Massachusetts · Private foundation
Towards Sustainability Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $849k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 25
- Grants FY2025
- 24
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 4%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $25,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $110,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 24 to 28
- FY2021 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 9
- Total assets, FY2025
- $14M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 4% of the organizations Towards Sustainability Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 1% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k 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 | 25 | $849k | 8% |
| FY2024 | 24 | $825k | 4% |
| FY2023 | 28 | $845k | 7% |
| FY2022 | 27 | $851k | 0% |
| FY2021 | 28 | $764k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 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, FY2021 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Planned Parenthood Federation of America Inc | $510,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Womens Microfinance Initiative | $145,000 | 5 | 12% |
| The Food Project Inc | $130,000 | 5 | 1% |
| Essex County Greenbelt Association | $125,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Rainforest Alliance Inc | $125,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Madre Inc | $125,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Oxfam-America Inc | $125,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Green America | $125,000 | 5 | 1% |
| Greenpeace Fund Inc | $115,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Massachusetts Audubon Society Inc | $115,000 | 5 | 0% |
Show all 25 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Planned Parenthood Federation of America Inc | $510,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Womens Microfinance Initiative | $145,000 | 5 | 12% |
| The Food Project Inc | $130,000 | 5 | 1% |
| Essex County Greenbelt Association | $125,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Rainforest Alliance Inc | $125,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Madre Inc | $125,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Oxfam-America Inc | $125,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Green America | $125,000 | 5 | 1% |
| Greenpeace Fund Inc | $115,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Massachusetts Audubon Society Inc | $115,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Gulf of Maine Institute Inc | $100,000 | 5 | 41% |
| American Friends Service Committee | $100,000 | 5 | n/a |
| Eco-Logic Development Fund | $100,000 | 3 | 8% |
| Lloyd Center for the Environment Inc | $85,000 | 5 | 4% |
| Rodale Institute | $80,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Red Tomato Inc | $70,000 | 5 | 2% |
| Creative Action Institute Inc | $60,000 | 4 | 2% |
| Safe Passage | $50,000 | 4 | 1% |
| Organization for Tropical Studies Inc | $40,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Vamos Adelante Foundation | $25,000 | 3 | 3% |
| The Farm School Inc | $25,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Natik Esperanza | $14,150 | 2 | 4% |
| Gather | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Self Help Africa Inc | $10,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Jardin de Amor | $5,000 | 1 | 6% |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 8 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.7M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Towards Sustainability Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 24 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.
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How this is measured
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About Towards Sustainability Foundation
- How much does Towards Sustainability Foundation give?
- Towards Sustainability Foundation reported 25 grants totaling $849,150 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 24 and 28 organizations a year over FY2021 to FY2024.
- What does Towards Sustainability Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2021 to FY2025, its largest causes are Environment (38%), Food & Nutrition (30%), Health (12%).
- Who are Towards Sustainability Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2021 to FY2025: Planned Parenthood Federation of America Inc ($510k), Womens Microfinance Initiative ($145k), The Food Project Inc ($130k).
- Does Towards Sustainability Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 4% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Towards Sustainability Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Towards Sustainability Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Boston Foundation Inc, Paypal Charitable Giving Fund, Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program.
- Where is Towards Sustainability Foundation based?
- Towards Sustainability Foundation is based in MA.
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