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Form 990-PFTax year 2024EIN 04-6875253

The Frank B Mazer Foundation

A private foundation in Cambridge, MA. Its return for tax year 2024 lists 5 grants and $2,790 paid in grants.

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Tax year 2024 (period ending Sep 30, 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

Accepts applications

The return gives an application contact and rules, as below.

Contact
Frank B Mazer
10 Saville Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
(617) 866-9741
Form and materials
No restrictions on format
Deadlines
None
Restrictions
None

Assets and giving by year

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

  • Tax year 2024

    $2,790

    Grants listed
    5
    Assets, end of year
    $180,455

  • Tax year 2023

    $7,500

    Grants listed
    3
    Assets, end of year
    $486,084

  • Tax year 2022

    $15,000

    Grants listed
    5
    Assets, end of year
    $584,723

  • Tax year 2021

    $13,900

    Grants listed
    4
    Assets, end of year
    $1,188,269

  • Tax year 2020

    $63,191

    Grants listed
    9
    Assets, end of year
    $1,164,887

  • Tax year 2019

    $65,150

    Grants listed
    25
    Assets, end of year
    $1,273,994

  • Tax year 2018

    $58,850

    Grants listed
    10
    Assets, end of year
    $1,681,265

  • Tax year 2017

    $70,950

    Grants listed
    12
    Assets, end of year
    $1,626,832

Grants paid in 2024

5 grants, largest first

As listed on the return. Grants to individuals show as “Individual”, with purpose and amount only.

  1. WGBH Educational FoundationBrighton, MA

    Educational purposes

    $1,000
  2. Individual

    Grant Recipient in a Music Documentary Project

    $650
  3. USA for UNHCRWashington, DC

    Refugee Assistance;UN Refugee Agency

    $500
  4. Islesboro Historical SocietyIslesboro, ME

    Educational Purposes

    $400
  5. AmerSocietyPreventionCrueltyAnimalsNew York, NY

    Prevention of Cruelty to Animals

    $240

Where the money goes

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

  1. Arts and culture1 grant $1,000100% of the total

By State

Grants to organizations with a US address, latest year.

  1. Massachusetts1 grant $1,000
  2. District of Columbia1 grant $500
  3. Maine1 grant $400
  4. New York1 grant $240

Officers, directors and trustees

1 person as filed

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

  • Frank B MazerTrustee Hours 1Pay $0

The return

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