Massachusetts · Private foundation
The Nordblom Family Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $2.1M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 55
- Grants FY2024
- 44
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 36%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $25,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $500,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 35 to 65
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 9
- Total assets, FY2024
- $38M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 36% of the organizations The Nordblom Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 17% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $239k 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 | 50 | $1.6M | 44% |
| FY2023 | 44 | $1.4M | 36% |
| FY2022 | 35 | $1.1M | 6% |
| FY2021 | 39 | $1.1M | 26% |
| FY2020 | 45 | $1.5M | 20% |
| FY2019 | 65 | $2.5M | 25% |
| FY2018 | 65 | $1.8M | 34% |
| FY2017 | 60 | $1.7M | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Economic Mobility Pathways Inc | $1,435,000 | 8 | 1% |
| Family Nurturing Center of Massachusetts Inc | $545,000 | 8 | 7% |
| Orthodox Christian Mission Center Inc | $531,000 | 5 | n/a |
| WGBH Educational Foundation | $410,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Boys & Girls Clubs of Boston Inc | $400,160 | 8 | 0% |
| Museum of Science | $400,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Care Dimensions Inc | $400,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Families First Parenting Program Inc | $385,000 | 7 | 7% |
| Roca Inc | $350,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Fathers Uplift Incorporated | $350,000 | 7 | 12% |
Show all 112 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 45 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.8M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Nordblom Family 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: Eastern Bank Foundation · Cummings Foundation Grants Inc (Fka Oneworld Boston Inc) · Boston Foundation Inc · Liberty Mutual Foundation Inc · United Way Of Massachusetts Bay Inc · Bushrod H Campbell & Adah F Hall Charity Fund · Salem Five Charitable Foundation Inc · Fidelity Foundation · Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc · Rockland Trust Charitable Foundation Inc · Arbella Insurance Foundation · Essex County Community Foundation Inc
How this is measured
About The Nordblom Family Foundation
- How much does The Nordblom Family Foundation give?
- The Nordblom Family Foundation reported 55 grants totaling $2,130,933 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 35 and 65 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does The Nordblom Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Human Services (25%), Philanthropy (18%), Health (15%).
- Who are The Nordblom Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Economic Mobility Pathways Inc ($1.4M), Family Nurturing Center of Massachusetts Inc ($545k), Orthodox Christian Mission Center Inc ($531k).
- Does The Nordblom Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 36% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Nordblom Family 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 Nordblom Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Eastern Bank Foundation, Cummings Foundation Grants Inc (Fka Oneworld Boston Inc), Boston Foundation Inc.
- Where is The Nordblom Family Foundation based?
- The Nordblom Family Foundation is based in MA.
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