American Tower Corporation Foundation

• American Tower Corporation Foundation is a Boston-based private foundation that states it does not accept unsolicited requests, so a cold application is unlikely to be considered and should not be sent.
• Its stated priority is worldwide, and its grants go to universities, schools, community-service and food-assistance organisations, cultural institutions, and humanitarian and disaster-relief organisations, so fit depends on whether a project can be made to sit within those purposes.
• About 8 in 10 of its grants fall between $25 and $5,200, and the median is $225, so a modest request fits its usual grant size, although its largest grant was $340,000.
• Because 44% of its grant dollars went to organisations it had funded in an earlier filing, existing relationships appear to matter, so a small organisation without an introduction should expect a long shot.

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

• Boys & Girls Clubs of America · General purpose
  $340,0002024 tax year
• The Foundation Of NC State University · General purpose
  $100,0002024 tax year
• North Carolina Centeral University Foundation Inc · General purpose
  $100,0002024 tax year
• American National Red Cross · Disaster relief
  $65,0002024 tax year
• World Central Kitchen · Disaster relief
  $35,0002024 tax year
• Breedlove Foods · Disaster relief
  $25,1032024 tax year
• Associacao Feminina de Estudos Sociais e Universitarios · General purpose
  $25,0002024 tax year
• Sizanotho Community Development · General purpose
  $25,0002024 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.