Funding search · EIN 046012767 · Boston, MA

The Chickering Foundation (Formerly Dedham

Name: The Chickering Foundation (Formerly Dedham 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.

40
grants reported: $771,421
total given: 2022–2025
filing years: $20,000
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.

Top recipients

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

Second Step4 grants · $85,000
Project Place Crew Program4 grants · $85,000
On the Rise4 grants · $85,000
Justice for Housing4 grants · $85,000
Respond4 grants · $85,000
Partakers4 grants · $82,500
Family Nurturing Center4 grants · $75,000
Parents Helping Parents4 grants · $75,000
Families for Justice As Healing3 grants · $60,000
Mspcc Kinnection Program2 grants · $35,000

Giving over time

$180,000

2022

$175,000

2023

$203,768

2024

$212,653

2025

Grant history

All 40 reported grants, largest first.

$22,500
Families for Justice As Healing · Roxbury, MA · 2025
General purposes
$22,500
Family Nurturing Center · Boston, MA · 2025
General purposes
$22,500
Justice for Housing · Boston, MA · 2025
General purposes
$22,500
On the Rise · Cambridge, MA · 2025
General purposes
$22,500
Parents Helping Parents · Watertown, MA · 2025
General purposes
$22,500
Project Place Crew Program · Boston, MA · 2025
General purposes
$22,500
Respond · Somerville, MA · 2025
General purposes
$22,500
Second Step · Newtonville, MA · 2025
General purposes
$22,500
Families for Justice As Healing · Roxbury, MA · 2024
General purposes
$22,500
Family Nurturing Center · Boston, MA · 2024
General purposes
$22,500
Justice for Housing · Boston, MA · 2024
General purposes
$22,500
On the Rise · Cambridge, MA · 2024
General purposes
$22,500
Parents Helping Parents · Watertown, MA · 2024
General purposes
$22,500
Partakers · Auburndale, MA · 2024
General purposes
$22,500
Project Place Crew Program · Boston, MA · 2024
General purposes
$22,500
Respond · Somerville, MA · 2024
General purposes
$22,500
Second Step · Newtonville, MA · 2024
General purposes
$20,000
Partakers · Auburndale, MA · 2025
General purposes
$20,000
Justice for Housing · Boston, MA · 2023
General purposes
$20,000
On the Rise · Cambridge, MA · 2023
General purposes
$20,000
Partakers · Auburndale, MA · 2023
General purposes
$20,000
Project Place Crew Program · Boston, MA · 2023
General purposes
$20,000
Respond · Somerville, MA · 2023
General purposes
$20,000
Second Step · Newtonville, MA · 2023
General purposes
$20,000
Justice for Housing · Boston, MA · 2022
General purposes
$20,000
Mspcc Kinnection Program · Boston, MA · 2022
General purposes
$20,000
On the Rise · Cambridge, MA · 2022
General purposes
$20,000
Parents Helping Parents · Watertown, MA · 2022
General purposes
$20,000
Partakers · Auburndale, MA · 2022
General purposes
$20,000
Project Place Crew Program · Boston, MA · 2022
General purposes
$20,000
Respond · Somerville, MA · 2022
General purposes
$20,000
Second Step · Newtonville, MA · 2022
General purposes
$15,000
Families for Justice As Healing · Roxbury, MA · 2023
General purposes
$15,000
Family Nurturing Center · Boston, MA · 2023
General purposes
$15,000
Mspcc Kinnection Program · Boston, MA · 2023
General purposes
$15,000
Family Nurturing Center · Boston, MA · 2022
General purposes
$12,653
Fidelity Charitable Gift Fund · Cincinnati, OH · 2025
General purposes
$10,000
Parents Helping Parents · Watertown, MA · 2023
General purposes
$5,000
Walker · Needham, MA · 2022
General purposes
$1,268
Fidelity Charitable Gift Fund · Cincinnati, OH · 2024
General purposes

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Source: IRS Form 990-PF, Part XV, as filed by the foundation. These are grants already paid — a record of what this funder backs, not an open call.