Funding search · EIN 466367418 · Ipswich, MA

The Echo Charitable Foundation

Name: The Echo Charitable Foundation 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.

60
grants reported: $921,014
total given: 2022–2025
filing years: $3,000
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.

What they fund

environmental animal welfare cultural educational

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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.

Ipswich River Watershed Assoc4 grants · $230,000
Sweet Paws Rescue4 grants · $207,000
Massachusetts Rivers Alliance4 grants · $122,000
Mass Association of Conservation Commissioners4 grants · $80,000
Three Sisters Garden Project2 grants · $65,000
3 Sisters Garden Project1 grant · $50,000
Mass Audubon Society4 grants · $43,000
Cape Ann Vernal Pond Team4 grants · $42,204
Aane1 grant · $20,000
Manchester Essex Conservation Trust4 grants · $12,060

Giving over time

$178,704

2022

$304,310

2023

$228,500

2024

$209,500

2025

Grant history

All 60 reported grants, largest first.

$202,000
Sweet Paws Rescue · Groveland, MA · 2023
Animal welfare
$115,000
Ipswich River Watershed Assoc · Ipswich, MA · 2024
Environmental
$100,000
Massachusetts Rivers Alliance · Somerville, MA · 2025
Environmental
$55,000
Three Sisters Garden Project · Ipswich, MA · 2024
Environmental
$50,000
Ipswich River Watershed Assoc · Ipswich, MA · 2023
Environmental
$50,000
3 Sisters Garden Project · Ipswich, MA · 2022
Environmental
$50,000
Ipswich River Watershed Assoc · Ipswich, MA · 2022
Environmental
$22,204
Cape Ann Vernal Pond Team · Rockport, MA · 2022
Environmental
$20,000
Aane · Watertown, MA · 2025
Educational
$20,000
Mass Association of Conservation Commissioners · Belmont, MA · 2025
Environmental
$20,000
Mass Association of Conservation Commissioners · Belmont, MA · 2024
Environmental
$20,000
Mass Association of Conservation Commissioners · Belmont, MA · 2023
Environmental
$20,000
Mass Association of Conservation Commissioners · Belmont, MA · 2022
Environmental
$17,000
Cape Ann Vernal Pond Team · Rockport, MA · 2025
Environmental
$15,000
Ipswich River Watershed Assoc · Ipswich, MA · 2025
Environmental
$11,000
Mass Audubon Society · Lincoln, MA · 2024
Animal welfare
$11,000
Mass Audubon Society · Lincoln, MA · 2023
Animal welfare
$11,000
Mass Audubon Society · Lincoln, MA · 2022
Animal welfare
$10,000
Mass Audubon Society · Lincoln, MA · 2025
Animal welfare
$10,000
Three Sisters Garden Project · Ipswich, MA · 2025
Environmental
$10,000
Massachusetts Rivers Alliance · Cambridge, MA · 2024
Environmental
$6,000
Massachusetts Rivers Alliance · Cambridge, MA · 2023
Environmental
$6,000
Massachusetts Rivers Alliance · Cambridge, MA · 2022
Environmental
$5,000
Blue Hill Community Development · Blue Hill, ME · 2025
Environmental
$4,560
Manchester Essex Conservation Trust · Manchester, MA · 2023
Environmental
$3,000
Ipswich Humane Group · Ipswich, MA · 2025
Animal welfare
$3,000
Ipswich Humane Group · Ipswich, MA · 2024
Animal welfare
$3,000
Manchester Essex Conservation Trust · Manchester, MA · 2024
Environmental
$3,000
Native Plant Trust · Framingham, MA · 2024
Environmental
$3,000
Peabody Essex Museum · Salem, MA · 2024
Cultural
$3,000
Manchester Essex Conservation Trust · Manchester, MA · 2022
Environmental
$3,000
Peabody Essex Museum · Salem, MA · 2022
Cultural
$2,500
Native Plant Trust · Wayland, MA · 2025
Environmental
$2,500
Ipswich Humane Group · Ipswich, MA · 2023
Animal welfare
$2,500
Ipswich Humane Group · Ipswich, MA · 2022
Animal welfare
$2,500
Ocean River Institute · Cambridge, MA · 2022
Environmental
$2,000
Peabody Essex Museum · Salem, MA · 2025
Cultural
$2,000
Sweet Paws Rescue · Groveland, MA · 2025
Animal welfare
$2,000
Cape Ann Vernal Pond Team · Rockport, MA · 2024
Environmental
$2,000
Center for Northern Woodlands Education · Lyme, NH · 2024
Environmental
$2,000
Peabody Essex Museum · Salem, MA · 2023
Cultural
$2,000
Sweet Paws Rescue · Groveland, MA · 2022
Animal welfare
$1,500
Manchester Essex Conservation Trust · Manchester, MA · 2025
Environmental
$1,500
Native Plant Trust · Framingham, MA · 2023
Environmental
$1,500
Native Plant Trust · Framingham, MA · 2022
Environmental
$1,500
The Nature Conservancy · Arlington, VA · 2022
Environmental
$1,250
The Nature Conservancy Mass Chapter · Arlington, VA · 2023
Environmental
$1,000
Center for Northern Woodlands Education · Lyme, NH · 2025
Environmental
$1,000
Sweet Paws Rescue · Groveland, MA · 2024
Animal welfare
$1,000
Cape Ann Vernal Pond Team · Rockport, MA · 2023
Environmental
$1,000
Center for Northern Woodlands Education · Lyme, NH · 2023
Environmental
$1,000
Trustees of Reservations · Boston, MA · 2023
Environmental
$1,000
Center for Norther Woodlands Education · Lyme, NH · 2022
Environmental
$1,000
Trustees of Reservations · Boston, MA · 2022
Environmental
$500
Cantemus Chamber Chorus · Ipswich, MA · 2025
Cultural
$500
Cantemus Chamber Chorus · Ipswich, MA · 2024
Cultural
$500
Cantemus Chamber Chorus · Ipswich, MA · 2023
Cultural
$500
Cantemus Chamber Chorus · Ipswich, MA · 2022
Cultural
$500
Wgbh Educational Foundation · Boston, MA · 2022
Cultural
$500
Wild Seed Project · N Yarmouth, ME · 2022
Environmental

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Similar grant size

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