Massachusetts · Private foundation
Tonna Charitable Trust
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.
- $90k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 54
- Grants FY2025
- 49
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 14%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $1,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $10,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 33 to 52
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 11
- Total assets, FY2025
- $1.3M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 14% of the organizations Tonna Charitable Trust funded were first-time grantees, receiving 9% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $9k 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 | 53 | $90k | 15% |
| FY2024 | 49 | $101k | 14% |
| FY2023 | 49 | $75k | 12% |
| FY2022 | 52 | $75k | 15% |
| FY2021 | 49 | $71k | 29% |
| FY2020 | 39 | $56k | 33% |
| FY2019 | 35 | $59k | 29% |
| FY2018 | 33 | $50k | 24% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| American Antiquarian Society | $61,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Providence College | $48,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Worcester Art Museum | $37,250 | 9 | 0% |
| Bancroft School | $25,200 | 6 | 0% |
| Detectogether Inc Formerly Known as the 15-40 Connection Inc | $14,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Preservation Worcester Inc | $13,900 | 9 | 1% |
| Norwich University | $13,500 | 4 | 0% |
| Hellenic College Inc | $12,000 | 8 | n/a |
| Worcester County Horticultural Society | $10,200 | 4 | 0% |
| The Boston Foundation for Sight Inc | $10,000 | 9 | 0% |
Show all 58 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 45 recipients with no EIN on record ($210k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Tonna Charitable Trust 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: Greater Worcester Community Foundation Inc · Stoddard Charitable Trust · The Fletcher Foundation · The George I Alden Trust · The Fred Harris Daniels Foundation · Schwartz Charitable Foundation · Ruth H & Warren a Ellsworth Foundation · The C Jean & Myles McDonough Charitable Foundation · Coghlin Services Fund · United Way of Central Massachusetts Inc · Nathaniel Wheeler Tua-Worc · J Irving & Jane L England Charitable Trusta Molloy & F Russellco-Trustees
How this is measured
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About Tonna Charitable Trust
- How much does Tonna Charitable Trust give?
- Tonna Charitable Trust reported 54 grants totaling $90,375 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 33 and 52 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Tonna Charitable Trust fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Religion (25%), Arts & Culture (22%), Education (19%).
- Who are Tonna Charitable Trust's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: American Antiquarian Society ($61k), Providence College ($48k), Worcester Art Museum ($37k).
- Does Tonna Charitable Trust fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 14% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Tonna Charitable Trust 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 Tonna Charitable Trust?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Greater Worcester Community Foundation Inc, Stoddard Charitable Trust, The Fletcher Foundation.
- Where is Tonna Charitable Trust based?
- Tonna Charitable Trust is based in MA.
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