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Form 990-PFTax year 2025EIN 81-6978843

Gloria C Crotty Charitable Foundation

A private foundation in Boston, MA. Its return for tax year 2025 lists 15 grants and $79,500 paid in grants.

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

Accepts applications

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

Contact
Catherine Bove Trustee Co Bove Lang
10 Tremont Street Ste 600
Boston, MA 02108
(617) 720-6040
Form and materials
No specific application required, only detailed information for the charitable organization in its request
Deadlines
No
Restrictions
No

Assets and giving by year

8 returns on file
Grants paid by tax year. The latest year is in blue.
  • Tax year 2025

    $79,500

    Grants listed
    15
    Assets, end of year
    $1,866,392
  • Tax year 2024

    $43,000

    Grants listed
    13
    Assets, end of year
    $1,876,136
  • Tax year 2023

    $59,000

    Grants listed
    15
    Assets, end of year
    $1,868,895
  • Tax year 2022

    $104,500

    Grants listed
    15
    Assets, end of year
    $1,798,094
  • Tax year 2021

    $72,620

    Grants listed
    14
    Assets, end of year
    $1,684,528
  • Tax year 2020

    $81,500

    Grants listed
    9
    Assets, end of year
    $1,652,306
  • Tax year 2019

    $90,750

    Grants listed
    14
    Assets, end of year
    $1,697,645
  • Tax year 2018

    $76,500

    Grants listed
    7
    Assets, end of year
    $1,747,950

Grants paid in 2025

15 grants, largest first

As listed on the return.

  1. Newton Wellesley HospitalNewton, MA

    Charitable

    $10,000
  2. Shriners Children'sAtlanta, GA

    Charitable

    $10,000
  3. Suffolk UniversityBoston, MA

    Education

    $10,000
  4. American Civil Liberties UnionNew York, NY

    Charitable

    $5,000
  5. Italian Home for ChildrenJamaica Plain, MA

    Charitable

    $5,000
  6. Legal Information Institute at Cornell Law SchoolBoone, IA

    Charitable

    $5,000
  7. National Shrine of the Infant Jesus of PraguePrague, OK

    Religious education

    $5,000
  8. Southern Poverty Law CenterMontgomery, AL

    Charitable

    $5,000
  9. Spaulding Rehabilitation HospitalCambridge, MA

    Charitable

    $5,000
  10. St Jude Children's Research HospitalAlbany, NY

    Charitable

    $5,000
  11. The Carroll Center for the BlindNewton, MA

    Charitable

    $5,000
  12. Foundation Fighting BlindnessBaltimore, MD

    Charitable

    $3,000
  13. Wikimedia Foundation IncSan Francisco, CA

    Charitable

    $3,000
  14. Guiding Eyes for the BlindYorktown HTS, NY

    Charitable

    $2,000
  15. Pirandello LyceumWinthrop, MA

    Charitable

    $1,500

Where the money goes

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

  1. Education2 grants $13,00043% of the total
  2. Crime and legal aid1 grant $5,00017% of the total
  3. Health1 grant $5,00017% of the total
  4. Mental health1 grant $5,00017% of the total
  5. Human services1 grant $2,0007% of the total

By State

Grants to organizations with a US address, latest year.

  1. Massachusetts6 grants $36,500
  2. New York3 grants $12,000
  3. Georgia1 grant $10,000
  4. Alabama1 grant $5,000
  5. Iowa1 grant $5,000
  6. Oklahoma1 grant $5,000
  7. District of Columbia1 grant $3,000
  8. Maryland1 grant $3,000

Officers, directors and trustees

2 people as filed

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

  • Catherine M BoveTRUSTEE (AS 11/25) Hours 1Pay $0
  • Alexander A Bove JrTRUSTEE (TO 11/25) Hours 1Pay $31,170

The return

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