Massachusetts · Private foundation
The Mugar Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $848k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 15
- Grants FY2024
- 14
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 29%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $30,629
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $250,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 3 to 18
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 2
- Total assets, FY2024
- $9.7M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 29% of the organizations The Mugar Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 20% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $180k 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 | 13 | $848k | 38% |
| FY2023 | 14 | $903k | 29% |
| FY2022 | 18 | $598k | 61% |
| FY2021 | 5 | $160k | 20% |
| FY2020 | 12 | $676k | 58% |
| FY2019 | 7 | $460k | 71% |
| FY2018 | 3 | $144k | 33% |
| FY2017 | 4 | $129k | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Trustees of Clark University | $545,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Boston 4 Celebrations Foundation Inc | $522,453 | 6 | 72% |
| Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc | $500,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Belmont Hill School Inc | $410,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Boston Charitable Trust Fund City of Boston Trust Office | $250,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Brimmer and May School | $200,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Watertown Boys and Girls' Club Inc | $200,000 | 5 | 5% |
| Citizens United for Research in Epilepsy | $190,000 | 3 | 2% |
| Trustees of Tufts College | $162,500 | 3 | 0% |
| Camp Harbor View Foundation Inc | $140,000 | 4 | 0% |
Show all 26 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 12 recipients with no EIN on record ($373k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
The Mugar Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 24 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
Tap a dot to name the grantee.
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 · Fidelity Foundation · Ge Aerospace Foundation · American Tower Corporation Foundation Inc · Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · The Chicago Community Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · The Blackbaud Giving Fund
How this is measured
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About The Mugar Foundation
- How much does The Mugar Foundation give?
- The Mugar Foundation reported 15 grants totaling $847,858 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 3 and 18 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does The Mugar Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (34%), Health (20%), Arts & Culture (20%).
- Who are The Mugar Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Trustees of Clark University ($545k), Boston 4 Celebrations Foundation Inc ($522k), Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc ($500k).
- Does The Mugar Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 29% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Mugar Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Mugar Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Boston Foundation Inc, Fidelity Foundation, Ge Aerospace Foundation.
- Where is The Mugar Foundation based?
- The Mugar Foundation is based in MA.
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