Randi & Joel Cutler Family Foundation

• Because the foundation makes contributions only to preselected organisations and does not accept unsolicited requests, a small charity should not send a cold application and should look for a warm introduction to someone who knows the foundation.
• Its recorded grants are unrestricted and cover a varied mix of hospitals, a museum, food banks, a housing organisation and children's and reproductive-health services, with no field of funding stated, so a charity should explain how its work connects to that broad mix rather than assume a single subject area.
• Most of its grants fall between $83,000 and $250,000, a typical band rather than a limit, and the median grant is $100,000, so a request in the lower part of that range is the most realistic size.
• Its total giving has risen in each filing, and 29% of its grant dollars in the latest filing went to organisations it had also funded earlier, so repeat support is part of how it gives.
• Its grants have mostly gone to Massachusetts, with smaller amounts to New York and Maine, but no geographic focus is stated, so that pattern is not a rule about who may apply.

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

• Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center · Unrestricted
  $250,0002024 tax year
• Dana Farber · Unrestricted
  $200,0002024 tax year
• Boston Children's Hospital · Unrestricted
  $200,0002024 tax year
• Massachusetts Wonderfund · Unrestricted
  $100,0002024 tax year
• Housing Initiatives · Unrestricted
  $100,0002024 tax year
• Greater Boston Food Bank · Unrestricted
  $100,0002024 tax year
• Studio Museum · Unrestricted
  $100,0002024 tax year
• Planned Parenthood · Unrestricted
  $83,0002024 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.