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The Gregory E Bulger 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.

$142k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
7
Grants FY2025
6
Organizations funded FY2024
0%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$10,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$50,000
Organizations funded a year
6 to 11
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
1
Total assets, FY2025
$73k
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 0% of the organizations The Gregory E Bulger Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving6$142k0%
FY20246$129k0%
FY20236$126k0%
FY20226$125k0%
FY20216$123k0%
FY20207$149k0%
FY20199$138k11%
FY201811$156k0%
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Arts & Culture$1.2MCrime & Legal$11kHealth$10kHuman Services$1kCommunity Improvement$100

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Boston Symphony Orchestra Inc$918,36190%
Speakeasy Stage Company Inc$105,00091%
Barrington Stage Company Inc$60,00090%
Boston Early Music Festival Inc$46,50090%
Longwood Symphony Orchestra Inc$25,40092%
Greater Boston Legal Services Inc$10,50090%
New Repertory Theatre Inc$10,00040%
18 Degrees Inc$1,00020%

Plus 4 recipients with no EIN on record ($75k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Gregory E Bulger Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetBoston Symphony Orchestra Inc: $918,361 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetSpeakeasy Stage Company Inc: $105,000 over 9y, 1.1% of budgetBarrington Stage Company Inc: $60,000 over 9y, 0.2% of budgetBoston Early Music Festival Inc: $46,500 over 9y, 0.5% of budgetLongwood Symphony Orchestra Inc: $25,400 over 9y, 2.2% of budgetGreater Boston Legal Services Inc: $10,500 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetNew Repertory Theatre Inc: $10,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budget18 Degrees Inc: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 8.

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.

Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Donor Advised Charitable Giving IncCO6.5× affinity4 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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About The Gregory E Bulger Foundation

How much does The Gregory E Bulger Foundation give?
The Gregory E Bulger Foundation reported 7 grants totaling $141,500 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 6 and 11 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does The Gregory E Bulger Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (98%), Crime & Legal (1%), Health (1%).
Who are The Gregory E Bulger Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Boston Symphony Orchestra Inc ($918k), Speakeasy Stage Company Inc ($105k), Barrington Stage Company Inc ($60k).
Does The Gregory E Bulger Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does The Gregory E Bulger 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 Gregory E Bulger Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc, Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund, Amazonsmile Foundation.
Where is The Gregory E Bulger Foundation based?
The Gregory E Bulger Foundation is based in MA.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 12 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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