Massachusetts · Private foundation
The Verano Fund
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.
- $153k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 26
- Grants FY2025
- 25
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 8%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $3,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $40,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 25 to 28
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 10
- Total assets, FY2025
- $1.8M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 8% of the organizations The Verano Fund funded were first-time grantees, receiving 2% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k 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 | 26 | $153k | 8% |
| FY2024 | 25 | $140k | 8% |
| FY2023 | 26 | $139k | 8% |
| FY2022 | 27 | $140k | 11% |
| FY2021 | 27 | $145k | 11% |
| FY2020 | 28 | $132k | 18% |
| FY2019 | 26 | $136k | 15% |
| FY2018 | 26 | $117k | 19% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution | $110,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Iowa Public Radio Inc | $63,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Wellesley Congregational Church | $51,500 | 9 | n/a |
| Worcester County Horticultural Society | $49,500 | 5 | 0% |
| Trinity College | $48,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Twloha Inc | $45,500 | 9 | 0% |
| St Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc | $44,500 | 9 | 0% |
| Tubman | $24,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Planned Parenthood League of Massachusetts Inc | $23,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Pan-Massachusetts Challenge Inc | $23,000 | 9 | 0% |
Show all 32 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 20 recipients with no EIN on record ($541k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Verano Fund 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: Boston Foundation Inc · Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · American Endowment Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
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About The Verano Fund
- How much does The Verano Fund give?
- The Verano Fund reported 26 grants totaling $152,500 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 25 and 28 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does The Verano Fund fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are International (29%), Health (16%), Education (9%).
- Who are The Verano Fund's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution ($110k), Iowa Public Radio Inc ($63k), Wellesley Congregational Church ($52k).
- Does The Verano Fund fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 8% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Verano Fund 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 Verano Fund?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Boston Foundation Inc, Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc, Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc.
- Where is The Verano Fund based?
- The Verano Fund is based in MA.
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