Massachusetts · Private foundation
The Fledgling Fund
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $986k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 55
- Grants FY2024
- 50
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 56%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $100,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 1 to 52
- FY2020 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 9
- Total assets, FY2024
- $2.8M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 56% of the organizations The Fledgling Fund funded were first-time grantees, receiving 66% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 34% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $573k 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 | 54 | $936k | 31% |
| FY2023 | 50 | $871k | 56% |
| FY2021 | 1 | $851k | 100% |
| FY2020 | 52 | $1.6M | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Acumen Fund Inc | $425,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Hispanic Society of America | $313,000 | 3 | 2% |
| The Lord's Place Inc | $237,174 | 3 | 0% |
| Girl Rising | $151,000 | 2 | 3% |
| Miraclefeet | $125,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Island Grown Initiative Ltd | $113,500 | 1 | 5% |
| The Everglades Foundation Inc | $110,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Metropolitan Museum of Art | $107,000 | 2 | 0% |
| The Institute for Ethnomedicine Inc Dba Brain Chemistry Labs | $100,000 | 1 | 2% |
| Mass General Brigham Incorporated | $100,000 | 1 | n/a |
Show all 75 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 23 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.2M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Fledgling Fund supplied at peak.
Tap a dot to name the grantee.
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: The Ford Foundation · The Bessemer Giving Fund · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · The New York Community Trust · Martha's Vineyard Bank Charitable Foundation Inc · The San Francisco Foundation · The Peter and Elizabeth C Tower Foundation · John D and Catherine T Macarthur Foundation · Boston Foundation Inc · The Stanton Family Foundation · Perspective Media Initiatives Inc · Gretchen V & Samuel M Feldman Private Foundation Inc
How this is measured
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How do I get to The Fledgling Fund?
Find your warmest path to The Fledgling Fund through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.
Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.
About The Fledgling Fund
- How much does The Fledgling Fund give?
- The Fledgling Fund reported 55 grants totaling $985,828 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 52 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2023.
- What does The Fledgling Fund fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2024, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (20%), Philanthropy (17%), International (10%).
- Who are The Fledgling Fund's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2024: Acumen Fund Inc ($425k), Hispanic Society of America ($313k), The Lord's Place Inc ($237k).
- Does The Fledgling Fund fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 56% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Fledgling Fund accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Fledgling Fund?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Ford Foundation, The Bessemer Giving Fund, The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund.
- Where is The Fledgling Fund based?
- The Fledgling Fund is based in MA.
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