Massachusetts · Private foundation
The Josetta Fund
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.
- $6.1M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 86
- Grants FY2025
- 81
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 25%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $50,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $390,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 64 to 81
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 20
- Total assets, FY2025
- $25M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 25% of the organizations The Josetta Fund funded were first-time grantees, receiving 25% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 75% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.3M 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 | 86 | $6.1M | 27% |
| FY2024 | 81 | $5.1M | 25% |
| FY2023 | 77 | $4.9M | 25% |
| FY2022 | 74 | $4.8M | 20% |
| FY2021 | 78 | $4.7M | 31% |
| FY2020 | 64 | $4.1M | 33% |
| FY2019 | 76 | $4.1M | 37% |
| FY2018 | 73 | $3.2M | 32% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Samaritan's Purse | $3,620,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Comboni Missionaries of the Heart of Jesus Inc | $1,526,800 | 6 | n/a |
| Overseed Incorporated | $1,385,000 | 9 | 72% |
| Good Shepherd Food Bank | $1,335,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Lifesavers Inc | $900,000 | 4 | 14% |
| Abraham's Blessing | $860,000 | 5 | 1% |
| Equine Advocates Incorporated | $760,000 | 6 | 8% |
| Miracle German Shepherd Dog Rescue of Maine | $735,000 | 5 | 79% |
| Truth for Life | $597,000 | 8 | 1% |
| Roxies Place Animal Sanctuary | $587,000 | 5 | 53% |
Show all 118 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 131 recipients with no EIN on record ($18M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
The Josetta Fund supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 11 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 89 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: Agnes M Lindsay Trust · Doll Family Foundation · Boston Foundation Inc · Amica Companies Foundation · Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc · PC Fund for Animals Charitable Tr · Bangor Savings Bank Foundation · Lamb Weston Charitable Foundation · Essex County Community Foundation Inc · Eastern Bank Foundation · Cummings Foundation Grants Inc (Fka Oneworld Boston Inc) · Verizon Foundation
How this is measured
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About The Josetta Fund
- How much does The Josetta Fund give?
- The Josetta Fund reported 86 grants totaling $6,098,926 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 64 and 81 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does The Josetta Fund fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Animals (29%), Religion (24%), International (14%).
- Who are The Josetta Fund's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Samaritan's Purse ($3.6M), Comboni Missionaries of the Heart of Jesus Inc ($1.5M), Overseed Incorporated ($1.4M).
- Does The Josetta Fund fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 25% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Josetta Fund 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 Josetta Fund?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Agnes M Lindsay Trust, Doll Family Foundation, Boston Foundation Inc.
- Where is The Josetta Fund based?
- The Josetta Fund is based in MA.
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