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Form 990-PFTax year 2025EIN 04-3562515

Grace River Foundation

A private foundation in Boston, MA. Its return for tax year 2025 lists 6 grants and $190,000 paid in grants.

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Tax year 2025 (period ending Dec 31, 2025), read from the IRS e-file on Nov 11, 2026. Returns reach the IRS 5 to 18 months after the year they describe.

How to apply

Preselected only

The return checks the box saying the foundation gives only to preselected organizations and does not accept unsolicited requests.

Assets and giving by year

8 returns on file
Grants paid by tax year. The latest year is in blue.

  • Tax year 2025

    $190,000

    Grants listed
    6
    Assets, end of year
    $339,122

  • Tax year 2024

    $185,000

    Grants listed
    7
    Assets, end of year
    $325,938

  • Tax year 2023

    $220,000

    Grants listed
    9
    Assets, end of year
    $301,025

  • Tax year 2022

    $153,000

    Grants listed
    6
    Assets, end of year
    $282,265

  • Tax year 2021

    $153,000

    Grants listed
    6
    Assets, end of year
    $268,932

  • Tax year 2020

    $150,000

    Grants listed
    5
    Assets, end of year
    $266,139

  • Tax year 2019

    $135,000

    Grants listed
    5
    Assets, end of year
    $261,034

  • Tax year 2018

    $135,000

    Grants listed
    5
    Assets, end of year
    $236,735

Grants paid in 2025

6 grants, largest first

As listed on the return.

  1. New England Learning Ctr for Women in TrasitionGreenfield, MA

    General support

    $55,000
  2. Safe PassageNorthampton, MA

    General support

    $40,000
  3. Partners in HealthBoston, MA

    General support

    $35,000
  4. Brigham & Women's HospitalBoston, MA

    African women's health

    $25,000
  5. Women's Freedom CenterBrattleboro, VT

    General support

    $25,000
  6. National Indigenous Women's Resource CenLame Deer, MT

    General support

    $10,000

Where the money goes

By cause: grants to organizations we matched to the IRS list of exempt organizations, by their category.

  1. Health1 grant $35,000100% of the total

By State

Grants to organizations with a US address, latest year.

  1. Massachusetts3 grants $120,000
  2. Maryland1 grant $35,000
  3. Vermont1 grant $25,000
  4. Montana1 grant $10,000

Officers, directors and trustees

2 people as filed

As filed on the return, with average hours per week and pay from the foundation.

  • Richard K Nichols See FootnoteTRUSTEE Hours 0Pay $6,132
  • William B Hurd Jr See FootnoteTRUSTEE Hours 0Pay $0

The return

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