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George B Henderson Foundation Jh5090

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$457k
Granted FY2025still arriving
12
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
0199% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.

Religion$1.1MArts & Culture$950kHousing & Shelter$270kCommunity Improvement$261kEnvironment$201kEducation$190kHuman Services$180kRecreation & Sports$115kOther$0
02FY2025 · 12 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k8 grants · $257k
  • $50k–250k4 grants · $200k
$40,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$6.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Individual grant recipient$50,000
LEAGUE OF WOMEN FOR COMMUNITY SERVICE$50,000
Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy Greenway Conserv$50,000
Chinese Consolidated Benevolent Associat$50,000
CHURCH OF THE COVENANT$40,000
Boston Architectural College$40,000
BOSTON HARBOR NOW INC$38,000
Society of King's Chapel$34,000
SECOND CHURCH IN DORCHESTER$30,000
REVOLUTIONARY SPACES INC$25,000
CHURCH OF THE NAZARENE$25,000
COCOANUT GROVE MEMORIAL COMMITTEE$25,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY18–24, $337k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, 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.

area typical 8%JCAM CHARITABLE FOUNDATION: $37k → 8%JCAM CHARITABLE FOUNDATION: $3k → 8%DEUTSCHES ALTENHEIM INC: $19k → 16%DEUTSCHES ALTENHEIM INC: $8k → 16%CHINESE CONSOLIDATED BENEVOLENT ASSOCIATION OF NEW ENGLAND: $40k → 16%CHINESE ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL INC: $40k → 16%NATIONAL CENTER OF AFRO-AMERICAN ARTISTS INC: $60k → 16%NATIONAL CENTER OF AFRO AMERICAN ARTISTS: $50k → 16%NATIONAL CENTER OF AFRO-AMERICAN ARTISTS INC: $40k → 16%PAIGE ACADEMY: $29k → 16%PAIGE ACADEMY: $11k → 16%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

41%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.5M · 22 repeat orgs$2.1M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +105% since the first grant, against +25% for the ones you funded once.

22 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2025, 19 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

22
51

Total granted

$1.5M
$1.8M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+105%
+25%

Still filing today

55%
59%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 26% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $337k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureCommunity ImprovementHuman ServicesHousing & ShelterRecreation & SportsEducationOther

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

  • NC
    National Center of Afro American Artists
    3× · 2020–2023 · $150k · revenue +453% · 44% of their budget
  • ROSE FITZGERALD KENNEDY GREENWAY CONSERVANCY INC
    2× · 2023–2025 · $104k · revenue +1%
  • FO
    Friends of Memorial Hall Inc
    4× · 2017–2024 · $95k · revenue +402% · 40% of their budget

Funded once

  • HB
    HISTORIC BOSTON INCORPORATED
    one grant, 2022 · $100k · revenue -37%
  • BOSTON GREEN ACADEMY FOUNDATION INCgraduated
    one grant, 2024 · $50k · revenue +117%
  • PH
    PLEASANT HILL BAPTIST CHURCH
    one grant, 2023 · $50k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Guild of Boston Artists Inc
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2
Greater Boston Council On Alcoholism Inc
Philanthropy
3
Managers of Boston Port and Seamen's Aid Society
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4
North End Historical Society Inc

To collect and preserve the historical record and material culture of boston's north end. also to catalog and present these resources through publications, lectures, educational programs and exhibits.

Arts & Culture
5
Massachusetts Outdoor Heritage Foundation Inc Attn Susan Sacco
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6
The Seven and Eight Park Street Foundation Inc

Preservation of an historic boston landmark building.

Arts & Culture
7
Fitchburg Historical Society

Museum and research library for history of fitchburg, massachusetts

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8
Boston Municipal Research Bureau

To provide objective and impartial research and policy analysis in order to promote more efficient, effective and responsible government for the city of boston.

Public Benefit
9
The West End Museum Incorporated

The west end museum is dedicated to telling the story of boston's west end neighborhood. the museum provides a space for past and present residents and the community; educates the public in history and urbanization; and preserves its…

Arts & Culture
10
Metropolitan Waterworks Museum Inc

The mwm owns and operates the waterworks museum (the "museum"), including a community meeting room. the museum is a single condominium unit of the museum building condominium, one of separate condominium building regimes on the site. the…

Arts & Culture
11
Boston Society of Architects

The boston society of architects (bsa/aia) exists to improve the quality of life for boston-area residents by championing innovation in the built environment. as a membership association, we achieve this mission in partnership with the bsa…

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12
Fenway Alliance Inc

Our goal is to enhance the district, creating a 5-mile area in the city of boston that remains and grows in its uniquely rich academic and cultural offerings, and its beautiful parklands and green spaces. we create and sustain the fenway…

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Boston Public Housing Corporation and the most unlike its peers is Chinese Economic Development Council Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 40 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number18%3%<5yr13%2%5–10yr18%17%10–20yr22%14%20–35yr14%29%35–55yr14%35%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value18%1%<5yr13%1%5–10yr18%21%10–20yr22%15%20–35yr14%26%35–55yr14%37%55yr+

The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 10% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/61
the rest of the field
10%
697/6,652

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.

04the grantee network

49 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. 49 of the 82 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.

4
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
14
Early backer (in before they grew)
47/49
Grantees still filing
29/49
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

OLD WEST CHURCH — $140,000 · OtherOLD WEST CHURCHCHURCH OF THE COVENANT — $120,000 · OtherCHURCH OF THE COVENANTHISTORIC BOSTON INCORPORATED — $99,850 · OtherFIRST BAPTIST CHURCH OF DORCHESTER — $98,045 · OtherFIRST CONGREGATIONAL SOCIETY — $91,000 · OtherSECOND CHURCH IN DORCHESTER — $70,000 · OtherFOUNDATION FOR THE PRESERVATION OF 20 ARLINGTON STREET INC — $68,000 · Other+38 more — $1,296,956 · Other+38 moreFriends of Memorial Hall Inc — $95,000 · Arts & CultureFriends of Memor…SOCIETY FOR THE PRESERVATION OF NEW ENGL — $80,000 · Arts & CultureSOCIETY FOR THE …THE FOOTLIGHT CLUB — $52,500 · Arts & CultureTHE FOOTLIGHT CL…ARTISTS FOR HUMANITY INC — $46,601 · Arts & CultureARTISTS FOR HUMA…DORCHESTER HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC ATTN EARL TAYLOR PRESIDENT — $43,500 · Arts & CultureDORCHESTER HISTO…FRIENDS OF FENWAY STUDIOS INC — $34,000 · Arts & CultureFRIENDS OF FENWA…THE SHIRLEY-EUSTIS HOUSE ASSOCIATION — $30,000 · Arts & CultureTHE SHIRLEY-EUST…HUNTINGTON THEATRE CO INC — $30,000 · Arts & CultureHUNTINGTON THEAT…THE VILNA SHUL BOSTONS CENTER FOR JEWISH CULTURE INC — $25,000 · Arts & CultureREVOLUTIONARY SPACES INC — $25,000 · Arts & CultureCocoanut Grove Memorial Committee Inc — $25,000 · Arts & Culture+2 more — $19,584 · Arts & CultureNational Center of Afro American Artists — $150,000 · Human ServicesNational C…CHINESE ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL INC — $40,000 · Human ServicesCHINESE EC…PAIGE ACADEMY INC — $40,000 · Human ServicesPAIGE ACAD…CHINESE CONSOLIDATED BENEVOLENT ASSOCIATION OF NEW ENGLAND INC — $40,000 · Human ServicesCHINESE CO…JCAM CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC — $39,800 · Human ServicesJCAM CHARI…DEUTSCHES ALTENHEIM INC — $27,000 · Human ServicesDEUTSCHES …HALEY HOUSE INC & AFFILIATES — $80,000 · Housing & ShelterROSIE'S PLACE INC — $40,000 · Housing & ShelterDUDLEY NEIGHBORS INCORPORATED — $40,000 · Housing & ShelterBOSTON PUBLIC HOUSING CORPORATION — $40,000 · Housing & ShelterVIETNAM VETERANS WORKSHOP INC DBA NEW ENGLAND CENTER AND HOME FOR VETERANS — $40,000 · Housing & Shelter2LIFE COMMUNITIES INC — $30,000 · Housing & ShelterGENERAL FEDERATION OF WOMEN'S CLUBS — $43,000 · Community ImprovementDORCHESTER BAY ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION — $40,000 · Community ImprovementFund for Parks and Recreation - Boston — $40,000 · Community ImprovementSPONSOR INC — $40,000 · Community ImprovementROSLINDALE VILLAGE MAIN STREET INC — $30,000 · Community ImprovementJAMAICA PLAIN NEIGHBORHOOD DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION — $20,000 · Community ImprovementUNITED NEIGHBORS OF LOWER ROXBURY INC — $7,500 · Community ImprovementROSE FITZGERALD KENNEDY GREENWAY CONSERVANCY INC — $104,000 · Recreation & SportsWEST END HOUSE INC — $40,000 · Recreation & SportsEMERALD NECKLACE CONSERVANCY INC — $27,500 · Recreation & SportsBOSTON GREEN ACADEMY FOUNDATION INC — $50,000 · EducationNorth Bennet Street School — $40,000 · Education
Other$1,983,851Arts & Culture$506,185Human Services$336,800Housing & Shelter$270,000Community Improvement$220,500Recreation & Sports$171,500Education$90,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetNational Center of Afro American Artists — $150,000 over 3y, 44% of budgetROSE FITZGERALD KENNEDY GREENWAY CONSERVANCY INC — $104,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetHISTORIC BOSTON INCORPORATED — $99,850 over 1y, 4.0% of budgetFriends of Memorial Hall Inc — $95,000 over 4y, 40% of budgetHALEY HOUSE INC & AFFILIATES — $80,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetSOCIETY FOR THE PRESERVATION OF NEW ENGL — $80,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetOLD NORTH ILLUMINATED INC — $60,700 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetTHE FOOTLIGHT CLUB — $52,500 over 2y, 7.0% of budgetBOSTON GREEN ACADEMY FOUNDATION INC — $50,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetLEAGUE OF WOMEN FOR COMMUNITY SERVICE — $50,000 over 1y, 8.9% of budgetARTISTS FOR HUMANITY INC — $46,601 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetBOSTONIAN SOCIETY INC — $44,878 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetDORCHESTER HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC ATTN EARL TAYLOR PRESIDENT — $43,500 over 1y, 19% of budgetGENERAL FEDERATION OF WOMEN'S CLUBS — $43,000 over 1y, 37% of budgetGREATER BOSTON LEGAL SERVICES INC — $40,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetDORCHESTER BAY ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION — $40,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetNorth Bennet Street School — $40,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetCODMAN SQUARE HEALTH CENTER INC — $40,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWEST END HOUSE INC — $40,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetCHINESE ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL INC — $40,000 over 1y, 4.2% of budgetFund for Parks and Recreation - Boston — $40,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetBOSTON ARCHITECTURAL COLLEGE — $40,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetROSIE'S PLACE INC — $40,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetSPONSOR INC — $40,000 over 2y, 6.3% of budgetDUDLEY NEIGHBORS INCORPORATED — $40,000 over 1y, 7.2% of budgetPAIGE ACADEMY INC — $40,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetCHINESE CONSOLIDATED BENEVOLENT ASSOCIATION OF NEW ENGLAND INC — $40,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetBOSTON PUBLIC HOUSING CORPORATION — $40,000 over 1y, 14% of budgetVIETNAM VETERANS WORKSHOP INC DBA NEW ENGLAND CENTER AND HOME FOR VETERANS — $40,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetJCAM CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC — $39,800 over 2y, 9.4% of budgetBOSTON HARBOR NOW INC — $38,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetTHE SHIRLEY-EUSTIS HOUSE ASSOCIATION — $30,000 over 1y, 20% of budgetBENEVOLENT FRATERNITY OF UNITARIAN CHURCHES — $30,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetHUNTINGTON THEATRE CO INC — $30,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCampaign for the Ayer Mansion Inc — $30,000 over 1y, 94% of budget2LIFE COMMUNITIES INC — $30,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetEMERALD NECKLACE CONSERVANCY INC — $27,500 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetDEUTSCHES ALTENHEIM INC — $27,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE VILNA SHUL BOSTONS CENTER FOR JEWISH CULTURE INC — $25,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetCocoanut Grove Memorial Committee Inc — $25,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetJAMAICA PLAIN NEIGHBORHOOD DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION — $20,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetSUBSTATION COMMUNITY SUPPORTERS INC — $14,640 over 1y, 10% of budgetBOSTON CITY LIGHTS FOUNDATION INC — $4,944 over 2y, 2.9% of budgetTHE GIBSON SOCIETY INC — $1,838 over 2y, 0.7% of budget
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.

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.

Boston Foundation IncEastern Bank Foundati…Amelia Peabody Charit…Massachusetts Foundat…Legacy Fund for Bosto…Highland Street Conne…Riley Mabel Louise Tr…The Cabot Family Char…Liberty Mutual Founda…United Way Of Massach…Boston Charitable Tru…Fidelity Foundation
Boston Foundation IncMA41.1× affinity25 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Boston Foundation Inc · Eastern Bank Foundation · Amelia Peabody Charitable Fund Trust · Massachusetts Foundation for the Humanities & Public Policy Inc · Legacy Fund for Boston Inc · Highland Street Connection and Subsidiaries · Riley Mabel Louise Tr Uwill · The Cabot Family Charitable Trust · Liberty Mutual Foundation Inc · United Way Of Massachusetts Bay Inc · Boston Charitable Trust Fund City of Boston Trust Office · Fidelity Foundation

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 George B Henderson Foundation Jh5090 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 160%3%13%28%50%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 4%
  • Old North Illuminated Inc — 94% of income from government
  • Vietnam Veterans Workshop Inc Dba New England Center and Home for Veterans — 66% of income from government
  • Boston Green Academy Foundation Inc — 59% of income from government
  • Boston Harbor Now Inc — 45% of income from government
  • Revolutionary Spaces Inc — 20% of income from government
  • Roslindale Village Main Street Inc — 10% of income from government
  • Jamaica Plain Neighborhood Development Corporation — 9% of income from government
  • 2LIFE Communities Inc — 8% of income from government
  • Codman Square Health Center Inc — 7% of income from government
  • Huntington Theatre Co Inc — 4% of income from government
  • Greater Boston Legal Services Inc — 3% of income from government
  • West End House Inc — 2% of income from government
  • Society for the Preservation of New Engl — 2% of income from government
  • Artists for Humanity Inc — 2% of income from government
  • Sponsor Inc — 2% of income from government
  • Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy Greenway Conservancy Inc — 1% of income from government
  • Boston Architectural College — 1% of income from government
  • The Shirley-Eustis House Association — 0% of income from government
  • Emerald Necklace Conservancy Inc — 0% of income from government
  • Rosie's Place Inc — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
16get no government money at all
9report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
3rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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.

05Through Plinth

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How do I get to George B Henderson Foundation Jh5090?

Find your warmest path to George B Henderson Foundation Jh5090 through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 82 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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