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Hildreth Stewart Charitable Foundation
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 FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k28 grants · $106k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $65k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $167k
- $250k+1 grant · $1.0M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MAURICIO GASTON INSTITUTE FOR LATINO COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT & PUBLIC POLICY | $1,000,000 |
| THE BOSTON FOUNDATION | $116,503 |
| CHELSEA COLLABORATIVE | $50,000 |
| HILDRETH INSTITUTE INC | $40,000 |
| BROOKWOOD SCHOOL | $15,000 |
| TRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY | $10,000 |
| BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF HARTFORD | $9,755 |
| KINGSLEY MONTESSORI SCHOOL | $8,000 |
| ROCKPORT EXCHANGE | $6,000 |
| HOLY FAMILY PARISH | $6,000 |
| KINGSWOOD OXFORD SCHOOL | $6,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| THATCHER ISLAND | $5,000 |
| HARTFORD STAGE | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $501k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 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.
59 repeat relationships — 26 still active in FY2024, 33 since wound down; 7 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, 17% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.0M 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
HILDRETH INSTITUTE INC7× · 2018–2024 · $1.2M · revenue +16% · 96% of their budget
TRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY6× · 2017–2024 · $922k · revenue +45%
LA VIDA INC7× · 2017–2024 · $551k · revenue +228% · 34% of their budget
Funded once
- UAUNIVERSITY ADVANCEMENT-UMASS BOSTONone grant, 2023 · $1.0M
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2018 · $333k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2020 · $300k
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 organization's primary exempt purpose is to provide access to and conduct activities in furtherance of higher education.
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.
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…
Wheaton college provides a transformative liberal arts education, combining theory and practice, for intellectually curious students within a collaborative and vibrant extended community and network that values and strives to create an…
Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.
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…
The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
Massachusetts education and career opportunities, inc. (massedco, inc.) is a statewide network of service sites that provides education and career advising to over 12,000 low-income, first generation individuals each year. massedco…
Saint anselm is a catholic, benedictine college providing all of its students a distinctive liberal arts education that incorporates opportunities for professional and career preparation. it does so in a learning community that encourages…
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,…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is University of Massachusetts Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Thacher & Straitsmouth Islands Association. 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 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 10% 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.
66 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. 66 of the 135 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 Boston Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds INVERSANT INC ↗
- Who funds HILDRETH INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds ZERO DEBT MASSACHUSETTS INC ↗
- Who funds LA VIDA INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Economic Empowerment Trust Fund ↗
- Who funds LA COLABORATIVA INC ↗
- Who funds GREATER BOSTON LEGAL SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds Salem State University Alumni Association and Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds BROOKWOOD SCHOOL INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF THE COLLEGE OF THE HOLY CROSS ↗
- Who funds THE SAWYER LIBRARY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Urban College Of Boston ↗
- Who funds HILDRETH INSTITUTE ACTION FUND ↗
- Who funds Greater Cleveland Neighborhood Centers ↗
- Who funds ROCKPORT MUSIC INC ↗
- Who funds Woodwell Climate Research Center Inc ↗
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: Boston Foundation Inc · Eastern Bank Foundation · Essex County Community Foundation Inc · Institution for Savings in Newburyport & Its Vicinity Charitable Foundation Inc · Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc · United Way Of Massachusetts Bay Inc · Cummings Foundation Grants Inc (Fka Oneworld Boston Inc) · The Klarman Family Foundation · Novack Family Foundation · People's United Community Foundation of Eastern Massachusetts Inc · Highland Street Connection and Subsidiaries · Salem Five Charitable Foundation 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 Hildreth Stewart Charitable 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.
- Pathways for Childreninc — 86% of income from government
- Seniorcare Inc — 82% of income from government
- Roca Inc — 78% of income from government
- Jewish Vocational Service Inc — 39% of income from government
- Cape Ann Museum Inc — 38% of income from government
- La Colaborativa Inc — 34% of income from government
- Immigrants' Assistance Center Inc — 14% of income from government
- Trustees of Tufts College — 13% of income from government
- Trustees of Boston University — 12% of income from government
- English for New Bostonians Inc — 11% of income from government
- Woodwell Climate Research Center Inc — 11% of income from government
- La Vida Inc — 11% of income from government
- Social Capital Inc — 11% of income from government
- Wellspring House Inc — 9% of income from government
- Massachusetts Immigrant and Refugee Advocacy Coalition Inc — 8% of income from government
- President and Fellows of Harvard College — 7% of income from government
- Rockport Music Inc — 4% of income from government
- Shelter Music Boston Inc — 4% of income from government
- Greater Boston Legal Services Inc — 3% of income from government
- Hartford Stage Company Inc — 3% of income from government
- Peabody Essex Museum Inc — 3% of income from government
- Breaktime United Inc — 1% of income from government
- Rockport Art Association — 0% of income from government
- Kingswood Oxford School 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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