Aubert J Fay Charitable Fund
Lowell, MA · EIN 51-0203622. Reported 96 grants totalling $821,000 to 51 organizations across tax years 2023-2024. This foundation did not tell the IRS it funds only preselected organizations.
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. Aubert J Fay Charitable Fund did not check that box on its most recent filing, which puts it in the minority that is at least open to being approached.
How big are its grants?
The median grant is $6,000. Half of everything it gave fell between $4,000 and $8,000; the smallest was $1,500 and the largest $60,000. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong foundation.
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.
| Organization | Location | Total received | Grants | Years funded | Last |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lowell General Hospital | Lowell, MA | $110,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Lowell Community Health Center | Lowell, MA | $60,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| D'youville Senior Care | Lowell, MA | $45,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Merrimack Reperatory Theatre | Lowell, MA | $45,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Immaculate Conception | Lowell, MA | $43,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Project Learn | Lowell, MA | $25,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Lowell Catholic High School | Lowell, MA | $24,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| First United Baptist Church | Lowell, MA | $19,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Girls Inc | Lowell, MA | $19,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Catie's Closet | Dracut, MA | $18,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Greater Lowell Community Foundation | Lowell, MA | $17,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| St Vincent De Paul Society | Lowell, MA | $17,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Acre Family Child Care | Lowell, MA | $15,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Bridge Club of Greater Lowell | Lowell, MA | $15,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Boys and Girls Club of Greater Lowell | Lowell, MA | $15,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Lowell Association for the Blind | Lowell, MA | $15,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Merrimack Valley Food Bank | Lowell, MA | $15,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| United Teen Equality Center | Lowell, MA | $15,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Greater Lowell YMCA | Lowell, MA | $13,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| House of Hope | Lowell, MA | $13,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| International Institute | Lowell, MA | $13,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Lowell Parks & Conservation Trust | Lowell, MA | $13,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Lowell Transitional Living Center | Lowell, MA | $13,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Middlesex Community College | Lowell, MA | $13,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Salvation Army of Lowell | Lowell, MA | $13,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| St Anne's Episcopal Church | Lowell, MA | $13,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Lowell Festival Foundation | Lowell, MA | $11,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Wayside Youth & Family Support Network | Lowell, MA | $10,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Girl Scouts of Eastern Massachusetts | Andover, MA | $9,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Greater Lowell Habitat for Humanity | Westford, MA | $9,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Lowell Community Charter School | Lowell, MA | $9,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Lowell Day Nursery | Lowell, MA | $9,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Merrimack Valley Housing Partnership | Lowell, MA | $9,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Mission of Deeds | Reading, MA | $9,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Reach Out and Read | Boston, MA | $9,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| St Michael's School | Lowell, MA | $9,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| St Patrick School | Lowell, MA | $9,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Alternative House | Lowell, MA | $8,500 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Riverbend | Lowell, MA | $8,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Brush Art Gallery and Studios | Lowell, MA | $7,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Hellenic American Academy | Lowell, MA | $7,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Lowell House Inc | Lowell, MA | $7,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Oblates of Mary Immaculate Infirmary | Tewksbury, MA | $7,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Project Citizenship | Boston, MA | $7,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| St Joseph the Worker Shrine | Lowell, MA | $7,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| African Community Center of Lowell | Lowell, MA | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Cmaa | Lowell, MA | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| New England Quilt Museum | Lowell, MA | $5,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Lowell Cemetery | Lowell, MA | $3,500 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Coalition for a Better Acre | Lowell, MA | $3,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Whistler House | Lowell, MA | $3,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
45 of 51 (88%) received money in more than one year over the 2 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 98%, across 1 year-to-year transition. 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 the money was for
Taken verbatim from the purpose field of its filings. This is the closest thing to a statement of what this foundation cares about, in its own words.
- D'youville Senior Care
MEDICAL CAREAND MEDICAL FACILITY - Catie's Closet
CLOTHING ANDTOILETRIES TONEEDY CHILDREN - Boys and Girls Club of Greater Lowell
PROMOTE CHARACTERAND CITIZENSHIP - Bridge Club of Greater Lowell
SAFE PLACE FOR THOSE IN RECOVERY - Merrimack Valley Food Bank
COMMUNITY FOODDISTRIBUTION - United Teen Equality Center
PROMOTE SOCIALAND ECOMONICSUCCESS
What kind of organizations it funds
By the recipient's own IRS classification, for the 55 grants where we could identify the organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses.
Giving by year
| Tax year | Grants | Total | Median grant |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 46 | $363,000 | $6,000 |
| 2024 | 50 | $458,000 | $7,000 |
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
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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.
How to approach this foundation
- Check you are its size. The median grant is $6,000. Asking for ten times that is the most common way small organizations waste a submission.
- Check you are in its geography. Its giving is concentrated in Massachusetts.
- 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.
- 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 Aubert J Fay Charitable Fund's own Form 990-PF filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 2 returns (tax years 2023-2024). Nothing here is scraped, inferred, or estimated.
Address of record on the latest return: Po Box 668, Lowell, MA, 01852. 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.
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