Funding search · EIN 046131201 · Boston, MA

Fidelity Foundation

Name: Fidelity Foundation grants, 2022–2024
Creator: PaperOrbit
License: https://www.irs.gov/charities-non-profits/exempt-organization-public-disclosure-and-availability-requirements

A private foundation (files IRS Form 990-PF). Most private foundations do not take unsolicited applications; the route in is usually a program officer.

7,750
grants reported: $457.4M
total given: 2022–2024
filing years: $1,000
median grant

Based on grants this organization reported to the IRS for tax years 2022–2024. This is what they filed, not a complete record of their giving, and recent years may be incomplete because filings lag.

What they fund

education gifts matching fidelity equipment planning technology renovation

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Funding pattern

What this funder pays for, at what size, and how to position adjacent work. Read from their filings, with every number checked against the record.

Where the money goes

Capital construction, renovation and building acquisition for nonprofits
Land acquisition for preservation, watershed and conservation trusts
Science centers, museums and aquariums, including discovery research
Youth development, early learning and college/workforce pathways
Technology, equipment and data infrastructure for service organizations
Endowment and campaign support for anchor institutions

Typical grant

Two very different books of business sit in this file. Thousands of small gifts of $200 to $4,000 pull the median to $1,000, while the strategic grants cluster tightly at $440,000 to $500,000, with $500,000 acting as a soft ceiling for most institutional awards and a handful of outliers running $1M to $10M for endowments and named capital projects. Repeat giving is real and often within the same year: Maine Coast Heritage Trust took three separate awards in 2024, and Northeast Wilderness Trust and Boston Food Forest Coalition each took two.

Their words

Phrases from their own grant descriptions, worth speaking back to them.

“PROPERTY CARE; BUILDINGS; RENOVATION”
“ACQUISITION FOR PRESERVATION”
“TECHNOLOGY & EQUIPMENT”
“CAPITAL PLAN”
“PROGRAM DEVELOPMENT / EVALUATION”
“R&D / INNOVATION / PILOTS”

Positioning adjacent work

Anchor to their science line: New England Aquarium's discovery research and UNC Charlotte's R&D pilot.
Ask $440,000 to $500,000. That band holds dozens of their institutional grants; above it is rare.
Frame the request as equipment, technology, data systems or facilities, not as research overhead.
Name a host institution in Boston, Durham, Fort Worth, Merrimack or Albuquerque where they already give.

Worth knowing: The geography maps onto Fidelity's own corporate footprint: Massachusetts (2,344 grants), North Carolina, Texas, New York and New Hampshire, plus repeated activity in Cincinnati, Denver, Salt Lake City, Phoenix and West Palm Beach. Most of the recipient count is small-dollar giving that looks employee-driven, so the 2,576-recipient number overstates how many organizations actually hold a strategic relationship here.

7 grants matching “mystic” · $2.3M

$630,000
Mystic River Watershed Association · Arlington, MA · 2024
Salary support
$395,000
Mystic River Watershed Association · Arlington, MA · 2024
Salary support
$375,000
Mystic River Watershed Association · Arlington, MA · 2024
Salary support
$130,000
Mystic River Watershed Association · Arlington, MA · 2024
Salary support
$405,000
Mystic River Watershed Association · Arlington, MA · 2023
Salary support
$250,000
Mystic River Watershed Association · Arlington, MA · 2023
Land
$105,000
Mystic River Watershed Association · Arlington, MA · 2023
New construction

Top recipients

Repeat recipients are the strongest signal of whether a funder has an open door or quietly re-funds the same organizations.

Hobart and William Smith Colleges2 grants · $20.0M
Trustees of Reservations9 grants · $19.0M
Northeast Wilderness Trust19 grants · $14.7M
Maine Coast Heritage Trust10 grants · $8.5M
Upstream USA3 grants · $7.5M
New England Aquarium2 grants · $6.4M
Appalachian Mountain Club6 grants · $5.1M
Pine Street Inn1 grant · $5.0M
Peabody Essex Museum1 grant · $5.0M
Boston Symphony Orchestra1 grant · $5.0M

Giving over time

$158.8M

2022

$144.3M

2023

$154.2M

2024

Grant history

The 100 largest of 7,750 grants.

$10.0M
Hobart and William Smith Colleges · Geneva, NY · 2024
General operating / annual support
$10.0M
Hobart and William Smith Colleges · Geneva, NY · 2023
General operating / annual support
$5.0M
Pine Street Inn · Boston, MA · 2024
Endowment
$5.0M
Trustees of Reservations · Boston, MA · 2023
Land for preservation
$5.0M
Boston Symphony Orchestra · Boston, MA · 2022
Endowment
$5.0M
Peabody Essex Museum · Salem, MA · 2022
Endowment
$5.0M
Trustees of Reservations · Boston, MA · 2022
Endowment
$4.0M
Appalachian Mountain Club · Charlestown, MA · 2023
Land for preservation
$3.9M
New England Aquarium · Boston, MA · 2023
Technology & equipment
$3.3M
Northeast Wilderness Trust · Montpelier, VT · 2024
Endowment
$3.0M
Upstream USA · Boston, MA · 2023
Planning
$3.0M
Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation · Boston, MA · 2022
Programming
$3.0M
Trustees of Reservations · Boston, MA · 2022
Endowment
$2.5M
Boys & Girls Clubs of Palm Beach County · West Palm Beach, FL · 2024
Land / building acquisition
$2.5M
Cox Science Center and Aquarium · West Palm Beach, FL · 2024
Construction
$2.5M
New England Aquarium · Boston, MA · 2024
Discovery research (science)
$2.5M
St Lawrence University · Canton, NY · 2024
Endowment
$2.5M
Brimmer & May School · Chestnut Hill, MA · 2023
Campaign / fundraising
$2.5M
Friends of Acadia · Bar Harbor, ME · 2022
Endowment
$2.5M
Friends of Katahdin Woods and Waters · Portland, ME · 2022
New construction
$2.5M
Henry Francis Du Pont Winterthur Museum · Winterthur, DE · 2022
Endowment
$2.5M
Maine Coast Heritage Trust · Topsham, ME · 2022
Endowment
$2.5M
Mount Vernon Ladies Association of the Union · Mount Vernon, VA · 2022
Endowment
$2.5M
Old Sturbridge · Sturbridge, MA · 2022
Endowment
$2.5M
Plimoth Patuxet Museums · Plymouth, MA · 2022
Endowment
$2.5M
Upstream USA · Boston, MA · 2022
Planning
$2.2M
Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art Foundation · North Adams, MA · 2022
New construction
$2.2M
Maine Coast Heritage Trust · Topsham, ME · 2023
Capital planning
$2.1M
New England Aquarium Corporation · Boston, MA · 2022
Property care; buildings; renovation
$2.0M
Adopt-a-Student Foundation · Boston, MA · 2024
Campaign / fundraising plan
$2.0M
Everytown for Gun Safety · New York, NY · 2024
General operating / annual support
$2.0M
Grand Teton National Park Foundation · Moose, WY · 2024
Acquisition for preservation
$2.0M
Upstream USA · Boston, MA · 2024
Planning
$2.0M
Winsor School · Boston, MA · 2023
Endowment
$2.0M
Cox Science Center and Aquarium · West Palm Beach, FL · 2022
Property care; buildings; renovation
$1.8M
Northeast Wilderness Trust · Montpelier, VT · 2023
Land / building acquisition
$1.8M
Trustees of Reservations · Boston, MA · 2022
Endowment
$1.7M
Trustees of Reservations · Boston, MA · 2022
Endowment
$1.5M
Boston Food Forest Coalition · Jamaica Plain, MA · 2024
Acquisition for preservation
$1.5M
Concord Academy · Concord, MA · 2023
Endowment
$1.5M
Trustees of Reservations · Boston, MA · 2023
Endowment
$1.5M
Emerald Necklace Conservancy · Boston, MA · 2022
Endowment
$1.5M
Northeast Wilderness Trust · Montpelier, VT · 2022
Land/building acquisition
$1.5M
Rangeley Lakes Heritage Trust · Rangeley, ME · 2022
Land/building acquisition
$1.5M
Society for the Preservation of New England Antiquities · Boston, MA · 2022
Planning
$1.3M
Lowell Parks and Conservation Trust · Lowell, MA · 2022
Land/building acquisition
$1.2M
Nature Conservancy · Arlington, VA · 2024
System repair/replacement
$1.1M
University System of New Hampshire · Durham, NH · 2023
Technology & equipment
$1.1M
Ipswich River Watershed Association · Ipswich, MA · 2022
Programming
$1.0M
Cook Children'S Health Foundation · Fort Worth, TX · 2024
Construction
$1.0M
Global Arts Live · Cambridge, MA · 2024
Endowment
$1.0M
Northeast Wilderness Trust · Montpelier, VT · 2024
Endowment
$1.0M
The Children'S Theatre of Cincinnati · Cincinnati, OH · 2024
Land / building acquisition
$1.0M
Center for Transforming Lives · Fort Worth, TX · 2023
New construction
$1.0M
Dallas Foundation a Tx Nonprofit Corporation · Dallas, TX · 2023
New construction
$1.0M
Digital Harbor Foundation · Baltimore, MD · 2023
Other
$1.0M
Everytown for Gun Safety Support Fund · New York, NY · 2023
General operating / annual support
$1.0M
Gulfshore Playhouse · Naples, FL · 2023
New construction
$1.0M
Nature Conservancy · Concord, NH · 2023
Construction
$1.0M
Northeast Wilderness Trust · Montpelier, VT · 2023
Endowment
$1.0M
Trinity Park Conservancy · Dallas, TX · 2023
New construction
$1.0M
Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences · East Boothbay, ME · 2022
Planning
$1.0M
Boys and Girls Clubs of Boston · Boston, MA · 2022
Program development/evaluation
$1.0M
Charter Fund · Broomfield, CO · 2022
Program development/evaluation
$1.0M
Dorothea Dix Park Conservancy · Raleigh, NC · 2022
Property care; buildings; renovation
$1.0M
Everytown for Gun Safety Support Fund · New York, NY · 2022
General operating/annual support
$1.0M
International Rescue Committee · New York, NY · 2022
General operating/annual support
$1.0M
National Park Foundation · Washington, DC · 2022
Property care; buildings; renovation
$1.0M
Northeast Wilderness Trust · Montpelier, VT · 2022
Endowment
$1.0M
United States Fund for Unicef · New York, NY · 2022
Disaster relief
$1.0M
Women & Infants Hospital of Rhode Island · Providence, RI · 2022
Property care; buildings; renovation
$1.0M
World Music · Cambridge, MA · 2022
Endowment
$950,000
Maine Coast Heritage Trust · Topsham, ME · 2022
Land for preservation
$945,000
Big Thought · Dallas, TX · 2023
Technology & equipment
$895,000
University of Texas Foundation · Austin, TX · 2024
Construction
$850,000
Northeast Wilderness Trust · Montpelier, VT · 2023
Land / building acquisition
$800,000
Northeast Wilderness Trust · Montpelier, VT · 2022
Land/building acquisition
$760,000
Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Service · Baltimore, MD · 2022
General operating/annual support
$750,000
Boys & Girls Clubs of Providence · Providence, RI · 2024
Renovation
$750,000
Brewster Academy · Wolfeboro, NH · 2024
Renovation
$750,000
Carolina Youth Coalition · Charlotte, NC · 2024
Program expansion
$750,000
World Central Kitchen · Washington, DC · 2024
Other
$750,000
Art Institute of Chicago · Chicago, IL · 2023
Renovation
$750,000
Junior Achievement Rocky Mountain · Greenwood Village, CO · 2023
New construction
$750,000
Kestrel Land Trust · Amherst, MA · 2023
Land for preservation
$750,000
Forest Society of Maine · Bangor, ME · 2022
Land/building acquisition
$750,000
Northeast Wilderness Trust · Montpelier, VT · 2022
Land/building acquisition
$750,000
Sheriffs Meadow Foundation · Vineyard Haven, MA · 2022
Land/building acquisition
$750,000
The Conservation Fund a Nonprofit Corporation · Arlington, VA · 2022
Land/building acquisition
$750,000
Wildlands Trust · Plymouth, MA · 2022
Programming
$725,304
Trustees of Reservations · Boston, MA · 2022
Endowment
$715,000
Comp-U-Dopt · Houston, TX · 2024
Technology & equipment
$700,000
Natural History Museum of Utah · Salt Lake City, UT · 2024
Program development / evaluation
$700,000
Perot Museum of Nature and Science · Dallas, TX · 2024
New construction
$700,000
Buzzards Bay Coalition · New Bedford, MA · 2023
Land / building acquisition
$700,000
Museum of Science & History of Jacksonville · Jacksonville, FL · 2023
Capital planning
$700,000
Northeast Wilderness Trust · Montpelier, VT · 2023
Land for preservation
$700,000
Open Space Institute Land Trust · New York, NY · 2022
Property care; buildings; renovation
$675,000
Umom New Day Centers · Phoenix, AZ · 2024
Property care; buildings; renovation
$650,000
Ach Child and Family Services · Fort Worth, TX · 2024
Technology & equipment

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