Massachusetts · Private foundation
The Reamer Family 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.
- $158k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 28
- Grants FY2025
- 27
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 7%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $2,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $53,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 22 to 28
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 4
- Total assets, FY2025
- $13k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 7% of the organizations The Reamer Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 2% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k 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 | 26 | $145k | 4% |
| FY2024 | 27 | $192k | 7% |
| FY2023 | 28 | $128k | 18% |
| FY2022 | 23 | $80k | 0% |
| FY2021 | 23 | $177k | 0% |
| FY2020 | 22 | $73k | 0% |
| FY2019 | 24 | $82k | 4% |
| FY2018 | 23 | $60k | 9% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wellesley College | $60,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Boston Symphony Orchestra Inc | $51,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Museum of Fine Arts | $36,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Los Angeles Philharmonic Association | $32,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum Inc | $18,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Children's Hospital Corporation | $18,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Save the Bay Inc | $18,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Jamestown Arts Center | $17,000 | 9 | 0% |
| The People Concern | $12,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals | $11,000 | 9 | 0% |
Show all 25 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 11 recipients with no EIN on record ($656k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Reamer 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: The Rhode Island Community Foundation · Van Beuren Charitable Foundation Inc · Bazarsky Family Foundation · The Sand Foundation · The Champlin Foundation · The New York Community Trust · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
About The Reamer Family Foundation
- How much does The Reamer Family Foundation give?
- The Reamer Family Foundation reported 28 grants totaling $158,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 22 and 28 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does The Reamer Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (45%), Health (25%), Arts & Culture (20%).
- Who are The Reamer Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Wellesley College ($60k), Boston Symphony Orchestra Inc ($51k), Museum of Fine Arts ($36k).
- Does The Reamer Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 7% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Reamer 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 Reamer Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Rhode Island Community Foundation, Van Beuren Charitable Foundation Inc, Bazarsky Family Foundation.
- Where is The Reamer Family Foundation based?
- The Reamer Family Foundation is based in MA.
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