The funder's latest Form 990-PF says it accepts applications. Read the instructions below before you write.
How to apply
Deadlines
Restrictions
Send applications to
Not publishedWATERTOWN, MA, 02472The filing names a person as the application contact. We publish role-based contacts (a committee, an office, a shared inbox) but not named individuals.a phone number for applications is on the filing. On the filing, not published; see “How to reach them” for any published channel.
Application policy: Accepts applications, as stated on the FY2025 return.
What its returns show
Stated the same way on all 5 Form 990-PF returns on record (FY2021 to FY2025).
These lines count this foundation's own Form 990-PF returns that the IRS has published as data. An amended return replaces its original. They describe past returns only.
Application guidance comes from the funder's own Form 990-PF, Part XV (the section where a private foundation says how to apply), shown as filed. It is the funder's words, not ours. These fields are free text and the IRS form cuts them short. Filers sometimes put whole sentences in the contact-name box. Shown exactly as filed.
Financials
Giving
$131K
FY2025 · qualifying distributions
Total assets
$0
FY2025 · end of year
Revenue
$66.4K
FY2025
Expenses
$155K
FY2025
Giving by year
Total assets by year
Year
Form
Revenue
Expenses
Giving
Assets
Net assets
FY2025
990-PF
$66,384
$155,324
$130,501
$0
Figures are as reported on the e-filed return, with no restatement. Fiscal years are the funder's own tax year, labelled by the calendar year the period ends in. A blank line means the return does not carry that figure; a real zero shows as $0. When an amended return replaces an original, every figure here uses the amended return. The original is not shown. Giving is what the funder actually paid out toward its charitable purpose in the year (qualifying distributions on Form 990-PF, charitable disbursements otherwise). Assets are what it holds; giving is what moves.
What they fund
Recipient focus areas
Education$7,000 · 2
Arts and culture$3,000 · 4
Animal welfare$3,000 · 2
Where recipients are
MA$425K · 46
CO$3,500 · 2
AL$1,000 · 1
CT$1,000 · 1
IA$1,000 · 1
Based on the 16% of grant rows we could match to an organization record. The rest stay as reported. The IRS assigns the NTEE category when it grants exemption. It often reflects the original filing, not today's giving.
Grants paid
51 on file
Recipient
Purpose
Amount
Year
Source
JUST A STARTCHARLESTOWN, MA
GENERAL ASSISTANCE
$50,000
2023
Recipients are shown as the funder wrote them on the return. A recipient with a link was matched to an organization record; the rest stay as reported and are never guessed. Some links come from other funders' returns: when three or more of them wrote the same name and state with one EIN, and the city on this row matches, we use that EIN. The name on this row is still shown as this funder wrote it.
Officers and directors
Name
Title
Hours / week
Compensation
Jessica B Aguilera-Steinert
VICE PRESIDENT
1.00
$0
Tessa M Steinert-Evoy
SECRETARY
1.00
$0
Alexandra T Steinert-Evoy
MEMBER
1.00
$0
John A Steinert
PRESIDENT
From the officer list on the latest e-filed return. Compensation is as reported there; a blank means the return carries no figure.
ZOO NEW ENGLANDMatched to this organization because 9 grant-making charities wrote this name with its EIN. Source: Schedule I of their Form 990 returns, fiscal years 2020 to 2025. Counted Oct 9, 2026.BOSTON, MA
WILDLIFE PROTECTION
$2,000
2023
1.00
$0
Timothy A Steinert
MEMBER
1.00
$0
Form 990-PF · FY2024 · period ending Dec 31, 2024IRS bulk XML
IRS 990 e-file·FY2024·file fingerprint e54ba693·U.S. Government public domain·View filing
Filing id 202541359349101994
Form 990-PF · FY2023 · period ending Dec 31, 2023IRS bulk XML
IRS 990 e-file·FY2023·file fingerprint 40ed256f·U.S. Government public domain·View filing
Filing id 202423199349104557
Form 990-PF · FY2022 · period ending Dec 31, 2022
IRS 990 e-file·FY2022·file fingerprint 0fcf0192·U.S. Government public domain·View filing
Filing id 202333179349102143
Form 990-PF · FY2021 · period ending Dec 31, 2021
IRS 990 e-file·FY2021·file fingerprint 0faf8138·U.S. Government public domain·View filing
Filing id 202321889349100512
Form 990-PF · FY2021 · period ending Jun 30, 2021
IRS 990 e-file·FY2021·file fingerprint 58b8a701·U.S. Government public domain·View filing
Filing id 202122389349100602
IRS filings are the source for every fact on this page. Nothing a model writes is ever a source; it can only point at a row here.