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Fresh Sound Foundation

Name: Fresh Sound 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.

111
grants reported: $2.7M
total given: 2022–2024
filing years: $25,000
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

educational promotion arts environmental justice scientific social agriculture

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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.

Top recipients

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

Union of Concerned Scientists5 grants · $260,000
Rockefeller Family Fund4 grants · $250,000
Generation Citizen5 grants · $167,500
New Georgia Project4 grants · $165,000
Ceres4 grants · $150,000
All Voting Is Local4 grants · $130,000
Fair Count4 grants · $130,000
Next Stage Arts Project3 grants · $120,000
Women Engaged4 grants · $115,000
American Constitution Society for Law3 grants · $115,000

Giving over time

$685,000

2022

$910,000

2023

$1.1M

2024

Grant history

The 100 largest of 111 grants.

$80,000
Union of Concerned Scientists · Cambridge, MA · 2022
Scientific
$75,000
Ceres · Boston, MA · 2024
Charitable
$75,000
Rockefeller Family Fund · New York, NY · 2024
Educational
$75,000
Union of Concerned Scientists · Cambridge, MA · 2024
Scientific
$75,000
Rockefeller Family Fund · New York, NY · 2023
Educational
$75,000
Rockefeller Family Fund · New York, NY · 2022
Educational
$50,000
New Georgia Project · Atlanta, GA · 2024
Educational
$50,000
New Georgia Project · Atlanta, GA · 2023
Educational
$50,000
New Georgia Project · Atlanta, GA · 2022
Educational
$45,000
All Voting Is Local · Washington, DC · 2024
Educational
$45,000
Generation Citizen · Boston, MA · 2024
Educational
$45,000
Generation Citizen · Boston, MA · 2023
Educational
$42,500
Generation Citizen · Boston, MA · 2022
Educational
$40,000
American Constitution Society for Law · Washington, DC · 2024
Educational
$40,000
Emerson College · Boston, MA · 2024
Educational
$40,000
Fair Count · Atlanta, GA · 2024
Educational
$40,000
Fresh Grass (Office Performing Arts & Film Inc) · New York, NY · 2024
Promotion of the arts
$40,000
Next Stage Arts Project · Putney, VT · 2024
Educational
$40,000
Southern Environmental Law Center · Charlottesville, VA · 2024
Environmental
$40,000
Union of Concerned Scientists · Cambridge, MA · 2024
Scientific
$40,000
Yellow Barn · Putney, VT · 2024
Promotion of the arts
$40,000
All Voting Is Local · Washington, DC · 2023
Educational
$40,000
Emerson College · Boston, MA · 2023
Educational
$40,000
Fair Count · Atlanta, GA · 2023
Educational
$40,000
Fresh Grass (Office Performing Arts & Film Inc) · New York, NY · 2023
Promotion of the arts
$40,000
Next Stage Arts Project · Putney, VT · 2023
Educational
$40,000
Union of Concerned Scientists · Cambridge, MA · 2023
Scientific
$40,000
Amalgamated Foundation · Washington, DC · 2022
Educational
$40,000
American Constitution Society for Law · Washington, DC · 2022
Educational
$40,000
Mass Moca Foundation · North Adams, MA · 2022
Educational
$40,000
Next Stage Arts Project · Putney, VT · 2022
Educational
$40,000
Southern Environmental Law Center · Charlottesville, VA · 2022
Environmental
$40,000
Wholesome Wave · Bridgeport, CT · 2022
Charitable
$35,000
Fair Count · Atlanta, GA · 2024
Educational
$35,000
River Network · Boulder, CO · 2024
Environmental
$35,000
Women Engaged · Atlanta, GA · 2024
Promotion of social justice
$35,000
American Constitution Society for Law · Washington, DC · 2023
Educational
$35,000
Equal Justice Initiative · Montgomery, AL · 2023
Educational
$35,000
Women Engaged · Atlanta, GA · 2023
Promotion of social justice
$35,000
Equal Justice Initiative · Montgomery, AL · 2022
Educational
$30,000
All Voting Is Local · Washington, DC · 2024
Educational
$30,000
The Jar · Boston, MA · 2024
Educational
$30,000
Women Engaged · Atlanta, GA · 2024
Promotion of social justice
$30,000
River Network · Boulder, CO · 2023
Educational
$30,000
Southern Environmental Law Center · Charlottesville, VA · 2023
Environmental
$30,000
The Jar · Boston, MA · 2023
Educational
$30,000
River Network · Boulder, CO · 2022
Educational
$25,000
Ceres · Boston, MA · 2024
Charitable
$25,000
Food Connects · Brattleboro, VT · 2024
Charitable
$25,000
Union of Concerned Scientists · Cambridge, MA · 2024
Scientific
$25,000
Ceres · Boston, MA · 2023
Charitable
$25,000
Food Connects · Brattleboro, VT · 2023
Charitable
$25,000
New Venture Fund (100 Democracy) · Washington, DC · 2023
Educational
$25,000
Rockefeller Family Fund · New York, NY · 2023
Educational
$25,000
Wholesome Wave · Bridgeport, CT · 2023
Charitable
$25,000
Ceres · Boston, MA · 2022
Charitable
$20,000
Generation Citizen · Boston, MA · 2024
Educational
$20,000
Yellow Barn · Putney, VT · 2022
Promotion of the arts
$15,000
Friends of Kirby Lane Park · Baltimore, MD · 2024
Charitable
$15,000
All Voting Is Local · Washington, DC · 2023
Educational
$15,000
Fair Count · Atlanta, GA · 2023
Educational
$15,000
Generation Citizen · Boston, MA · 2023
Educational
$15,000
New Georgia Project · Atlanta, GA · 2023
Educational
$15,000
Women Engaged · Atlanta, GA · 2023
Promotion of social justice
$10,000
Big Sky Youth Empowerment · Bozeman, MT · 2024
Educational
$10,000
Democracy Forward Fund · Washington, DC · 2024
Educational
$10,000
Facing History and Ourselves · Boston, MA · 2024
Educational
$10,000
Fractured Atlas · New York, NY · 2024
Promotion of the arts
$10,000
Thousand Islands Land Trust · Clayton, NY · 2024
Environmental
$10,000
Windward Fund · Washington, DC · 2024
Charitable
$10,000
Acadia Center · Boston, MA · 2023
Environmental
$10,000
Conservation Law Foundation · Boston, MA · 2023
Educational
$10,000
Facing History and Ourselves · Boston, MA · 2023
Educational
$10,000
Green Roots · Chelsea, MA · 2023
Educational
$10,000
Groundworks Collaborative · Brattleboro, VT · 2022
Educational
$9,000
Thousand Islands Land Trust · Clayton, NY · 2023
Charitable
$8,000
Ammonoosuc Conservation Trust · Franconia, NH · 2024
Environmental
$8,000
Ammonoosuc Conservation Trust · Franconia, NH · 2023
Charitable
$8,000
Save the River · Clayton, NY · 2023
Educationaleducational
$8,000
Appalachian Mountain Club · Boston, MA · 2022
Charitable
$7,000
Land Trust Alliance Northeast Region · Sarasota Springs, NY · 2024
Environmental
$7,000
Thousand Islands Land Trust · Clayton, NY · 2022
Charitable
$5,000
Acadia Center · Boston, MA · 2024
Environmental
$5,000
Discovering Justice · Boston, MA · 2024
Educational
$5,000
Green Roots · Chelsea, MA · 2024
Educational
$5,000
International Society of Performing Arts · New York, NY · 2024
Promotion of the arts
$5,000
Lambda Legal Defence & Education Fund · New York, NY · 2024
Educational
$5,000
Nh Alliance for End of Life Options · Sugar Hill, NH · 2024
Educational
$5,000
St Lawrence University · Canton, NY · 2024
Educational
$5,000
Big Sky Youth Empowerment · Bozeman, MT · 2023
Educational
$5,000
Fractured Atlas · New York, NY · 2023
Promotion of the arts
$5,000
Groundworks Collaborative · Brattleboro, VT · 2023
Educational
$5,000
Homeless Prenatal Program · San Francisco, CA · 2023
Charitable
$5,000
Institute for Local Self-Reliance · Portland, ME · 2023
Educational
$5,000
International Society of Performing Arts · New York, NY · 2023
Promotion of the arts
$5,000
Nh Alliance for End of Life Options · Sugar Hill, NH · 2023
Educational
$5,000
Ammonoosuc Conservation Trust · Franconia, NH · 2022
Charitable
$5,000
Big Sky Youth Empowerment · Bozeman, MT · 2022
Educational
$5,000
Discovering Justice · Boston, MA · 2022
Educational
$5,000
Homeless Prenatal Program · San Francisco, CA · 2022
Charitable

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