Massachusetts · Private foundation
The Schooner Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $19M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 129
- Grants FY2024
- 99
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 27%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $90,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $2,000,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 71 to 99
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 23
- Total assets, FY2024
- $254M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 27% of the organizations The Schooner Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 32% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 68% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2.9M 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 99 | $17M | 13% |
| FY2023 | 99 | $9.0M | 27% |
| FY2022 | 97 | $7.4M | 28% |
| FY2021 | 90 | $6.6M | 26% |
| FY2020 | 93 | $5.7M | 27% |
| FY2019 | 83 | $5.6M | 28% |
| FY2018 | 71 | $7.7M | 32% |
| FY2017 | 81 | $8.9M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
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 FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Trustees of Boston University | $7,853,646 | 8 | 0% |
| Mass General Brigham Incorporated | $2,625,010 | 4 | n/a |
| Seed Global Health | $2,250,021 | 7 | 9% |
| Syrian American Medical Society Foundation | $2,075,021 | 8 | 1% |
| William J Brennan Center for Justice Inc | $1,600,047 | 8 | 1% |
| The Ryr-1 Foundation | $1,340,000 | 7 | 56% |
| University of California San Francisco Foundation | $1,300,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Fund for Global Human Rights Inc | $1,285,000 | 5 | 1% |
| Tennessee Innocence Project | $1,279,605 | 6 | 55% |
| Here Right Matters Foundation Inc | $1,250,000 | 2 | 100% |
Show all 188 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 54 recipients with no EIN on record ($14M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
The Schooner Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 16 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 171 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 · Indian River Community Foundation Inc · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · The Healing Trust Formerly Baptist Healing Hospital Trust · Quail Valley Charities Inc · Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc · Bernard a Egan Foundation Inc · New Venture Fund · Hopewell Fund · Liberty Mutual Foundation Inc · James Ford Bell Foundation · NEO Philanthropy Inc
How this is measured
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About The Schooner Foundation
- How much does The Schooner Foundation give?
- The Schooner Foundation reported 129 grants totaling $19,435,798 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 71 and 99 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does The Schooner Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are International (20%), Education (19%), Health (19%).
- Who are The Schooner Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Trustees of Boston University ($7.9M), Mass General Brigham Incorporated ($2.6M), Seed Global Health ($2.3M).
- Does The Schooner Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 27% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Schooner 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 Schooner Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Boston Foundation Inc, Indian River Community Foundation Inc, Silicon Valley Community Foundation.
- Where is The Schooner Foundation based?
- The Schooner Foundation is based in MA.
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