Massachusetts · Private foundation
Yawkey Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $2.9M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 26
- Grants FY2024
- 23
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 22%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $25,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $2,017,719
- Organizations funded a year
- 13 to 23
- FY2020 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 5
- Total assets, FY2024
- $78M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 22% of the organizations Yawkey Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 8% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $186k 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 | 24 | $2.9M | 21% |
| FY2023 | 23 | $2.3M | 22% |
| FY2022 | 22 | $2.5M | 32% |
| FY2021 | 23 | $3.2M | 65% |
| FY2020 | 13 | $887k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| St Sebastians School Inc | $400,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc | $400,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Pan-Massachusetts Challenge Inc | $375,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Allen-Chase Foundation Dba Eaglebrook School | $275,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Trustees of Boston College | $250,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Clemson University Foundation | $222,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Friendship Place Inc | $210,000 | 3 | 19% |
| Lee Memorial Health System Foundation Inc | $150,000 | 3 | n/a |
| Yale University | $150,000 | 3 | n/a |
| Smith Medical Clinic Inc | $140,000 | 4 | 3% |
Show all 39 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 6 recipients with no EIN on record ($7.9M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Yawkey Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 32 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: Yawkey Foundation II · Frances P Bunnelle Foundation Coastal Community Foundation of Sc · Coastal Community Foundation of South Carolina Inc · International Paper Company Foundation · Waccamaw Community Foundation · Sisters of Charity Foundation of South Carolina · The K Foundation · Gaylord and Dorothy Donnelley Foundation · Central Carolina Community Foundation · Duke Energy Foundation · Georgetown Memorial Hospital · Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation
How this is measured
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About Yawkey Foundation
- How much does Yawkey Foundation give?
- Yawkey Foundation reported 26 grants totaling $2,903,719 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 13 and 23 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2023.
- What does Yawkey Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2024, its largest causes are Animals (48%), Environment (22%), Education (12%).
- Who are Yawkey Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2024: St Sebastians School Inc ($400k), Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc ($400k), Pan-Massachusetts Challenge Inc ($375k).
- Does Yawkey Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 22% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Yawkey 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 Yawkey Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Yawkey Foundation II, Frances P Bunnelle Foundation Coastal Community Foundation of Sc, Coastal Community Foundation of South Carolina Inc.
- Where is Yawkey Foundation based?
- Yawkey Foundation is based in MA.
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