Massachusetts · Private foundation
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.
- $3.1M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 78
- Grants FY2024
- 70
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 23%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $25,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $275,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 18 to 70
- FY2020 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 11
- Total assets, FY2024
- $55M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 23% of the organizations Highland Partners Charitable Fund funded were first-time grantees, receiving 19% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $543k 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 | 76 | $3.0M | 13% |
| FY2023 | 70 | $2.8M | 23% |
| FY2022 | 59 | $2.8M | 61% |
| FY2021 | 34 | $1.0M | 62% |
| FY2020 | 18 | $698k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 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, FY2020 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Appalachian Mountain Club | $930,000 | 5 | 1% |
| Greater Boston Food Bank Inc | $851,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Year Up Inc | $500,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Mab Community Services Inc | $450,000 | 5 | 0% |
| National Braille Press Inc | $350,000 | 5 | 2% |
| Young Men's Christian Association of Greater Boston Inc | $265,000 | 3 | 0% |
| The Mass Mentoring Partnership Inc | $250,000 | 3 | 3% |
| Breaktime United Inc | $250,000 | 3 | 2% |
| Uaspire Inc | $250,000 | 3 | 1% |
| Breakthrough Greater Boston Inc | $250,000 | 3 | 2% |
Show all 65 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 36 recipients with no EIN on record ($2.1M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Highland Partners Charitable Fund supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 64 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: 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
How this is measured
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About Highland Partners Charitable Fund
- How much does Highland Partners Charitable Fund give?
- Highland Partners Charitable Fund reported 78 grants totaling $3,137,776 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 18 and 70 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2023.
- What does Highland Partners Charitable Fund fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (22%), Health (12%), Food & Nutrition (11%).
- Who are Highland Partners Charitable Fund's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2024: Appalachian Mountain Club ($930k), Greater Boston Food Bank Inc ($851k), Year Up Inc ($500k).
- Does Highland Partners Charitable Fund fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 23% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Highland Partners Charitable Fund accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Highland Partners Charitable Fund?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Eastern Bank Foundation, Boston Foundation Inc, Cummings Foundation Grants Inc (Fka Oneworld Boston Inc).
- Where is Highland Partners Charitable Fund based?
- Highland Partners Charitable Fund is based in MA.
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