· 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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k57 grants · $170k
- $10k–50k13 grants · $196k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $221k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| LIONHEART CLASSICAL ACADEMY | $100,000 |
| MT AUBURN HOSPITAL | $70,000 |
| SILENT BRIDGE | $51,000 |
| THE ASSOCIATION OF FOREIGN PRESS CORRESPONDENTS IN THE UNITED STATES | $24,000 |
| FOOD BANK OF THE ROCKIES | $23,000 |
| SD USA | $23,000 |
| SALISBURY SCHOOL EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION | $22,500 |
| SALVATION ARMY | $15,000 |
| AMERICAN AGRI-WOMEN RESOURCE CENTER | $15,000 |
| SACO RIVER THEATRE | $13,000 |
| UNITED HELP UKRAINE | $10,000 |
| NEWTON WELLESLEY HOSPITAL | $10,000 |
| ACCURACY IN MEDIA | $10,000 |
| HALO TRUST | $10,000 |
| CENTER FOR SECURITY POLICY | $10,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $453k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 75% 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.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +43% since the first grant, against +16% for those funded once.
132 repeat relationships: 56 still active in FY2024, 76 since wound down; 16 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $110k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- TSTHE SALISBURY SCHOOL EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INC8× · 2017–2024 · $172k · revenue +607% · 52% of their budget
- PQPROJECT QUEST7× · 2017–2023 · $159k · revenue +78%
- PVPROJECT VERITAS6× · 2017–2022 · $135k · revenue +158%
Funded once
- CLChild Liberation Foundation Incgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $75k · revenue ×13
- PPPOLARIS PROJECTone grant, 2021 · $44k · revenue -31%
- NYNEW YORK FAMILY ENTERPRISE CENTERone grant, 2017 · $20k
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.
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How this is measured
143 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 143 of the 232 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
Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 CENTER FOR SECURITY POLICY INC ↗
- Who funds THE SALISBURY SCHOOL EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds PROJECT QUEST ↗
- Who funds PROJECT VERITAS ↗
- Who funds Trustees of Dartmouth College ↗
- Who funds SILENTBRIDGE ↗
- Who funds FOOD BANK OF THE ROCKIES ↗
- Who funds THE BOSTON WOODWIND SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds Child Liberation Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FOREIGN POLICY COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds The Saco River Theatre ↗
- Who funds Leadership Institute ↗
- Who funds ROCKY MOUNTAIN PUBLIC MEDIA INC ↗
- Who funds ITHACA COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds POLARIS PROJECT ↗
- Who funds NEADS INC ↗
- Who funds OpenStage Theatre and Co Inc ↗
- Who funds THE LOOMIS INSTITUTE D/B/A THE LOOMIS CHAFFEE SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds CONNECTICUT COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds Wellesley College ↗
- Who funds BELMONT HILL SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds WELLS COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds ACCURACY IN MEDIA INC ↗
- Who funds HILLSDALE COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds Monadnock Community Hospital ↗
- Who funds OPERA FORT COLLINS INC ↗
- Who funds Public Radio for the Front Range ↗
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Henderson Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Henderson Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Hias Inc: 88% of income from government
- Vinfen Corporation: 83% of income from government
- The Edinburg Center Inc: 81% of income from government
- Minuteman Senior Services Inc: 73% of income from government
- Springwell Inc: 68% of income from government
- Diakonia Inc: 51% of income from government
- The Parents' Place of Maryland Inc: 30% of income from government
- Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: 7% of income from government
- The Walden Woods Project: 6% of income from government
- Connecticut Children's Medical Center: 5% of income from government
- Special Olympics Massachusetts Inc: 1% of income from government
- Neads Inc: 1% of income from government
- New England Conservatory of Music: 1% of income from government
- Wellesley College: 1% of income from government
- Worcester County Food Bank Inc: 1% of income from government
- Connecticut College: 0% of income from government
- Amherst College Trustees: 0% of income from government
- Museum of Fine Arts: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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