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Krieger Charitable Trust

Boston, MA · EIN 22-6374448. Reported 56 grants totalling $3,376,805 to 31 organizations across tax years 2021-2024. This foundation did not tell the IRS it funds only preselected organizations.

Yesaccepts unsolicited requests
$24,000median grant
$3,376,805granted, 2021-2024
31organizations funded
50%of grantees funded again the next year
$24.8Massets, 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. Krieger Charitable Trust 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 $24,000. Half of everything it gave fell between $7,000 and $100,000; the smallest was $180 and the largest $300,000. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong foundation.

Under $1,000
2 grants
$1,000 - $5,000
1 grant
$5,000 - $10,000
12 grants
$10,000 - $25,000
13 grants
$25,000 - $50,000
4 grants
$50,000 - $100,000
9 grants
$100,000 and Up
15 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
Mass AudubonLincoln, MA$800,000442024
American Friends of Magen David AdomNew York, NY$480,000332023
Appalachian Trail ConservancyHarpers Ferry, WV$338,332332024
Gann AcademyWaltham, MA$300,000222024
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (dr Dan Barouch's Vaccine Research FuBoston, MA$225,000222024
Solomon Schechter Day SchoolNewton, MA$222,933332023
Clean Air Task ForceBoston, MA$200,000442024
The Trustees of ReservationsBoston, MA$160,000332023
Cjp BostonBoston, MA$136,000222024
Fred Hutchinson Cancer CenterSeattle, WA$115,000222024
Razom for UkraineNew York, NY$80,000222024
Jewish Agency for IsraelNew York, NY$72,000222023
American Friends of the RambamNew York, NY$50,000112024
Squam Lakes Conservation SocietyHolderness, NH$33,000222022
Whitebark Pine Ecosystem FoundationMissoula, MT$25,000112021
Temple EmanualNewton, MA$20,000222023
Friends of the Blue HillsMilton, MA$18,000332023
American Society for TechnionNewton, MA$10,000112021
Come Back AliveWashington, DC$10,000112024
Esplanade AssociationsBoston, MA$10,000112021
Joint Distribution CommittteeNew York, NY$10,000112022
Kyiv School of EconomicsOakland, CA$10,000222024
Nantucket Conservation FoundationNantucket, MA$10,000112022
The Home for Little WanderersBoston, MA$10,000112023
Ukraine Defense Fund IncMayfield Heights, OH$10,000112023
American Red CrossBoone, IA$6,000112022
Museum of ScienceBoston, MA$5,000112022
National Forest FoundationMissoula, MT$5,000112022
Society for the Protection of New Hampshire ForestsConcord, NH$5,000112022
American Geerz for LifeDenver, CO$360112021
SefariaBrooklyn, NY$180112022

16 of 31 (52%) 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 50%, across 3 year-to-year transitions. The median foundation retains about 67%, so this one is less consistent than most. 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 kind of organizations it funds

By the recipient's own IRS classification, for the 30 grants where we could identify the organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses.

Environment
12 grants
International Affairs
7 grants
Recreation & Sports
4 grants
Education
3 grants
Health Care
2 grants
Human Services
1 grant
Arts & Culture
1 grant

Giving by year

Tax yearGrantsTotalMedian grant
202112$1,004,693$37,500
202218$421,780$6,000
202315$1,123,666$36,000
202411$826,666$100,000

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. 63% 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
$2.1M
New York
$692K
West Virginia
$338K
Washington
$115K
New Hampshire
$38K
Montana
$30K
Ohio
$10K
California
$10K

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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.

Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program15 shared recipientsDonor Advised Charitable Giving Inc15 shared recipientsFidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund14 shared recipientsAmerican Online Giving Foundation Inc12 shared recipientsNational Philanthropic Trust12 shared recipientsMorgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc12 shared recipients

How to approach this foundation

  1. Check you are its size. The median grant is $24,000. 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 Krieger Charitable Trust'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: One International Place 1010, Boston, MA, 02110. 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 22-6374448 · 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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