How to apply
Accepts applications
The return gives an application contact and rules, as below.
- Contact
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Jeanne Pinado
34 Avon Street
Jamaica Plain, MA 02130
(617) 290-9133
- Form and materials
- Written requests to include statement of purpose, dollar amount asked, and copy of exemption certificate
- Deadlines
- None stipulated at present
- Restrictions
- Awards are generally made to organizations located in massachusetts; typically for "bricks & mortar" projects - not for operating budgets.
Assets and giving by year
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Tax year 2024
$1,057,500
- Grants listed
- 20
- Assets, end of year
- $21,261,705
-
Tax year 2023
$1,040,240
- Grants listed
- 16
- Assets, end of year
- $20,525,140
-
Tax year 2022
$952,298
- Grants listed
- 16
- Assets, end of year
- $19,314,514
-
Tax year 2021
$1,141,585
- Grants listed
- 19
- Assets, end of year
- $20,138,948
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Tax year 2020
$1,141,914
- Grants listed
- 24
- Assets, end of year
- $23,570,798
Grants paid in 2024
As listed on the return.
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Community Team WorkLowell, MA
Construct 19 efficiency units for the homeless or disabled
$75,000 -
NoahEast Boston, MA
Develop a 7-unit home ownership building
$75,000 -
Community Action for Better HousingNew Bedford, MA
Restoration of a 26-unit building damaged by fire
$75,000 -
Boston Neighborhood Community Land TrustRoxbury, MA
Update a heating system and insulation for a 3-family home
$75,000 -
The Haven ProjectLynn, MA
Capital repairs for an 8-room sro
$57,500 -
Habitat for Humanity Greater LowellWestford, MA
Renovate a 3-bedroom, single family home
$50,000 -
Habitat for Humanity Cape CodNorth Easton, MA
Develop 2 affordable homes
$50,000 -
Old Colony Habitat for HumanityAttleboro, MA
Renovate a 3-bedroom home
$50,000 -
Habitat for Humanity North Central MaLeominster, MA
Construct a 3-bedroom house
$50,000 -
Commonwealth Land TrustBoston, MA
Create 24 studio units
$50,000 -
Pioneer Valley Habitat for HumanityFlorence, MA
Construct a 3-bedroom home
$50,000 -
Habitat for Humanity South ShoreNorwell, MA
Construct a 3-bedroom home
$50,000 -
Family AidBoston, MA
Convert a nursing home into 42 units for homeless families
$50,000 -
The Neighborhood DevelopersChelsea, MA
Construct 5 affordable deed-restricted condominiums
$50,000 -
Planning Office for Urban AffairsBoston, MA
Construct a 30-unit one-bedroom home
$50,000 -
Worcester Common GroundWorcester, MA
Construct a 3-unit home-ownership for low income homeowners.
$50,000 -
Father Bill's and MainspringBrockton, MA
Convert a vacant motel and 2 adjacent wood frame buildings into 24 studio apartments
$50,000 -
Lynn Shelter Association IncLynn, MA
Providing bed frames, mattresses, and othernecessities for a 28-unit low-income housing
$50,000 -
Buzzard's Bay Area Habitat for HumanityMattapoisett, MA
Construct a duplex
$25,000 -
Haley House IncBoston, MA
Renovate a kitchen
$25,000
Where the money goes
By cause: grants to organizations we matched to the IRS list of exempt organizations, by their category.
- Housing and shelter8 grants $400,000100% of the total
By State
Grants to organizations with a US address, latest year.
- Massachusetts20 grants $1,057,500
Officers, directors and trustees
As filed on the return, with average hours per week and pay from the foundation.
- Philip J NotopoulosVICE PRESIDENT & SECRETARY Hours 2Pay $0
- Richard H SayreTRUSTEE Hours 2Pay $0
- Jeanne PinadoTRUSTEE & PRESIDENT Hours 2Pay $0
- Kathryn RoyVICE PRESIDENT &ASSISTANT TREASURER Hours 2Pay $0
- Bruce BerzinTRUSTEE & TREASURER Hours 2Pay $0
- L Jason LawTRUSTEE Hours 2Pay $0
- Elizabeth HibbardTRUSTEE Hours 2Pay $0
- Felicia JacquesTRUSTEE Hours 2Pay $0
- Mark WinkellerTRUSTEE Hours 2Pay $0
- Thomas W CornuTRUSTEE EMERITUS Hours 2Pay $0
The return
More foundations
- Private foundations in Massachusetts
- Private foundations in Walpole
- Foundations that fund housing and shelter in Massachusetts
Similar foundations
Same main cause (housing and shelter), giving between a quarter and four times this foundation’s where possible, nearby first.
- Mutual Bancorp Foundation Inc fka Cape Cod 5 Foundation Inc 202 grants Accepts applications $1,030,403 giving
- Northern Bank & Trust Charitable Foundation Inc 64 grants Accepts applications $970,500 giving
- Cabot Corporation Foundation Inc 59 grants Accepts applications $1,177,690 giving
- Colonial Federal Savings Bank Charitable Foundation 36 grants Accepts applications $923,601 giving
- Alvarium Foundation 9 grants Preselected only $1,268,525 giving