Massachusetts · Private foundation
Henry Hornblower Fund Inc
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $512k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 30
- Grants FY2024
- 30
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 7%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $170,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 29 to 39
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 2
- Total assets, FY2024
- $3.8M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 7% of the organizations Henry Hornblower Fund Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 7% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $30k 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 | 30 | $512k | 7% |
| FY2023 | 30 | $439k | 7% |
| FY2022 | 29 | $422k | 17% |
| FY2021 | 31 | $481k | 10% |
| FY2020 | 29 | $292k | 3% |
| FY2019 | 30 | $246k | 13% |
| FY2018 | 32 | $384k | 9% |
| FY2017 | 39 | $392k | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Forges Foundation | $555,000 | 6 | 34% |
| The Plymouth Education Foundation Inc | $192,762 | 8 | 22% |
| The Howland Fund Inc | $170,000 | 1 | 77% |
| The Pilgrim Society | $152,500 | 8 | 3% |
| Wildlands Trust Inc | $143,000 | 8 | 1% |
| Jordan Hospital Club Inc | $135,500 | 8 | 15% |
| Plimoth Patuxet Museums Inc | $125,150 | 7 | 1% |
| Eel River Beach Club Inc | $100,500 | 7 | 5% |
| Plymouth Antiquarian Society | $80,000 | 8 | 6% |
| Plymouth Philharmonic Orchestra Inc | $71,852 | 8 | 2% |
Show all 38 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 21 recipients with no EIN on record ($801k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Henry Hornblower Fund Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 4 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 35 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 tightly interlocked group: 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
How this is measured
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About Henry Hornblower Fund Inc
- How much does Henry Hornblower Fund Inc give?
- Henry Hornblower Fund Inc reported 30 grants totaling $511,500 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 29 and 39 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does Henry Hornblower Fund Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Environment (23%), Arts & Culture (22%), Education (15%).
- Who are Henry Hornblower Fund Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Forges Foundation ($555k), The Plymouth Education Foundation Inc ($193k), The Howland Fund Inc ($170k).
- Does Henry Hornblower Fund Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 7% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Henry Hornblower Fund Inc accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Henry Hornblower Fund Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Roberta M Childs Charitable Foundation, Mary Elizabeth Pearce Foundation Tr, Gardinor-Prunaret Foundation.
- Where is Henry Hornblower Fund Inc based?
- Henry Hornblower Fund Inc is based in MA.
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