Amelia Peabody Charitable Fund
/OVERVIEW: The Amelia Peabody Charitable Fund awards grants to medicine (human and animal), visual arts, land conservation, historic preservation, and social services organizations in Massachusetts.
FUNDING AREAS: human and animal medicine, social welfare, visual arts, historic preservation, and land conservation
IP TAKE: Amelia Peabody Charitable Fund grants are modest and only fund organizations based in Massachusetts. The fund’s website features a downloadable grant application. Grants are exclusively for “capital projects and capital purchases.”
PROFILE: Established in 1984, the Amelia Peabody Charitable Fund is the philanthropic legacy of Amelia Peabody. The fund “continue[s] Amelia Peabody’s philanthropy in perpetuity through grants to qualified non-profit organizations existing and operating in Massachusetts in the areas of medicine (human and animal), social welfare, visual arts, historic preservation and land conservation.”
Over the years, the Amelia Peabody Charitable Fund has awarded “nearly $220 million to organizations within the sphere of [Amelia Peabody’s] varied interests.” One of her philanthropic endeavors was the Amelia Peabody Pavilion, which housed a large animal clinic at Massachusetts' Tufts-New England Veterinary Medical Center. During her lifetime, Peabody gave generously to medical institutions in the Boston and Massachusetts area and to one of the world's first solar energy projects.
The Amelia Peabody Charitable Fund grants approximately $8 million each year. While it does not publish an online grants database on its website, it can provide the information upon request. Grantmaking once took place throughout New England, but now the foundation only centers its grantmaking on Massachusetts. APCF does not consider proposals for multi-year funding grants, and it does not provide funding for individuals, start-up organizations, educational institutions, scholarships, events, religious groups, operating budgets, emergency funding, or political causes, among other restrictions grantseekers are advised to study closely under Grant Guidelines.
The foundation accepts unsolicited grant applications from nonprofits. There are two grantmaking cycles per year, and the application deadlines are February 1 and July 1. The funder prepares an online grant application and confirms receipt by email. It notifies applicants about a decision within about three months.
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