New England Dairy and Food Council
Boston, MA · EIN 04-1661230. Reported 30 grants totalling $206,975 to 30 organizations across tax years 2021-2024, on Form 990 Schedule I.
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:
- What kind of organization it is. The IRS has no activity classification on file for this one, so we cannot tell you whether it is a community foundation or a single-institution support fund. The recipient list below is the better guide.
- How spread out its giving is. 30 distinct organizations, with 9% 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.
- How much its list changes. 0% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 3 year-to-year transitions. That is below the 57% median for grantmaking charities, and well below the 67% private foundations manage. A list that turns over this much is one a newcomer can realistically join.
How big are its grants?
The median reported grant is $5,228. Half of what it reported fell between $5,114 and $7,513; the smallest was $5,075 and the largest $17,975. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong organization.
22 of those grants were non-cash -- goods, property or services worth $148,624 in total. In-kind giving is real support but it is not a cheque.
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.
| Organization | Location | Total received | Grants | Years funded | Last |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Providence School Department | Providence, RI | $17,975 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| German Gerena Community Elementary School | Springfield, MA | $14,315 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Town of Dracut | Dracut, MA | $11,621 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| City of Methuen Methuen Public Schools | Methuen, MA | $10,358 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Worcester Technical High School | Worcester, MA | $9,543 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Burlington School District | Burlington, VT | $8,739 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Mascoma Valley Regional School District Sau #62 | Enfield, NH | $7,596 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| New Bedford Public Schools | New Bedford, MA | $7,513 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Reading Public Schools | Reading, MA | $7,500 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Old Rochester Regional School District | Mattapoisett, MA | $6,515 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Town of Smithfield School Department | Smithfield, RI | $6,489 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Jonathan Law High School | Milford, CT | $5,870 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Boston Public Schools | Boston, MA | $5,687 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| City of Everett | Everett, MA | $5,320 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Town of Sutton | Sutton, MA | $5,296 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Applewild School | Fitchburg, MA | $5,160 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| City of Nashua | Nashua, NH | $5,156 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Moharimet Elementary | Madbury, NH | $5,120 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| George J Peter's Elementary School | Cranston, RI | $5,114 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Griffin Memorial School | Litchfield, NH | $5,114 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Hancock Elementary School | Brockton, MA | $5,114 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Lawrence Family Public Academy | Lawrence, MA | $5,114 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Southside Milddle School | Manchester, NH | $5,114 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| West Shore Middle School | Milford, CT | $5,114 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Brattleboro Union Hs | Brattleboro, VT | $5,095 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Bellamy Middle School | Chicopee, MA | $5,087 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Metropolitan Regional Center & Tech School | Providence, RI | $5,087 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Roger Sherman Elementary School | Meriden, CT | $5,087 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Williston Central School | Williston, VT | $5,087 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Ct Quaker Hill Elemen School | Quaker Hill, CT | $5,075 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
0 of 30 (0%) received money in more than one year over the 4 years we hold. Remember the $5,000 floor: an organization funded every year at $3,000 shows up here as never funded at all.
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.
- Providence School Department
GRANT PURCHASE OF MILK COOLERS FOR USE IN THE REIMBURSABLE SCHOOL MEAL PROGRAMS AT TWO SCHOOLS. GRANT PURCHASE OF BLENDERS AND OTHER EQUIPMENT TO SERVE SMOOTHIES AS PART OF THEIR REIMBURSABLE SCHOOL MEAL PROGRAMS IN 16 SCHOOLS. - German Gerena Community Elementary School
PURCHASE OF THREE MILK COOLER FOR USE IN THE REIMBURSABLE SCHOOL MEAL PROGRAMS AT ONE SCHOOLS. - Town of Dracut
TO FUND THE PURCHASE OF BLENDERS AND OTHER EQUIPMENT TO SERVE SMOOTHIES AS PART OF THEIR REIMBURSABLE SCHOOL MEALS PROGRAM IN FIVE SCHOOLS. - Worcester Technical High School
PURCHASE OF TWO MILK COOLER FOR USE IN THE REIMBURSABLE SCHOOL MEAL PROGRAMS AT TWO SCHOOLS. - Burlington School District
PURCHASE OF CARTS AND OTHER EQUIPMENT TO EXPAND SCHOOL BREAKFAST PROGRAMS IN TWO SCHOOLS. - Mascoma Valley Regional School District Sau #62
TO FUND THE PURCHASE OF KTICHEN EQUIPMENT TO BEGIN REIMBURSABLE AFTERSCHOOL MEIAL PROGRAMS IN FOUR SCHOOLS.
What kind of organizations it funds
By each recipient's own IRS classification, for the 1 of 30 recipients we could match to a registered organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses -- Schedule I reports the recipient's EIN, so this is a lookup rather than a name match.
Giving by year
| Tax year | Grants reported | Total | Median grant |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 8 | $58,351 | $6,502 |
| 2022 | 3 | $31,175 | $7,513 |
| 2023 | 13 | $86,765 | $5,120 |
| 2024 | 6 | $30,684 | $5,114 |
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
50% of its giving went to organizations in Massachusetts. 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.
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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 the strongest signal available 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 grantmaker
- 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.
- Check you are its size. The median reported grant is $5,228 -- and because grants under $5,000 need not be reported, it very likely writes smaller cheques than this page can see.
- Check you are in its geography. Its giving concentrates in Massachusetts.
- 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.
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Where these numbers come from
Everything above is taken from New England Dairy and Food Council's own Form 990 Schedule I 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: 1034 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston, MA, 02215.
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