Massachusetts · Private foundation
George B Henderson Foundation Jh5090
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $457k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 12
- Grants FY2025
- 15
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 73%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $40,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $50,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 10 to 15
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $6.0M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 73% of the organizations George B Henderson Foundation Jh5090 funded were first-time grantees, receiving 84% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 16% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $357k 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 | 12 | $457k | 75% |
| FY2024 | 15 | $425k | 73% |
| FY2023 | 13 | $423k | 54% |
| FY2022 | 13 | $439k | 85% |
| FY2021 | 13 | $396k | 54% |
| FY2020 | 11 | $375k | 82% |
| FY2019 | 10 | $358k | 70% |
| FY2018 | 12 | $372k | 92% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| National Center of Afro American Artists | $150,000 | 3 | 44% |
| Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy Greenway Conservancy Inc | $104,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Historic Boston Incorporated | $99,850 | 1 | 4% |
| First Baptist Church of Dorchester | $98,045 | 3 | n/a |
| Friends of Memorial Hall Inc | $95,000 | 4 | 40% |
| Society for the Preservation of New Engl | $80,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Haley House Inc & Affiliates | $80,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Old North Illuminated Inc | $60,700 | 2 | 1% |
| The Footlight Club | $52,500 | 2 | 7% |
| Boston Green Academy Foundation Inc | $50,000 | 1 | 11% |
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What it could do for these grantees
Plus 21 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.0M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
George B Henderson Foundation Jh5090 supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 4 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 44 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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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 George B Henderson Foundation Jh5090
- How much does George B Henderson Foundation Jh5090 give?
- George B Henderson Foundation Jh5090 reported 12 grants totaling $457,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 10 and 15 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does George B Henderson Foundation Jh5090 fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Religion (30%), Arts & Culture (27%), Housing & Shelter (8%).
- Who are George B Henderson Foundation Jh5090's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: National Center of Afro American Artists ($150k), Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy Greenway Conservancy Inc ($104k), Historic Boston Incorporated ($100k).
- Does George B Henderson Foundation Jh5090 fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 73% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does George B Henderson Foundation Jh5090 accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as George B Henderson Foundation Jh5090?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Boston Foundation Inc, Eastern Bank Foundation, Amelia Peabody Charitable Fund Trust.
- Where is George B Henderson Foundation Jh5090 based?
- George B Henderson Foundation Jh5090 is based in MA.
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