Massachusetts · Private foundation
The Fletcher Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $3.3M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 66
- Grants FY2024
- 80
- Organizations funded FY2022
- 45%
- First-time grantees FY2022
- Median grant, FY2024
- $11,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $500,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 1 to 80
- FY2017 to FY2022
- States reached, FY2024
- 3
- Total assets, FY2024
- $31M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2022, 45% of the organizations The Fletcher Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 50% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2022, 50% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.5M 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 | 66 | $3.3M | 47% |
| FY2022 | 80 | $3.1M | 45% |
| FY2021 | 69 | $2.6M | 41% |
| FY2020 | 60 | $1.9M | 33% |
| FY2019 | 77 | $2.5M | 47% |
| FY2018 | 64 | $1.8M | 100% |
| FY2017 | 1 | $114 | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Worcester Art Museum | $925,000 | 4 | 2% |
| Music Worcester Inc | $761,500 | 5 | 38% |
| Worcester Public Market Inc | $650,000 | 4 | 100% |
| Greater Worcester Land Trust | $630,000 | 6 | 20% |
| Worcester Natural History Society Inc | $625,000 | 3 | 5% |
| Worcester Public Library Foundation | $600,000 | 1 | 62% |
| Regional Environmental Council Inc | $450,000 | 5 | 13% |
| United Way of Central Massachusetts Inc | $370,000 | 6 | 2% |
| Worcester Polytechnic Institute | $350,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Joy of Music Program Inc | $270,500 | 6 | 7% |
Show all 121 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 95 recipients with no EIN on record ($4.4M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
The Fletcher Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 6 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 115 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: Stoddard Charitable Trust · Greater Worcester Community Foundation Inc · The Fred Harris Daniels Foundation · Ruth H & Warren a Ellsworth Foundation · Webster Five Foundation Inc · The George I Alden Trust · Schwartz Charitable Foundation · Wyman Gordon · United Way of Central Massachusetts Inc · Coghlin Services Fund · Reliant Foundation Inc · Mildred H McEvoy Foundation
How this is measured
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About The Fletcher Foundation
- How much does The Fletcher Foundation give?
- The Fletcher Foundation reported 66 grants totaling $3,304,500 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 80 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2022.
- What does The Fletcher Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (24%), Education (14%), Environment (11%).
- Who are The Fletcher Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Worcester Art Museum ($925k), Music Worcester Inc ($762k), Worcester Public Market Inc ($650k).
- Does The Fletcher Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2022, 45% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Fletcher Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Fletcher Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Stoddard Charitable Trust, Greater Worcester Community Foundation Inc, The Fred Harris Daniels Foundation.
- Where is The Fletcher Foundation based?
- The Fletcher Foundation is based in MA.
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