The Tommy Fuss Fund

• The Tommy Fuss Fund's stated focus is medical and psychiatric research on mental illness, with a focus on adolescents, so a service-delivery project would sit outside it.
• The foundation does not accept unsolicited requests and makes contributions only to preselected organisations, so a cold approach is not the route in; an organisation should wait for an invitation rather than send an application.
• Typical grants fall mostly between $150,000 and $640,000, with a median of $250,000, so a request near the lower end of that band fits its usual pattern, though the largest grant was about $1,200,000, so the band is not a ceiling.
• Repeat recipients received 43% of grant dollars to organisations, so an ongoing relationship matters, and the filings show grants mainly in Massachusetts, although no geographic focus is stated.

The largest grants to organisations in the foundation’s latest filing:

• Harvard University · Faculty of arts & sciences for the tommy fuss research fund
  $1,207,5002025 tax year
• Boston Children's Hospital · Tommy fuss center for neuropsychiatric disease research fund
  $500,0002025 tax year
• McLean Hospital · Dr. kerry ressler's research into anhedonia
  $250,0002025 tax year
• McLean Hospital · Bill carlezon's work in the causes and treatments for depression
  $150,0002025 tax year

Grants to organisations listed in the foundation’s Form 990-PF filings. Grants to individuals are not shown.

Figures from the foundation’s IRS Form 990-PF filings. Assets are at fair market value at year end. The document icon links to each year’s filing on ProPublica Nonprofit Explorer.