· Private foundation
Clayton F and Ruth L Hawkridge Foundat
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF METROWEST | $5,000 |
| PATHWAYS EARLY EDUCATION CENTER OF IMMOKALEE INC | $5,000 |
| BAKER CENTER FOR CHILDREN AND FAMILIES | $5,000 |
| CLARKE SCHOOL FOR HEARING AND SPEECH | $5,000 |
| GREATER BOSTON FOOD BANK | $5,000 |
| COMMUNITY ART CENTER INC | $5,000 |
| ARTISTS ASSOCIATION OF NANTUCKET | $5,000 |
| CHARLES RIVER CENTER | $5,000 |
| CRADLES TO CRAYONS | $5,000 |
| BOSTON HEALTH CARE FOR THE HOMELESS PROGRAM | $5,000 |
| MAVEN PROJECT | $5,000 |
| CONCORD CHORALE | $4,000 |
| BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA | $3,000 |
| NEW LONDON BARN PLAYHOUSE INC | $3,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY20–25, $101k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
17 repeat relationships — 13 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
Backed again, and grew
- GBGREATER BOSTON FOOD BANK INC6× · 2020–2025 · $31k · revenue +1%
BOSTON HEALTH CARE FOR THE HOMELESS PROGRAM INC6× · 2020–2025 · $30k · revenue +54%- CTCRADLES TO CRAYONS INC6× · 2020–2025 · $30k · revenue +81%
Funded once
- FBFAMILYAID BOSTON INCgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $5k · revenue +82%
- CBCENTRAL BOSTON ELDER SERVICES INCgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $5k · revenue +54%
- BCBoston Charitable Trust Fund City of Boston Trust Officeone grant, 2020 · $5k · revenue -100%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Boston community pediatrics (bcp) provides ambulatory pediatric and related health care services to the residents of boston, massachusetts, and surrounding communities. bcp is a new model of innovative pediatric healthcare that addresses…
Boston center for the arts (bca) is a not-for-profit performing and visual arts campus that supports working artists to create, perform, and exhibit new works; develops new audiences; and connects the arts to the community.
Provider of pediatric healthcare, education, research & community service
Community music center of boston ("cmcb") transforms lives throughout greater boston by providing equitable access to excellent music education and arts experiences.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
The brookline center for community mental health provides groundbreaking mental health services rooted in meaningful innovation and compassionate care. in response to today's mental health landscape and the ongoing mental health crisis,…
The brien center provides a continuum of care for children, adolescents, adults and families living with significant and persistent mental health and substance use disorders. we are guided by the belief that everyone in berkshire county…
The organization operates america's first permanent period orchestra and chorus which reach local, national, and international audiences through a subscription series, touring engagements, recordings, and broadcasts.
The heart of Boston Ballet is the human experience. Through our living and breathing art, we forge human connections-between artist and attendee, teacher and trainee, friend and newcomer, one's outer and inner self. Dance history is human…
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.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Central Boston Elder Services Inc and the most unlike its peers is Boston Symphony Orchestra Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 52 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 10% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
25 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 25 of the 31 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds GREATER BOSTON FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds BOSTON HEALTH CARE FOR THE HOMELESS PROGRAM INC ↗
- Who funds CRADLES TO CRAYONS INC ↗
- Who funds CHARLES RIVER ASSOCIATION FOR RETARDED CITIZENS INC ↗
- Who funds NEW LONDON BARN PLAYHOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds CONCORD CHORALE INC ↗
- Who funds ARTISTS ASSOCIATION OF NANTUCKET INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY ART CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF METROWEST INC ↗
- Who funds JUDGE BAKER CHILDREN'S CENTER ↗
- Who funds Pathways Early Education Center of Immokalee Inc ↗
- Who funds BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC ↗
- Who funds NORTHERN STAGE COMPANY ↗
- Who funds FAMILYAID BOSTON INC ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL BOSTON ELDER SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds Boston Charitable Trust Fund City of Boston Trust Office ↗
- Who funds THE MAVEN PROJECT ↗
- Who funds BOSTON RESCUE MISSION INC ↗
- Who funds Camereta New England ↗
- Who funds THE CLARKE SCHOOL FOR THE DEAF CLARKE SCHOOLS FOR HEARING AND SPEECH ↗
- Who funds DAVID'S HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds BAKER SENIOR CENTER NAPLES INC ↗
- Who funds Naples Community Orchestra Inc ↗
- Who funds UNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF ↗
- Who funds VICTORY PROGRAMS INC ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Eastern Bank Foundation · Martin Salomon Morton and Gustel Schreiber Morton Foundation · Boston Foundation Inc · Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc · Yawkey Foundation II · Eastern Cambridge Foundation · New Hampshire Charitable Foundation · Robert L Corkin Charitable Foundation · Bushrod H Campbell & Adah F Hall Charity Fund · Community Foundation for MetroWest Inc · Cambridge Savings Charitable Foundation Inc · Liberty Mutual Foundation Inc
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Clayton F and Ruth L Hawkridge Foundat funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Victory Programs Inc — 49% of income from government
- Central Boston Elder Services Inc — 47% of income from government
- Judge Baker Children's Center — 29% of income from government
- Greater Boston Food Bank Inc — 22% of income from government
- Community Art Center Inc — 14% of income from government
- Boston Health Care for the Homeless Program Inc — 8% of income from government
- Northern Stage Company — 5% of income from government
- Familyaid Boston Inc — 4% of income from government
- Cradles to Crayons Inc — 2% of income from government
- Boys and Girls Clubs of Metrowest Inc — 2% of income from government
- The Clarke School for the Deaf Clarke Schools for Hearing and Speech — 1% of income from government
- Boston Symphony Orchestra Inc — 0% of income from government
- Artists Association of Nantucket Inc — 0% of income from government
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.
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