· Private foundation
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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k3 grants · $7k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $35k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $100k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA | $50,000 |
| BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA | $50,000 |
| SPEAKEASY STAGE CO | $25,000 |
| BARRINGTON STAGE COMPANY | $10,000 |
| LONGWOOD SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA | $2,500 |
| BOSTON EARLY MUSIC FESTIVAL | $2,500 |
| GREATER BOSTON LEGAL SVCS | $1,500 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 98% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
11 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down.
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- BSBOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC9× · 2017–2025 · $918k · revenue +38%
- SSSpeakeasy Stage Company Inc9× · 2017–2025 · $105k · revenue +26%
- BSBARRINGTON STAGE COMPANY INC9× · 2017–2025 · $60k · revenue +20%
Funded once
- MLMASSACHUSETTS LEAGUE OF COMMUNITY Hone grant, 2019 · $100
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Stage live opera performances.
The organization operates america's first permanent period orchestra and chorus which reach local, national, and international audiences through a subscription series, touring engagements, recordings, and broadcasts.
Presenting orchestra classical music to underserved communities. Our mission is to make great music accessible to diverse audiences and to harness the power of music to forge lasting relationships with our community.
The Actors Company of Natick ACON creates theatre with purpose. At ACON, we celebrate artists and challenge community perspectives through equitable, professional and accessible productions.
Boston lyric opera inspires, entertains, and connects communities through compelling opera performances, programs, and gatherings.
Outreach and educational music organization
The LYDIAN QUARTET corporation has been formed for charitable purposes, to promote the educational, cultural and artistic enrichment of the residents of Massachusetts and the United States.
Organize and perform orchestra and chamber music performances for the south shore of boston and beyond.
To build a structurally sound and musically vital ensemble which seeks to explore and present music of the 20th century. all schools, movements and styles from the turn of the century to the present day will be offered. it is the practical…
How this is measured
8 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 8 of the 12 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC ↗
- Who funds Speakeasy Stage Company Inc ↗
- Who funds BARRINGTON STAGE COMPANY INC ↗
- Who funds BOSTON EARLY MUSIC FESTIVAL INC ↗
- Who funds LONGWOOD SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC ↗
- Who funds GREATER BOSTON LEGAL SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds NEW REPERTORY THEATRE INC ↗
- Who funds 18 DEGREES INC ↗
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: Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Gregory E Bulger Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Gregory E Bulger Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- 18 Degrees Inc: 60% of income from government
- Longwood Symphony Orchestra Inc: 4% of income from government
- Greater Boston Legal Services Inc: 3% of income from government
- Boston Symphony Orchestra Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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