Massachusetts · Private foundation
Yesod Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $30k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 6
- Grants FY2025
- 6
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 17%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $2,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $22,500
- Organizations funded a year
- 5 to 7
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $252k
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 17% of the organizations Yesod Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 15% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k 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 | 5 | $29k | 40% |
| FY2024 | 6 | $33k | 17% |
| FY2023 | 6 | $34k | 0% |
| FY2022 | 5 | $37k | 0% |
| FY2021 | 6 | $40k | 17% |
| FY2020 | 6 | $38k | 17% |
| FY2019 | 7 | $36k | 0% |
| FY2018 | 7 | $76k | 14% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Community Harvest Project Inc | $262,500 | 9 | 7% |
| Grafton Arts Inc | $14,000 | 5 | 6% |
| Worcester County Food Bank Inc | $8,500 | 9 | 0% |
| Apple Tree Arts Inc | $8,000 | 4 | 1% |
| Willard House & Clock Museum Inc | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Town of Grafton | $3,500 | 6 | n/a |
| The Trust for Public Land | $2,500 | 2 | 0% |
| Grafton Land Trust Inc | $2,000 | 1 | 4% |
| Regional Environmental Council Inc | $2,000 | 1 | 0% |
Plus 4 recipients with no EIN on record ($54k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Yesod 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: Brigham Hill Foundation · The Fletcher Foundation · Stoddard Charitable Trust · Wyman Gordon · Ruth H & Warren a Ellsworth Foundation · Mildred H McEvoy Foundation · The Fred Harris Daniels Foundation · Webster Five Foundation Inc · Greater Worcester Community Foundation Inc · Rockland Trust Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
How this is measured
About Yesod Foundation Inc
- How much does Yesod Foundation Inc give?
- Yesod Foundation Inc reported 6 grants totaling $29,500 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 5 and 7 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Yesod Foundation Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Food & Nutrition (84%), Arts & Culture (12%), Environment (2%).
- Who are Yesod Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Community Harvest Project Inc ($263k), Grafton Arts Inc ($14k), Worcester County Food Bank Inc ($9k).
- Does Yesod Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 17% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Yesod Foundation Inc accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Yesod Foundation Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Brigham Hill Foundation, The Fletcher Foundation, Stoddard Charitable Trust.
- Where is Yesod Foundation Inc based?
- Yesod Foundation Inc is based in MA.
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