Massachusetts · Private foundation
Webster Five Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $284k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 81
- Grants FY2025
- 1
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 100%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $2,500
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $15,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 1 to 72
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 2
- Total assets, FY2025
- $8k
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 100% of the organizations Webster Five Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 100% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $262k 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 | 80 | $277k | 30% |
| FY2024 | 1 | $262k | 100% |
| FY2023 | 55 | $246k | 20% |
| FY2022 | 60 | $220k | 27% |
| FY2021 | 60 | $206k | 33% |
| FY2020 | 70 | $214k | 26% |
| FY2019 | 72 | $200k | 51% |
| FY2018 | 67 | $194k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Friends of the Gladys E Kelly Public Library Inc | $105,000 | 7 | 18% |
| Worcester Comm Housing Resource Inc | $49,500 | 6 | 0% |
| Shrewsbury Youth & Family Services Inc | $45,000 | 7 | 1% |
| Tri-Valley Inc | $40,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Community Legal Aid Inc | $39,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Casa Project Inc | $38,000 | 5 | 1% |
| Auburn Youth & Family Services Inc | $35,000 | 5 | 2% |
| Central Massachusetts Housing Alliance Inc | $34,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Rainbow Child Development Center Inc | $34,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Massachusetts Audubon Society Inc | $33,804 | 5 | 0% |
Show all 132 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 62 recipients with no EIN on record ($571k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Webster Five Foundation Inc 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 · The Fred Harris Daniels Foundation · United Way of Central Massachusetts Inc · The Fletcher Foundation · Ruth H & Warren a Ellsworth Foundation · Stoddard Charitable Trust · Schwartz Charitable Foundation · The George I Alden Trust · Rockland Trust Charitable Foundation Inc · Hometown Bank Community Foundation Inc · The Hanover Insurance Group Foundation Inc · Reliant Foundation Inc
How this is measured
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About Webster Five Foundation Inc
- How much does Webster Five Foundation Inc give?
- Webster Five Foundation Inc reported 81 grants totaling $283,534 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 72 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Webster Five Foundation Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2025, its largest causes are Human Services (16%), Education (12%), Youth Development (12%).
- Who are Webster Five Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2018 to FY2025: Friends of the Gladys E Kelly Public Library Inc ($105k), Worcester Comm Housing Resource Inc ($50k), Shrewsbury Youth & Family Services Inc ($45k).
- Does Webster Five Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 100% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Webster Five Foundation Inc accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Webster Five Foundation Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Greater Worcester Community Foundation Inc, The Fred Harris Daniels Foundation, United Way of Central Massachusetts Inc.
- Where is Webster Five Foundation Inc based?
- Webster Five Foundation Inc is based in MA.
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