Massachusetts · Public charity
WGBH Educational Foundation
WGBH enriches people's lives through programs and services that educate, inspire, and entertain, fostering citizenship and culture, the joy of learning, and the power of diverse perspectives.
- $1.4M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 9
- Grants FY2025
- 5
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 60%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $185,326
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $377,835
- Organizations funded a year
- 4 to 12
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 4
- Total assets, FY2025
- $951M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 60% of the organizations WGBH Educational Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 18% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $279k 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 | 8 | $1.4M | 38% |
| FY2024 | 5 | $1.6M | 60% |
| FY2023 | 5 | $896k | 20% |
| FY2022 | 4 | $843k | 0% |
| FY2021 | 6 | $920k | 17% |
| FY2020 | 7 | $1.3M | 43% |
| FY2019 | 8 | $1.8M | 13% |
| FY2018 | 12 | $2.9M | 8% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Education Development Center Inc | $3,367,419 | 8 | 1% |
| Pellet Productions Inc | $1,686,064 | 3 | n/a |
| New York Hall of Science | $1,000,000 | 4 | 2% |
| Oregon State University | $845,755 | 5 | n/a |
| George Blood LP | $744,893 | 3 | n/a |
| Family Health International Inc | $719,551 | 2 | 0% |
| Apograph Productions Inc | $593,748 | 2 | n/a |
| Iearn Inc | $566,694 | 4 | 5% |
| The Filme Posse Inc | $550,000 | 2 | n/a |
| University of California Santa Barbara | $543,735 | 5 | n/a |
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| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Education Development Center Inc | $3,367,419 | 8 | 1% |
| Pellet Productions Inc | $1,686,064 | 3 | n/a |
| New York Hall of Science | $1,000,000 | 4 | 2% |
| Oregon State University | $845,755 | 5 | n/a |
| George Blood LP | $744,893 | 3 | n/a |
| Family Health International Inc | $719,551 | 2 | 0% |
| Apograph Productions Inc | $593,748 | 2 | n/a |
| Iearn Inc | $566,694 | 4 | 5% |
| The Filme Posse Inc | $550,000 | 2 | n/a |
| University of California Santa Barbara | $543,735 | 5 | n/a |
| Moonshot LLC | $534,893 | 1 | n/a |
| Little Bay Pictures | $512,900 | 2 | n/a |
| Lawrence Klein Productions | $269,190 | 3 | n/a |
| Parallel Films | $265,108 | 2 | n/a |
| Pangloss Films | $261,095 | 2 | n/a |
| National Opinion Research Center | $233,326 | 2 | 0% |
| University of Washington | $223,234 | 1 | n/a |
| PopUp Archive | $211,875 | 2 | n/a |
| Ark Media | $208,278 | 3 | n/a |
| Lone Wolf Documentary Group | $200,974 | 3 | n/a |
| Kentucky Educational Television Foundation Inc | $115,398 | 3 | 1% |
| Trustees of Boston University | $78,832 | 1 | 0% |
| Association of Interior Native Educators | $33,797 | 2 | 26% |
| Alaska Public Media Inc | $30,000 | 1 | 0% |
Where it is load-bearing
WGBH Educational Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 9 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.
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How this is measured
About WGBH Educational Foundation
- How much does WGBH Educational Foundation give?
- WGBH Educational Foundation reported 9 grants totaling $1,430,859 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 4 and 12 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does WGBH Educational Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (52%), Education (31%), International (9%).
- Who are WGBH Educational Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Education Development Center Inc ($3.4M), Pellet Productions Inc ($1.7M), New York Hall of Science ($1.0M).
- Does WGBH Educational Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 60% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as WGBH Educational Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund, Amazonsmile Foundation.
- Where is WGBH Educational Foundation based?
- WGBH Educational Foundation is based in MA.
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