |
| Suffolk University | $120,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Big Brothers Big Sisters of Eastern Massachusetts Inc | $120,000 | 5 | 1% |
Show all 121 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 95 recipients with no EIN on record ($3.0M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Bulens Family 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 tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Eastern Bank Foundation · Essex County Community Foundation Inc · Cummings Foundation Grants Inc (Fka Oneworld Boston Inc) · Rogers Family Foundation · Boston Foundation Inc · Arbella Insurance Foundation · Salem Five Charitable Foundation Inc · Institution for Savings in Newburyport & Its Vicinity Charitable Foundation Inc · Josephine G Russell Trust · The Red Sox Foundation Inc · United Way Of Massachusetts Bay Inc · Artemas W Stearns Trust
How this is measured
About The Bulens Family Foundation
- How much does The Bulens Family Foundation give?
- The Bulens Family Foundation reported 56 grants totaling $1,176,466 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 55 and 72 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does The Bulens Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (41%), Education (25%), Human Services (7%).
- Who are The Bulens Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Children's Hospital Corporation ($2.6M), Mass General Brigham Incorporated ($901k), Family Services of the Merrimack Valley Inc ($350k).
- Does The Bulens Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 19% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Bulens Family Foundation 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 Bulens Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Eastern Bank Foundation, Essex County Community Foundation Inc, Cummings Foundation Grants Inc (Fka Oneworld Boston Inc).
- Where is The Bulens Family Foundation based?
- The Bulens Family Foundation is based in MA.
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