Funding search · EIN 920307218 · Wilmington, DE

Break New Ground Charitable Fund

Name: Break New Ground Charitable Fund grants, 2023–2025
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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.

22
grants reported: $381,000
total given: 2023–2025
filing years: $10,000
median grant

Based on grants this organization reported to the IRS for tax years 2023–2025. 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 22 reported grants, largest first.

$50,000
Northeastern University · Boston, MA · 2023
OGL Endowment Fund
$34,000
Nature Conservancy · Brunswick, ME · 2025
designated to projects and overhead in Maine and to ME Magalloway project
$30,000
Essex County Greenbelt Association · Essex, MA · 2025
To provide partial purchase funds for land or buildings thereon, or costs incurred for such purchase, either for acreage in Hamilton or Wenham
$30,000
Maine Coast Heritage Trust · Topsham, ME · 2025
To advance MCHT's project on Old Point, Lamoine and ancillary sites. Included are planning and implementation for trails, beach access, signage, protection of Indian middens and artifacts.
$25,000
International Rescue Committee · Albert Lea, MN · 2025
grant is for greatest need and help for displaced families in or from Palestine, Israel and Ukraine
$25,000
Maine Coast Heritage Trust · Topsham, ME · 2024
To advance MCHT's project on Old Point, Lamoine and ancillary sites. Included are planning and implementation for trails, beach access, signage, protection of Indian middens and artifacts. Other projects
$20,000
Nature Conservancy · Brunswick, ME · 2024
TNC Maine's forest program
$20,000
Sena Institute of Technology Foundation · Boston, MA · 2024
Research and development of molecular biological diagnostics addressing the current mPox infection and subsequent disease, a current world-wide health threat. This basic and applied research is intended to form a founda… read allResearch and development of molecular biological diagnostics addressing the current mPox infection and subsequent disease, a current world-wide health threat. This basic and applied research is intended to form a foundation for development of testing materials to confirm mPox infection in a timely and low cost manner by a separate entity less
$18,000
Reforest the Tropics · Mystic, CT · 2024
To fund 2 hectares of former pasture land to be replanted to become tropical forest that will sequester approximately 40 metric tons of atmospheric CO2 per year for 25 years to slow global warming
$15,000
Boston Globe Foundation · Boston, MA · 2025
This grant is for 2025 Globe Santa's Christmas gift program
$10,000
American Civil Liberties Union Foundation · New York, NY · 2025
grant is for greatest need and for blocking the current US government from illegal or questionably legal actions of the US President or his appointees
$10,000
Americares Foundation · Stamford, CT · 2025
Grant is for Americare's Resilience Fund to offset termination of US support in third world
$10,000
Amnesty International of the USA · New York, NY · 2025
General & Unrestricted
$10,000
Campaign Legal Center · Washington, DC · 2025
General & Unrestricted
$10,000
Conservation Law Foundation · Boston, MA · 2025
Grant is for greatest need and actions to discourage expansion of use of energy from fossil fuels and encourage harvesting wind and solar energy
$10,000
Planned Parenthood Federation of America · Washington, DC · 2025
for support of reproductive care including desired abortion for residents of states that do not allow such care up to time of viability of the fetus
$10,000
Sigma Xi the Scientific Research Honor Society · Rsrch Triangle Prk, NC · 2025
to support the GIAR program to fund undergraduate and graduate research
$10,000
Essex County Greenbelt Association · Essex, MA · 2024
To support new conservation efforts or projects to foster enjoyment of conserved primarily natural outdoor spaces including access, trails, upkeep and signage. In the absence of need for such support, it may be used for… read allTo support new conservation efforts or projects to foster enjoyment of conserved primarily natural outdoor spaces including access, trails, upkeep and signage. In the absence of need for such support, it may be used for greatest needs less
$10,000
Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation · Frederick, MD · 2024
For Haiti projects or where there is greater need
$10,000
Planned Parenthood Federation of America · Washington, DC · 2024
For medical procedures and support needed by residents of the United States including transport and temporary housing
$10,000
Sigma Xi the Scientific Research Honor Society · Rsrch Triangle Prk, NC · 2024
Where most needed, small grants to encourage undergraduate science research projects (including stipends)
$4,000
Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation · Washington, DC · 2025
General & Unrestricted

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