Massachusetts · Public charity
Wellington Management Foundation
To support best-in-class programs and organizations in our communities that improve the education and educational opportunities for under-resourced youth.
- $7.0M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 75
- Itemized grants FY2024
- 81
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 11%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Itemized, FY2024
- $4.9M
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2024
- $60,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $200,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 63 to 94
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 6
- Total assets, FY2024
- $47M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 11% of the organizations Wellington Management Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 5% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $330k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 75 | $4.9M | 0% |
| FY2023 | 81 | $6.1M | 11% |
| FY2022 | 91 | $10M | 7% |
| FY2021 | 94 | $10M | 19% |
| FY2020 | 94 | $7.1M | 20% |
| FY2019 | 66 | $4.6M | 18% |
| FY2018 | 63 | $5.7M | 16% |
| FY2017 | 65 | $4.3M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
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 FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| City Year Inc | $1,525,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Year Up Inc | $1,450,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Boston After School & Beyond Inc | $1,285,000 | 3 | 13% |
| Breakthrough Greater Boston Inc | $1,000,000 | 5 | 26% |
| The Bottom Line Inc | $975,000 | 7 | 3% |
| Institute for Nonprofit Practice Inc | $925,000 | 6 | 11% |
| Thrive Scholars | $805,000 | 8 | 5% |
| Friends of Excel Academy Charter Schools Inc | $795,000 | 7 | 23% |
| 10000 Degrees | $790,000 | 7 | 4% |
| Literations Corp | $785,000 | 8 | 18% |
Show all 139 grantees
Where it is load-bearing
Wellington Management Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 8 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 131 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: Liberty Mutual Foundation Inc · Cummings Foundation Grants Inc (Fka Oneworld Boston Inc) · Boston Foundation Inc · Eastern Bank Foundation · Bushrod H Campbell & Adah F Hall Charity Fund · United Way Of Massachusetts Bay Inc · Riley Mabel Louise Tr Uwill · William E Schrafft and Bertha E Schrafft Charitable Trust · Rockland Trust Charitable Foundation Inc · Amelia Peabody Foundation · The Cabot Family Charitable Trust · Richard & Susan Smith Family Foundation
How this is measured
About Wellington Management Foundation
- How much does Wellington Management Foundation give?
- Wellington Management Foundation reported 75 itemized grants totaling $4,930,000, out of $7,020,000 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 63 and 94 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does Wellington Management Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (50%), Youth Development (17%), Human Services (13%).
- Who are Wellington Management Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: City Year Inc ($1.5M), Year Up Inc ($1.4M), Boston After School & Beyond Inc ($1.3M).
- Does Wellington Management Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 11% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Wellington Management Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Liberty Mutual Foundation Inc, Cummings Foundation Grants Inc (Fka Oneworld Boston Inc), Boston Foundation Inc.
- Where is Wellington Management Foundation based?
- Wellington Management Foundation is based in MA.
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