· Private foundation
Hidden Spring Foundation
Its FY2025 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, FY2020 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k18 grants · $65k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SALVE REGINA ACADEMY | $10,000 |
| BOSTON HEALTHCARE FOR THE HOMELESS | $8,031 |
| HARVARD PUBLIC CULTURE PROJECT | $5,022 |
| GROTON SCHOOL | $5,007 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD | $5,007 |
| BELMONT HILL SCHOOL | $5,000 |
| ECCLESIA MINISTRIES | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $4,500 |
| LOAVES AND FISHES FOOD PANTRY | $4,000 |
| EPIPHANY SCHOOL | $3,750 |
| HORIZONS FOR HOMELESS CHILDREN | $3,522 |
| SORRENTO LIBRARY | $2,500 |
| MANO EN MANO | $2,500 |
| WOMEN FOR HEALTHY RURAL LIVING | $2,500 |
| EPIPHANY SCHOOL EARLY LEARNING CENTER | $2,250 |
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 (FY20–25, $27k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 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.
25 repeat relationships: 14 still active in FY2025, 11 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 66% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $25k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
THE EPIPHANY SCHOOL INC6× · 2020–2025 · $43k · revenue +185%
GROTON SCHOOL6× · 2020–2025 · $22k · revenue +32%
BOSTON HEALTH CARE FOR THE HOMELESS PROGRAM INC4× · 2022–2025 · $20k · revenue +49%
Funded once
- HCHARVARD COLLECTION OF HISTORICAL SCIENTIFIC INSTRUMENTSone grant, 2022 · $7k
- COCOLLECTION OF HISTORICAL SCIENTIFIC INSTRUMENTS HARVARD UNIVERSITYone grant, 2020 · $6k
- EMECCELSIA MINISTRIESone grant, 2023 · $6k
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.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
The organization's mission is to encourage and support the facility's residents in maintaining family and life long relationships through the operation of a 36-bed residential care facility in salem, massachusetts. brookhouse home welcomes…
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…
Maine Historical Society, founded in 1822, is a private non-profit whose mission is to preserve and share Maine's story. Based in Portland, we work closely with communities and partners throughout the state, and serve a statewide and…
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.
Laboure college provides high-quality education and prepares women and men for careers in nursing and allied health fields.
Provider of pediatric healthcare, education, research & community service
Brookview's mission is to help homeless and at risk families learn the skills necessary to break the cycle of homelessness and poverty.
Harbor Care's mission is to provide vital services, including housing and healthcare to all in our communities needing assistance. Our vision is one where everyone gets to live safe, stable, and healthy lives, filled with purpose, respect…
The mission of the beth israel deaconess hospital-plymouth, inc. (bid-plymouth or hospital) is to improve the health and well-being of its patients and communities by providing a full continuum of healthcare services with excellence and…
Project hope is a multi service agency that moves families up and out of poverty.project hope works in partnership with women and families in the dorchester and roxbury neighborhoods of boston on their journeys up and out of poverty. we do…
How this is measured
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 42 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 THE EPIPHANY SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds PEABODY ESSEX MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds GROTON SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds BOSTON HEALTH CARE FOR THE HOMELESS PROGRAM INC ↗
- Who funds BELMONT HILL SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds LOAVES AND FISHES FOOD PANTRY ↗
- Who funds LITTLE SAPLINGS CHILD CARE CENTER ↗
- Who funds ARMENIAN INTERNATIONAL DENTAL ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE OF NEW ENGLAND INC ↗
- Who funds SORRENTO PUBLIC LIBRARY ↗
- Who funds Hand in Hand Mano en Mano ↗
- Who funds WOMEN FOR HEALTHY RURAL LIVING ↗
- Who funds The President and Trustees of Colby College ↗
- Who funds HORIZONS FOR HOMELESS CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds TRANSITION HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds SAINT FRANCIS HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds CHARLES RIVER EPISCOPAL CO-HOUSING ENDEAVOR INC ↗
- Who funds BREAKING GROUND HOUSING DEVELOPMENT FUND CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds WOMEN'S LUNCH PLACE 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: Maine Community Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Hidden Spring Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Hidden Spring Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Transition House Inc: 39% of income from government
- International Institute of New England Inc: 24% of income from government
- Horizons for Homeless Children: 21% of income from government
- Saint Francis House Inc: 18% of income from government
- Women's Lunch Place Inc: 8% of income from government
- Boston Health Care for the Homeless Program Inc: 8% of income from government
- Peabody Essex Museum Inc: 3% of income from government
- Friends of the Public Garden Inc: 1% of income from government
- The Epiphany School Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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