· Private foundation
Charles H Hood Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- $50k–250k21 grants · $2.1M
- $250k+1 grant · $400k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY | $400,000 |
| MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL | $100,000 |
| BOSTON UNIVERSITY | $100,000 |
| BOSTON COLLEGE | $100,000 |
| BOSTON CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL | $100,000 |
| MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL | $100,000 |
| HARVARD PILGRIM HEALTH CARE | $100,000 |
| MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL | $100,000 |
| MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL | $100,000 |
| BOSTON CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL | $100,000 |
| YALE UNIVERSITY | $100,000 |
| DANA-FARBER CANCER INSTITUTE | $100,000 |
| YALE UNIVERSITY | $100,000 |
| BRIGHAM AND WOMEN'S HOSPITAL | $100,000 |
| BOSTON CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL | $100,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 99% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 11% of Charles H Hood Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 95% of the giving stays in MA; by stated purpose, 90%.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +58% since the first grant, against +29% for those funded once.
26 repeat relationships: 9 still active in FY2024, 17 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $200k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- CHChildren's Hospital Corporation8× · 2017–2024 · $4.2M · revenue +91%
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc6× · 2017–2024 · $655k · revenue +162%
BOSTON MEDICAL CENTER CORPORATION3× · 2020–2022 · $615k · revenue +58%
Funded once
- BCBOSTON CHILDRENS HOSPITALone grant, 2020 · $209k
- CWCURES WITHIN REACHone grant, 2021 · $100k
- BIBETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER INCgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $100k · revenue +28%
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Mass general brigham incorporated is developing an integrated health care delivery system throughout the region that offers patients a continuum of coordinated, high-quality care.
Organization's mission bentley university believes good business can impact more than the bottom line - it can change the world. bentley is a community of future business leaders who will deliver value in the marketplace and lasting…
See Form 990, Part I, Line 1, Description of Organization Mission.
MASSACHUSETTS EYE AND EAR ASSOCIATES, INC. ("MEEA") IS A SPECIALTY PHYSICIAN GROUP PRACTICE. IT PROVIDES CARE FOR PATIENTS OF THE MASSACHUSETTS EYE AND EAR INFIRMARY, INC. ("MEEI"), A RELATED ORGANIZATION. THE PRACTICE SPECIALIZES IN…
Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.
We educate the next generation of leaders to improve the health of our society.
Dartmouth College educates the most promising students and prepares them for a lifetime of learning and of responsible leadership, through a faculty dedicated to teaching and the creation of knowledge.
Western new england university, a comprehensive private institution with a tradition of excellence in teaching and scholarship and a commitment to service, awards undergraduate, master's, and doctoral degrees in various departments from…
For more than 125 years, the mission of the johns hopkins hospital has been to lead the world in the diagnosis and treatment of disease and to train tomorrow's great physicians, nurses and scientists. above all, we aim to provide the…
The mission of Rush is to improve the health of the individuals and diverse communities we serve through the integration of outstanding patient care, education, research and community partnerships.
Sanford burnham prebys medical discovery institute's mission is to advance the biomedical sciences by cultivating the next generation of scientific leaders, providing meaningful opportunities for researchers of all backgrounds to learn,…
The mission of the broad institute is to propel progress in biomedicine, through research aimed at the understanding and treatment of disease and the dissemination of scientific knowledge to the scientific community to benefit the public.…
How this is measured
19 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 19 of the 41 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
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- Who funds BOSTON MEDICAL CENTER CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds MASSACHUSETTS EYE & EAR INFIRMARY ↗
- Who funds President and Fellows of Harvard College ↗
- Who funds HEALTH RESOURCES IN ACTION INC ↗
- Who funds Dartmouth-Hitchcock Clinic ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds WORCESTER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds BROWN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF BOSTON COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds Rhode Island Hospital ↗
- Who funds HARVARD PILGRIM HEALTH CARE INC ↗
- Who funds BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY ↗
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Charles H Hood Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Charles H Hood Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Health Resources in Action Inc: 39% of income from government
- Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Inc: 37% of income from government
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology: 35% of income from government
- Boston Medical Center Corporation: 23% of income from government
- Trustees of Boston University: 12% of income from government
- Yale University: 12% of income from government
- Children's Hospital Corporation: 10% of income from government
- Brandeis University: 9% of income from government
- Worcester Polytechnic Institute: 8% of income from government
- President and Fellows of Harvard College: 7% of income from government
- Northeastern University: 7% of income from government
- Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: 7% of income from government
- Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center Inc: 6% of income from government
- Trustees of Boston College: 3% of income from government
How this is measured
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