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Gloria C Crotty Charitable Foundation C

Boston, MA · EIN 81-6978843. Reported 57 grants totalling $279,120 to 29 organizations across tax years 2021-2024. This foundation did not tell the IRS it funds only preselected organizations.

Yesaccepts unsolicited requests
$3,000median grant
$279,120granted, 2021-2024
29organizations funded
60%of grantees funded again the next year
$2,557,503assets, 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. Gloria C Crotty Charitable Foundation C 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 $3,000. Half of everything it gave fell between $2,500 and $5,000; the smallest was $1,000 and the largest $30,000. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong foundation.

$1,000 - $5,000
31 grants
$5,000 - $10,000
24 grants
$25,000 - $50,000
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
Suffolk UniversityBoston, MA$65,000332023
Carroll Center for the BlindNewton, MA$19,000332024
Perkins School for the BlindWatertown, MA$17,500332023
Foundation Fighting BlindnessBaltimore, MD$15,500332024
Friends of Boston's HomelessBoston, MA$15,500332023
National Shrine of the Infant Jesus of PraguePrague, OK$15,120442024
YMCA Training IncBoston, MA$11,000222022
CASA MyrnaBoston, MA$10,500222022
Reach Beyond Domestic ViolenceWaltham, MA$10,500222022
Asian American Civic AssociationBoston, MA$10,000332024
Guiding Eyes for the BlindYorktown Heights, NY$8,000222023
Shriners Children'sAtlanta, GA$8,000222024
St Jude Children's Research HospitalAlbany, NY$8,000222024
The Victory CenterN Miami Beach, FL$8,000222022
The Victory SchoolN Miami Beach, FL$8,000222024
Transition HouseCambridge, MA$8,000332024
Pirandello LyceumWinthrop, MA$6,000222024
Wikimedia Foundation IncWashington, DC$6,000222023
Franciscan Children'sBrighton, MA$5,500112024
Legal Information Institute at Cornell Law SchoolBoone, IA$4,500222024
Chorus Pro MusicaBoston, MA$3,000112023
Franciscan MissionsWaterford, WI$3,000112022
Italian Home for ChildrenJamaica Plain, MA$3,000112024
Boston Rescue MissionBoston, MA$2,500112021
Newton Wellesley HospitalNewton, MA$2,500112024
Sisters of St BenedictFerdinand, IN$2,500112021
Brockton Interfaith CommunityBrockton, MA$1,000112021
Smile TrainWashington, DC$1,000112021
St Benedict's AbbeyBenet Lake, WI$1,000112021

19 of 29 (66%) 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 60%, across 3 year-to-year transitions. The median foundation retains about 67%, so this one is about typical. 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 32 grants where we could identify the organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses.

Human Services
9 grants
Education
8 grants
Diseases & Disorders
3 grants
Medical Research
3 grants
Housing & Shelter
3 grants
Religion
3 grants
Arts & Culture
1 grant
Health Care
1 grant

Giving by year

Tax yearGrantsTotalMedian grant
202114$72,620$2,500
202215$104,500$5,500
202315$59,000$3,000
202413$43,000$3,000

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. 68% 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
$190K
New York
$16K
Florida
$16K
Maryland
$16K
Oklahoma
$15K
Georgia
$8K
District of Columbia
$7K
Iowa
$4K

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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.

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How to approach this foundation

  1. Check you are its size. The median grant is $3,000. 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 Gloria C Crotty Charitable Foundation C'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: 10 Tremont St 600, Boston, MA, 02108. 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 81-6978843 · 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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