Massachusetts · Private foundation
The New England Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $575k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 28
- Grants FY2025
- 24
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 25%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $20,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $81,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 12 to 24
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 7
- Total assets, FY2025
- $5.4M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 25% of the organizations The New England Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 12% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $65k 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 | 27 | $525k | 37% |
| FY2024 | 24 | $525k | 25% |
| FY2023 | 15 | $268k | 33% |
| FY2022 | 20 | $1.0M | 30% |
| FY2021 | 12 | $952k | 58% |
| FY2020 | 21 | $1.3M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 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, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Yale University | $1,125,000 | 4 | n/a |
| Yale University | $715,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Boston Symphony Orchestra Inc | $271,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc | $245,000 | 5 | 0% |
| The Roxbury Latin School | $175,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Massachusetts Historical Society | $115,000 | 4 | 1% |
| The Bidwell House Inc | $100,000 | 4 | 16% |
| New York Historical Society | $76,000 | 1 | 0% |
| The Winsor School | $75,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Boston Ballet Inc | $75,000 | 5 | 0% |
Show all 28 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 27 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.3M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The New England 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 · Westport Fund · Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc · Eastern Bank Foundation · Fidelity Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Endowment Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc
How this is measured
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About The New England Foundation
- How much does The New England Foundation give?
- The New England Foundation reported 28 grants totaling $575,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 12 and 24 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does The New England Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (64%), Arts & Culture (13%), Human Services (8%).
- Who are The New England Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Yale University ($1.1M), Yale University ($715k), Boston Symphony Orchestra Inc ($271k).
- Does The New England Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 25% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The New England Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The New England Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Boston Foundation Inc, Westport Fund, Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc.
- Where is The New England Foundation based?
- The New England Foundation is based in MA.
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