Massachusetts · Private foundation
The Dicenso Family Charitable Trust
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $61k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 29
- Grants FY2025
- 33
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 21%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $1,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $15,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 26 to 33
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 10
- Total assets, FY2025
- $849k
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 21% of the organizations The Dicenso Family Charitable Trust funded were first-time grantees, receiving 12% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k 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 | 29 | $61k | 21% |
| FY2024 | 33 | $44k | 21% |
| FY2023 | 31 | $42k | 23% |
| FY2022 | 27 | $46k | 33% |
| FY2021 | 26 | $38k | 15% |
| FY2020 | 27 | $25k | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Northeastern University | $55,400 | 6 | 0% |
| International Institute of New England Inc | $39,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Glastonbury Abbey Inc | $24,675 | 6 | n/a |
| Women's Lunch Place Inc | $10,250 | 5 | 0% |
| Boston College High School | $9,000 | 6 | n/a |
| Alpha Project for the Homeless | $8,250 | 3 | 0% |
| Saint Francis House Inc | $6,250 | 2 | 0% |
| Sisters of Charity of St Elizabeth Convent of St Elizabeth | $6,250 | 6 | n/a |
| Providence College | $6,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Girls Incorporated of Boston and Lynn | $5,500 | 5 | 0% |
Show all 43 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 17 recipients with no EIN on record ($23k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Dicenso Family 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.
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How this is measured
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About The Dicenso Family Charitable Trust
- How much does The Dicenso Family Charitable Trust give?
- The Dicenso Family Charitable Trust reported 29 grants totaling $61,425 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 26 and 33 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does The Dicenso Family Charitable Trust fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (31%), International (18%), Arts & Culture (11%).
- Who are The Dicenso Family Charitable Trust's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Northeastern University ($55k), International Institute of New England Inc ($39k), Glastonbury Abbey Inc ($25k).
- Does The Dicenso Family Charitable Trust fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 21% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Dicenso Family Charitable Trust accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Dicenso Family Charitable Trust?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Rockland Trust Charitable Foundation Inc, Eastern Bank Foundation, Arbella Insurance Foundation.
- Where is The Dicenso Family Charitable Trust based?
- The Dicenso Family Charitable Trust is based in MA.
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