How much does Healing Heroes Foundation Inc give?

Healing Heroes Foundation Inc reported 9 itemized grants totaling $161,530, out of $203,162 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 7 and 10 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2023.

What does Healing Heroes Foundation Inc fund?

By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2025, its largest causes are Recreation & Sports (48%), Health (27%), Philanthropy (13%).

Who are Healing Heroes Foundation Inc's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2018 to FY2025: One Mission Inc ($176k), Heart Warrior Foundation ($107k), Worcester Firefighters 6k Road Race Inc ($56k).

Does Healing Heroes Foundation Inc fund new organizations?

In FY2023, 38% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Where is Healing Heroes Foundation Inc based?

Healing Heroes Foundation Inc is based in MA.

Healing Heroes Foundation Inc

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Healing Heroes Foundation Inc

Q: Which funders back the same organizations as Healing Heroes Foundation Inc?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc, American Online Giving Foundation Inc, Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund.

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$203k

Granted FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$56k

Largest

01What it funds

01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.

Recreation & Sports$445kHealth$253kPhilanthropy$119kHuman Services$32kYouth Development$31kPublic Safety & Disaster$20kCommunity Improvement$19kCrime & Legal$6k

02FY2025 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured

The 9 grants below total $161,530, the rows itemized in this filing. The $203,162 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $41,632 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k4 grants · $23k
$10k–50k4 grants · $82k
$50k–250k1 grant · $56k

$19,000

Median grant

States reached

$41k

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
WORCESTER FIREFIGHTERS 6K	$56,250
OPERATION CROSSCHECK	$21,740
HEART WARRIOR FOUNDATION	$21,459
KIDS IN DISABILITY SPORTS INC	$19,884
RANDOM SMILES PROJECT INC	$19,000
ALZHEIMER'S ASSOCIATION	$6,506
PICK-UP PUCKS HOCKEY INC	$6,231
GOATS CHARITY ATHLETIC CLUB	$5,300
COPS FOR KIDS WITH CANCER	$5,160

02The need

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY18–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 97% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

How this is measured

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

How this is measured

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.

Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 100% of Healing Heroes Foundation Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 98% of the giving stays in MA; by stated purpose, 0%.

Healing Heroes Foundation Inclessmore of its giving

Placed by recipient address

How this is measured

Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.

03Its grantees

repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

69%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$636k · 11 repeat orgs$289k to everyone else

11 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$636k

$181k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+36%

+97%

Still filing today

27%

29%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 33% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $109k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

PhilanthropyHealthYouth DevelopmentPublic Safety & DisasterCommunity ImprovementOther

How this is measured

First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

OM
ONE MISSION INC
5× · 2018–2023 · $176k · revenue +26%
HW
HEART WARRIOR FOUNDATION
5× · 2018–2025 · $107k · revenue +36%
KI
KIDS IN DISABILITY SPORTS INC
2× · 2018–2025 · $27k · revenue +246%

Funded once

FF
FAMILIA FAMILY FOUNDATION
one grant, 2021 · $60k
WF
WORCESTER FIREFIGHTERS 6K
one grant, 2023 · $32k
T1
THE 1ST LIEUTENANT DEREK HINES SOLD
one grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue +18%

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.

04Its field

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.

Shoot Down Kids Cancer Foundation

Health

Warrior Kids Foundation

Health

Ocean State Cancer Crushers

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Riding for the Cure

Health

Dirrells Chance Foundation Inc

Help find cure for cancer and support children with cancer

Human Services

The Kirtland Cancer Foundation

Health

Williams Cancer Foundation

—

Discovery to Cure Foundation Inc

Health

Austin Wade Foundation

Children battling cancer

Unclassified

Shivers Cancer Foundation

Philanthropy

Daisie Foundation

Unclassified

Jamies Run Inc

Jamie's Run honors the short life of Jamie Lynne Knotts who died in 2010 of a rare liver cancer at 5 1/2 months old. The annual event raises money for the Center for Cancer and Blood Disorders at Connecticut Children's, to fund the search…

Health

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Cops for Kids With Cancer Inc; the most unlike its peers is Heart Warrior Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

05the grantee network

11 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. 11 of the 30 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

11/11

Grantees still filing

7/11

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$551,729Health$191,204Philanthropy$126,895Youth Development$27,209Community Improvement$19,000Public Safety & Disaster$9,205

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.

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.

The Bank of America Charitable Foundation IncNC6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

How this is measured

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Healing Heroes Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Healing Heroes Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

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0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%

typical government reliance, FY20–25

How this is measured

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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

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