Massachusetts · Private foundation
Vivian & Paul Olum Charitable 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.
- $1.2M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 58
- Grants FY2025
- 58
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 21%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $670,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 44 to 58
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 16
- Total assets, FY2025
- $5.0M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 21% of the organizations Vivian & Paul Olum Charitable Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 22% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 78% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $147k 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 | 58 | $1.2M | 14% |
| FY2024 | 58 | $662k | 21% |
| FY2023 | 57 | $572k | 25% |
| FY2022 | 54 | $445k | 37% |
| FY2021 | 45 | $540k | 7% |
| FY2020 | 44 | $618k | 11% |
| FY2019 | 47 | $418k | 15% |
| FY2018 | 50 | $385k | 18% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| T'Ruah | $357,000 | 9 | 3% |
| Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law | $329,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Ploughshares Fund Inc | $313,000 | 7 | 1% |
| All Out Adventures Inc | $276,000 | 9 | 12% |
| Environmental Defense Fund Incorporated | $265,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Bvm Capacity Building Institute Inc | $190,000 | 4 | 0% |
| William J Brennan Center for Justice Inc | $144,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Pathfinder International | $135,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Greater Boston Physicians For Social Responsibility Inc | $130,000 | 5 | 48% |
| Alliance for Justice | $119,000 | 9 | 1% |
Show all 96 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 33 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.2M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Vivian & Paul Olum Charitable Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 87 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: Tides Foundation · Boston Foundation Inc · Community Foundation of Western Massachusetts · Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc · Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma · Select Equity Group Foundation · Proteus Fund Inc · Hopewell Fund · The Beveridge Family Foundation · Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc · The Ford Foundation · Jewish Communal Fund
How this is measured
Compare Vivian & Paul Olum Charitable Foundation with peer funders
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About Vivian & Paul Olum Charitable Foundation
- How much does Vivian & Paul Olum Charitable Foundation give?
- Vivian & Paul Olum Charitable Foundation reported 58 grants totaling $1,177,300 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 44 and 58 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Vivian & Paul Olum Charitable Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Civil Rights (26%), International (21%), Environment (7%).
- Who are Vivian & Paul Olum Charitable Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: T'Ruah ($357k), Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law ($329k), Ploughshares Fund Inc ($313k).
- Does Vivian & Paul Olum Charitable Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 21% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Vivian & Paul Olum Charitable 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 Vivian & Paul Olum Charitable Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Tides Foundation, Boston Foundation Inc, Community Foundation of Western Massachusetts.
- Where is Vivian & Paul Olum Charitable Foundation based?
- Vivian & Paul Olum Charitable Foundation is based in MA.
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