· Private foundation
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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| HOLY FAMILY PARISH | $6,000 |
| ROCKPORT EXCHANGE | $6,000 |
| KINGSWOOD OXFORD SCHOOL | $6,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| CAPE ANN MUSEUM | $5,000 |
| CHELSEA PUBLIC SCHOOLS | $5,000 |
| WOODWELL CLIMATE RESEARCH | $5,000 |
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 (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 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.
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
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
HILDRETH INSTITUTE INC7× · 2018–2024 · $1.2M · revenue +80% · 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
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 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,…
How this is measured
66 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. 66 of the 135 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 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 Greater Cleveland Neighborhood Centers ↗
- Who funds Urban College Of Boston ↗
- Who funds HILDRETH INSTITUTE ACTION FUND ↗
- Who funds ROCKPORT MUSIC INC ↗
- Who funds Woodwell Climate Research Center 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: 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Hildreth Stewart Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Hildreth Stewart Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- 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
How this is measured
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