Massachusetts · Private foundation
The Harold Grinspoon Charitable Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $1.3M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 215
- Grants FY2024
- 250
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 73%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $1,683
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $400,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 250 to 330
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 5
- Total assets, FY2024
- $18M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 73% of the organizations The Harold Grinspoon Charitable Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 25% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 75% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $219k 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 | 211 | $1.3M | 61% |
| FY2023 | 250 | $860k | 73% |
| FY2022 | 280 | $1.5M | 83% |
| FY2021 | 279 | $912k | 76% |
| FY2020 | 291 | $744k | 79% |
| FY2019 | 330 | $1.0M | 85% |
| FY2018 | 283 | $755k | 91% |
| FY2017 | 302 | $771k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
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 FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mass General Brigham Incorporated | $1,099,000 | 7 | n/a |
| Northeast Sustainable Energy Association Inc | $644,940 | 4 | 14% |
| Massachusetts Eye & Ear Infirmary | $366,603 | 7 | 0% |
| Baystate Medical Center Inc | $278,750 | 2 | 0% |
| Washington Institute for Near East Policy | $258,877 | 4 | 0% |
| Baystate Health Foundation Inc | $200,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Hebrew at the Center Inc | $175,000 | 4 | 18% |
| Birthright Israel Foundation | $120,000 | 2 | 0% |
| The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Inc | $100,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Springfield Jewish Community Center Inc | $85,000 | 4 | 0% |
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What it could do for these grantees
Plus 1,758 recipients with no EIN on record ($3.7M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
The Harold Grinspoon Charitable Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 57 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: Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc · The Beveridge Family Foundation · Jewish Communal Fund · Community Foundation of Western Massachusetts · Jewish Community Foundation of Greater Metrowest NJ · Boston Foundation Inc · Steven K and Winifred a Grinspoon Foundation · The Feigenbaum Foundation Inc · Berkshire Taconic Community Foundation Inc · Jewish Federation of Western Massachusetts Inc · Ruderman Family Foundation · The Shimon Ben Joseph Foundation Dba Jim Joseph Foundation
How this is measured
Compare The Harold Grinspoon Charitable Foundation with peer funders
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About The Harold Grinspoon Charitable Foundation
- How much does The Harold Grinspoon Charitable Foundation give?
- The Harold Grinspoon Charitable Foundation reported 215 grants totaling $1,338,054 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 250 and 330 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does The Harold Grinspoon Charitable Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Health (45%), Food & Nutrition (17%), Education (11%).
- Who are The Harold Grinspoon Charitable Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Mass General Brigham Incorporated ($1.1M), Northeast Sustainable Energy Association Inc ($645k), Massachusetts Eye & Ear Infirmary ($367k).
- Does The Harold Grinspoon Charitable Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 73% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Harold Grinspoon Charitable Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Harold Grinspoon Charitable Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc, The Beveridge Family Foundation, Jewish Communal Fund.
- Where is The Harold Grinspoon Charitable Foundation based?
- The Harold Grinspoon Charitable Foundation is based in MA.
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