How do I find funders for a education nonprofit in Massachusetts?

Start with the funders already giving to education in Massachusetts, currently Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund, Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc, National Philanthropic Trust. Then look at who funds the education organizations on this page that resemble yours, and add the national funders reaching into Massachusetts from out of state.

Who is the largest education funder in Massachusetts?

Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund gives the most to education organizations in Massachusetts, $935M across the 2022 and 2023 filings.

How much grant money goes to education in Massachusetts?

$4.9B reached 1,816 education organizations in Massachusetts, from 6,068 funders. 35% came from funders also based in Massachusetts.

How recent is this data?

It is read from IRS Form 990 and 990-PF e-file filings for fiscal years 2022 and 2023, the two years with complete coverage. US charity filings lag 12 to 24 months.

Funding · Massachusetts · Education

Who funds education in Massachusetts

$4.9B reached 1,816 education organizations in Massachusetts, from 6,068 funders, with no single one dominating.

$4.9B

granted

1,816

organizations

35%

from in-state

The short version

6,068 funders gave $4.9B to 1,816 education organizations in Massachusetts across the FY2022 and FY2023 IRS filings.
35% of that came from funders also based in Massachusetts; the rest reached in from out of state.
The largest funder of education in Massachusetts is Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund, at $935M.
The education organization drawing the most is President and Fellows of Harvard College, at $1.5B.

Largest funders of education in Massachusetts

The funders giving the most to education organizations in Massachusetts, in-state and out. Pick one for its dossier.

1Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund$935M 2Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc$264M 3National Philanthropic Trust$189M 4Chan Zuckerberg Initiative Foundation$169M 5Gates Foundation$139M 6Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund$122M 7The Bloomberg Family Foundation Inc$112M 8The Chicago Community Trust$95M 9Paulson Family Foundation$90M 10Atlantic Coast Conference$83M

Education organizations in Massachusetts that draw the most

Sized by grant dollars received. Pick one to see exactly who funds it.

1,806 other education organizations$1.9B

President and Fellows of Harvard College$1.5B Massachusetts Institute of Technology$509M

How to find education funders in Massachusetts

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Start with the funders already active in Massachusetts
The funders giving the most to education in Massachusetts are Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund, Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc, National Philanthropic Trust. A funder already writing education checks in your state is the warmest place to begin.
2
See who funds organizations like yours
Open the education organizations on this page that resemble yours in size or work, and look at who funds them. Shared funders are the strongest signal of fit.
3
Add the out-of-state funders reaching in
65% of education money in Massachusetts comes from funders elsewhere, so national education funders are worth approaching even if they are not based in Massachusetts.

Questions and answers

How do I find funders for a education nonprofit in Massachusetts?: Start with the funders already giving to education in Massachusetts, currently Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund, Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc, National Philanthropic Trust. Then look at who funds the education organizations on this page that resemble yours, and add the national funders reaching into Massachusetts from out of state.
Who is the largest education funder in Massachusetts?: Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund gives the most to education organizations in Massachusetts, $935M across the 2022 and 2023 filings.
How much grant money goes to education in Massachusetts?: $4.9B reached 1,816 education organizations in Massachusetts, from 6,068 funders. 35% came from funders also based in Massachusetts.
How recent is this data?: It is read from IRS Form 990 and 990-PF e-file filings for fiscal years 2022 and 2023, the two years with complete coverage. US charity filings lag 12 to 24 months.

More from the funding graph

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars pass through an intermediary

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

Strange bedfellows

the named clusters of US funding

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

State money flows

the interactive map of money crossing state lines

Giving abroad

which US foundations fund each country

Cause is the recipient's NTEE classification in the IRS Business Master File; location is the recipient's state on its most recent filing. Grant figures are read from IRS Form 990 and 990-PF e-file XML for fiscal years 2022 and 2023, among recipients resolved by EIN. Source: IRS Form 990 downloads.