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Gemayel Family Foundation

Sudbury, MA · EIN 47-7094302. Reported 125 grants totalling $463,232 to 55 organizations across tax years 2021-2024. This foundation did not tell the IRS it funds only preselected organizations.

Yesaccepts unsolicited requests
$1,000median grant
$463,232granted, 2021-2024
55organizations funded
85%of grantees funded again the next year
$4,223,602assets, latest filing

Does this foundation accept applications?

Yes -- on its own tax return. Form 990-PF asks every private foundation whether it makes grants only to organizations it selects itself. Of the 91,758 foundations in our data that made a grant and answered, 78% said yes -- and applying to those is wasted effort. Gemayel Family Foundation did not check that box on its most recent filing, which puts it in the minority that is at least open to being approached.

This is the foundation's own statement to the IRS, not our judgement, and it says nothing about whether they have a form, a deadline, or an appetite for new grantees. Treat it as the reason this foundation is worth your research time, not as an invitation. Many small foundations of this kind have no website and no application process -- a letter of inquiry is the normal first step.

How big are its grants?

The median grant is $1,000. Half of everything it gave fell between $500 and $3,000; the smallest was $25 and the largest $41,700. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong foundation.

Under $1,000
39 grants
$1,000 - $5,000
66 grants
$5,000 - $10,000
3 grants
$10,000 - $25,000
14 grants
$25,000 - $50,000
3 grants

Every organization it funded

This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Years funded is the number of separate tax years in which the organization received money -- more than one means a real relationship rather than a one-off.

OrganizationLocationTotal receivedGrantsYears fundedLast
Our Lady of Fatima ParishSudbury, MA$65,000222022
Sword of the SpiritCollege Park, GA$60,500332024
Ascension ParishSudbury, MA$59,775222024
Aid to Church in Need AcnBrooklyn, NY$50,000442024
The Catholic AppealBraintree, MA$50,000442024
Catholic Near East Welfare AssociationNew York, NY$33,000442024
Catholic AnswersSan Diego, CA$11,000442024
Biosciences Lebanese International Network IncNew York City, NY$10,000112024
Sudbury Valley TrusteeSudbury, MA$9,500442024
Hope SudburySudbury, MA$9,000332024
Saint Johns SeminaryBoston, MA$9,000332024
Augustine InstituteGreenwood Village, CO$8,000442024
Maronite Monks of AdorationPetersham, MA$8,000332024
Franciscan MissionsCincinnati, OH$6,000332024
Pine Street InnBoston, MA$6,000332024
Sudbury Community Food PantrySudbury, MA$6,000442024
FocusDenver, CO$5,000222024
Apufram Intl IncRussellville, AR$4,000442024
Fellowship of Christians in Universities and SchoolsNew Canaan, CT$4,000222022
International Institute of New EnglandBoston, MA$4,000222022
St Vincent De PaulLynn, MA$4,000222024
Presentation MinistriesCincinnati, OH$3,500332024
Catholic Bishop Northern AlaskaFairbanks, AK$3,000332024
Massachusetts General HospitalBoston, MA$3,000332024
St Francis HouseBoston, MA$3,000222022
Pan Mass ChallengeNeedham, MA$2,200442024
Birthright of FraminghamFramingham, MA$2,100442024
Goodknow Library Fdn IncSudbury, MA$2,000222022
Project Bread Walk for HungerBoston, MA$2,000442024
Smile MassSudbury, MA$2,000442024
St Judes HospitalMemphis, TN$2,000222022
Word on Fire Catholic MinestriesWashington, DC$2,000112024
Emerson Health Care FoundationConcord, MA$1,500332024
Primates IncorporatedWestfield, WI$1,500332024
Brigham and Women's HospitalBoston, MA$1,000222022
Brigham and Womens HospitalBoston, MA$1,000112024
Friends of Sudbury Senior CenterSudbury, MA$1,000112021
Friends of Sudbury Senior CitizenSudbury, MA$1,000112024
Goodnow Library Foundation IncSudbury, MA$1,000112024
Holy Family Parish DorchesterDorchester, MA$1,000112021
Metrowest Free Medical ProgramMarlborough, MA$1,000112024
UnagbBoston, MA$1,000222024
Crohn and Colitis FoundationNeedham, MA$500112021
Crop Hunger WalkNew York, NY$500112022
Home BaseCharlestown, MA$500112021
Project Bread's the WalkEast Boston, MA$500112024
Ma State Council Knights of ColumbusNorwood, MA$382222022
Wikimedia FdnSan Francisco, CA$300112022
Wikmedia FoundationSan Francisco, CA$300112024
Tommy's Place FoundationFalmouth, MA$250112021
American Cancer SocietyAtlanta, GA$100112022
Convoy of HopeSpringfield, MO$100112023
Friendship of the UnbornNew Bedford, MA$100112024
The Immaculate Conception ChurchBoston, MA$100112024
Ma State Council K of CNorwood, MA$25112024

35 of 55 (64%) received money in more than one year over the 4 years we hold.

Measured the way we measure every foundation -- what share of one year's grantees are funded again the next -- this one retains 85%, across 3 year-to-year transitions. The median foundation retains about 67%, so this one is unusually consistent. A high number means its list is close to settled and a newcomer has to displace someone; a low one means it is still moving money around, which is where an opening is.

What the money was for

Taken verbatim from the purpose field of its filings. This is the closest thing to a statement of what this foundation cares about, in its own words.

What kind of organizations it funds

By the recipient's own IRS classification, for the 50 grants where we could identify the organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses.

Religion
12 grants
Health Care
10 grants
Education
8 grants
Food & Nutrition
8 grants
Human Services
6 grants
Animal Welfare
3 grants
Civil Rights
2 grants
International Affairs
1 grant

Giving by year

Tax yearGrantsTotalMedian grant
202133$94,350$1,000
202234$128,382$1,000
202320$82,775$1,000
202438$157,725$1,000

Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- filings arrive about a year late, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a foundation winding down.

Where its money goes

Foundations concentrate geographically far more than their mission statements suggest. 56% of this one's giving went to organizations in Massachusetts. If you are outside its footprint, that matters more than how well your programme fits.

Massachusetts
$258K
New York
$94K
Georgia
$61K
Colorado
$13K
California
$12K
Ohio
$10K
Arkansas
$4K
Connecticut
$4K

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Funders that support the same organizations

These funders gave to organizations this one also funded -- some private foundations, some community foundations and other grantmaking charities. Shared grantees are the strongest available signal that two funders have overlapping priorities, and a funder already backing your peers is a far warmer prospect than one that merely lists your cause.

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How to approach this foundation

  1. Check you are its size. The median grant is $1,000. Asking for ten times that is the most common way small organizations waste a submission.
  2. Check you are in its geography. Its giving is concentrated in Massachusetts.
  3. Read the recipient list above for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer, and a cheap one to get.
  4. Look up the current filing before writing. The 990-PF names the foundation's officers and, where one exists, its application procedure. We link it below.

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Where these numbers come from

Everything above is taken from Gemayel Family Foundation's own Form 990-PF filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2021-2024). Nothing here is scraped, inferred, or estimated.

Address of record on the latest return: 11 Meachen Lane, Sudbury, MA, 01776. This is the address the foundation gave the IRS; many small foundations file through an accountant or a bank trust department, so it may not be where post to a programme officer should go.

EIN 47-7094302 · See the original filings on ProPublica · How we build this

This is history, not an open call. Foundation returns are published about a year after the tax year ends. Nothing on this page is a deadline. It is a record of who this foundation has actually funded, which is the best available predictor of who it will fund next -- and a much better basis for deciding whether to write to them than a mission statement.

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