Massachusetts · Private foundation
The Nook Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $53k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 12
- Grants FY2025
- 11
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 45%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $1,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $25,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 8 to 13
- FY2021 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 3
- Total assets, FY2025
- $274k
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 45% of the organizations The Nook Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 43% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 57% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $20k 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 | 12 | $53k | 42% |
| FY2024 | 11 | $46k | 45% |
| FY2023 | 13 | $49k | 54% |
| FY2022 | 8 | $32k | 25% |
| FY2021 | 10 | $29k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2021 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Dennis Conservation Land Trust | $40,000 | 4 | 1% |
| Cape Cod Center for the Arts Inc | $25,000 | 1 | n/a |
| The Edinburg Center Inc | $22,500 | 5 | 0% |
| The Family Pantry of Cape Cod Corp | $20,000 | 4 | 0% |
| United States Fund for Unicef | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Advocates for a Community College Education Inc | $5,000 | 1 | 5% |
| St Rock Haiti Foundation LTD | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Association of Chamber of Commerce Executives Foundation | $4,800 | 1 | 0% |
| Fill a Back Pack Inc | $3,000 | 3 | n/a |
| Cape Cinema Inc | $2,500 | 1 | 0% |
Show all 21 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Dennis Conservation Land Trust | $40,000 | 4 | 1% |
| Cape Cod Center for the Arts Inc | $25,000 | 1 | n/a |
| The Edinburg Center Inc | $22,500 | 5 | 0% |
| The Family Pantry of Cape Cod Corp | $20,000 | 4 | 0% |
| United States Fund for Unicef | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Advocates for a Community College Education Inc | $5,000 | 1 | 5% |
| St Rock Haiti Foundation LTD | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Association of Chamber of Commerce Executives Foundation | $4,800 | 1 | 0% |
| Fill a Back Pack Inc | $3,000 | 3 | n/a |
| Cape Cinema Inc | $2,500 | 1 | 0% |
| Pine Street Inn Inc | $2,500 | 3 | 0% |
| Compassionate Care ALS Inc | $1,500 | 1 | 0% |
| The Cape Cod Museum of Art Inc | $1,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Alzheimer's Disease & Related Disorders Association Inc | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Greater Boston Food Bank Inc | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Health Care Without Walls Inc | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Three Peaks Medical Clinic Inc | $1,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Planned Parenthood League of Massachusetts Inc | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis Assn | $600 | 1 | 0% |
| The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals | $350 | 3 | 0% |
| Special Olympics Massachusetts Inc | $200 | 1 | 0% |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 8 recipients with no EIN on record ($65k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Nook 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: Harold L Wyman Foundation Inc Co Mark a Koenig · Cape Cod Foundation Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
About The Nook Foundation
- How much does The Nook Foundation give?
- The Nook Foundation reported 12 grants totaling $52,750 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 8 and 13 organizations a year over FY2021 to FY2024.
- What does The Nook Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2021 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (23%), Environment (19%), Health (16%).
- Who are The Nook Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2021 to FY2025: The Dennis Conservation Land Trust ($40k), Cape Cod Center for the Arts Inc ($25k), The Edinburg Center Inc ($23k).
- Does The Nook Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 45% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Nook Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Nook Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Harold L Wyman Foundation Inc Co Mark a Koenig, Cape Cod Foundation Inc, Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc.
- Where is The Nook Foundation based?
- The Nook Foundation is based in MA.
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