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Accord, MA · EIN 43-1645180. Reported 37 grants totalling $2,552,000 to 27 organizations across tax years 2021-2025, on Form 990 Schedule I.

27organizations funded
$50,000median reported grant
$2,552,000granted, 2021-2025
5%of grantees funded again the next year
10%of dollars to its largest recipient

Does this grantmaker accept applications?

Its tax return does not say, and we will not guess. Private foundations file Form 990-PF, which asks outright whether they fund only organizations they select themselves -- 78% say yes, and that one answer is what lets the rest of this site tell you which foundations are worth approaching. Grantmaking charities like this one file a regular Form 990 instead, and the IRS never puts the question to them. Anyone claiming to know the answer from the filing is inventing it.

Three things in the filing do bear on it:

  1. What kind of organization it is. For Cfleads, the IRS classifies it as a support organization for one specific institution (NTEE T11).
  2. How spread out its giving is. 27 distinct organizations, with 10% of the dollars going to the largest single recipient. That is genuinely spread out -- the mark of a funder making many independent decisions rather than underwriting one institution.
  3. How much its list changes. 5% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 4 year-to-year transitions. That is below the 56% median for grantmaking charities, and well below the 67% median for private foundations. It describes the organizations it already funds, not whether it would consider a new one.

How big are its grants?

The median reported grant is $50,000. Half of what it reported fell between $50,000 and $50,000; the smallest was $20,000 and the largest $200,000. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong organization.

Schedule I only reports grants over $5,000. Form 990 requires a charity to list recipients it paid more than that and lets it omit the rest, so every grant-size figure on this page describes the grants it reported, not all of them. Its real median is lower and its real recipient count is higher. This is also why these numbers cannot be compared with the private-foundation figures elsewhere on this site -- Form 990-PF has no reporting floor, so the two are different populations rather than two samples of one.
$10,000 - $25,000
7 grants
$50,000 - $100,000
24 grants
$100,000 - $250,000
6 grants

Every organization it funded

This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Recipients are grouped by the EIN the filer reported, not by name, so an organization that was typed differently in two years appears once rather than twice.

OrganizationLocationTotal receivedGrantsYears fundedLast
Community Foundation for Greater Buffalo IncBuffalo, NY$250,000222024
Greater Cincinnati FoundationCincinnati, OH$250,000222022
Foundation for LouisianaNew Orleans, LA$200,000112021
San Francisco FoundationSan Francisco, CA$200,000112021
Southwest Initiative FoundationHutchinson, MN$200,000112021
The Chicago Community TrustChicago, IL$200,000112021
Greater Milwaukee Foundation IncMilwaukee, WI$100,000222025
Innovia FoundationSpokane, WA$100,000222024
Kalamazoo Community FoundationKalamazoo, MI$100,000222025
Community Foundation of Greater DubuqueDubuque, IA$94,000332024
Fairfield Countys Community Foundation IncNorwalk, CT$70,000222025
Act for AlexandriaAlexandria, VA$50,000112024
Cambridge Community FoundationCambridge, MA$50,000112024
Community Foundation of Greater FlintFlint, MI$50,000112022
Community Foundation of North TexasFort Worth, TX$50,000112024
Foundation for Appalachian Kentucky IncHazard, KY$50,000112025
Foundation for the CarolinasCharlotte, NC$50,000112024
Rochester Area Community FoundationRochester, NY$50,000112024
Scranton Area Foundation IncScranton, PA$50,000112024
The Community FoundationBoulder, CO$50,000112025
The Community Foundation IncRichmond, VA$50,000112024
The Pittsburgh FoundationPittsburgh, PA$50,000112025
Wichita FoundationWichita, KS$50,000112025
Winston-Salem FoundationWinston Salem, NC$50,000112025
Yellow Springs Community FoundationYellow Spgs, OH$50,000112025
Ayiti Community Trust IncMiami, FL$44,000222023
San Antonio Area FoundationSan Antonio, TX$44,000222023

9 of 27 (33%) received money in more than one year over the 5 years we hold. Remember the $5,000 floor: an organization funded every year at $3,000 shows up here as never funded at all.

It also reported 2 groups of grants to individuals -- scholarships, emergency assistance and similar. Schedule I reports these by category with a headcount and never by name, so there is nothing here we could publish about the recipients even if we wanted to.

What the money was for

Taken verbatim from the purpose column of its filings, largest first. This is the closest thing to a statement of what it funds, in its own words.

What kind of organizations it funds

By the activity category the IRS assigns each recipient, for the 27 of 27 recipients we could match to a registered organization. The categories are the IRS's, not ours -- Schedule I reports the recipient's EIN, so this is a lookup rather than a name match.

Philanthropy & Grantmaking
23 orgs
Community Improvement
2 orgs
Public Safety & Disaster Relief
1 org
International Affairs
1 org

Giving by year

Tax yearGrants reportedTotalMedian grant
202110$1,280,000$200,000
20225$250,000$50,000
20233$72,000$24,000
202410$500,000$50,000
20259$450,000$50,000

Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- Form 990 arrives about a year after the year it covers, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a grantmaker winding down.

Where its money goes

12% of its giving went to organizations in New York. Community foundations and federated funds are usually the most geographically bounded funders there are -- being outside the footprint is normally disqualifying in a way that a weak programme fit is not.

New York
$300K
Ohio
$300K
Louisiana
$200K
California
$200K
Minnesota
$200K
Illinois
$200K
Michigan
$150K
Wisconsin
$100K

Down to the city

Buffalo, NY
$250K
Cincinnati, OH
$250K
New Orleans, LA
$200K
San Francisco, CA
$200K
Hutchinson, MN
$200K
Chicago, IL
$200K

Foundations that fund only organizations they pick gave to this one

3 private foundations that told the IRS they contribute only to organizations they select themselves reported 7 grants totalling $1,181,025 to Cfleads. That is 10% of the 31 funders we can see giving to it. Those 3 foundations do not take unsolicited requests -- their own returns say so. The IRS classifies this organization as a grantmaking organization.

1 of them gave in more than one tax year, which is the only durability signal the filings carry.

What that does not mean. It does not mean an application here reaches that money. A grant from a closed foundation is often a designated gift or a donor-advised fund earmarked by whoever gave it, and has nothing to do with any open programme this organization runs. Neither tax return says which, so neither do we. The list below is who put money in. It is not a route to it.

FoundationStateReportedGrantsYearsLast
Charles Stewart Mott FoundationMichigan$669,000542024
John D and Catherine T MacarthurIllinois$500,000112021
Facebook Community FundCalifornia$12,025112021

A linked name has a page of its own. We publish one for a foundation that takes no unsolicited requests only when a real share of its giving goes to organizations that make grants themselves, and that page opens by saying it does not take requests.

Every foundation in the table above files Form 990-PF, which reports every grant it made and asks outright whether it funds only organizations it picks. That answer is what puts it on this list; no other form asks the question. The grants this organization reports making are on Form 990 Schedule I, which only requires listing recipients paid more than $5,000. Two different populations, so the money in and the money out on this page are not two halves of one figure and must not be added or compared.

Both the count and the total are floors. A foundation appears here only where its return named this organization clearly enough for us to match the name to an EIN, which we manage for about two thirds of 990-PF grant rows. There are more; we cannot name them.

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Funders that support the same organizations

These grantmakers and private foundations gave to organizations this one also funded. Shared grantees are a sign of overlapping priorities and nothing more: they do not show that any of these funders would consider a new organization. Each page says what its filings show.

Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund27 shared recipientsDonor Advised Charitable Giving Inc27 shared recipientsAmerican Online Giving Foundation Inc26 shared recipientsVanguard Charitable Endowment Program21 shared recipientsAmerican Endowment Foundation16 shared recipientsCharities Aid Foundation America15 shared recipients

How to approach this grantmaker

  1. Look for a published programme first. Unlike most private foundations, organizations of this kind often do run open, deadlined grant cycles with written guidelines. Its own website is the authority on that; this page is the authority on who it has actually paid.
  2. Check you are its size. The median reported grant is $50,000 -- and because grants under $5,000 need not be reported, it very likely writes smaller cheques than this page can see.
  3. Check you are in its geography. Its giving concentrates in New York.
  4. Read the recipient list for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer and a cheap one to get.

Related guides

Foundations funding international affairs in New YorkEvery funder in this group

Where these numbers come from

Everything above is taken from Cfleads's own Form 990 Schedule I filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 5 returns (tax years 2021-2025). Grant figures are from its returns. Recipient classifications, the concentration and retention figures and the funders that support the same organizations are our own calculations from them, described in how we build this.

On its most recent return it told the IRS it made grants to 9 section 501(c)(3) organizations and 0 other organizations. That is the filer's own count for one year; the totals above cover every year we hold.

Address of record on the latest return: Po Box 509, Accord, MA, 02018.

EIN 43-1645180 · See the original filings on ProPublica · How we build this

This is history, not an open call. Form 990 is published about a year after the tax year it covers. Nothing on this page is a deadline. It is a record of who this organization has actually funded.

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