Massachusetts · Private foundation
Walking Stick Family Fund
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.
- $126k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 41
- Grants FY2025
- 15
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 67%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $2,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $20,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 15 to 60
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 17
- Total assets, FY2025
- $3.2M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 67% of the organizations Walking Stick Family Fund funded were first-time grantees, receiving 36% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 64% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $26k 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 | 39 | $124k | 49% |
| FY2024 | 15 | $73k | 67% |
| FY2023 | 18 | $43k | 28% |
| FY2022 | 43 | $82k | 49% |
| FY2021 | 40 | $102k | 15% |
| FY2020 | 51 | $62k | 16% |
| FY2019 | 60 | $92k | 57% |
| FY2018 | 36 | $66k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 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, FY2018 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Grow Native Massachusetts Inc | $70,000 | 7 | 4% |
| A Climate to Thrive | $50,000 | 5 | 4% |
| Trustees of Boston University | $49,468 | 5 | 0% |
| Jesup Memorial Library | $38,500 | 5 | 1% |
| Natural Resources Defense Council Inc | $18,500 | 5 | 0% |
| Greenpeace Inc | $12,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Planned Parenthood Federation of America Inc | $12,000 | 3 | 0% |
| WGBH Educational Foundation | $10,100 | 2 | 0% |
| Maine Farmland Trust | $9,500 | 6 | 0% |
| West Virginia Public Broadcasting Founda | $8,500 | 3 | 0% |
Show all 83 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 56 recipients with no EIN on record ($190k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Walking Stick Family Fund 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: Maine Community Foundation Inc · Boston Foundation Inc · Eastern Bank Foundation · Eastern Cambridge Foundation · American Tower Corporation Foundation Inc · Patagoniaorg · Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc · Hattie a and Fred C Lynam Trust · Beard Family Charitable Trust John E Beard Trustee · Stevenson Family Charitable Trust · The Charlotte Foundation Inc · Colket Family Foundation
How this is measured
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About Walking Stick Family Fund
- How much does Walking Stick Family Fund give?
- Walking Stick Family Fund reported 41 grants totaling $125,600 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 15 and 60 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Walking Stick Family Fund fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2025, its largest causes are Environment (33%), Education (19%), Arts & Culture (15%).
- Who are Walking Stick Family Fund's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2018 to FY2025: Grow Native Massachusetts Inc ($70k), A Climate to Thrive ($50k), Trustees of Boston University ($49k).
- Does Walking Stick Family Fund fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 67% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Walking Stick Family Fund 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 Walking Stick Family Fund?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Maine Community Foundation Inc, Boston Foundation Inc, Eastern Bank Foundation.
- Where is Walking Stick Family Fund based?
- Walking Stick Family Fund is based in MA.
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