Massachusetts · Private foundation
The Sudbury Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $1.9M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 137
- Grants FY2024
- 110
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 27%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $6,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $100,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 77 to 110
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 17
- Total assets, FY2024
- $37M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 27% of the organizations The Sudbury Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 23% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 77% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $376k 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 | 127 | $1.9M | 31% |
| FY2023 | 110 | $1.6M | 27% |
| FY2022 | 99 | $1.6M | 15% |
| FY2021 | 101 | $2.0M | 18% |
| FY2020 | 101 | $1.3M | 32% |
| FY2019 | 77 | $1.3M | 21% |
| FY2018 | 91 | $1.4M | 32% |
| FY2017 | 93 | $1.4M | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Boys and Girls Clubs of Metrowest Inc | $925,000 | 8 | 6% |
| Doc Wayne Inc | $481,650 | 7 | 16% |
| Regional Environmental Council Inc | $341,000 | 7 | 8% |
| Sudbury Historical Society Inc | $340,000 | 6 | 62% |
| Boston Area Gleaners Inc | $330,500 | 7 | 4% |
| Third Sector New England Inc | $330,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Town of Sudbury | $320,594 | 6 | n/a |
| Mill City Grows Inc | $307,000 | 8 | 4% |
| Community Involved in Sustaining Agriculture Inc | $305,000 | 7 | 6% |
| Out Metrowest Inc | $277,210 | 5 | 53% |
Show all 180 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 92 recipients with no EIN on record ($2.4M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
The Sudbury Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 3 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 162 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: Middlesex Savings Charitable Foundation Inc · Community Foundation for MetroWest Inc · Cummings Foundation Grants Inc (Fka Oneworld Boston Inc) · Metrowest Health Foundation Inc · Avidia Charitable Foundation Inc · MutualOne Charitable Foundation · Eastern Bank Foundation · DCU for Kids · Boston Foundation Inc · GivenGain Foundation USA · Greater Lowell Community Foundation Inc · Rockland Trust Charitable Foundation Inc
How this is measured
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About The Sudbury Foundation
- How much does The Sudbury Foundation give?
- The Sudbury Foundation reported 137 grants totaling $1,879,485 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 77 and 110 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does The Sudbury Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (22%), Youth Development (19%), Food & Nutrition (16%).
- Who are The Sudbury Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Boys and Girls Clubs of Metrowest Inc ($925k), Doc Wayne Inc ($482k), Regional Environmental Council Inc ($341k).
- Does The Sudbury Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 27% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Sudbury Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Sudbury Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Middlesex Savings Charitable Foundation Inc, Community Foundation for MetroWest Inc, Cummings Foundation Grants Inc (Fka Oneworld Boston Inc).
- Where is The Sudbury Foundation based?
- The Sudbury Foundation is based in MA.
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