Massachusetts · Private foundation
The Martin & Deborah Hale 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.
- $167k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 14
- Grants FY2025
- 11
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 64%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $45,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 1 to 28
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 7
- Total assets, FY2025
- $3.3M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 64% of the organizations The Martin & Deborah Hale Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 71% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 29% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $115k 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 | 14 | $167k | 64% |
| FY2024 | 11 | $162k | 64% |
| FY2023 | 20 | $168k | 45% |
| FY2022 | 1 | $15k | 0% |
| FY2021 | 28 | $163k | 21% |
| FY2020 | 22 | $128k | 18% |
| FY2019 | 28 | $163k | 18% |
| FY2018 | 27 | $180k | 19% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Proprietors of the Boston Athenaeum | $70,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Cate School | $56,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Yale University | $45,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Dalton Schools Inc | $32,500 | 4 | 0% |
| Whitney Museum of American Art | $31,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Pine Island Camp | $30,763 | 1 | 1% |
| Martha's Vineyard Museum Inc | $27,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Trinity Boston Connects Inc | $25,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Society for the Preservation of New Engl | $22,500 | 6 | 0% |
| Handel and Haydn Society | $22,500 | 6 | 0% |
Show all 45 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 31 recipients with no EIN on record ($737k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Martin & Deborah Hale 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 · Charles S & Carmen Demora Hale Foundation · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · Highland Street Connection and Subsidiaries · Fidelity Foundation · The Edward Lee and Slocumb Hollis Perry Foundation · Alchemy Foundation · Fidelity Non-Profit Management Foundation · The Loring Wolcott & Coolidge Charitable Trust-I · Jewish Communal Fund · American Endowment Foundation · The Annenberg Foundation
How this is measured
Compare The Martin & Deborah Hale Foundation with peer funders
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About The Martin & Deborah Hale Foundation
- How much does The Martin & Deborah Hale Foundation give?
- The Martin & Deborah Hale Foundation reported 14 grants totaling $166,525 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 28 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does The Martin & Deborah Hale Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (32%), Education (24%), Health (13%).
- Who are The Martin & Deborah Hale Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Proprietors of the Boston Athenaeum ($70k), Cate School ($56k), Yale University ($45k).
- Does The Martin & Deborah Hale Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 64% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Martin & Deborah Hale 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 Martin & Deborah Hale Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Boston Foundation Inc, Charles S & Carmen Demora Hale Foundation, The Ayco Charitable Foundation.
- Where is The Martin & Deborah Hale Foundation based?
- The Martin & Deborah Hale Foundation is based in MA.
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