Massachusetts · Private foundation
Trefler Foundation
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.
- $1.6M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 19
- Grants FY2025
- 13
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 62%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $25,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $1,050,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 2 to 31
- FY2017 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $19M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 62% of the organizations Trefler Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 25% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 75% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $70k 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 | 19 | $1.6M | 32% |
| FY2024 | 13 | $285k | 62% |
| FY2023 | 31 | $676k | 84% |
| FY2022 | 2 | $225k | 50% |
| FY2021 | 6 | $1.2M | 83% |
| FY2020 | 8 | $625k | 63% |
| FY2019 | 17 | $922k | 94% |
| FY2017 | 6 | $671k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| University of Massachusetts | $275,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals | $190,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Noble and Greenough School | $171,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Year Up Inc | $100,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Young Men's Christian Association of Greater Boston Inc | $100,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Girls in Tech Inc | $70,000 | 1 | 3% |
| Union Capital Inc | $65,000 | 2 | 2% |
| Ellie Fund Inc | $60,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Dimock Community Health Center Inc | $52,500 | 1 | 0% |
| Leadership Brainery Inc | $50,000 | 2 | 3% |
Show all 55 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 18 recipients with no EIN on record ($4.4M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Trefler Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 47 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: Boston Foundation Inc · Cummings Foundation Grants Inc (Fka Oneworld Boston Inc) · Eastern Bank Foundation · Liberty Mutual Foundation Inc · Barr Foundation · The New England Patriots Charitable Foundation Inc · Boston After School & Beyond Inc · United Way Of Massachusetts Bay Inc · Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc · Boston Charitable Trust Fund City of Boston Trust Office · State Street Foundation Inc · The New Commonwealth Racial Equity and Social Justice Fund Inc
How this is measured
About Trefler Foundation
- How much does Trefler Foundation give?
- Trefler Foundation reported 19 grants totaling $1,557,120 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 31 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2024.
- What does Trefler Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (62%), Education (12%), Youth Development (4%).
- Who are Trefler Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: University of Massachusetts ($275k), Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals ($190k), Noble and Greenough School ($171k).
- Does Trefler Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 62% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Trefler Foundation 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 Trefler Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Boston Foundation Inc, Cummings Foundation Grants Inc (Fka Oneworld Boston Inc), Eastern Bank Foundation.
- Where is Trefler Foundation based?
- Trefler Foundation is based in MA.
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