Massachusetts · Private foundation
The Virginia Wellington Cabot Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $2.1M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 108
- Grants FY2024
- 110
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 34%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $15,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $133,151
- Organizations funded a year
- 106 to 135
- FY2019 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 23
- Total assets, FY2024
- $45M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 34% of the organizations The Virginia Wellington Cabot Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 26% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 74% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $431k 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 | 105 | $1.8M | 30% |
| FY2023 | 110 | $1.7M | 34% |
| FY2022 | 122 | $2.1M | 39% |
| FY2021 | 131 | $1.5M | 35% |
| FY2020 | 106 | $1.0M | 43% |
| FY2019 | 135 | $1.3M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 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, FY2019 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Hurricane Island Foundation | $235,600 | 6 | 2% |
| Greenwich Academy Inc | $207,891 | 6 | 0% |
| Tuba City Humane Society Incorporated | $190,000 | 4 | 23% |
| Vinfen Corporation | $185,500 | 6 | 0% |
| Family Nurturing Center of Massachusetts Inc | $173,000 | 6 | 1% |
| Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility Inc | $160,000 | 5 | 4% |
| Collateral Repair Project | $158,456 | 6 | 3% |
| US Mexico Foundation | $150,000 | 5 | 2% |
| Boston Lyric Opera Company | $145,000 | 5 | 1% |
| Puget Soundkeeper Alliance | $130,000 | 6 | 3% |
Show all 282 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 61 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.3M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
The Virginia Wellington Cabot Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 6 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 200 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
Tap a dot to name the grantee.
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: Tomac Foundation · Edmund & Betsy Cabot Charitable Fndn · Boston Foundation Inc · Maine Community Foundation Inc · The Loring Wolcott & Coolidge Charitable Trust-I · The Vermont Community Foundation · Cummings Foundation Grants Inc (Fka Oneworld Boston Inc) · The Cabot Family Charitable Trust · Eastern Bank Foundation · Amelia Peabody Charitable Fund Trust · Goosefoot Community Fund · Whidbey Community Foundation
How this is measured
Compare The Virginia Wellington Cabot Foundation with peer funders
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About The Virginia Wellington Cabot Foundation
- How much does The Virginia Wellington Cabot Foundation give?
- The Virginia Wellington Cabot Foundation reported 108 grants totaling $2,063,223 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 106 and 135 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2023.
- What does The Virginia Wellington Cabot Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2024, its largest causes are Environment (19%), Education (13%), Philanthropy (12%).
- Who are The Virginia Wellington Cabot Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2019 to FY2024: The Hurricane Island Foundation ($236k), Greenwich Academy Inc ($208k), Tuba City Humane Society Incorporated ($190k).
- Does The Virginia Wellington Cabot Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 34% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Virginia Wellington Cabot Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Virginia Wellington Cabot Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Tomac Foundation, Edmund & Betsy Cabot Charitable Fndn, Boston Foundation Inc.
- Where is The Virginia Wellington Cabot Foundation based?
- The Virginia Wellington Cabot Foundation is based in MA.
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