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The Chickering Foundation (Formerly Dedham

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$213k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
10
Grants FY2025
9
Organizations funded FY2024
0%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$22,500
Largest grant, FY2025
$22,500
Organizations funded a year
9 to 11
FY2020 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
2
Total assets, FY2025
$2.3M
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 0% of the organizations The Chickering Foundation (Formerly Dedham funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’21’22’23’24
Housing & ShelterCrime & LegalOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving9$200k0%
FY20249$203k0%
FY202310$175k10%
FY202210$180k10%
FY202111$194k27%
FY20209$139kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Human Services$511kHousing & Shelter$358kCrime & Legal$163kHealth$35kYouth Development$19kPhilanthropy$19k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
The Second Step Inc$130,00061%
Parents Helping Parents - the Roundtable of Support Inc$119,00066%
On the Rise Inc$115,00061%
RESPOND Inc$110,00061%
Justice For Housing Inc$105,00055%
Partakers Inc$102,50056%
Families for Justice as Healing Inc$60,00034%
Walker Inc$19,00030%
HomeStart Inc$10,00010%

Plus 5 recipients with no EIN on record ($320k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Chickering Foundation (Formerly Dedham supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetThe Second Step Inc: $130,000 over 6y, 1.1% of budgetParents Helping Parents - the Roundtable of Support Inc: $119,000 over 6y, 6.4% of budgetOn the Rise Inc: $115,000 over 6y, 1.1% of budgetRESPOND Inc: $110,000 over 6y, 0.8% of budgetJustice For Housing Inc: $105,000 over 5y, 5.0% of budgetPartakers Inc: $102,500 over 5y, 5.6% of budgetFamilies for Justice as Healing Inc: $60,000 over 3y, 3.9% of budgetWalker Inc: $19,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetHomeStart Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 9.

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.

Boston Foundation IncMA20.7× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Boston Foundation Inc · Cummings Foundation Grants Inc (Fka Oneworld Boston Inc) · Bushrod H Campbell & Adah F Hall Charity Fund · Eastern Bank Foundation · Cambridge Savings Charitable Foundation Inc · Ploughshares Foundation · Eastern Cambridge Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Network for Good · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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About The Chickering Foundation (Formerly Dedham

How much does The Chickering Foundation (Formerly Dedham give?
The Chickering Foundation (Formerly Dedham reported 10 grants totaling $212,653 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 9 and 11 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
What does The Chickering Foundation (Formerly Dedham fund?
By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Human Services (46%), Housing & Shelter (32%), Crime & Legal (15%).
Who are The Chickering Foundation (Formerly Dedham's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: The Second Step Inc ($130k), Parents Helping Parents - the Roundtable of Support Inc ($119k), On the Rise Inc ($115k).
Does The Chickering Foundation (Formerly Dedham fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does The Chickering Foundation (Formerly Dedham accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as The Chickering Foundation (Formerly Dedham?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Boston Foundation Inc, Cummings Foundation Grants Inc (Fka Oneworld Boston Inc), Bushrod H Campbell & Adah F Hall Charity Fund.
Where is The Chickering Foundation (Formerly Dedham based?
The Chickering Foundation (Formerly Dedham is based in MA.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 15 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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