Massachusetts · Private foundation
The Outreach 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.
- $41k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 21
- Grants FY2025
- 22
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 32%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $2,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $7,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 14 to 22
- FY2019 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 5
- Total assets, FY2025
- $705k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 32% of the organizations The Outreach Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 32% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 68% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $12k 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 | 21 | $41k | 38% |
| FY2024 | 22 | $38k | 32% |
| FY2023 | 20 | $39k | 45% |
| FY2022 | 20 | $41k | 45% |
| FY2021 | 18 | $34k | 67% |
| FY2020 | 17 | $35k | 59% |
| FY2019 | 14 | $34k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 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, FY2019 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wesleyan University | $45,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Horizons for Homeless Children | $15,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Bridges Homeward Inc | $13,000 | 6 | 0% |
| The Cambridge School of Weston Inc | $10,000 | 7 | 0% |
| American Repertory Theatre Co Inc | $9,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Island Housing Trust Corporation | $7,500 | 4 | 0% |
| Belmont Day School Inc | $7,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Northeastern University | $6,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Boston Health Care for the Homeless Program Inc | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Jim Collins Foundation Inc | $5,000 | 3 | 9% |
Show all 42 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 27 recipients with no EIN on record ($85k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Outreach 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 · Cummings Foundation Grants Inc (Fka Oneworld Boston Inc) · Eastern Bank Foundation · Cambridge Community Foundation · The Klarman Family Foundation · The New England Patriots Charitable Foundation Inc · Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Network for Good · American Online Giving Foundation Inc
How this is measured
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About The Outreach Foundation
- How much does The Outreach Foundation give?
- The Outreach Foundation reported 21 grants totaling $40,500 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 14 and 22 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2024.
- What does The Outreach Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (29%), Human Services (12%), Health (9%).
- Who are The Outreach Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2019 to FY2025: Wesleyan University ($45k), Horizons for Homeless Children ($15k), Bridges Homeward Inc ($13k).
- Does The Outreach Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 32% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Outreach 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 Outreach Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Boston Foundation Inc, Cummings Foundation Grants Inc (Fka Oneworld Boston Inc), Eastern Bank Foundation.
- Where is The Outreach Foundation based?
- The Outreach Foundation is based in MA.
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