Massachusetts · Private foundation
The Christopher W Schlesinger 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.
- $39k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 13
- Grants FY2025
- 18
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 28%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $2,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $10,500
- Organizations funded a year
- 1 to 18
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 3
- Total assets, FY2025
- $350k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 28% of the organizations The Christopher W Schlesinger Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 16% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $7k 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 | 13 | $39k | 8% |
| FY2024 | 18 | $42k | 28% |
| FY2023 | 15 | $28k | 33% |
| FY2022 | 10 | $33k | 30% |
| FY2021 | 12 | $47k | 25% |
| FY2020 | 11 | $25k | 55% |
| FY2019 | 1 | $5k | 0% |
| FY2018 | 1 | $10k | 0% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Buzzards Bay Coalition | $24,250 | 6 | 0% |
| Our Sisters School | $20,500 | 7 | 0% |
| Forge City Works Inc | $20,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Westport Food Pantry Inc | $17,500 | 5 | 2% |
| New Bedford Light | $16,000 | 5 | 0% |
| The Marion Institute Inc | $15,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Third Sector New England Inc | $11,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Hope & Main | $9,500 | 3 | 0% |
| Only a Child Inc | $5,000 | 2 | 3% |
| Children Incorporated | $4,700 | 6 | 0% |
Show all 23 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Buzzards Bay Coalition | $24,250 | 6 | 0% |
| Our Sisters School | $20,500 | 7 | 0% |
| Forge City Works Inc | $20,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Westport Food Pantry Inc | $17,500 | 5 | 2% |
| New Bedford Light | $16,000 | 5 | 0% |
| The Marion Institute Inc | $15,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Third Sector New England Inc | $11,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Hope & Main | $9,500 | 3 | 0% |
| Only a Child Inc | $5,000 | 2 | 3% |
| Children Incorporated | $4,700 | 6 | 0% |
| Cambridge Community Center Inc | $4,500 | 3 | 0% |
| Fidalgo Island Rotary Foundation | $4,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Rainbow Railroad USA Inc | $3,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Greater Boston Food Bank Inc | $3,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Somerville Homeless Coalition Inc | $2,500 | 3 | 0% |
| Rehearsal for Life Inc | $1,750 | 4 | 0% |
| Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals | $1,700 | 4 | 0% |
| Narrows Center for the Arts Inc | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
| The Livestock Institute of Southern New England Inc | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
| The Genesis Center | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Medecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Pan-Massachusetts Challenge Inc | $700 | 3 | 0% |
| Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc | $200 | 1 | 0% |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 7 recipients with no EIN on record ($65k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Christopher W Schlesinger 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.
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How this is measured
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About The Christopher W Schlesinger Foundation
- How much does The Christopher W Schlesinger Foundation give?
- The Christopher W Schlesinger Foundation reported 13 grants totaling $39,200 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 18 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does The Christopher W Schlesinger Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Youth Development (21%), Environment (15%), Education (10%).
- Who are The Christopher W Schlesinger Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Buzzards Bay Coalition ($24k), Our Sisters School ($21k), Forge City Works Inc ($20k).
- Does The Christopher W Schlesinger Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 28% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Christopher W Schlesinger 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 Christopher W Schlesinger Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Joan Shafran and Rob Haimes Foundation Inc, Southcoast Community Foundation Inc, Boston Foundation Inc.
- Where is The Christopher W Schlesinger Foundation based?
- The Christopher W Schlesinger Foundation is based in MA.
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