Massachusetts · Private foundation
The Scarbro 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.
- $39k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 36
- Grants FY2025
- 47
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 6%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $500
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $10,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 31 to 48
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 7
- Total assets, FY2025
- $67k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 6% of the organizations The Scarbro Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 25% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 75% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $11k 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 | 36 | $39k | 3% |
| FY2024 | 47 | $44k | 6% |
| FY2023 | 48 | $46k | 13% |
| FY2022 | 46 | $53k | 13% |
| FY2021 | 43 | $28k | 9% |
| FY2020 | 43 | $50k | 19% |
| FY2019 | 41 | $30k | 29% |
| FY2018 | 31 | $24k | 6% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Household Goods Inc | $69,000 | 9 | 1% |
| Andrew James Lawson Foundation Inc | $25,000 | 4 | 12% |
| American Diabetes Association | $17,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Trustees of Boston University | $17,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Boston Ballet Inc | $16,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children | $11,500 | 9 | 0% |
| Carlisle Conservation Foundation | $8,500 | 7 | 3% |
| Joslin Diabetes Center Inc | $8,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Wikimedia Foundation Inc | $7,500 | 8 | 0% |
| National Parks Conservation Association | $6,000 | 6 | 0% |
Show all 38 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 36 recipients with no EIN on record ($99k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Scarbro 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: Citizens Charitable Foundation · Analog Devices Foundation · Boston Foundation Inc · Neil & Anna Rasmussen Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc
How this is measured
About The Scarbro Family Foundation
- How much does The Scarbro Family Foundation give?
- The Scarbro Family Foundation reported 36 grants totaling $38,550 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 31 and 48 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does The Scarbro Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Human Services (30%), Health (11%), Arts & Culture (10%).
- Who are The Scarbro Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Household Goods Inc ($69k), Andrew James Lawson Foundation Inc ($25k), American Diabetes Association ($17k).
- Does The Scarbro Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 6% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Scarbro 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 Scarbro Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Citizens Charitable Foundation, Analog Devices Foundation, Boston Foundation Inc.
- Where is The Scarbro Family Foundation based?
- The Scarbro Family Foundation is based in MA.
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