Massachusetts · Private foundation
Henderson Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $586k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 73
- Grants FY2024
- 76
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 18%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $4,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $100,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 76 to 103
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 14
- Total assets, FY2024
- $6.9M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 18% of the organizations Henderson Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 15% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $84k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 72 | $581k | 22% |
| FY2023 | 76 | $575k | 18% |
| FY2022 | 81 | $540k | 19% |
| FY2021 | 103 | $648k | 24% |
| FY2020 | 98 | $499k | 23% |
| FY2019 | 91 | $545k | 23% |
| FY2018 | 90 | $494k | 24% |
| FY2017 | 92 | $479k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Center for Security Policy Inc | $235,000 | 8 | 2% |
| The Salisbury School Educational Foundation Inc | $171,500 | 8 | 52% |
| Project Quest | $159,400 | 7 | 1% |
| Project Veritas | $135,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Silentbridge | $108,500 | 3 | 29% |
| Food Bank of the Rockies | $90,000 | 6 | 0% |
| The Boston Woodwind Society Inc | $78,000 | 6 | 68% |
| Child Liberation Foundation Inc | $75,000 | 1 | n/a |
| American Foreign Policy Council | $72,000 | 7 | 1% |
| The Saco River Theatre | $69,000 | 6 | 6% |
Show all 145 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 83 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.6M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Henderson Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 5 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 134 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 loosely connected circle, clustered around a few shared anchors.
Open a dossier: Middlesex Savings Charitable Foundation Inc · Sarah Scaife Foundation Incorporated · Boston Foundation Inc · Community Foundation for MetroWest Inc · Donors Trust Inc · Cummings Foundation Grants Inc (Fka Oneworld Boston Inc) · Maine Community Foundation Inc · Community Foundation of the Eastern Shor · The William H Donner Foundation Inc · William D Lynch Foundation For Children · The Jebediah Foundation 7563-Xxxxxx00129 · Eric Javits Family Foundation
How this is measured
About Henderson Foundation
- How much does Henderson Foundation give?
- Henderson Foundation reported 73 grants totaling $586,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 76 and 103 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does Henderson Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (24%), Health (15%), Arts & Culture (14%).
- Who are Henderson Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Center for Security Policy Inc ($235k), The Salisbury School Educational Foundation Inc ($172k), Project Quest ($159k).
- Does Henderson Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 18% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Henderson Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Henderson Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Middlesex Savings Charitable Foundation Inc, Sarah Scaife Foundation Incorporated, Boston Foundation Inc.
- Where is Henderson Foundation based?
- Henderson Foundation is based in MA.
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