Massachusetts · Private foundation
The Red Elm Tree 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.
- $101k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 15
- Grants FY2025
- 10
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 10%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $27,500
- Organizations funded a year
- 10 to 32
- FY2017 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 5
- Total assets, FY2025
- $17M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 10% of the organizations The Red Elm Tree Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1k 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 | 15 | $101k | 27% |
| FY2024 | 10 | $406k | 10% |
| FY2023 | 18 | $835k | 33% |
| FY2022 | 17 | $902k | 24% |
| FY2021 | 29 | $1.9M | 41% |
| FY2020 | 30 | $1.9M | 37% |
| FY2019 | 32 | $736k | 53% |
| FY2017 | 23 | $478k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 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, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals | $1,111,175 | 6 | 0% |
| The Truro Conservation Trust | $1,025,500 | 4 | 38% |
| Community Musicworks | $1,015,000 | 4 | 11% |
| The Institute of Contemporary Art Inc | $719,262 | 7 | 2% |
| Berklee College of Music Inc | $581,162 | 4 | 0% |
| Decordova and Dana Museum & Park | $559,250 | 6 | 4% |
| Mount Auburn Hospital | $400,000 | 4 | 0% |
| The Seeing Eye Inc | $100,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Palaver Strings Inc | $87,000 | 5 | 9% |
| The Center for Independent Documentary Inc | $77,500 | 2 | 1% |
Show all 58 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 20 recipients with no EIN on record ($930k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
The Red Elm Tree Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 4 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 54 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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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 · Barr Foundation · Seamens Long Point Charitable Foundation Inc · Community Foundation for MetroWest Inc · Boyle Foundation · Gramercy Park Foundation Inc · Mutual Bancorp Foundation Inc Fka Cape Cod 5 Foundation Inc · Cape Cod Foundation Inc · The Klarman Family Foundation · Ibm International Foundation · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc
How this is measured
About The Red Elm Tree Foundation
- How much does The Red Elm Tree Foundation give?
- The Red Elm Tree Foundation reported 15 grants totaling $100,750 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 10 and 32 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2024.
- What does The Red Elm Tree Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (47%), Animals (19%), Environment (16%).
- Who are The Red Elm Tree Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals ($1.1M), The Truro Conservation Trust ($1.0M), Community Musicworks ($1.0M).
- Does The Red Elm Tree Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 10% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Red Elm Tree 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 Red Elm Tree Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Boston Foundation Inc, Barr Foundation, Seamens Long Point Charitable Foundation Inc.
- Where is The Red Elm Tree Foundation based?
- The Red Elm Tree Foundation is based in MA.
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