Tbl Charitable Foundation
Newtonville, MA · EIN 20-3982689. Reported 50 grants totalling $5,734,800 to 28 recipients across tax years 2021-2024. This foundation did not tell the IRS it funds only preselected organizations.
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. Tbl Charitable Foundation did not check that box on its most recent filing, which puts it in the minority that is at least open to being approached.
How big are its grants?
The median grant is $10,000. Half of everything it gave fell between $5,000 and $100,000; the smallest was $1,000 and the largest $1,500,000. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong foundation.
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.
| Organization | Location | Total received | Grants | Years funded | Last |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Brandeis University | Waltham, MA | $2,000,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Society for Science and the Public | Washington, DC | $1,700,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Giving Foundation | Newark, DE | $500,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Center for Excellence in Education | Mclean, VA | $350,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Mathematical Science | New York, NY | $275,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| MIT Rso | Cambridge, MA | $260,000 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Princeton Prospect Foundation | Princeton, NJ | $250,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Princeton University | Princeton, NJ | $104,500 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Mathematical Associate of America | Washington, DC | $75,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| American Mathematical Society | Providence, RI | $70,000 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Museum of Science | Boston, MA | $20,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| National Academy of Sciences | Washington, DC | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Swim Across America | Boston, MA | $20,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| The Decibels Foundation | Maynard, MA | $15,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| American Academy of Arts and Sciences | Cambridge, MA | $11,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Benjamin Franklin Institute of Technology | Boston, MA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center | Boston, MA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Iscb | Leesburg, VA | $6,500 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Emergency Assistance Foundation Inc | West Plam Beach, FL | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Ieee Computer Society | Los Alamitos, CA | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Korean Society for Molecular & Cellular B | Seoul, 135-703 Ko | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Marconi Society LLC | California, CA | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Regents of the University of California | Oakland, CA | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| St Francis House | Gainesville, FL | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| New England Conservatory | Boston, MA | $3,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Harvard University | Massachusetts Hall Cam, MA | $2,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Chamber Music Foundation of New England | Newton Center, MA | $1,800 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Jdrf International | New York, NY | $1,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
11 of 28 (39%) 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 47%, across 3 year-to-year transitions. The median foundation retains about 67%, so this one is less consistent than most. This measures how often it paid the same organizations again. It says nothing about whether it would consider a new one.
What the money was for
Taken verbatim from the purpose field of its filings. This is the closest thing to a statement of what this foundation cares about, in its own words.
- Society for Science and the Public
TO PROMOTE THE UNDERSTANDING AND APPRECIATION OF SCIENCE AND THE VITAL ROLE IT PLAYS IN HUMAN ADVANCEMENT: TO INFORM, EDUCATE, AND INSPIRE THE WORLD IN THE 21ST CENTURY. - Center for Excellence in Education
THE CENTER SEEKS HIGH ACHIEVING HIGH SCHOOL AND UNIVERSITY STUDENTS FROM DIVERSE ECONOMIC AND CULTURAL BACKGROUNDS TO FURTHER DEVELOP THEIR MATHEMATICAL AND SCIENTIFIC SKILLS. - MIT Rso
The MIT community is driven by a shared purpose: to make a better world through education, research, and innovation. - Mathematical Associate of America
TO ADVANCE THE MATHEMATICAL SCIENCES, ESPECIALLY AT THE COLLEGIATE LEVEL. - American Mathematical Society
FURTHER THE INTERESTS OF MATHEMATICAL SCHOLARSHIP AND RESEARCH. PROMOTE MATHEMATICAL RESEARCH AND ITS USES, ENCOURAGE AND PROMOTE THE TRANSMISSION OF MATHEMATICAL UNDERSTANDINGS AND SKILLS TO ENSURE THE CONTINUED VITALITY OF THE PROFESSION, SUPPORT MATHEMATICAL EDUCATION AT ALL LEVELS, ADVANCE THE STATUS OF THE PROFESSION OF MATHEMATICS, ENCOURAGING AND FACILITATING FULL PARTICIPATION OF ALL INDIVIDUALS, AND FOSTER AN AWARENESS AND APPRECIATION OF MATHEMATICS AND ITS CONNECTIONS TO OTHER DISCIPLINES AND EVERYDAY LIFE. - Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
TO PROVIDE EXTRAORDINARY CARE, WHERE THE PATIENT COMES FIRST, SUPPORTED BY WORLD-CLASS EDUCATION AND RESEARCH.
What kind of organizations it funds
By the activity category the IRS assigns each recipient, for the 35 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.
Giving by year
| Tax year | Grants | Total | Median grant |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 15 | $1,227,500 | $10,000 |
| 2022 | 11 | $1,136,500 | $10,000 |
| 2023 | 12 | $911,000 | $17,500 |
| 2024 | 12 | $2,459,800 | $5,000 |
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
41% of its giving went to organizations in Massachusetts. If your organization is based elsewhere, look in the recipient list for grants to your area before writing.
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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.
How to approach this foundation
- Check you are its size. The median grant is $10,000. A request many times that size asks for something it has rarely or never given.
- Check you are in its geography. Its giving is concentrated in Massachusetts.
- 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.
- 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 Tbl Charitable Foundation's own Form 990-PF filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2021-2024). 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: 15 Charlesden Park, Newtonville, MA, 02460. 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.
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