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The Ceres Foundation Inc: 64 grants to organizations, $7.9 million (tax year ended December 2024)
The Ceres Foundation Inc, a private foundation in Groton, MA, paid 64 grants to organizations totaling $7,865,000 in its tax year ended December 2024, according to its Form 990-PF filed with the IRS on November 17, 2025. The largest was $2,000,000 to Thrive Scholars in Los Angeles, CA for support the expansion of the thrive scholars' los angeles and boston programs.
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- EIN
- 912170962
- Based in
- Groton, MA
- Assets
- $193,529,240
- Grants paid
- $7,865,000
- Tax year ended
- December 2024
Grants paid, tax year ended December 2024
From the Form 990-PF filed November 17, 2025, IRS object ID 202503219349109210. It reported $7,865,000 in grants paid; 64 grants to organizations are listed.
| Recipient | Location | Purpose | Cause | Amount | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Thrive Scholars | Los Angeles, CA | Support the expansion of the thrive scholars' los angeles and boston programs | Education | $2,000,000 | apps.irs.gov |
| Friendship Shelter Inc | Laguna Beach, CA | Support the home for good initiative and henderson house permanent supportive housing program | $360,000 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Schoolhouse Connection Inc | Washington, DC | Support the youth leadership scholarship program for youth having experienced homelessness | Education | $275,000 | apps.irs.gov |
| Community Adolescent Resources and Education Center Inc | Holyoke, MA | Support the expansion of the bard microcollege program for low-income women | Human services | $250,000 | apps.irs.gov |
| Future Link Inc | Rockville, MD | Support the expansion of programmatic model to expand career coaching, internship, and mentoring | Human services | $200,000 | apps.irs.gov |
| Lift Inc | Washington, DC | Support the expansion of financial coaching model for low-income families in los angeles and washington d.c. | Employment | $200,000 | apps.irs.gov |
| Stem Advantage | Huntington Beach, CA | Support program expansion to mentor, prepare, and inspire primarily first-generation college students from low-income families for careers in s.t.e.m. | Youth development | $200,000 | apps.irs.gov |
| More Than Words Inc | Waltham, MA | Support advocacy work rollout of its expanded model to address systematic barriers for vulnerable massachusetts youth | $160,000 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Capital Partners for Education Dba Spark the Journey | Washington, DC | Support multi-year expansion plan to double the number of students it serves by 2025, to provide mentorship and a community support for young adults to chart their own path to achieving college and ca | $150,000 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Corporation of the Washington Latin School | Washington, DC | Support campaign to provide classical liberal arts education, emphasizing the socratic mehod, for an additional 750 students | Education | $150,000 | apps.irs.gov |
| Monument Academy Inc | Washington, DC | General operating support for the 2024-2025 academic school year | Education | $150,000 | apps.irs.gov |
| New Village Charter School Inc | Los Angeles, CA | General operating support and creation of a new student recruitment position, to provide high quality educational opportunity for girls who have not been successfully served in traditional public scho | Education | $150,000 | apps.irs.gov |
| Tech Foundry Inc | Springfield, MA | General operating support for job training program that prepares individuals for sustainable careers in technology fields | Education | $150,000 | apps.irs.gov |
| DC Volunteer Lawyers Project | Washington, DC | Support it comprehensive pro-bono legal services for domestic violence victims, vulnerable imigrants, and at-risk children | $130,000 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Taller San Jose Hope Builders | Santa Ana, CA | Support the expansion of career pathways program for disconnected young adults | Education | $125,000 | apps.irs.gov |
| Orangewood Foundation | Santa Ana, CA | General operating support for its education and workforce development services for foster and transitional aged youth | Crime and legal-related | $115,000 | apps.irs.gov |
| Child Advocates of San Bernardino County | Rialto, CA | Support for its work with youth in foster care and to continue it organizational capacity and sustainability | $100,000 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Community Partners | Los Angeles, CA | Support the southern california college attainment network, for college access and success programs to increase the rate at which underrepresented students, from the greater los angeles region, access | Community improvement and capacity building | $100,000 | apps.irs.gov |
| Covenant House California | Hollywood, CA | Support los angeles alumni program and aftercare support with a focus of its data tracking capacity | Human services | $100,000 | apps.irs.gov |
| Families Forward | Irvine, CA | Support its work to address homelessness for orange county families | $100,000 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Friends of the Children Inc | Los Angeles, CA | Support its expansion to serve foster impacted families across los angeles county | $100,000 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Hopewell Inc | Dedham, MA | Support for its work with children, youth, and families involved with the child welfare system in western massachusetts | Human services | $100,000 | apps.irs.gov |
| Jovenes Inc | Los Angeles, CA | General operating support to help youth, age 18-24, end their cycle of homelessness throughout southeast los angeles county | Human services | $100,000 | apps.irs.gov |
| Kid Power Inc | Washington, DC | Support for continued expansion of mentors, inc. and powerup! | Youth development | $100,000 | apps.irs.gov |
| Lost Angels Childrens Project Inc | Lancaster, CA | Support for its intense vocational training program in the antelope valley | Human services | $100,000 | apps.irs.gov |
| Massachusetts Alliance for Early College | Weston, MA | Support the rollout of its strategic plan to increase the number of students with access to high-quality early college programs in massachusetts schools | Education | $100,000 | apps.irs.gov |
| Springfield Empowerment Zone Partnership Inc | Springfield, MA | Support further scaling of its early college and work-based learning programs at springfield high schools | Education | $100,000 | apps.irs.gov |
| Manifestworks | Los Angeles, CA | Support its job training program that prepares individuals for production careers in film, television, and new media | Human services | $90,000 | apps.irs.gov |
| DC Public Charter School Cooperative Inc | Washington, DC | Funding pilot program and scale the empowerment program for students with disabilities | $85,000 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Jobs Have Priority Inc | Washington, DC | Support for its shelter and employment programs for those experiencing housing insecurty | $85,000 | apps.irs.gov | |
| The Harmony Project | Los Angeles, CA | General operating support for the 2024-2025 academic school year | Education | $85,000 | apps.irs.gov |
| The Wooden Floor for Youth Movement | Santa Ana, CA | General operating support for comprehensive dance and college access programs | Arts, culture and humanities | $85,000 | apps.irs.gov |
| Achievement Institute of Scientific Studies | Santa Ana, CA | Support the infrastructure to serve an annual cohort by 2024 | Education | $80,000 | apps.irs.gov |
| College Bound Inc | Washington, DC | Support rollout of its strategic growth plan to serve 500+ students annually by 2027 | Education | $75,000 | apps.irs.gov |
| La Cocina Va | Arlington, VA | Support its zero barriers training and entrepreneurship center, as well as the expansion of its culinary training programs | Food, agriculture and nutrition | $75,000 | apps.irs.gov |
| New Directions for Women Foundation | Costa Mesa, CA | Fund need based scholarships in support of addiction treatment services for women | Mental health and crisis intervention | $75,000 | apps.irs.gov |
| Propel America | Boston, MA | Support for its medical assistant career pathway programs in los angeles | Education | $75,000 | apps.irs.gov |
| Roca Inc | Chelsea, MA | Support for its young mothers program in western massachusetts | Youth development | $75,000 | apps.irs.gov |
| William Wendt Center for Loss and Healing | Washington, DC | General operating support and underwrite the participation of ceres grant recipients in its trainings | $75,000 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Young Eisner Scholars | Inglewood, CA | General operating support as it deepens its support for scholars from lowest-income households | Human services | $75,000 | apps.irs.gov |
| Youth Guidance | Chicago, IL | Support its becoming a man program in washington, d.c. public schools | Education | $75,000 | apps.irs.gov |
| Casa of Los Angeles | Monterey Park, CA | Expand its support of foster youth in los angeles county | Civil rights, social action and advocacy | $70,000 | apps.irs.gov |
| Eastside College Prep School Inc | East Palo Alto, CA | Support the residential program providing a supportive living environment for students and alumni for the 2024-2025 school year | $65,000 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Service Workers Training and Education Partnership | Columbia, MD | Support for capacity building | $60,000 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Best Kids Inc | Washington, DC | General operating support to assist foster care children in the washington, d.c. child welfare system | Youth development | $50,000 | apps.irs.gov |
| Caroline Freiss Center Inc | Baltimore, MD | Support for employment program for low-income women | $50,000 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Collegiate Directions Inc | Bethesda, MD | General operating support for closing the education, achievement, and opportunity gap for first-generation-to-college students in montgomery county, md and washington, d.c. | Education | $50,000 | apps.irs.gov |
| Convention of P E Church of the Diocese of Washington | Washington, DC | Support for expansion of its outplacement and graduate support programs | $50,000 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Edc 413 Works Inc | Springfield, MA | Support for springfield works cliff effect pilot program, that will test the impact of supplemental cash payments to participants experiencing public benefit cliff effects | $50,000 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Fore Batten Foundation | Chapel Hill, NC | Support its project butterfly, an n-of-2 trial treating a unique mutation of cln3 and creating a road map for the future of personalized medicine | $50,000 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Fund for Educational Excellence Inc | Washington, DC | Support continued expansion of its mentoring program | $50,000 | apps.irs.gov | |
| San Miguel School Inc | Washington, DC | Support expansion of the graduate support program for the middle school serving under-resourced latino boys | Education | $50,000 | apps.irs.gov |
| Steadfast - Standing Firm Against Youth Homelessness | Frederick, MD | General operating support to provide safe housing, life skills, and job skills training for unaccompanied homeless youth and those transitioning out of foster care | Housing and shelter | $50,000 | apps.irs.gov |
| Friends of Compass Inc | Washington, DC | General operating support to provide probono support and board matching services to d.c. based grant recipents of the ceres foundation | $35,000 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Community Adolescent Resources and Education Center Inc | Holyoke, MA | Support for its continuum of educational programming for low-income women | Human services | $30,000 | apps.irs.gov |
| Center On Race Poverty & the Environment | Delano, CA | General operating support for strengthening community power to protect land, air, and water in california's heartland | Crime and legal-related | $25,000 | apps.irs.gov |
| Los Angeles Room & Board | Los Angeles, CA | General operating support to ensure that california community college students realize their postsecondary education goals by providing affordable transitional housing designed to end homelessness, an | Housing and shelter | $25,000 | apps.irs.gov |
| Sanctuary Art Center | Seattle, WA | General operating support for providing a safe, calm, and warm environment for homeless and underserved youth and young adults to experience creativity and success through relationship-based artistic | $25,000 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Sierra House | East Orange, NJ | General operating support to help young women open the door to self-sufficiency | Human services | $25,000 | apps.irs.gov |
| Social and Environmental Entrepreneurs | Calabasas, CA | General operating support for miry's list to provide a mechanism for people to directly help new arrival refugee families with the incredible challenge or resettlement in the united states | Environment | $25,000 | apps.irs.gov |
| Voices of A Sustainable Future Inc | Takoma Park, MD | General operating support to secure an ecologically sustainable and economically just future by uniting labor and climate forces in a shared struggle for systemic change | $25,000 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Covenant House California | Hollywood, CA | General operating support for its work with housing insecure youth | Human services | $10,000 | apps.irs.gov |
| Jovenes Inc | Los Angeles, CA | General operating support for its continuum of care that provides housing options for homeless youth | Human services | $10,000 | apps.irs.gov |
| Orangewood Foundation | Santa Ana, CA | General operating support for its education and workforce development services for foster and transitional aged youth | Crime and legal-related | $10,000 | apps.irs.gov |
Causes funded
From grants whose recipient has a cause.
| Cause | Granted |
|---|---|
| Education | $3,690,000 |
| Human services | $1,090,000 |
| Youth development | $425,000 |
| Employment | $200,000 |
| Crime and legal-related | $150,000 |
| Community improvement and capacity building | $100,000 |
| Arts, culture and humanities | $85,000 |
| Food, agriculture and nutrition | $75,000 |
States funded
| Recipient state | Granted |
|---|---|
| California | $4,380,000 |
| District of Columbia | $1,710,000 |
| Massachusetts | $1,090,000 |
| Maryland | $435,000 |
| Virginia | $75,000 |
| Illinois | $75,000 |
| North Carolina | $50,000 |
| Washington | $25,000 |
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Updated November 17, 2025. Read from IRS Form 990-PF e-file data. Public domain (U.S. government work). Grants are as each foundation reported them to the IRS on its Form 990-PF. Grants to individuals are left out. A grant has a cause only where the recipient's name and city match one organization in the IRS Business Master File, and the cause is that organization's NTEE major group. Free to reuse with credit to SpecStream under CC BY 4.0. Spot a wrong value? Write to [email protected] with the link to this page.