Well Told Grants

Nonprofits / Massachusetts

Who funds Wbur?

Boston, Massachusetts

101 private foundations reported grants to Wbur in Boston, Massachusetts totaling $1.3 million across 102 grants in tax years 2023 to 2025. The largest funder was The William & Lia G Poorvu Family Foundation, with $600,000.

From the funders' IRS Form 990-PF filings.

Funders of Wbur that accept applications

If your organization does similar work, these foundations are prospects: they already fund work like Wbur's and say in their IRS filings that they accept applications.

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Foundations that fund Wbur

The 100 largest of 101 funders, by amount
FoundationPurpose givenGrantsAmount
The William & Lia G Poorvu Family Foundation
Massachusetts · 2024
Program support1$600,000
Stevenson Family Charitable Trust
Massachusetts · 2024
Charitable contribution in line with mission1$100,000
Richard Saltonstall Charitable Foundation
Massachusetts · 2024 · accepts applications
General support1$75,000
Ledgeways Charitable Trust
Massachusetts · 2025
General fund1$60,000
The Gant Family Foundation
New York · 2024
See statement #91$50,000
Gerald Flaxer Charitable Foundation
Massachusetts · 2024
To produce high-quality journalism and enriching experiences that foster understanding, connection and community for an expanding circle of people.1$42,000
Mary Alice Arakelian Foundation
Massachusetts · 2024 · accepts applications
UnrestrictedGeneral Support1$30,000
Richard & Natalie Jacoff Foundationinc
New York · 2025
Operations1$30,000
Merrill Family Charitable Foundation Inc
Massachusetts · 2025
General support1$30,000
The Martin Foundation Inc
Florida · 2024 · accepts applications
General support1$25,000
Allyn Family Foundation Inc
New York · 2024
Listener match fund (donor fund)1$20,000
The Douglas and Mikele Rauch Family Foundation Inc
Massachusetts · 2024
Education1$18,500
Ruggles Family Foundation
New York · 2024
General purpose1$13,000
Moeller Foundation Inc
Massachusetts · 2025
General fund1$12,500
The Ausolus Trust
Massachusetts · 2024 · accepts applications
Exempt purpose1$11,000
Sirad Foundation Inc
Massachusetts · 2024
Part of NPR-promotes high-quality journalism1$10,000
The Hearthstone Charitable Foundation
New Hampshire · 2025
Humanitarian1$10,000
Foundation M
Massachusetts · 2024
General Purpose1$8,000
The Anne R Dow Family Foundation Inc
Massachusetts · 2025
Unrestricted support of organization's purpose1$8,000
Oedel Foundation
Massachusetts · 2023
Community & charitable1$7,500
David B Lynch Foundation
Delaware · 2024
General purpose1$7,000
Gateway Fund
Massachusetts · 2025 · accepts applications
General support1$6,000
Coleman Foundation
Pennsylvania · 2024 · accepts applications
Unrestricted1$6,000
Prospect Hill Foundation Inc
New York · 2024
General support1$5,005
King Spruce Company
Massachusetts · 2024
Unrestricted gift1$5,000
The Bromley Charitable Trust
Massachusetts · 2024
General1$5,000
The Schechter Family Foundation
Massachusetts · 2025
Non-restricted1$5,000
Hurdle Hill Foundation
Massachusetts · 2025
Social1$5,000
Keane Family Foundation
Massachusetts · 2024
Charitable contribution unrestricted1$5,000
The Rowe Family Charitable Trust
Massachusetts · 2025
Exempt purposes1$5,000
James and Ethel Walker Charitable Trust
Massachusetts · 2024
Research1$5,000
Lebowitz-Aberly Family Foundation
Massachusetts · 2024
General fund1$5,000
Cyril F & Marie O'Neil Foundation
New York · 2025
General purposes1$5,000
The Jill H Nagorniak Charitable Foundation
Massachusetts · 2025
General1$5,000
Wintman Family Charitable Trust A
Massachusetts · 2025
Public welfare1$4,000
Dunn Family Charitable Foundation
Massachusetts · 2024
Unrestricted gift1$3,000
Middlecott Foundation
Massachusetts · 2024
General support1$3,000
The Dudley H and Sally S Willis Charitable Foundation
Massachusetts · 2024
General support1$3,000
Bierly Boasberg Foundation
Massachusetts · 2025 · accepts applications
General support1$2,500
The George and Alice Rich Charitable Foundation
Massachusetts · 2025
Donation to support the charity's mission1$2,500
Rupa and Bharat B Bhatt Foundation
Florida · 2024
To support charitable related activities.1$2,500
Ciccolo Family Foundation Inc
Massachusetts · 2024 · accepts applications
General purpose1$2,500
The Burkehaven Family Foundation
Massachusetts · 2024
General charitable support1$2,500
The Shane Foundation
Massachusetts · 2024
General1$2,000
The Gess Foundation
Massachusetts · 2024
General support1$2,000
The Scarbro Family Foundation
Massachusetts · 2025
General fund1$2,000
The Rodgers Family Foundation Inc
New York · 2025
Unrestricted grant to support the organization's exempt purpose.1$2,000
The Altamira Foundation
Massachusetts · 2024
Charitable1$2,000
MGS & RRS Charitable Trust
Massachusetts · 2025
General2$2,000
Allen & Franka Charlupski Foundation
Massachusetts · 2024
General operating support1$2,000
The Four Leaf Clover Foundation
Illinois · 2024
To support public radio1$2,000
CSP Charitable Foundation
Massachusetts · 2025
Charitable1$2,000
Sadhana M & Triveni N Upadhyay Family Foundation
Massachusetts · 2024
Charitable purposes1$2,000
Nancy & Maurice Lazarus Fund
Massachusetts · 2023 · accepts applications
General purposes1$1,500
The Linda Hammett Ory & Andrew Ory Charitable Trust
Massachusetts · 2024
General1$1,500
Westport Fund
District of Columbia · 2025
Charitable purposes1$1,500
Schmaltz Enroth Family Foundation
Massachusetts · 2024
To carry out philanthropic purposes1$1,500
Paul & Elaine Chervinsky Charitable Foundation
Massachusetts · 2024
General fund1$1,200
Zachary and Lindsey Gund Foundation
Massachusetts · 2025
To help further charitable purposes of organization.1$1,000
Pearson Family Charitable Foundation
Massachusetts · 2025
Charitable1$1,000
Cahn Fund for Social Change Inc
Massachusetts · 2024
General1$1,000
Beard Family Charitable Trust
Massachusetts · 2025
General purpose1$1,000
The Robert & Helen Hardman Family Fund
Massachusetts · 2025
General support1$1,000
Marjorie Cohen Stanzler Charitable Trust
Massachusetts · 2025
To aid operations1$1,000
The Evergreen Charitable Fund Inc
Massachusetts · 2024
General Charitable Benefit1$1,000
Harold L Wyman Foundation Inc
New York · 2024
Public affairs & society benef1$1,000
The Boger Charitable Trust
Massachusetts · 2025
Unrestricted support of organization's charitable objectives/ research/ benefitting those in need1$1,000
Third Street Foundation
New Hampshire · 2025
General support1$1,000
Arthur S Tarlow Family Foundation
Massachusetts · 2025
Operating Support1$1,000
The 1156 Foundation
Massachusetts · 2025
Wbur is bostons npr, delivering highquality journalism and engaging experiences across multiple platforms to inform, connect, and build community around the most important issues of our time.1$1,000
The Schneer Foundation
Florida · 2024
Contribution to Public TV1$1,000
Scarlet Charitable Trust
Massachusetts · 2024
General & unrestricted1$1,000
Winterer 2020 Family Foundation
Ohio · 2025
Support public media organization1$1,000
The Gaut Charitable Foundation Trust
Massachusetts · 2023
General1$914
James M Rabb & Melinda A Rabb Charitable Trust
Massachusetts · 2024
Charitable1$750
Boveri-Trackman Family Foundation Inc
Massachusetts · 2025
Arts1$650
The Lander Family Charitable Foundation
New York · 2025
General support1$500
Abraham Kaplan Charitable Foundation
Massachusetts · 2025 · accepts applications
Charitable1$500
The Lewis M & Esther Perlstein Family Foundation
Massachusetts · 2025
General1$500
Ethel Kennedy Foundation
Massachusetts · 2025
Charitable contribution1$500
Kanter Kallman Foundation
New Mexico · 2025
Other1$500
Howard & Katherine Aibel Foundation
Massachusetts · 2024
To further the donees' exempt purpose.1$500
Sommer Family Foundation Inc
Wisconsin · 2025
General operating support to promote charitable purpose.1$500
Weathertop Foundation
Virginia · 2024
General support1$500
Wickman Family Foundation Inc
Massachusetts · 2024
To fund operations1$500
Harken Foundation
Illinois · 2024 · accepts applications
General1$365
The Ruth and Frederick Stavis Family Foundation
Massachusetts · 2025
Unrestricted1$300
Max Kagan Family Foundation
Maine · 2024 · accepts applications
Operational support1$250
Claire and Jack Nath Charitable Foundation
Maryland · 2025
Contribution1$250
The Robert E Hansen Family Foundation
Wisconsin · 2024
Public radio1$250
The Kundu Foundation Inc
Massachusetts · 2025
supporting foundation purposes1$240
Landman Family Charitable Foundation
Massachusetts · 2024
donation1$200
Robert and Iris Fanger Family Foundation
Massachusetts · 2024 · accepts applications
Unrestricted use1$150
Davi-Ellen and Bruce Allen Chabner Family Foundation Inc
Massachusetts · 2025 · accepts applications
General1$120
Crozier Family Charitable Foundation
Massachusetts · 2025
Charitable1$100
Justin & Genevieve Wyner Trust
Massachusetts · 2023 · accepts applications
Community & charitable1$100
Fieldstone Foundation Inc
Massachusetts · 2024
Community Development, Education1$100
Beverly A Basile Foundation
Massachusetts · 2025
Charitable1$100
Lewis House Foundation
Rhode Island · 2025
Public radio1$100
The Leah Belle and P David Chernov Charitable Foundation
New York · 2025
Cultural arts1$75

Amounts are grants paid as each foundation reported them. Names are matched across filings, so a grant written under a different name for the same organization may be missing.

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Questions people ask

Who funds Wbur?

The William & Lia G Poorvu Family Foundation, Stevenson Family Charitable Trust, Richard Saltonstall Charitable Foundation, Ledgeways Charitable Trust and The Gant Family Foundation, and 96 more, according to their IRS Form 990-PF filings.

How much does Wbur get from foundations?

$1.3 million in 102 reported grants from 101 private foundations in tax years 2023 to 2025. Government grants and gifts from individuals are not included.

Which of these funders accept applications?

Richard Saltonstall Charitable Foundation, Mary Alice Arakelian Foundation, The Martin Foundation Inc, The Ausolus Trust and Gateway Fund say in their filings that they accept applications.

Other funded organizations in Boston