· Private foundation
Henry Hornblower Fund Inc
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
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 $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 |
| JORDAN HOSPITAL CLUB | $25,000 |
| WILDLANDS TRUST | $25,000 |
| THE SALVATION ARMY | $25,000 |
| MASS AUDUBON | $25,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $20,000 |
| PLYMOUTH AREA COALITION FOR THE HOMELESS | $20,000 |
| PLYMOUTH CENTER FOR THE ARTS | $20,000 |
| PILGRIM SOCIETY | $20,000 |
| PLYMOUTH ANTIQUARIAN SOCIETY | $10,000 |
| PLYMOUTH PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA | $10,000 |
| PLYMOUTH FRAGMENT SOCIETY | $10,000 |
| PLYMOUTH PUBLIC LIBRARY | $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, $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 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 +50% since the first grant, against +16% for those 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
How this is measured
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%
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.
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…
How this is measured
35 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. 35 of the 59 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
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 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 PINE STREET INN INC ↗
- Who funds BENTLEY UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF THAYER ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds ROSIE'S PLACE INC ↗
- Who funds THE ADVENT SCHOOL CORPORATION ↗
- 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 ↗
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Henry Hornblower Fund Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Henry Hornblower Fund Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
- 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
How this is measured
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