Massachusetts · Private foundation
The Ceres Foundation Inc
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $7.9M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 64
- Grants FY2024
- 62
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 50%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $85,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $2,000,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 21 to 62
- FY2020 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 9
- Total assets, FY2024
- $170M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 50% of the organizations The Ceres Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 30% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 70% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2.0M 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 | 60 | $7.9M | 15% |
| FY2023 | 62 | $6.7M | 50% |
| FY2022 | 36 | $3.1M | 42% |
| FY2021 | 21 | $2.0M | 10% |
| FY2020 | 22 | $1.7M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 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, FY2020 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Thrive Scholars | $4,610,000 | 5 | 11% |
| Community Adolescent Resource and Education Center Inc | $1,500,000 | 5 | 14% |
| Monument Academy Inc | $700,000 | 5 | 1% |
| Future Link Inc | $700,000 | 5 | 22% |
| Schoolhouse Connection | $670,000 | 5 | 6% |
| Stem Advantage | $600,000 | 3 | 28% |
| Volunteer Legal Advocates | $560,000 | 5 | 4% |
| Friendship Shelter Inc | $555,000 | 5 | 3% |
| Kid Power Inc | $400,000 | 4 | 21% |
| Child Advocates of San Bernardino County | $400,000 | 4 | 10% |
Show all 74 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 5 recipients with no EIN on record ($915k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
The Ceres Foundation Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 5 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 71 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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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: Greater Washington Community Foundation · The Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation · California Community Foundation · Weingart Foundation · Philip L Graham Fund co Graham Holdings Company · The Ralph M Parsons Foundation · Orange County Community Foundation · John Edward Fowler Memorial Foundation · Clark-Winchcole Foundation · The Annenberg Foundation · Liberty Hill Foundation · Crowell & Moring Foundation
How this is measured
About The Ceres Foundation Inc
- How much does The Ceres Foundation Inc give?
- The Ceres Foundation Inc reported 64 grants totaling $7,865,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 21 and 62 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2023.
- What does The Ceres Foundation Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (38%), Human Services (14%), Housing & Shelter (12%).
- Who are The Ceres Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2024: Thrive Scholars ($4.6M), Community Adolescent Resource and Education Center Inc ($1.5M), Monument Academy Inc ($700k).
- Does The Ceres Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 50% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Ceres Foundation Inc accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Ceres Foundation Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Greater Washington Community Foundation, The Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation, California Community Foundation.
- Where is The Ceres Foundation Inc based?
- The Ceres Foundation Inc is based in MA.
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