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Gloria C Crotty Charitable Foundation

Accepts applications Boston, Massachusetts · EIN 816978843

Gloria C Crotty Charitable Foundation is a private foundation in Boston, Massachusetts. In tax year 2025 it gave $79,500 in 15 grants; the typical grant was $5,000 and the largest $10,000. It accepts applications; its filing gives the instructions below.

From its IRS Form 990-PF for tax year 2025.

Giving in 2025 was up from $43,000 the year before.

40% of its 2025 grantees had not received a grant from it the year before, a sign it is open to new organizations.

Giving by year

Tax yearGrants paidNumber of grantsAssets
2023$59,00015$2.3 million
2024$43,00013$2.6 million
2025$79,50015$2.7 million

How to apply

ContactCatherine Bove Trustee Co Bove Lang
10 Tremont Street Ste 600, Boston, MA 02108
Phone or email(617) 720-6040
What to submitNo specific application required, only detailed information for the charitable organization in its request

As written in the foundation's IRS filing for tax year 2025. Details may have changed since.

IRS filings on ProPublica

What Gloria C Crotty Charitable Foundation funds

Where it gives

Its grants went to recipients in 8 states, the most to Massachusetts.

StateGrantsAmount
Massachusetts6$36,500
New York3$12,000
Georgia1$10,000
Alabama1$5,000
Iowa1$5,000
Oklahoma1$5,000
District of Columbia1$3,000
Maryland1$3,000

Grants paid in 2025

All 15 grants
RecipientPurposeAmount
Newton Wellesley Hospital
Newton, MA
Charitable$10,000
Shriners Children's
Atlanta, GA
Charitable$10,000
Suffolk University
Boston, MA
Education$10,000
American Civil Liberties Union
New York, NY
Charitable$5,000
Italian Home for Children
Jamaica Plain, MA
Charitable$5,000
Legal Information Institute at Cornell Law School
Boone, IA
Charitable$5,000
National Shrine of the Infant Jesus of Prague
Prague, OK
Religious education$5,000
Southern Poverty Law Center
Montgomery, AL
Charitable$5,000
Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital
Cambridge, MA
Charitable$5,000
St Jude Children's Research Hospital
Albany, NY
Charitable$5,000
The Carroll Center for the Blind
Newton, MA
Charitable$5,000
Foundation Fighting Blindness
Baltimore, MD
Charitable$3,000
Wikimedia Foundation Inc
Washington, DC
Charitable$3,000
Guiding Eyes for the Blind
Yorktown Heights, NY
Charitable$2,000
Pirandello Lyceum
Winthrop, MA
Charitable$1,500

Officers and trustees

As listed in Part VIII of the 2025 filing.

Questions people ask

Does Gloria C Crotty Charitable Foundation accept grant applications?

Yes. Its latest IRS filing says it accepts applications.

How much does Gloria C Crotty Charitable Foundation give?

$79,500 in tax year 2025, across 15 grants, with a typical grant of $5,000.

Who runs Gloria C Crotty Charitable Foundation?

Its 2025 filing lists Catherine M Bove (Trustee (As 11/25)) and Alexander A Bove Jr (Trustee (To 11/25)).

What does Gloria C Crotty Charitable Foundation fund?

Based on its grants, mainly education, health and youth programs.

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