Foundations · IRS 990 filings

Foundations in Newton, Massachusetts

67
foundations with a Newton address
$59.4M
grants paid, FY2024–FY2025
10
say they accept unsolicited
$10,000
median grant

Grantlas lists 67 foundations that gave a Newton, Massachusetts address on their tax filing — 63 private foundations and 4 grantmaking charities such as community foundations and United Ways — from filings for FY2024–FY2025. Together they paid out $59.4 million in grants in their latest filing year, and 10 of them (15%) say they accept unsolicited requests.

Not every foundation here is a Newton foundation. The city is the mailing address on the foundation’s tax filing, and when a bank or a law firm runs the trust that is the bank’s address, not the place it gives to. Check where a foundation gives before you write.

Top 25 of 67 foundations

Ranked by what they paid in grants in their latest filing, with the ones that accept unsolicited requests first, then the ones whose filing doesn’t say.

Foundations in Newton, Massachusetts
Richard & Susan Smith Family FoundationAccepts$37,500$15.6M$100–$3MFY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
Trust Uwo Herman DanaAccepts$20,000$1.7M$2,000–$373,090FY2025Locked: fit score and contacts
Boston Evening Clinic Foundation IncAccepts$8,000$408,731$2,500–$10,000FY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
The Lassor and Fanny Agoos Charity FundAccepts$3,000$207,250$500–$25,000FY2025Locked: fit score and contacts
Alpine Coda Foundation IncAccepts$26,335$203,531$500–$100,000FY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
The Victor Herbert FoundationAccepts$5,000$121,827$250–$40,000FY2025Locked: fit score and contacts
Resnick Sullivan Foundation IncAccepts$6,000$24,580$780–$18,000FY2025Locked: fit score and contacts
E Mauran & Julia O Beals CharitableAccepts$21,708$23,604$19,811–$23,604FY2025Locked: fit score and contacts
Lee Family Agape FoundationAccepts$19,000$13,000$13,000–$25,000FY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
Charles River NeighborhoodAccepts$1,000$1,200$500–$1,500FY2025Locked: fit score and contacts
American Friends of the Royal Foundation of the Prince and Princess of WalesPublic foundationNot stated—Over $5k only$10.7M—FY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
Bright Horizons Foundation for ChildrenGrantmaking charityNot stated$9,231Over $5k only$345,303$5,560–$50,000FY2025Locked: fit score and contacts
Shawn Thornton Foundation IncPublic foundationNot stated$62,500Over $5k only$225,000$25,000–$100,000FY2025Locked: fit score and contacts
Temple Beth Avodah Endowment TrustGrantmaking charityNot stated$52,055Over $5k only$52,055—FY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
Swartz FoundationInvitation only$100,000$9.8M$1,000–$4.5MFY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
Schuster Family FoundationInvitation only$1M$4.7M$750,000–$2.9MFY2025Locked: fit score and contacts
Highland Street ConnectionInvitation only$5,000$4.4M$400–$100,000FY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
Trefler FoundationInvitation only$10,000$1.6M$1,000–$1.1MFY2025Locked: fit score and contacts
Robert and Dana Smith CharitableInvitation only$106,250$1.3M$5,000–$454,158FY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
Galenus FoundationInvitation only$3,384$964,034$250–$765,000FY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
Joseph M & Thelma Linsey FoundationInvitation only$105,000$875,000$1,400–$875,000FY2025Locked: fit score and contacts
Sharp Charitable TrustInvitation only$2,000$853,000$500–$460,000FY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
Joseph F and Clara Ford FoundationInvitation only$33,522$788,826$26,816–$362,008FY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
Genie Foundation IncInvitation only$60,291$504,861$30,000–$239,280FY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
Ellen R Cohen Charitable TrustInvitation only$62,500$483,000$33,000–$425,000FY2025Locked: fit score and contacts
  • Median grant and grant range come from each funder’s grant schedule; a dash means there is none to report. Community foundations and other charities list only grants over $5,000, so their figures run high.
  • “One grant” means a schedule with a single grant — no median, nothing to range over. “One amount” means several grants, all the same size.
  • A median grant larger than the grants paid is not a mistake: the grant schedule and the year’s total come from different parts of the tax filing, and a foundation can list a grant it approved in a year it paid out less.

42 more foundations — see all in Grantlas

Data from 990-PF and Form 990 filings, FY2024–FY2025. Updated November 8, 2026.