The Furniture Trust Organization Inc
Arlington, MA · EIN 26-2607677. Reported 55 grants totalling $3,445,217 to 43 organizations across tax years 2023, 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. For The Furniture Trust Organization Inc, the IRS classifies it under environment rather than as a grantmaker (NTEE C27) -- it is an operating charity that also makes grants.
- How spread out its giving is. 43 distinct organizations, with 40% of the dollars going to the largest single recipient. That is concentrated. Most of the money has a settled destination, and the remainder is what is realistically in play.
How big are its grants?
The median reported grant is $15,500. Half of what it reported fell between $8,550 and $46,225; the smallest was $5,100 and the largest $912,750. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong organization.
55 of those grants were non-cash -- goods, property or services worth $3,445,217 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Boston Public Schools - Madison Park Technical Vocational High School | Boston, MA | $1,383,075 | 10 | 1 | 2023 |
| City of Boston Fire Department | Boston, MA | $852,473 | 3 | 1 | 2023 |
| Household Goods Inc | Acton, MA | $227,617 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Essex North Shore Agricultural Technical Foundation Inc | Beverly, MA | $191,150 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Synergy Academy Chartered Public School Inc | Concord, NH | $95,150 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Boys and Girls Clubs of Metro South Inc | Taunton, MA | $60,675 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| John Silber Early Learning Center (chelsea Public Schools) | Chelsea, MA | $54,340 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Kids in Tech | Lowell, MA | $48,205 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| My Brothers Keeper Inc | North Easton, MA | $46,225 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Build Health International Inc | Beverly, MA | $40,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Medford Vocational High School | Medford, MA | $38,525 | 2 | 1 | 2023 |
| Lawrence Public Schools | Lawrence, MA | $33,190 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Edinburg Center Inc | Bedford, MA | $28,300 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Breakthrough Greater Boston Inc | Cambridge, MA | $22,940 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Beacon Hill Village Inc | Boston, MA | $22,805 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Bridges Homeward Inc | Cambridge, MA | $22,520 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Somerville Parks and Recreation Dept | Somerville, MA | $19,909 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Mass General Brigham Incorporated | Somerville, MA | $19,725 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Camp Rotary Inc of Lynn Massachusetts | Lynn, MA | $16,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| City of Malden | Malden, MA | $15,500 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Immigrant Learning Center Inc | Malden, MA | $14,700 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Biobuilder Educational Foundation Inc | Newton, MA | $13,500 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Adult & Teen Challenge Northeast Inc | Brockton, MA | $13,020 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| St Marys Home for Children | N Providence, RI | $13,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Roca Inc | Chelsea, MA | $12,650 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Impact Church Inc | Medford, MA | $11,750 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Somerville Hispanic Association for Community Development Inc | Somerville, MA | $11,475 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| City of Everett | Everett, MA | $11,250 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Somerville Community Corporation Inc | Somerville, MA | $11,200 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Barre Up Inc | Barre City, VT | $11,050 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Margarita Muniz Academy Foundation Inc | Jamaica Plain, MA | $9,950 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Southeastern New Hampshire Alcohol and Drug Abuse Services Foundation | Dover, NH | $8,690 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Nashoba Learning Group Inc | Bedford, MA | $7,500 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Boston Arts Academy Foundation Inc | Boston, MA | $6,750 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Green Mountain Habitat for Humanity | Williston, VT | $6,228 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Salem Public Schools | Salem, MA | $5,925 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Bostons Higher Ground | Roxbury, MA | $5,825 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Empowered and Dedicated to Edify the Nation Inc | Boston, MA | $5,750 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Food for Free Committee Inc | Somervillle, MA | $5,555 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Shore Educational Collaborative Inc | Chelsea, MA | $5,425 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Community Service of Newburyport Inc | Newburyport, MA | $5,400 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Attitash Alpine Educational Foundation | Bartlett, NH | $5,200 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Little Brothers Friends of the Elderly - Boston Inc | Boston, MA | $5,100 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
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.
- Boston Public Schools - Facilities Management
TO PROVIDE DONATED FURNITURE TO MUNICIPALITIES, SCHOOLS, CHURCHES, AND OTHER CHARITABLE ORGANIZATIONS IN NEED OF FURNITURE TO MAXIMIZE FURNITURE VALUE, CREATE A POSITIVE COMMUNITY IMPACT, AND ELIMINATE NEGATIVE IMPACT TO THE ENVIRONMENT.
What kind of organizations it funds
By each recipient's own IRS classification, for the 28 of 43 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.
Where its money goes
96% 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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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 $15,500 -- 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 The Furniture Trust Organization Inc's own Form 990 Schedule I filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 5 returns (tax years 2020-2024). Nothing here is scraped, inferred or estimated.
Address of record on the latest return: 54 Mystic Street, Arlington, MA, 02474.
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