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Heney Charitable Trust

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$58k
Granted FY2020
15
Grants FY2020
2
States reached
$5k
Largest
01What it funds
0162% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Food & Nutrition$13kHealth$5kCrime & Legal$3kHuman Services$3kEnvironment$3kEducation$2kYouth Development$1kCivil Rights$1kOther$0
02FY2020 · 15 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 15 grants below total $29,071, the rows itemized in this filing. The $58,214 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $29,143 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.
$1,786
Median grant
2
States reached
$745k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Great Boston Food Bank$5,000
The Marshall Project$3,000
Health Choice Massac$3,000
Wildlands Trust$2,500
Weymouth Food Pantry$2,500
Newton Food Pantry$2,000
Hanover Food Pantry$2,000
The Home for little wonderers$1,786
Dana Farber Cancer Institue$1,785
Care Packs, Inc.$1,000
Friendship Home$1,000
Pembroke Food Pantry$1,000
Adolescent Consultation$1,000
Family Diversity Pro$1,000
WBUR$500
02Its 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.

1
Greater Boston Food Bank Inc

Our costs consist of acquiring, sorting and distributing food to 617 member agencies, transportation and logistics, and community outreach to 69 direct distribution sites such as gbfb mobile markets, and federal distributions for low…

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2
Wellfleet Food Pantry

To address food insecurity and provide food to members of the community in need, and all ancillary matters related thereto.

Education
3
The Peoples Pantry

Our mission is to respectfully serve our neighbors experiencing food insecurity by distributing healthy food, locally sourced whenever feasible.

Food & Nutrition
4
Merrimack Valley Food Bank Inc

The focus of the merrimack valley food bank is to help meet a person's most profound need - adequate nutrition and freedom from hunger. only through cooperative efforts can society initiate change, develop strategies to alleviate hunger,…

Food & Nutrition
5
Food Link Inc

Food link is working to create a more equitable food system throughout greater boston by rescuing and distributing high-quality, customized food to under-resourced communities and by advocating for systems change.

Food & Nutrition
6
Dedham Food Pantry Charitable Trust

To provide food assistance to families in Dedham, MA.

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7
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
8
Tewksbury Community Pantry Inc

The heart of the tewksbury community pantry's mission lies in our commitment to assist residents of tewksbury facing hardships. we extend beyond mere food distribution, offering guidance towards additional resources, ensuring our clients…

Human Services
9
Belmont Food Pantry Inc

To provide food and assistance for residents of belmont, massachusetts who feel compelled to ask for food and/or assistance. the sole activity of the organization is to operate a food pantry run exclusively by volunteers in the town.

Food & Nutrition
10
Worcester County Food Bank Inc

To engage, educate and lead worcester county in creating a hunger free community.

Food & Nutrition
11
Central Ma Food Rescue Inc

Full belly foods purchases food from farms and wholesalers and donates the food to low-income communities across the country.

Food & Nutrition
12
Wakefield Food Pantry Inc

To provide food assistance to Wakefield residents in need.

Religion
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Wildlands Trust Inc; the most unlike its peers is Carepacks. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
03the grantee network

9 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. 9 of the 15 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/9
Grantees still filing
6/9
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Great Boston Food Bank: $5,000 · OtherGreat Boston Food BankHealth Choice Massac: $3,000 · OtherHealth Choice MassacWEYMOUTH COUNCIL FOR THE HUNGRY INC: $2,500 · OtherWEYMOUTH COUNCIL FOR THE HUNGRY INCHanover Food Pantry: $2,000 · OtherHanover Food PantryThe Home for little wonderers: $1,786 · OtherThe Home for little wonderersFamily Diversity Pro: $1,000 · OtherFamily Diversity ProAdolescent Consultation: $1,000 · OtherAdolescent Consultation+1 more: $500 · OtherTHE MARSHALL PROJECT INC: $3,000 · Community ImprovementTHE MARSHAL…NEWTON FOOD PANTRY INC: $2,000 · Food & NutritionNEWTON FOOD…PEMBROKE FOOD PANTRY: $1,000 · Food & NutritionPEMBROKE FO…WILDLANDS TRUST INC: $2,500 · EnvironmentWILDLANDS…Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: $1,785 · HealthCAREPACKS: $1,000 · EducationFRIENDSHIP HOME INC: $1,000 · Human Services
Other$16,786Community Improvement$3,000Food & Nutrition$3,000Environment$2,500Health$1,785Education$1,000Human Services$1,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTHE MARSHALL PROJECT INC: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWILDLANDS TRUST INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetWEYMOUTH COUNCIL FOR THE HUNGRY INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetDana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: $1,785 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDSHIP HOME INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPEMBROKE FOOD PANTRY: $1,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetTRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

Arbella Insurance FoundationMA15.6× affinity5 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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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.
03Through Plinth

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How do I get to Heney Charitable Trust?

Find your warmest path to Heney Charitable Trust 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 15 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2020, released 2020. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports $52k of grant expense with no grantee named in the published copy. A private foundation itemizes every grant it makes, so a return carrying none has filed its list as an attachment that the public copy does not include. The figures above are therefore from FY2020, the most recent year this funder’s grantee list reached the public record.

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