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Henry Family Foundation at a glance

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Henry Family Foundation

Its FY2023 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$245k
Granted FY2023
18
Grants FY2023
8
States reached
$100k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2023.

Environment$418kArts & Culture$97kEducation$89kAnimals$26kSocial Science$25kFood & Nutrition$8kHuman Services$5kHealth$4kOther$0
02FY2023 · 18 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2023

  • Under $10k11 grants · $24k
  • $10k–50k6 grants · $121k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $100k
$5,000
Median grant
8
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
GRAND CANYON CONSERVANCY$100,000
SOUTHWEST WILDLIFE CONSERVATION CTR$25,000
FOUNTAIN HILLS THEATER$25,000
HARVARD BUSINESS SCHOOL$25,000
ARIZONA MUSICFEST$25,000
THE THACHER SCHOOL$11,000
MISS PORTER'S SCHOOL$10,000
NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY$5,000
EXTENDED HANDS FOOD BANK$5,000
WHEATON COLLEGE$5,000
PROCTOR ACADEMY$1,500
ART ODYSSEY ARIZONA INC$1,500
DUKE UNIVERSITY$1,000
HIGH COUNTRY NEWS$1,000
SKIDMORE COLLEGE$1,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY20–23) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 99% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%ART ODYSSEY ARIZONA INC: $20k → 11%GRAND CANYON CONSERVANCY: $150k → 16%WHEATON COLLEGE: $5k → 11%Northeastern University: $5k → 16%THE THACHER SCHOOL: $11k → 10%SKIDMORE COLLEGE: $1k → 7%MISS PORTER'S SCHOOL: $10k → 11%CHOATE ROSEMARY HALL: $1k → 12%DUKE UNIVERSITY: $1k → 11%HIGH COUNTRY NEWS: $1k → 15%PROCTOR ACADEMY: $2k → 7%ART ODYSSEY ARIZONA INC: $2k → 11%GRAND CANYON CONSERVANCY: $150k → 16%WHEATON COLLEGE: $5k → 11%NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY: $5k → 16%The Thacher School: $3k → 10%SKIDMORE COLLEGE: $1k → 7%MISS PORTER'S SCHOOL: $1k → 11%DUKE UNIVERSITY: $1k → 11%HIGH COUNTRY NEWS: $1k → 15%PROCTOR ACADEMY: $1k → 7%Art Odyssey Arizona: $2k → 11%GRAND CANYON CONSERVANCY: $100k → 16%WHEATON COLLEGE: $5k → 11%NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY: $5k → 16%THACHER SCHOOL: $3k → 10%SKIDMORE COLLEGE: $1k → 7%Miss Porter's School: $1k → 11%ART ODYSSEY ARIZONA INC: $2k → 11%GRAND CANYON CONSERVANCY: $5k → 16%Wheaton College: $3k → 11%NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY: $5k → 16%THACHER SCHOOL: $2k → 10%Grand Canyon Conservancy: $5k → 16%PHOENIX ART MUSEUM: $2k → 11%GRAND CANYON CONSERVANCY: $5k → 16%PHOENIX ART MUSEUM: $2k → 11%ARIZONA MUSICFEST: $25k → 11%BHHS LEGACY FOUNDATION: $2k → 11%SOUTHWEST WILDLIFE CONSERVATION CTR: $25k → 11%BHHS LEGACY FOUNDATION: $2k → 11%ARIZONA MUSICFEST: $5k → 11%ARIZONA MUSICFEST: $3k → 11%EXTENDED HANDS FOOD BANK: $5k → 11%SCOTTSDALE COMMUNITY PARTNERS: $2k → 11%SCOTTSDALE COMMUNITY PARTNERS: $2k → 11%SUNSHINE ACRES: $2k → 11%SUNSHINE ACRES: $2k → 11%0%20%40%50%more need →
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.

Which US states its grants reach

NH
NY
MA
CT
RI
CA
CO
AZ
NC
FL
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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

91%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$619k · 19 repeat orgs$58k to everyone else

19 repeat relationships: 12 still active in FY2023, 7 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

19
1

Total granted

$619k
$1k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+49%
+49%

Still filing today

79%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 77% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $57k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23
EducationArts & CultureEnvironmentAnimalsHealthFood & NutritionOther
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

  • GRAND CANYON CONSERVANCY
    4× · 2020–2023 · $415k · revenue +161%
  • FH
    FOUNTAIN HILLS THEATER INC
    4× · 2020–2023 · $37k · revenue +26%
  • AM
    ARIZONA MUSICFEST INC
    3× · 2021–2023 · $33k · revenue +309%

Funded once

  • PC
    PHOENIX COUNTRY DAY SCHOOLgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $1k · revenue +49%
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.

1
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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2
Augustana College

Rooted in the liberal arts & sciences & lutheran expression of the christian faith, & is committed to offering a challenging education that develops qualities of mind, spirit, & body necessary for a rewarding life of leadership & service…

Education
3
University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education
4
President and Fellows of Harvard College

Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.

Education
5
Wilson College

Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.

Education
6
Williams College

Williams College strives to achieve educational excellence by fostering a community of learning in collaboration with students, faculty, staff, devoted alumni and parents.

Education
7
President and Trustees of Bates College

Bates is a college of the liberal arts and sciences, and is a coeducational, nonsectarian, residential college with special commitments to academic rigor, and to assuring in all of its efforts the dignity of each individual, and access to…

Education
8
Pitzer College

Pitzer College produces engaged socially responsible citizens of the world through an academically rigorous, interdisciplinary liberal arts education emphasizing social justice, intercultural understanding and environmental sensitivity.…

Education
9
Saint Anselm College

Saint anselm is a catholic, benedictine college providing all of its students a distinctive liberal arts education that incorporates opportunities for professional and career preparation. it does so in a learning community that encourages…

Education
10
Westminster College

The mission of westminster college is to help students develop competencies, commitments, and characteristics which have distinguished human beings at their best. see continuation on schedule o.the liberal arts tradition is the foundation…

Education
11
Lehigh University

The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…

Education
12
Dean College

Dean college is a private, residential new england college grounded in a culture and tradition that all students deserve the opportunity to discover and exceed their greatest aspirations. a personal and transformative community since 1865,…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Phoenix Country Day School; the most unlike its peers is Grand Canyon Conservancy. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

22 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. 22 of the 26 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
21/22
Grantees still filing
20/22
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

GRAND CANYON CONSERVANCY: $415,000 · EnvironmentGRAND CANYON CONSERVANCY+1 more: $3,000 · EnvironmentWHEATON COLLEGE: $21,500 · EducationWHEATON COLLEG…NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY: $20,000 · EducationNORTHEASTERN U…The Thacher School Inc: $18,500 · EducationThe Thacher Sc…MISS PORTER'S SCHOOL INC: $13,000 · EducationMISS PORTER'S …PROCTOR ACADEMY: $4,500 · EducationDUKE UNIVERSITY: $4,000 · EducationSKIDMORE COLLEGE: $3,500 · Education+3 more: $3,500 · EducationFOUNTAIN HILLS THEATER INC: $37,000 · Arts & CultureFOUNTAIN HIL…ARIZONA MUSICFEST INC: $32,500 · Arts & CultureARIZONA MUSI…PHOENIX ART MUSEUM: $3,000 · Arts & CultureHARVARD BUSINESS SCHOOL: $25,000 · OtherHARVARD BU…ART ODYSSEY ARIZONA INC: $24,500 · OtherART ODYSSE…BHHS Legacy Foundation: $4,000 · OtherBHHS Legac…SUNSHINE ACRES: $4,000 · OtherSUNSHINE A…WESTMINSTER VILLAGE FOUNDATION: $3,000 · Other+1 more: $2,000 · OtherSOUTHWEST WILDLIFE CONSERVATION CENTER: $25,000 · Animals+1 more: $500 · AnimalsEXTENDED HANDS FOOD BANK: $5,000 · Food & NutritionSCOTTSDALE COMMUNITY PARTNERS: $4,000 · HealthBROWN UNIVERSITY: $500 · Community Improvement
Environment$418,000Education$88,500Arts & Culture$72,500Other$62,500Animals$25,500Food & Nutrition$5,000Health$4,000Community Improvement$500

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetGRAND CANYON CONSERVANCY: $415,000 over 4y, 1.2% of budgetFOUNTAIN HILLS THEATER INC: $37,000 over 4y, 5.6% of budgetARIZONA MUSICFEST INC: $32,500 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetSOUTHWEST WILDLIFE CONSERVATION CENTER: $25,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetWHEATON COLLEGE: $21,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetNORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY: $20,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetThe Thacher School Inc: $18,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetMISS PORTER'S SCHOOL INC: $13,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetEXTENDED HANDS FOOD BANK: $5,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetPROCTOR ACADEMY: $4,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetBHHS Legacy Foundation: $4,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSCOTTSDALE COMMUNITY PARTNERS: $4,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetDUKE UNIVERSITY: $4,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSKIDMORE COLLEGE: $3,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetHIGH COUNTRY NEWS: $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetWESTMINSTER VILLAGE FOUNDATION: $3,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetPHOENIX ART MUSEUM: $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetROLLINS COLLEGE: $1,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPHOENIX COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHOATE ROSEMARY HALL FOUNDATION INCORPORATED: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMASSACHUSETTS SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBROWN 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.

Arizona Community Fou…The Bank of America C…Vanguard Charitable E…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Arizona Community FoundationAZ12.9× affinity4 shared granteesties to 5 of 5Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Arizona Community Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving 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 Henry Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Henry Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%8%15%22%30%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Northeastern University: 7% of income from government
  • Rollins College: 0% of income from government
  • Wheaton College: 0% of income from government
  • Choate Rosemary Hall Foundation Incorporated: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–30%
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.

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 26 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 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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The camps
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