Massachusetts · Private foundation
A Hand Up Charitable Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $51k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 5
- Grants FY2025
- 5
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 40%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $25,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 5 to 15
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 3
- Total assets, FY2025
- $6k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 40% of the organizations A Hand Up Charitable Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 28% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 72% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 5 | $51k | 40% |
| FY2024 | 5 | $36k | 40% |
| FY2023 | 8 | $122k | 25% |
| FY2022 | 12 | $209k | 50% |
| FY2021 | 11 | $94k | 64% |
| FY2020 | 13 | $76k | 46% |
| FY2019 | 14 | $75k | 43% |
| FY2018 | 15 | $92k | 53% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Shine Initiative Inc | $90,015 | 9 | 5% |
| Pine Street Inn Inc | $50,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Greater Boston Food Bank Inc | $50,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Opportunities for Hope Inc | $40,000 | 4 | 1% |
| Rollstone Charitable Foundation Inc | $30,000 | 2 | 7% |
| Making Opportunity Count Inc | $30,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Scholar Athletes Inc | $30,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Leominster Education Foundationinc | $28,000 | 4 | 14% |
| The Home for Little Wanderers Inc | $27,500 | 5 | 0% |
| Parents Unite Inc | $15,000 | 1 | 5% |
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| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Shine Initiative Inc | $90,015 | 9 | 5% |
| Pine Street Inn Inc | $50,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Greater Boston Food Bank Inc | $50,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Opportunities for Hope Inc | $40,000 | 4 | 1% |
| Rollstone Charitable Foundation Inc | $30,000 | 2 | 7% |
| Making Opportunity Count Inc | $30,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Scholar Athletes Inc | $30,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Leominster Education Foundationinc | $28,000 | 4 | 14% |
| The Home for Little Wanderers Inc | $27,500 | 5 | 0% |
| Parents Unite Inc | $15,000 | 1 | 5% |
| Room to Grow National Inc | $11,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Trevor Project Inc | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Navy Seal Foundation Inc | $7,500 | 1 | 0% |
| Park Street School Inc | $5,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Uss Constitution Museum Inc | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| The Michael J Fox Foundation for Parkinson's Research | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Friedreich's Ataxia Research Alliance | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Pan-Massachusetts Challenge Inc | $5,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Children's Oncology Services of Massachusetts Inc | $3,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Christine M Loeber Foundation | $2,500 | 1 | n/a |
| Franklin Food Pantry Inc | $2,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Angel Fund Inc | $300 | 1 | 0% |
Plus 32 recipients with no EIN on record ($390k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget A Hand Up Charitable Foundation supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
Co-funders
Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
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How this is measured
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About A Hand Up Charitable Foundation
- How much does A Hand Up Charitable Foundation give?
- A Hand Up Charitable Foundation reported 5 grants totaling $51,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 5 and 15 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does A Hand Up Charitable Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Religion (17%), Health (17%), Human Services (13%).
- Who are A Hand Up Charitable Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: The Shine Initiative Inc ($90k), Pine Street Inn Inc ($50k), Greater Boston Food Bank Inc ($50k).
- Does A Hand Up Charitable Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 40% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does A Hand Up Charitable Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as A Hand Up Charitable Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Community Foundation of North Central Ma, Eastern Bank Foundation, Paypal Charitable Giving Fund.
- Where is A Hand Up Charitable Foundation based?
- A Hand Up Charitable Foundation is based in MA.
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