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High Pines Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$72k
Granted FY2025still arriving
15
Grants FY2025still arriving
6
States reached
$13k
Largest
01What you fund
0197% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172025.

Education$397kReligion$108kHealth$42kHuman Services$23kInternational$3kPhilanthropy$1kYouth Development$500Other$0
02FY2025 · 15 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k12 grants · $40k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $33k
$5,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$723k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
PATIENT ADVOCATE FOUNDATION$12,500
SAINT IGNATIUS SCHOOL$10,000
KOLBE CATHEDRAL PREPARATORY SCHOOL$10,000
LION CHARTER SCHOOL$7,500
FAMILY CENTERS$7,500
SHEPERDS INC$6,000
DARTMOUTH COLLEGE FUND$5,000
BOSTON UNIVERSITY$5,000
ABC IN DARIEN INC$2,250
AMERICARES$1,750
Individual grant recipient$1,000
AQUINAS HOUSE DARTMOUTH$1,000
ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE RESEARCH$1,000
PARTNERS IN HEALTH$1,000
DIOCESE OF BRIDGEPORT$500
02The need
03

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.

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Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 14%. 31% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 14%PARTNERS IN HEALTH: $1k → 16%DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDER: $1k → 17%SAINT IGNATIUS SCHOOL: $10k → 28%SHEPERDS INC: $13k → 9%CONNECTICUT ALZHEIMER'S ASSOCATION: $1k → 14%PATIENT ADVOCATE FOUNDATION: $13k → 14%DARTMOUTH COLLEGE: $50k → 10%BOSTON UNIVERSITY: $106k → 16%LION CHARTER SCHOOL: $8k → 28%KOLBE CATHEDRAL PREPARATORY SCHOOL: $10k → 9%PATIENT ADVOCATE FOUNDATION: $7k → 14%DARTMOUTH COLLEGE: $46k → 10%WHEELOCK COLLEGE: $5k → 16%SHEPERDS INC: $8k → 9%PATIENT ADVOCATE FOUNDATION: $6k → 14%DARTMOUTH COLLEGE: $39k → 10%BOSTON UNIVERSITY: $5k → 16%SHEPERDS INC: $8k → 9%PATIENT ADVOCATE FOUNDATION: $5k → 14%DARTMOUTH COLLEGE: $13k → 10%SHEPERDS INC: $8k → 9%PATIENT ADVOCATE FOUNDATION: $5k → 14%DARTMOUTH COLLEGE: $12k → 10%SHEPERDS INC: $8k → 9%PATIENT ADVOCATE FOUNDATION: $5k → 14%DARTMOUTH COLLEGE: $5k → 10%SHEPERDS INC: $8k → 9%DARTMOUTH COLLEGE FUND: $5k → 10%SHEPERDS INC: $6k → 9%DCF FINANCIAL AID: $5k → 10%SHEPERDS INC: $6k → 9%DARTMOUTH COLLEGE FUND: $5k → 10%DARTMOUTH COLLEGE: $4k → 10%WE STAND WITH CHRIST: $8k → 9%DARTMOUTH COLLEGE: $2k → 10%DIOCESE OF BRIDGEPORT: $8k → 9%DARTMOUTH COLLEGE: $2k → 10%WE STAND WITH CHRIST: $8k → 9%DIOCESE OF BRIDGEPORT: $2k → 9%ST THOMAS MORE PARISH: $54k → 9%ST THOMAS MORE PARISH: $28k → 9%ABC IN DARIEN INC: $2k → 9%ABC IN DARIEN INC: $1k → 9%AMERICARES: $2k → 9%FAMILY CENTERS: $8k → 9%FAMILY CENTERS: $8k → 9%FAMILY CENTERS: $6k → 9%FAMILY CENTERS: $2k → 9%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

93%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$380k · 11 repeat orgs$28k to everyone else

11 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

11
5

Total granted

$380k
$13k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+8%
+10%

Still filing today

55%
40%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 78% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $16k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationPhilanthropyInternationalHealthOther

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

  • TRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY
    2× · 2024–2025 · $111k · revenue +8%
  • SI
    SHEPHERDS INC
    8× · 2018–2025 · $64k · revenue +17%
  • FC
    FAMILY CENTERS INC
    4× · 2022–2025 · $23k · revenue +60%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2019 · $5k
  • WC
    WHEELOCK COLLEGE
    one grant, 2017 · $5k
  • PT
    PERSON TO PERSON INC
    one grant, 2023 · $1k · revenue +10%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Albany College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences

We educate the next generation of leaders to improve the health of our society.

Education
2
Mass General Brigham Incorporated & Affiliates Group Return

Mass general brigham incorporated is developing an integrated health care delivery system throughout the region that offers patients a continuum of coordinated, high-quality care.

Health
3
Yale New Haven Health Services Corporation

To support its member healthcare organizations further innovation and excellence in patient care, teaching, and research.

Health
4
University of Saint Joseph

The university provides a rigorous liberal arts and professional education for a diverse student population. (see schedule o for the organization's mission.)

Education
5
New York University

Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.

Education
6
Drexel University

Drexel university fulfills its founder's vision of preparing each new generation of students for productive professional and civic lives while also focusing its collective expertise on solving society's greatest problems. drexel is an…

Education
7
Western New England University

Western new england university, a comprehensive private institution with a tradition of excellence in teaching and scholarship and a commitment to service, awards undergraduate, master's, and doctoral degrees in various departments from…

Education
8
Management Sciences for Health Inc

(msh) saves lives and improves the health of the world's poorest (see schedule o) and most vulnerable people by closing the gap between knowledge and action in public health.

International
9
Access to Advanced Health Institute

Aahi is a nonprofit biotech research institute, bringing together the best experts, technologies, and platforms to create accessible, high-quality products and solutions for harnessing the immune system to alleviate disease.

Health
10
Bentley University

Organization's mission bentley university believes good business can impact more than the bottom line - it can change the world. bentley is a community of future business leaders who will deliver value in the marketplace and lasting…

Education
11
St Catherine University

We educate women to lead and influence. we educate at all degree levels through valuing and integrating the liberal arts and professional education within the catholic intellectual tradition, see schedule oemphasizing scholarly inquiry and…

Education
12
Southern California University of Health Sciences

The mission of southern california university of health sciences (scu) is to educate students as competent, caring and successful practitioners of integrative healthcare. the university is committed to providing excellence in academics,…

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Person to Person Inc and the most unlike its peers is Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation. 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

12 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 12 of the 23 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
11/12
Grantees still filing
6/12
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

TRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY — $110,946 · OtherTRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITYST THOMAS MORE PARISH — $82,427 · OtherST THOMAS MORE PARISHFAMILY CENTERS INC — $23,000 · OtherFAMILY CENTERS INCWe Stand With Christ Inc — $15,000 · OtherSAINT IGNATIUS SCHOOL — $12,000 · Other+12 more — $57,000 · Other+12 moreTrustees of Dartmouth College — $171,530 · EducationTrustees of Dartmouth CollegeSHEPHERDS INC — $64,405 · EducationSHEPHERDS INCPATIENT ADVOCATE FOUNDATION — $40,000 · EducationPATIENT ADVOCATE FOUNDATIONAMERICARES FOUNDATION INC — $1,750 · InternationalPERSON TO PERSON INC — $1,000 · PhilanthropyPARTNERS IN HEALTH A NONPROFIT CORPORATION — $1,000 · Health
Other$300,373Education$275,935International$1,750Philanthropy$1,000Health$1,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetTrustees of Dartmouth College — $171,530 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY — $110,946 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSHEPHERDS INC — $64,405 over 8y, 2.7% of budgetPATIENT ADVOCATE FOUNDATION — $40,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetFAMILY CENTERS INC — $23,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetWe Stand With Christ Inc — $15,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetWHEELOCK COLLEGE — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetA BETTER CHANCE IN DARIEN INC — $3,500 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetAMERICARES FOUNDATION INC — $1,750 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPERSON TO PERSON INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPARTNERS IN HEALTH A NONPROFIT CORPORATION — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMAYHEW — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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 Trustees of Dartmouth College
  • Who funds TRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY
  • Who funds SHEPHERDS INC
  • Who funds PATIENT ADVOCATE FOUNDATION
  • Who funds FAMILY CENTERS INC
  • Who funds We Stand With Christ Inc
  • Who funds WHEELOCK COLLEGE
  • Who funds A BETTER CHANCE IN DARIEN INC
  • Who funds AMERICARES FOUNDATION INC
  • Who funds PERSON TO PERSON INC
  • Who funds PARTNERS IN HEALTH A NONPROFIT CORPORATION
  • Who funds MAYHEW

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.

The Bank of America Charitable Foundation IncNC10.2× affinity5 shared granteesties to 6 of 6Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 High Pines Foundation 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.

2025
202122232425
no gov · 30%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 12%
  • Family Centers Inc16% of income from government
  • Trustees of Boston University12% of income from government
  • Person to Person Inc5% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get 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 · 0–40%
typical government reliance, FY2025

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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 23 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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