Massachusetts · Private foundation
The Gladys Avery 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.
- $31k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 12
- Grants FY2025
- 7
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 57%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $1,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $20,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 5 to 11
- FY2017 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 8
- Total assets, FY2025
- $183k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 57% of the organizations The Gladys Avery Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 43% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 57% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8k 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 | 12 | $31k | 50% |
| FY2024 | 7 | $19k | 57% |
| FY2023 | 6 | $32k | 33% |
| FY2022 | 11 | $48k | 82% |
| FY2021 | 6 | $12k | 100% |
| FY2020 | 5 | $20k | 100% |
| FY2017 | 6 | $9k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 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, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Big Brothers Big Sisters of Central Mass /Metrowest Inc | $55,100 | 4 | 2% |
| The First Parish in Wayland | $14,000 | 4 | n/a |
| Greater Boston Food Bank Inc | $10,500 | 5 | 0% |
| Thrive Survivor Support Center | $8,500 | 3 | 1% |
| Wayland High Boosters Association | $5,000 | 1 | 8% |
| Wellesley-Weston Chabad Center Inc | $5,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Friends of the Lower Olentangy Watershed Flow | $3,000 | 3 | 1% |
| The Loveland Foundation Inc | $2,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Movement Alliance Project | $2,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Weston Forest and Trail Association Inc | $1,500 | 2 | 0% |
Show all 28 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 10 recipients with no EIN on record ($48k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Gladys Avery Foundation 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.
Open a dossier: Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc · Boston Foundation Inc · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Network for Good · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · American Endowment Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc
How this is measured
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About The Gladys Avery Foundation
- How much does The Gladys Avery Foundation give?
- The Gladys Avery Foundation reported 12 grants totaling $30,750 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 5 and 11 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2024.
- What does The Gladys Avery Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Youth Development (41%), Arts & Culture (11%), Religion (11%).
- Who are The Gladys Avery Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Big Brothers Big Sisters of Central Mass /Metrowest Inc ($55k), The First Parish in Wayland ($14k), Greater Boston Food Bank Inc ($11k).
- Does The Gladys Avery Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 57% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Gladys Avery 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 Gladys Avery Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc, Boston Foundation Inc, The Pfizer Foundation Inc.
- Where is The Gladys Avery Foundation based?
- The Gladys Avery Foundation is based in MA.
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