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Solimine Charitable Corporation

Lynn, MA · EIN 20-0478181. Reported 67 grants totalling $1,030,058 to 33 recipients across tax years 2021-2025. This foundation did not tell the IRS it funds only preselected organizations.

Yesaccepts unsolicited requests
$5,000median grant on its 990-PF
$1,030,058granted, 2021-2025
33recipients, as named on its returns
81%of grantees funded again the next year
$18.0Massets, 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. Solimine Charitable Corporation 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 $5,000. Half of everything it gave fell between $5,000 and $11,650; the smallest was $2,000 and the largest $265,000. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong foundation.

$1,000 - $5,000
11 grants
$5,000 - $10,000
29 grants
$10,000 - $25,000
15 grants
$25,000 - $50,000
5 grants
$100,000 and Up
3 grants

It also files a Form 990 with Schedule I

Separately from its 990-PF, this organization reported 4 grants on Form 990 Schedule I, with a median of $6,058 and a total of $27,236.

The two sets of figures are not comparable, so we do not combine them. Schedule I only requires listing grants over $5,000, while Form 990-PF has no reporting floor. Every grant-size number above this block is from the 990-PF alone; the Schedule I median here describes only the grants that form required it to report. Averaging the two would produce a figure that describes neither.

Every organization it funded

This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Recipients are grouped by name and state as they were written on the returns, so an organization entered under two different names appears twice. Years funded is the number of separate tax years in which that name received money.

OrganizationLocationTotal receivedGrantsYears fundedLast
Boys and Girls Club of LynnLynn, MA$285,000332025
Lynn Community Health CenterLynn, MA$110,000222025
The Greg HouseLynn, MA$100,000112025
Lynn Shelter AssociationLynn, MA$62,000332025
Multiple Less Than 3000 EachLynn, MA$59,466222025
United Way of Mass BayBoston, MA$45,000332025
American Cancer SocietyFramingham, MA$40,000222025
Leo IncLynn, MA$40,000332025
Salvation ArmyLynn, MA$26,000442025
Catholic Charities NorthLynn, MA$20,000332025
New American Assoc of MaLynn, MA$20,000112025
Metro North YMCALynn, MA$16,116442025
American Red CrossDanvers, MA$15,837332025
Greater Lynn Senior ServicesLynn, MA$15,000112025
Nscc FoundationDanvers, MA$15,000332025
Tommy's Place FoundationFalmouth, MA$15,000332025
BridgewellPeabody, MA$14,034222025
Angel FundWakefield, MA$12,500332025
Boston North Cancer AssocPeabody, MA$12,500332025
Element CareLynn, MA$12,500112025
Multiple Less Than 2000 EachLynn, MA$11,650112023
Girls IncLynn, MA$11,000332025
My Brother's TableLynn, MA$10,500112025
2 Life CommunitiesBrighton, MA$10,000112025
Lynn Veterans CouncilLynn, MA$10,000112024
Raw Art WorksLynn, MA$6,985222025
Uncommon FeastsLynn, MA$6,350112024
The Haven ProjectLynn, MA$6,000112025
AIDS Action CommitteeBoston, MA$5,120112022
Family AidBoston, MA$5,000112025
Valladolid Building AssocLynn, MA$5,000112024
Beyond WallsLynn, MA$4,000222024
Childrens Law CenterLynn, MA$2,500112023

19 of 33 (58%) received money in more than one year over the 5 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 81%, across 3 year-to-year transitions. The median foundation retains about 67%, so this one is unusually consistent. This measures how often it paid the same organizations again. It says nothing about whether it would consider a new one.

Plus 3 grants to individuals totalling $26,764 -- scholarships, hardship and emergency assistance. We deliberately do not publish the names of people who received them, even though the filings do.

What kind of organizations it funds

By the activity category the IRS assigns each recipient, for the 16 grants where we could match the recipient to a registered organization. The categories are the IRS's. The match, made from the name and address on the return, is ours.

Human Services
7 grants
Medical Research
3 grants
Youth Development
3 grants
Community Improvement
2 grants
Health Care
1 grant

Giving by year

Tax yearGrantsTotalMedian grant
20211$6,000$0
20223$21,236$0
202316$106,650$5,000
202421$166,211$5,000
202526$729,961$10,000

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

Lynn, MA
$840K
Boston, MA
$55K
Framingham, MA
$40K
Danvers, MA
$31K
Peabody, MA
$27K
Falmouth, MA
$15K
Wakefield, MA
$12K
Brighton, MA
$10K

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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 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 Fund10 shared recipientsSalem Five Charitable Foundation Inc10 shared recipientsEastern Bank Foundation10 shared recipientsGe Aerospace Foundation8 shared recipientsEssex County Community Foundation Inc8 shared recipientsGerondelis Foundation Inc7 shared recipients

How to approach this foundation

  1. Check you are its size. The median grant is $5,000. A request many times that size asks for something it has rarely or never given.
  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 Solimine Charitable Corporation's own Form 990-PF filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 3 returns (tax years 2023-2025). Grant figures are from its returns. Matching recipients to registered organizations, their IRS classifications, the retention rate and the funders that support the same organizations are our own calculations, described in how we build this.

Address of record on the latest return: 426 Broadway, Lynn, MA, 01904. 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 20-0478181 · 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.

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