Massachusetts · Private foundation
The Fred Harris Daniels 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.
- $1.0M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 65
- Grants FY2025
- 56
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 18%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $7,500
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $160,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 50 to 67
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 3
- Total assets, FY2025
- $16M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 18% of the organizations The Fred Harris Daniels Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 13% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $125k 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 | 65 | $1.0M | 23% |
| FY2024 | 56 | $978k | 18% |
| FY2023 | 56 | $923k | 18% |
| FY2022 | 57 | $852k | 19% |
| FY2021 | 50 | $1.0M | 8% |
| FY2020 | 67 | $989k | 27% |
| FY2019 | 61 | $1.0M | 13% |
| FY2018 | 60 | $1.0M | 18% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| United Way of Central Massachusetts Inc | $893,250 | 8 | 3% |
| YWCA Central Massachusetts Inc | $462,500 | 7 | 1% |
| Girl Scouts of Central and Western Massachusetts Inc | $306,100 | 6 | 2% |
| Community Harvest Project Inc | $272,500 | 9 | 4% |
| Worcester Historical Museum | $270,000 | 8 | 4% |
| Girls Incorporated of Worcester | $255,000 | 7 | 3% |
| Nichols College | $225,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Bancroft School | $201,200 | 4 | 0% |
| Worcester State Foundation Inc | $200,000 | 3 | 2% |
| American Antiquarian Society | $200,000 | 6 | 0% |
Show all 117 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 35 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.7M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
The Fred Harris Daniels Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 110 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: Greater Worcester Community Foundation Inc · Webster Five Foundation Inc · The Fletcher Foundation · Stoddard Charitable Trust · The George I Alden Trust · United Way of Central Massachusetts Inc · Ruth H & Warren a Ellsworth Foundation · Schwartz Charitable Foundation · Reliant Foundation Inc · Rockland Trust Charitable Foundation Inc · Wyman Gordon · DCU for Kids
How this is measured
Compare The Fred Harris Daniels Foundation with peer funders
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About The Fred Harris Daniels Foundation
- How much does The Fred Harris Daniels Foundation give?
- The Fred Harris Daniels Foundation reported 65 grants totaling $1,015,500 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 50 and 67 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does The Fred Harris Daniels Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Philanthropy (16%), Education (15%), Youth Development (12%).
- Who are The Fred Harris Daniels Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: United Way of Central Massachusetts Inc ($893k), YWCA Central Massachusetts Inc ($463k), Girl Scouts of Central and Western Massachusetts Inc ($306k).
- Does The Fred Harris Daniels Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 18% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Fred Harris Daniels 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 Fred Harris Daniels Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Greater Worcester Community Foundation Inc, Webster Five Foundation Inc, The Fletcher Foundation.
- Where is The Fred Harris Daniels Foundation based?
- The Fred Harris Daniels Foundation is based in MA.
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