· Private foundation
Dola Hamilton Stemberg Charitable Foundation
Its FY2025 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, FY2020 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k8 grants · $16k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $110k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $335k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| OLD DARTMOUTH HISTORICAL SOCIETY (THE NEW BEDFORD WHALING MUSEUM) | $225,000 |
| DEXTER SCHOOL | $60,000 |
| THE BALDWIN SCHOOL | $50,000 |
| FOLDS OF HONOR FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC | $25,000 |
| OLD BOHEMIA HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC | $25,000 |
| TUNNEL TOWERS FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| MGH - PACT PROGRAM FUND | $10,000 |
| THE GREATER BOSTON FOOD BANK | $5,000 |
| PRINCETON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA | $5,000 |
| HARVARD BUSINESS SCHOOL | $1,500 |
| GROTON SCHOOL | $1,500 |
| THE LAWRENCEVILLE SCHOOL | $1,000 |
| HARVARD COLLEGE FUND | $500 |
| MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY | $500 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY21–25, $185k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those 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
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
17 repeat relationships: 14 still active in FY2025, 3 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, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $50k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- GBGREATER BOSTON FOOD BANK INC6× · 2020–2025 · $287k · revenue +1%
Old Dartmouth Historical Society4× · 2022–2025 · $275k · revenue +142%
WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC5× · 2021–2025 · $185k · revenue +27%
Funded once
DIRECT RELIEFone grant, 2022 · $53k · revenue +8%- VFVOLUNTEER FLORIDA FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2023 · $50k · revenue -61%
- BSBALDWIN SCHOOLone grant, 2020 · $50k
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.
Wentworth institute of technology is a nationally recognized private coeducational and residential university of higher education with a mission to empower, inspire and innovate through experiential learning with a core purpose of career…
Bates is a college of the liberal arts and sciences, and is a coeducational, nonsectarian, residential college with special commitments to academic rigor, and to assuring in all of its efforts the dignity of each individual, and access to…
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.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
Wheaton college provides a transformative liberal arts education, combining theory and practice, for intellectually curious students within a collaborative and vibrant extended community and network that values and strives to create an…
Inspiring young scholars to contribute their wisdom, compassion, and personal best in the classroom, the community and the world.
New england law/boston dedicates itself to preparing students to be successful lawyers and leaders in the public and private sectors through integrated practical, theoretical and ethical education of the highest caliber and to contributing…
Since 1775, the mission of Hampden-Sydney College has been to form good men and good citizens in an atmosphere of sound learning.
At Roger Williams University, students are prepared to be thinkers and doers ready to solve challenging problems with innovative solutions. RWU offers robust offerings of undergraduate, graduate and professional programs across eight…
Stoneleigh-burnham school is an academic community that fosters an international perspective. we inspire girls to pursue meaningful lives based on honor, respect, and intellectual curiosity. each student is challenged to discover her best…
Williams College strives to achieve educational excellence by fostering a community of learning in collaboration with students, faculty, staff, devoted alumni and parents.
Running a private school.
How this is measured
17 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. 17 of the 25 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.
- Who funds Old Bohemia Historical Society Inc ↗
- Who funds GREATER BOSTON FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds Old Dartmouth Historical Society ↗
- Who funds WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds FEEDING SOUTH FLORIDA INC ↗
- Who funds FOLDS OF HONOR FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds DIRECT RELIEF ↗
- Who funds THE BALDWIN SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds VOLUNTEER FLORIDA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds GROTON SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds VIETNAM VETERANS WORKSHOP INC DBA NEW ENGLAND CENTER AND HOME FOR VETERANS ↗
- Who funds The Madeira School ↗
- Who funds Pine Island Camp ↗
- Who funds Hands Together Inc ↗
- Who funds CATHLEEN STONE ISLAND OUTWARD BOUND SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF THE LAWRENCEVILLE SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds Massachusetts Institute of Technology ↗
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Dola Hamilton Stemberg Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Dola Hamilton Stemberg Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Vietnam Veterans Workshop Inc Dba New England Center and Home for Veterans: 66% of income from government
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology: 35% of income from government
- Greater Boston Food Bank Inc: 22% of income from government
- Feeding South Florida Inc: 5% of income from government
- Volunteer Florida Foundation Inc: 2% of income from government
- Old Dartmouth Historical Society: 2% of income from government
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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