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Archibald Family Foundation #0724900

Boston, MA · EIN 04-3417222. Reported 125 grants totalling $1,106,500 to 44 organizations across tax years 2021-2024. This foundation did not tell the IRS it funds only preselected organizations.

Yesaccepts unsolicited requests
$5,000median grant
$1,106,500granted, 2021-2024
44organizations funded
83%of grantees funded again the next year
$6,793,888assets, latest filing

Does this foundation accept applications?

Yes -- on its own tax return. Form 990-PF asks every private foundation whether it makes grants only to organizations it selects itself. Of the 91,758 foundations in our data that made a grant and answered, 78% said yes -- and applying to those is wasted effort. Archibald Family Foundation #0724900 did not check that box on its most recent filing, which puts it in the minority that is at least open to being approached.

This is the foundation's own statement to the IRS, not our judgement, and it says nothing about whether they have a form, a deadline, or an appetite for new grantees. Treat it as the reason this foundation is worth your research time, not as an invitation. Many small foundations of this kind have no website and no application process -- a letter of inquiry is the normal first step.

How big are its grants?

The median grant is $5,000. Half of everything it gave fell between $2,000 and $10,000; the smallest was $500 and the largest $50,000. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong foundation.

Under $1,000
1 grant
$1,000 - $5,000
60 grants
$5,000 - $10,000
27 grants
$10,000 - $25,000
19 grants
$25,000 - $50,000
16 grants
$50,000 - $100,000
2 grants

Every organization it funded

This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Years funded is the number of separate tax years in which the organization received money -- more than one means a real relationship rather than a one-off.

OrganizationLocationTotal receivedGrantsYears fundedLast
Maria Mitchell AssociationNantucket, MA$151,000442024
Women Make MoviesNew York, NY$62,500222024
International Documentary AssociationLos Angeles, CA$55,000222022
World Wildlife Defense FundWashington, DC$54,000442024
Incite Productions IncBoulder, CO$50,000222023
New York Foundation for the ArtsBrooklyn, NY$50,000222024
Utah Film CenterSalt Lake City, UT$50,000222024
The Film CollaborativeLos Angeles, CA$40,000222024
Planned Parenthood Federation of AmericaNew York, NY$36,000442024
Planned Parenthood of MassachusettsBoston, MA$34,000442024
Breakwater SchoolPortland, ME$30,000442024
Doc Society Inc Identity CrisisBrooklyn, NY$30,000112023
Boston Women's Health Book CollectiveCambridge, MA$28,000442024
WGBHBoston, MA$27,000442024
American Film InstituteLos Angeles, CA$25,000112021
Kartemquin Educational FilmsChicago, IL$25,000112022
Outsider Film & Arts FestivalsAustin, TX$25,000112022
Roundabout Theatre Company IncNew York, NY$25,000112021
StorylineBrooklyn, NY$25,000112023
Nantucket Land Council IncNantucket, MA$23,000442024
Cambridge School of WestonWeston, MA$20,000442024
Hope HouseBoston, MA$20,000112024
Waynflete SchoolPortland, ME$20,000112024
Sarah Lawrence CollegeBronxville, NY$19,000442024
Northwood SchoolBrentwood, NH$18,000442024
WburBoston, MA$16,000442024
Stray Cat AllianceLos Angeles, CA$15,000112024
The Kind Fund - Under Unicef and MsnbcNew York, NY$15,000442024
Mt Auburn HospitalCambridge, MA$12,000222024
Save the Whales IncSeaside, CA$12,000442024
Mptf FoundationWoodland Hills, CA$10,000112022
UCLA FoundationPasadena, CA$10,000112021
Buckingham Browne & Nichols SchoolCambridge, MA$8,000442024
Hobart and William Smith CollegesGeneva, NY$8,000442024
MspcaBoston, MA$8,000442024
Tufts School of Veterinary MedicineNorth Grafton, MA$7,500442024
Appalachian Mountain ClubBoston, MA$7,000442024
Boston AthenaeumBoston, MA$7,000442024
Defenders of WildlifeWashington, DC$7,000442024
Mothers Out FrontBoston, MA$7,000442024
Nantucket Conservation FoundationNantucket, MA$6,000332024
Amnesty InternationalNew York, NY$4,000442024
Shady Hill SchoolCambridge, MA$3,500442024
Nantucket AtheneumNantucket, MA$1,000112021

32 of 44 (73%) received money in more than one year over the 4 years we hold.

Measured the way we measure every foundation -- what share of one year's grantees are funded again the next -- this one retains 83%, across 3 year-to-year transitions. The median foundation retains about 67%, so this one is unusually consistent. A high number means its list is close to settled and a newcomer has to displace someone; a low one means it is still moving money around, which is where an opening is.

What kind of organizations it funds

By the recipient's own IRS classification, for the 79 grants where we could identify the organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses.

Education
29 grants
Environment
19 grants
Arts & Culture
10 grants
Animal Welfare
9 grants
Health Care
6 grants
International Affairs
4 grants
Mental Health
1 grant

Giving by year

Tax yearGrantsTotalMedian grant
202130$254,000$4,000
202232$306,000$5,000
202330$280,000$4,500
202433$266,500$5,000

Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- filings arrive about a year late, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a foundation winding down.

Where its money goes

Foundations concentrate geographically far more than their mission statements suggest. 35% of this one's giving went to organizations in Massachusetts. If you are outside its footprint, that matters more than how well your programme fits.

Massachusetts
$386K
New York
$274K
California
$167K
District of Columbia
$61K
Maine
$50K
Colorado
$50K
Utah
$50K
Illinois
$25K

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Funders that support the same organizations

These funders gave to organizations this one also funded -- some private foundations, some community foundations and other grantmaking charities. Shared grantees are the strongest available signal that two funders have overlapping priorities, and a funder already backing your peers is a far warmer prospect than one that merely lists your cause.

Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund29 shared recipientsDonor Advised Charitable Giving Inc26 shared recipientsVanguard Charitable Endowment Program24 shared recipientsAmerican Online Giving Foundation Inc21 shared recipientsNational Philanthropic Trust19 shared recipientsAmerican Endowment Foundation17 shared recipients

How to approach this foundation

  1. Check you are its size. The median grant is $5,000. Asking for ten times that is the most common way small organizations waste a submission.
  2. Check you are in its geography. Its giving is concentrated in Massachusetts.
  3. Read the recipient list above for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer, and a cheap one to get.
  4. Look up the current filing before writing. The 990-PF names the foundation's officers and, where one exists, its application procedure. We link it below.

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Where these numbers come from

Everything above is taken from Archibald Family Foundation #0724900's own Form 990-PF filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2021-2024). Nothing here is scraped, inferred, or estimated.

Address of record on the latest return: Post Office Box 51400, Boston, MA, 02205. This is the address the foundation gave the IRS; many small foundations file through an accountant or a bank trust department, so it may not be where post to a programme officer should go.

EIN 04-3417222 · See the original filings on ProPublica · How we build this

This is history, not an open call. Foundation returns are published about a year after the tax year ends. Nothing on this page is a deadline. It is a record of who this foundation has actually funded, which is the best available predictor of who it will fund next -- and a much better basis for deciding whether to write to them than a mission statement.

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