Open Foundations · Massachusetts

Amelia Peabody Foundation

Topsfield, Massachusetts · EIN 046036558. Its Form 990-PF says giving is not restricted to organizations picked in advance, which is how a private foundation files that it accepts unsolicited requests. It paid $8.5M across 150 grants in 2024, a median of $40K each.

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$8.5M
paid in 2024
150
grants paid
$40K
median grant
54%
to first-time recipients
$165.5M
assets on file

How to apply, as filed

Straight off Part XV of the return. Where the foundation left a line blank, this says so rather than guessing.

Send requests to
Joseph Kelly
Address
10 S Main Street Unit 103, Topsfield, MA, 01983
Phone
7812376468
Form the request should take
Application and other requirements on web page ameliapeabody.org
Submission deadline
Quarterly on web page ameliapeabody.org
Restrictions on awards
Qualifying organizations that operate in Massachusetts

As filed on the Form 990-PF for tax year 2024, IRS filing object id 202533219349102018. Printed word for word, including the entries that only say to see a website or an attachment.

What it funds, in its own words

The words that come up most often across the purposes it wrote on its 2024 grants. These are the foundation's own words, not a category we assigned.

youthdevelopment

Biggest grants in 2024

The 15 largest of the 150 grants paid in 2024, with the purpose the foundation wrote for each.

#RecipientStateAmountPurpose as filed
1Family Aid Boston IncMA$500,000General
2Friendly House IncMA$500,000General
3Boys & Girls Club of Greater LowellMA$360,000Believe & Become Capital Campaign
4Argosy Collegiate Charter School FoundationMA$250,000Middle School Capital Project
5Family Aid Boston IncMA$166,667General
6Friendly House IncMA$166,667General
7African Community Education Program IncMA$150,000ACE Building Renovations
8Chicopee Boys & Girls Club IncMA$150,000General
9Friends of Libertas Academy Charter School IncMA$125,000General
10Mujeres Unidas AvanzandoMA$125,000General
11Thomas Chew Memorial Boys & Girls ClubMA$125,000Operations
12Youth Development Organization IncMA$125,000Operations
13Boys & Girls Clubs of Metro South IncMA$115,000Support for the operations and core programs
14Boys and Girls Clubs of Fitchburg and LeominsterMA$100,000Operation Outdoors
15Catie's ClosetMA$100,000Hampden County Operations

Giving by year, and who received it

Grants paid by year

Every year of this foundation's grants that Civly holds
Tax yearGrantsPaid
20201$6.3M
2021181$8.5M
2022190$7.7M
2023158$6.3M
2024150$8.5M

Where the money went

Share of 2024 grant dollars by recipient state
Massachusetts100%

Who decides

Officers, directors and trustees as filed, with the year of the return they appeared on.

Beatrice WaringBeneficiary · 2024
David CarlsonTrustee · 2024
Deborah CarlsonTrustee · 2024
Dolores ReidTrustee · 2024
Joseph KellyExecutive Director and CIO · 2024
Margaret St ClairTrustee · 2024
Phillip WaringFormer Trustee - Retiree · 2024
Vincent MarturanoTrustee · 2024

Every figure on this page is that foundation's own latest filed year, which is 2022 or later. This foundation is listed because its Form 990-PF says it does not restrict giving to preselected organizations and it paid at least 5 grants totaling $100K or more that year. Latest-year grants and terms per foundation from IRS 990-PF e-file returns; the newest tax year is partial until the IRS finishes releasing it. Grants are de-duplicated on funder, year, recipient and amount, so identical repeat grants collapse into one and totals can run low. Full method.

Source: IRS Form 990-PF e-file releases (public domain). Analysis: Civly.

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