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Highland Partners Charitable Fund
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k21 grants · $99k
- $10k–50k37 grants · $893k
- $50k–250k18 grants · $1.6M
- $250k+2 grants · $530k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| NEWTON WELLELSEY HOSPITAL | $275,000 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUB-NEWPORT COUNTY | $255,000 |
| GREATER BOSTON YMCA | $225,000 |
| GREATER BOSTON FOOD BANK | $201,000 |
| APPALACHIAN MOUNTAIN CLUB | $180,000 |
| MAB COMMUNITY SERVICES | $150,000 |
| SUDBURY VALLEY TRUSTEES | $100,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA | $100,000 |
| YEAR UP | $100,000 |
| CAPITAL CITY MEDICAL TEAMS | $60,525 |
| NATIONAL BRAILLE PRESS | $50,000 |
| NEWTON COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL | $50,000 |
| NEW ENLAND INNOCENCE PROJECT | $50,000 |
| MASS GENERAL HOSPITAL | $50,000 |
| BREAKTIME UNITED INC | $50,000 |
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 (FY21–24, $465k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 96% 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 +29% since the first grant, against +26% for the ones you funded once.
74 repeat relationships — 66 still active in FY2024, 8 since wound down; 10 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, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $178k 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
Appalachian Mountain Club5× · 2020–2024 · $930k · revenue +92%- GBGREATER BOSTON FOOD BANK INC5× · 2020–2024 · $851k · revenue +1%
- MCMAB COMMUNITY SERVICES INC5× · 2020–2024 · $450k · revenue +92%
Funded once
- NFNEWTON FREE LIBRARYone grant, 2020 · $150k
- PEPLAYWORKS EDUCATION ENERGIZEDone grant, 2020 · $50k · revenue -14%
Catie's Closet Incgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $20k · revenue +26%
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.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
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.
Organization's mission: boston university is an international, comprehensive, private research university, committed to educating students to be reflective, resourceful individuals ready to live, adapt, and lead in an interconnected world.…
The organization's primary exempt purpose is to provide access to and conduct activities in furtherance of higher education.
New england law/boston dedicates itself to preparing students to be successful lawyers and leaders in the public and private sectors through integrated practical, theoretical and ethical education of the highest caliber and to contributing…
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…
Our mission is to ensure that the people of greater boston benefit from a vibrant, resilient, and inclusive waterfront, harbor, and islands; these spaces are equitable, accessible, and adapted to climate change; and to ensure our public,…
Bb&n, an all gender day school in cambridge, massachusetts, was established in 1974 by the merger of two independent schools, the buckingham school and the browne & nichols school, founded respectively in 1889 and 1883. located on multiple…
Provider of pediatric healthcare, education, research & community service
The Boston Public Library provides educational and cultural enrichment free to all by engaging the public through programming and active spaces, restoring and preserving our history, providing access to borrow from our vast collection of…
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…
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…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Childrens Museum and the most unlike its peers is The Anderson Foundation. 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 38 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% 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 13% 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.
67 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. 67 of the 104 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 Appalachian Mountain Club ↗
- Who funds GREATER BOSTON FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds YEAR UP INC ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA ↗
- Who funds MAB COMMUNITY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL BRAILLE PRESS INC ↗
- Who funds YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF GREATER BOSTON INC ↗
- Who funds Boston Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds THE MASS MENTORING PARTNERSHIP INC ↗
- Who funds UASPIRE INC ↗
- Who funds BREAKTIME UNITED INC ↗
- Who funds BREAKTHROUGH GREATER BOSTON INC ↗
- Who funds CAPITOL CITY MEDICAL TEAMS ↗
- Who funds VICTORY PROGRAMS INC ↗
- Who funds JACOBS & CUSHMAN SAN DIEGO FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds BRIDGE OVER TROUBLED WATERS INC ↗
- Who funds BENEVOLENT FRATERNITY OF UNITARIAN CHURCHES ↗
- Who funds SUDBURY VALLEY TRUSTEES INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST ↗
- Who funds WOMEN'S LUNCH PLACE INC ↗
- Who funds BOSTON HEALTH CARE FOR THE HOMELESS PROGRAM INC ↗
- Who funds NEW ENGLAND INNOCENCE PROJECT ↗
- Who funds LITERATIONS CORP ↗
- Who funds BOSTON PARTNERS IN EDUCATION INC ↗
- Who funds MINDS MATTER OF BOSTON INC ↗
- Who funds BELMONT HILL SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds VOICES FOR CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds NEWTON FOOD PANTRY INC ↗
- Who funds SUMMER SEARCH ↗
- Who funds EMERALD NECKLACE CONSERVANCY INC ↗
- Who funds THE FRANCIS OUIMET SCHOLARSHIP FUND INC ↗
- Who funds Special Operations Fund ↗
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: Eastern Bank Foundation · Boston Foundation Inc · Cummings Foundation Grants Inc (Fka Oneworld Boston Inc) · Highland Street Connection and Subsidiaries · Liberty Mutual Foundation Inc · Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc · American Tower Corporation Foundation Inc · Bushrod H Campbell & Adah F Hall Charity Fund · The New England Patriots Charitable Foundation Inc · Rockland Trust Charitable Foundation Inc · The Hamilton Company Charitable Foundation · United Way Of Massachusetts Bay 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 Highland Partners Charitable Fund 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.
- Mab Community Services Inc — 69% of income from government
- The Mass Mentoring Partnership Inc — 63% of income from government
- Victory Programs Inc — 49% of income from government
- Bridge Over Troubled Waters Inc — 32% of income from government
- More Than Words Inc — 24% of income from government
- Greater Boston Food Bank Inc — 22% of income from government
- Hyde Park Art Association Inc — 18% of income from government
- New England Innocence Project — 12% of income from government
- New England Aquarium Corporation — 12% of income from government
- Sudbury Valley Trustees Inc — 11% of income from government
- Boston Community Pediatrics Inc — 10% of income from government
- Silver Lining Mentoring Inc — 10% 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
- University of Miami — 5% of income from government
- Friends of the Children - Boston Inc — 4% of income from government
- Catie's Closet Inc — 4% of income from government
- Familyaid Boston Inc — 4% of income from government
- Breakthrough Greater Boston Inc — 2% of income from government
- The Trustees of Reservations — 2% of income from government
- Commonwealth Zoological Corporation D/B/a Zoo New England — 2% of income from government
- The Childrens Museum — 1% of income from government
- Appalachian Mountain Club — 1% of income from government
- Plimoth Patuxet Museums Inc — 1% of income from government
- The Institute of Contemporary Art Inc — 1% of income from government
- Breaktime United Inc — 1% of income from government
- Hyde Park Main Streets Inc — 1% of income from government
- Uaspire Inc — 1% of income from government
- Emerald Necklace Conservancy Inc — 0% of income from government
- Year Up Inc — 0% of income from government
- Rosie's Place Inc — 0% of income from government
- National Braille Press Inc — 0% of income from government
- Pan-Massachusetts Challenge Inc — 0% of income from government
- Boston Foundation Inc — 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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