· Private foundation
Henry Hornblower Fund Inc
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k14 grants · $56k
- $10k–50k15 grants · $286k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $170k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE HOWLAND FUND INC | $170,000 |
| BID PLYMOUTH FAMILY FUND | $30,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $26,000 |
| MASS AUDUBON | $25,000 |
| THE SALVATION ARMY | $25,000 |
| JORDAN HOSPITAL CLUB | $25,000 |
| WILDLANDS TRUST | $25,000 |
| PILGRIM SOCIETY | $20,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $20,000 |
| PLYMOUTH CENTER FOR THE ARTS | $20,000 |
| PLYMOUTH AREA COALITION FOR THE HOMELESS | $20,000 |
| PLYMOUTH PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA | $10,000 |
| PLYMOUTH ANTIQUARIAN SOCIETY | $10,000 |
| PLYMOUTH FRAGMENT SOCIETY | $10,000 |
| PLIMOTH PATUXET MUSEUMS | $10,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $32k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +50% since the first grant, against +16% for the ones you funded once.
40 repeat relationships — 28 still active in FY2024, 12 since wound down; 2 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, 62% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $196k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- FFFORGES FOUNDATION6× · 2017–2023 · $555k · revenue +363% · 34% of their budget
- TPThe Pilgrim Society8× · 2017–2024 · $153k · revenue +137%
- WTWILDLANDS TRUST INC8× · 2017–2024 · $143k · revenue +34%
Funded once
- FOFRIENDS OF FIRST PARISHone grant, 2017 · $25k
- PAPLYMOUTH AREA COALITION FORone grant, 2021 · $21k
- NBNEW BEDFORD LIGHTone grant, 2023 · $20k · revenue -1%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Unite goodness and knowledge and inspire youth from every quarter to lead purposeful lives. [text in quotations is taken from the academy's deed of gift, drafted in 1781] knowledge and goodness "above all, it is expected that the attention…
To promote understanding of the history of massachusetts and the nation by collecting and communicating materials and resources that foster historical knowledge.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
Dartmouth College educates the most promising students and prepares them for a lifetime of learning and of responsible leadership, through a faculty dedicated to teaching and the creation of knowledge.
Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…
The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.
A preschool through 12th grade, private, college preparatory school. the school's mission statement is "together, cultivating the best in each for the benefit of all."
Wentworth institute of technology is a nationally recognized private coeducational and residential university of higher education with a mission to empower, inspire and innovate through experiential learning with a core purpose of career…
Phillips academy is a coeducational, boarding school located in andover, massachusetts for students in grades nine through twelve and post-graduates. the school strives to help young people from diverse backgrounds achieve their potential…
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,…
Mission strengthened by more than a century and a half of dedication to academic excellence, boston college commits itself to the highest standards of teaching and research in undergraduate, graduate and professional programs and to the…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Trustees of Thayer Academy Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Fragment Society. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 68 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
35 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 35 of the 59 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds FORGES FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE PLYMOUTH EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE HOWLAND FUND INC ↗
- Who funds The Pilgrim Society ↗
- Who funds WILDLANDS TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds JORDAN HOSPITAL CLUB INC ↗
- Who funds PLIMOTH PATUXET MUSEUMS INC ↗
- Who funds EEL RIVER BEACH CLUB INC ↗
- Who funds Plymouth Antiquarian Society ↗
- Who funds PLYMOUTH PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA INC ↗
- Who funds PLYMOUTH AREA COALITION FOR THE HOMELESS ↗
- Who funds PLYMOUTH FRAGMENT SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds KIMBALL UNION ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds GOVERNOR DUMMER ACADEMY THE GOVERNOR'S ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds CROSSROADS FOR KIDS INC ↗
- Who funds MILTON ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds ROSIE'S PLACE INC ↗
- Who funds BENTLEY UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds PINE STREET INN INC ↗
- Who funds THE ADVENT SCHOOL CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF THAYER ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS ↗
- Who funds BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC ↗
- Who funds Plymouth Public Library Corporation ↗
- Who funds THE TRUSTEES OF RESERVATIONS ↗
- Who funds NEW BEDFORD LIGHT ↗
- Who funds THE NATHAN HALE FOUNDATION INC ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Roberta M Childs Charitable Foundation · Mary Elizabeth Pearce Foundation Tr · Gardinor-Prunaret Foundation · Eastern Bank Foundation · Fidelity Foundation · Rockland Trust Charitable Foundation Inc · North Easton Savings Bank Charitable Foundation Inc · Arbella Insurance Foundation · Plymouth Community Charitable Foundation Inc · Edgar & Pauline Main Family Foundation · E Joseph Evans Charitable Trust Janet Alfieri Trustee · Gene & Ruth Posner Foundation Inc
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Henry Hornblower Fund Inc funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Plymouth 400 Inc — 91% of income from government
- Pine Street Inn Inc — 11% of income from government
- Economic Mobility Pathways Inc — 6% of income from government
- Wildlands Trust Inc — 5% of income from government
- The Trustees of Reservations — 2% of income from government
- St Johnsbury Athenaeum Inc — 2% of income from government
- The Pilgrim Society — 1% of income from government
- Governor Dummer Academy the Governor's Academy — 1% of income from government
- Crossroads for Kids Inc — 1% of income from government
- Plimoth Patuxet Museums Inc — 1% of income from government
- Bentley University — 1% of income from government
- Boston Symphony Orchestra Inc — 0% of income from government
- Museum of Fine Arts — 0% of income from government
- Rosie's Place Inc — 0% of income from government
- Milton Academy — 0% of income from government
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.
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