Illinois · Private foundation
The Menemsha Family Fund
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $968k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 66
- Grants FY2025
- 68
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 10%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $12,500
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $100,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 54 to 68
- FY2019 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 8
- Total assets, FY2025
- $18M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 10% of the organizations The Menemsha Family Fund funded were first-time grantees, receiving 4% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $38k 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 | 61 | $928k | 11% |
| FY2024 | 68 | $890k | 10% |
| FY2023 | 66 | $791k | 26% |
| FY2021 | 55 | $537k | 20% |
| FY2020 | 54 | $420k | 20% |
| FY2019 | 55 | $392k | n/a |
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, FY2019 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| United Way Of Massachusetts Bay Inc | $242,500 | 6 | 0% |
| Greater Boston Legal Services Inc | $165,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Handel and Haydn Society | $162,500 | 6 | 2% |
| The Childrens Museum | $122,500 | 6 | 1% |
| Greater Boston Food Bank Inc | $113,750 | 5 | 0% |
| National Employment Law Project | $92,500 | 6 | 0% |
| The Center for Reproductive Rights Inc | $90,000 | 6 | 0% |
| National Abortion Federation | $85,000 | 3 | 1% |
| Massachusetts Law Reform Institute Inc | $82,500 | 6 | 0% |
| Guttmacher Institute Inc | $78,000 | 6 | 0% |
Show all 71 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 37 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.1M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Menemsha Family Fund 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 · Eastern Bank Foundation · Annie E Casey Foundation Inc · Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc · Liberty Mutual Foundation Inc · Hopewell Fund · The Ford Foundation · Children's Hospital Corporation · United Way Of Massachusetts Bay Inc · New Venture Fund · Lebowitz-Aberly Family Foundation · Point32health Foundation Inc
How this is measured
About The Menemsha Family Fund
- How much does The Menemsha Family Fund give?
- The Menemsha Family Fund reported 66 grants totaling $967,500 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 54 and 68 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2024.
- What does The Menemsha Family Fund fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2025, its largest causes are Science & Tech (23%), Civil Rights (10%), Health (9%).
- Who are The Menemsha Family Fund's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2019 to FY2025: United Way Of Massachusetts Bay Inc ($243k), Greater Boston Legal Services Inc ($165k), Handel and Haydn Society ($163k).
- Does The Menemsha Family Fund fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 10% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Menemsha Family Fund accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Menemsha Family Fund?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Boston Foundation Inc, Eastern Bank Foundation, Annie E Casey Foundation Inc.
- Where is The Menemsha Family Fund based?
- The Menemsha Family Fund is based in IL.
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