Fileno Digregorio Foundation
The organization is a private foundation dedicated to supporting various charitable causes. Its mission focuses on enhancing community welfare through contributions to educational institutions, food assistance programs, animal shelters, and health-related initiatives. The foundation primarily serves local communities, with a notable emphasis on organizations in the Southbridge area, including schools, police departments, and food pantries. Through its funding, it aims to foster education, promote public safety, and support health and welfare services.
Source: Zeffy Agent · Mar 2026
Ideal Applicant
A small to midsize Massachusetts nonprofit (often Southbridge-area) with a clear local community focus in education, food assistance, health, public safety, animal welfare, or community services and established local relationships.
Good Fit
- • Organization is based in or primarily serves Southbridge/central Massachusetts.
- • Work aligns with education, food pantries, local health, police-community programs, animal welfare, or local arts.
- • Has an existing relationship or referral from a current or prior grantee or a trustee.
- • Requests are for modest, programmatic or event support rather than large multi-year grants.
Geography
Giving is tightly geographically concentrated: about 99% of dollars went to Massachusetts recipients and the latest year shows almost all grants in-state with only minimal out-of-state activity.
Recipient Variety
The foundation funded around 18–21 distinct recipients each year (21 in the latest year) across multiple local mission areas, with a mix of recurring grantees and several new recipients, indicating a broad recipient set for its size.
New Applicants
Although about six new recipients appeared in the latest year, the foundation explicitly indicates it funds only preselected applicants and no public application route or contact details were found, so an unfamiliar organization is unlikely to enter the portfolio without a referral.
Source: Zeffy Agent · Mar 2026
