Massachusetts · Private foundation
The Orchard Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $1.6M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 85
- Grants FY2025
- 81
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 15%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $4,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $194,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 78 to 108
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 21
- Total assets, FY2025
- $2.4M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 15% of the organizations The Orchard Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 14% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $177k 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 | 82 | $1.4M | 29% |
| FY2024 | 81 | $1.3M | 15% |
| FY2023 | 85 | $1.1M | 24% |
| FY2022 | 97 | $1.2M | 32% |
| FY2021 | 78 | $815k | 22% |
| FY2020 | 108 | $1.1M | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Earthjustice | $624,500 | 6 | 0% |
| President and Fellows of Middlebury College | $463,500 | 6 | 0% |
| Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc | $380,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Hampshire College Trustees | $212,000 | 5 | 0% |
| The Center for Reproductive Rights Inc | $202,000 | 4 | 0% |
| The Monadnock Conservancy | $190,000 | 4 | 2% |
| Conservation Law Foundation Inc | $168,500 | 6 | 0% |
| Equality Now Inc | $140,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Rainforest Alliance Inc | $123,000 | 5 | 0% |
| The Union of Concerned Scientists Inc | $106,000 | 6 | 0% |
Show all 150 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 62 recipients with no EIN on record ($2.3M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
The Orchard Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 133 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: Maine Community Foundation Inc · New Hampshire Charitable Foundation · Boston Foundation Inc · Lovett-Woodsum Foundation Inc · Davis Conservation Foundation · Elmina B Sewall Foundation · Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc · Fidelity Foundation · Horizon Foundation Inc · The Loring Wolcott & Coolidge Charitable Trust-I · Onion Foundation · Eastern Bank Foundation
How this is measured
About The Orchard Foundation
- How much does The Orchard Foundation give?
- The Orchard Foundation reported 85 grants totaling $1,563,141 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 78 and 108 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does The Orchard Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Philanthropy (26%), Health (24%), Environment (24%).
- Who are The Orchard Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Earthjustice ($625k), President and Fellows of Middlebury College ($464k), Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc ($380k).
- Does The Orchard Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 15% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Orchard 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 Orchard Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Maine Community Foundation Inc, New Hampshire Charitable Foundation, Boston Foundation Inc.
- Where is The Orchard Foundation based?
- The Orchard Foundation is based in MA.
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