Massachusetts · Private foundation
Xeric 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.
- $355k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 23
- Grants FY2025
- 15
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 7%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $30,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 15 to 24
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 8
- Total assets, FY2025
- $4.0M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 7% of the organizations Xeric Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 11% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $25k 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 | 23 | $355k | 43% |
| FY2024 | 15 | $235k | 7% |
| FY2023 | 24 | $264k | 21% |
| FY2022 | 24 | $242k | 13% |
| FY2021 | 23 | $284k | 4% |
| FY2020 | 19 | $171k | 53% |
| FY2019 | 22 | $255k | 0% |
| FY2018 | 22 | $223k | 14% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art Inc | $230,000 | 9 | 1% |
| Portland Museum of Art | $170,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Mass General Brigham Incorporated | $160,000 | 9 | n/a |
| Museum of Fine Arts | $160,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Planned Parenthood Federation of America Inc | $130,000 | 6 | 0% |
| MaineHealth | $120,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Emerson Umbrella Inc | $92,500 | 6 | 1% |
| Stand Up to Cancer | $65,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Animal Refuge League of Greater Portland | $62,500 | 8 | 0% |
| The Williston Northampton School | $60,000 | 3 | 0% |
Show all 39 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 18 recipients with no EIN on record ($617k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Xeric Foundation 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 loosely connected circle, clustered around a few shared anchors.
Open a dossier: Community Foundation of Western Massachusetts · Maine Community Foundation Inc · The Beveridge Family Foundation · Saco & Biddeford Savings Charitable Foundation · Ro Family Foundation · The Harold & Mary Louise Shaw Foundation · The Mo and Cher Willems Foundation · Douglas E Mitchell Charitable Foundation · The Kirby Family Foundation · The Mimi Foundation · Florence Savings Charitable Foundation Inc · The Widgeon Point Charitable Foundation
How this is measured
About Xeric Foundation
- How much does Xeric Foundation give?
- Xeric Foundation reported 23 grants totaling $355,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 15 and 24 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Xeric Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (33%), Health (24%), Education (10%).
- Who are Xeric Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: The Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art Inc ($230k), Portland Museum of Art ($170k), Mass General Brigham Incorporated ($160k).
- Does Xeric Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 7% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Xeric 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 Xeric Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Community Foundation of Western Massachusetts, Maine Community Foundation Inc, The Beveridge Family Foundation.
- Where is Xeric Foundation based?
- Xeric Foundation is based in MA.
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