Massachusetts · Private foundation
The Echo Charitable 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.
- $210k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 15
- Grants FY2025
- 13
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 8%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $100,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 13 to 19
- FY2021 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 3
- Total assets, FY2025
- $23k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 8% of the organizations The Echo Charitable Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 24% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 76% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $55k 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 | 15 | $210k | 13% |
| FY2024 | 13 | $229k | 8% |
| FY2023 | 14 | $304k | 0% |
| FY2022 | 17 | $177k | 12% |
| FY2021 | 19 | $366k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2021 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sweet Paws Rescue Inc | $309,000 | 5 | 14% |
| Ipswich River Watershed Association | $280,000 | 5 | 6% |
| Massachusetts Rivers Alliance Inc | $125,000 | 5 | 2% |
| Massachusetts Association of Conservation Commissions Inc | $100,000 | 5 | 5% |
| Essex County Greenbelt Association | $100,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Cape Ann Vernal Pond Team | $82,204 | 5 | 51% |
| Three Sisters Garden Project Inc | $65,000 | 2 | 8% |
| Massachusetts Audubon Society Inc | $54,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Association for Autism and Neurodiversity Inc | $20,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Manchester Essex Conservation Trust | $15,560 | 5 | 1% |
Show all 20 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sweet Paws Rescue Inc | $309,000 | 5 | 14% |
| Ipswich River Watershed Association | $280,000 | 5 | 6% |
| Massachusetts Rivers Alliance Inc | $125,000 | 5 | 2% |
| Massachusetts Association of Conservation Commissions Inc | $100,000 | 5 | 5% |
| Essex County Greenbelt Association | $100,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Cape Ann Vernal Pond Team | $82,204 | 5 | 51% |
| Three Sisters Garden Project Inc | $65,000 | 2 | 8% |
| Massachusetts Audubon Society Inc | $54,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Association for Autism and Neurodiversity Inc | $20,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Manchester Essex Conservation Trust | $15,560 | 5 | 1% |
| Ipswich Humane Group Inc | $13,000 | 5 | 4% |
| Peabody Essex Museum Inc | $12,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Native Plant Trust Inc | $10,000 | 5 | 0% |
| The Trustees of Reservations | $6,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Center for Northern Woodlands Education Inc | $6,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Blue Hill Community Development | $5,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Cantemus | $2,500 | 5 | 1% |
| Ocean River Institute Inc | $2,500 | 1 | 2% |
| WGBH Educational Foundation | $1,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Wild Seed Project | $1,000 | 2 | 0% |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 4 recipients with no EIN on record ($75k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
The Echo Charitable Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 19 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: Boston Foundation Inc · Institution for Savings in Newburyport & Its Vicinity Charitable Foundation Inc · Essex County Community Foundation Inc · New England Biolabs Foundation · Analog Devices Foundation · Ge Aerospace Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Network for Good · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
How this is measured
About The Echo Charitable Foundation
- How much does The Echo Charitable Foundation give?
- The Echo Charitable Foundation reported 15 grants totaling $209,500 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 13 and 19 organizations a year over FY2021 to FY2024.
- What does The Echo Charitable Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2021 to FY2025, its largest causes are Environment (70%), Animals (25%), Health (2%).
- Who are The Echo Charitable Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2021 to FY2025: Sweet Paws Rescue Inc ($309k), Ipswich River Watershed Association ($280k), Massachusetts Rivers Alliance Inc ($125k).
- Does The Echo Charitable Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 8% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Echo Charitable 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 Echo Charitable Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Boston Foundation Inc, Institution for Savings in Newburyport & Its Vicinity Charitable Foundation Inc, Essex County Community Foundation Inc.
- Where is The Echo Charitable Foundation based?
- The Echo Charitable Foundation is based in MA.
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