Massachusetts · Private foundation
The Savings Bank Charitable 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.
- $68k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 23
- Grants FY2025
- 20
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 15%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $3,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $6,500
- Organizations funded a year
- 14 to 20
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $958k
- 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 Savings Bank Charitable Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 11% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $7k 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 | 23 | $68k | 26% |
| FY2024 | 20 | $65k | 15% |
| FY2023 | 20 | $62k | 20% |
| FY2022 | 18 | $66k | 28% |
| FY2021 | 15 | $56k | 0% |
| FY2020 | 14 | $45k | 7% |
| FY2019 | 18 | $42k | 22% |
| FY2018 | 14 | $38k | 50% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wakefield Food Pantry Inc | $41,500 | 8 | 1% |
| Emmaus Inc | $39,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Neighbors in Need Inc | $36,500 | 8 | 1% |
| Mission of Deeds Inc | $34,500 | 9 | 0% |
| Lazarus House Inc | $29,500 | 8 | 0% |
| Essex Art Center Inc | $25,000 | 9 | 1% |
| Bread & Roses Inc | $23,000 | 7 | 1% |
| Mystic Valley Aging Services Inc | $22,500 | 8 | 0% |
| Massachusetts Coalition for the Homeless Inc | $21,000 | 8 | 0% |
| The Haven Project Inc | $20,500 | 8 | 0% |
Show all 30 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 14 recipients with no EIN on record ($96k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
The Savings Bank Charitable Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 29 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: Eastern Bank Foundation · Cummings Foundation Grants Inc (Fka Oneworld Boston Inc) · Salem Five Charitable Foundation Inc · Essex County Community Foundation Inc · Rogers Family Foundation · Arbella Insurance Foundation · We Share A Common Thread Foundation Inc · Josephine G Russell Trust · RCB Charitable Foundation Inc · Boston Foundation Inc · Artemas W Stearns Trust · The Saab Family Foundation
How this is measured
Compare The Savings Bank Charitable Foundation with peer funders
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About The Savings Bank Charitable Foundation
- How much does The Savings Bank Charitable Foundation give?
- The Savings Bank Charitable Foundation reported 23 grants totaling $67,768 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 14 and 20 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does The Savings Bank Charitable Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Housing & Shelter (24%), Food & Nutrition (23%), Human Services (22%).
- Who are The Savings Bank Charitable Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Wakefield Food Pantry Inc ($42k), Emmaus Inc ($39k), Neighbors in Need Inc ($37k).
- Does The Savings Bank Charitable Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 15% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Savings Bank Charitable 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 Savings Bank Charitable Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Eastern Bank Foundation, Cummings Foundation Grants Inc (Fka Oneworld Boston Inc), Salem Five Charitable Foundation Inc.
- Where is The Savings Bank Charitable Foundation based?
- The Savings Bank Charitable Foundation is based in MA.
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