Funding search · EIN 223297205 · Boston, MA

The Blossom Fund

Name: The Blossom Fund grants, 2022–2025
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.

20
grants reported: $3.0M
total given: 2022–2025
filing years: $112,500
median grant

Based on grants this organization reported to the IRS for tax years 2022–2025. This is what they filed, not a complete record of their giving, and recent years may be incomplete because filings lag.

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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.

Grant history

All 20 reported grants, largest first.

$410,129
Hampton University · Hampton, VA · 2025
Summer bridge program
$300,000
Boothbay Region Ymca · East Boothbay, ME · 2025
The boothbay affordable housing initiative
$300,000
College of the Atlantic · Bar Harbor, ME · 2025
The campaign for student success
$200,000
Bennington College · Bennington, VT · 2025
F/b/o beyond plastics
$200,000
Bennington College · Bennington, VT · 2024
F/b/o beyond plastics
$200,000
Bennington College · Bennington, VT · 2023
F/b/o beyond plastics
$200,000
Essex County Green Belt Association · Essex, MA · 2022
General organizational growth
$164,191
Natural Resources Council of Maine · Augusta, ME · 2022
Epr for packaging strategy and the food recovery and sustainable schools strategy
$127,500
College of the Atlantic · Bar Harbor, ME · 2023
College of the atlantic campus geothermal assessment
$125,000
Ecologic Development Fund · Cambridge, MA · 2023
Efforts to build fuel-efficient stoves for families, and to restore and conserve mangroves.
$100,000
Just Zero · Sturbridge, MA · 2025
To support the 10 for 100 campaign
$100,000
Just Zero · Sturbridge, MA · 2024
To support the 10 for 100 campaign
$100,000
Just Zero · Sturbridge, MA · 2023
To support the 10 for 100 campaign
$100,000
Upstream Policy Institute · Damariscotta, ME · 2023
General operating support
$100,000
Ecologic Development Fund · Cambridge, MA · 2022
General and fuel-efficient stoves
$85,751
Natural Resources Council of Maine · Augusta, ME · 2023
Extended producer responsibility for packaging program
$75,000
Bennington College · Bennington, VT · 2023
F/b/o beyond plastics
$60,000
Hampton University · Hampton, VA · 2024
Biological sciences research assistant position
$50,000
Just Zero · Sturbridge, MA · 2023
Operations, with a focus on staff expansion
$35,000
Plymouth State University Fbo Provost'S Discretionary Fund · Plymouth, NH · 2022
Provost's priorities gift fund

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