Massachusetts · Private foundation
The Louis Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $439k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 13
- Grants FY2025
- 31
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 29%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $4,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $333,333
- Organizations funded a year
- 31 to 52
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 7
- Total assets, FY2025
- $1.3M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 29% of the organizations The Louis Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 66% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 34% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $108k 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 | 13 | $439k | 38% |
| FY2024 | 31 | $164k | 29% |
| FY2023 | 52 | $777k | 17% |
| FY2022 | 40 | $264k | 15% |
| FY2021 | 47 | $372k | 21% |
| FY2020 | 35 | $384k | 11% |
| FY2019 | 34 | $198k | 21% |
| FY2018 | 43 | $381k | 67% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Epiphany School Inc | $354,600 | 7 | 2% |
| The Aloha Foundation Inc | $226,000 | 6 | 1% |
| International Rescue Committee INC | $200,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Children's Hospital Corporation | $150,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Shady Hill School | $106,000 | 7 | 0% |
| The Colorado College | $105,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Beth Israel Lahey Health Pharmacy Inc | $75,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Rodman For Kids Inc | $50,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Education Burma Thailand Myanmar | $50,000 | 4 | 10% |
| The Weekapaug Foundation for Conservation | $41,368 | 7 | 2% |
Show all 58 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 45 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.2M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Louis 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: Boston Foundation Inc · Cambridge Savings Charitable Foundation Inc · Cambridge Community Foundation · Eastern Cambridge Foundation · Eastern Bank Foundation · The Rhode Island Community Foundation · Marci and Martin Karplus Family Foundation · Royce Family Fund Inc · The New York Community Trust · The William & Lia G Poorvu Family Foundation · Stevenson Family Charitable Trust · Alchemy Foundation
How this is measured
About The Louis Foundation
- How much does The Louis Foundation give?
- The Louis Foundation reported 13 grants totaling $439,493 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 31 and 52 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does The Louis Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (30%), Health (19%), International (8%).
- Who are The Louis Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: The Epiphany School Inc ($355k), The Aloha Foundation Inc ($226k), International Rescue Committee INC ($200k).
- Does The Louis Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 29% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Louis Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Louis Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Boston Foundation Inc, Cambridge Savings Charitable Foundation Inc, Cambridge Community Foundation.
- Where is The Louis Foundation based?
- The Louis Foundation is based in MA.
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