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Holt & Bugbee Foundation Inc at a glance

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Holt & Bugbee Foundation Inc

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.

$42k
Granted FY2025still arriving
4
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$18k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0197% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.

Education$120kYouth Development$35kFood & Nutrition$30kHuman Services$15kCommunity Improvement$12kArts & Culture$10kScience & Tech$9kAnimals$5kOther$0
02FY2025 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k1 grant · $3k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $40k
$12,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$266k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
TEWKSBURY MEMORIAL HIGH SCHOOL$17,500
A WORKSHOP OF OUR OWN CO FUSION PARTNERSHIPS INC$12,000
NORTH BENNET STREET SCHOOL$10,000
PARTNERS IN CHILD DEVELOPMENT$2,500
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY21–25, $20k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%LA COLABORATIVE: $5k → 16%PROFESSIONAL CENTER FOR HANDICAPPED CHILDREN INC: $3k → 10%PARTNERS IN CHILD DEVELOPMENT: $3k → 10%PARTNERS IN CHILD DEVELOPMENT: $3k → 10%TEWKSBURY COMMUNITY PANTRY: $5k → 8%THE PROFESSIONAL CENTER FOR CHILD DEVELOPMENT: $3k → 10%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

69%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$184k · 8 repeat orgs$84k to everyone else

8 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

8
8

Total granted

$184k
$72k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+1%
+123%

Still filing today

63%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 71% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $12k went to new ones.

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

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesFood & NutritionYouth DevelopmentEducationRecreation & SportsOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • UI
    UTEC Inc
    2× · 2023–2024 · $35k · revenue +1%
  • NB
    North Bennet Street School
    3× · 2023–2025 · $30k · revenue +20%
  • PI
    PARTNERS IN CHILD DEVELOPMENT INC
    4× · 2021–2025 · $10k · revenue +45%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2020 · $30k
  • TM
    TEWKSBURY MEMORIAL HIGH CHOOL
    one grant, 2023 · $15k
  • BREAD & ROSES INCgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue +91%
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Loaves & Fishes Food Pantry Inc

Loaves & fishes' mission is to provide nutritious food, in an atmosphere of kindness and respect, to individuals in need who reside in ayer, devens, dunstable, groton, harvard, littleton, and shirley, massachusetts.

Human Services
2
Massachusetts Education & Career Opportunities Inc

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…

Education
3
Our Neighbors' Table Inc

The Organization is committed to establishing a community that provides for the whole person with nourishing food, kindness and dignity. The Organization provides food directly to those experiencing food insecurity while also directing the…

Human Services
4
The Open Pantry of Greater Lowell Inc

The mission of The Open Pantry is to relieve hunger in our community. We aim to connect people to a variety of filling, nutritious, and culturally-appropriate food as well as to other community resources; to advocate on behalf of those in…

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5
Greater Boston Food Bank Inc

Our costs consist of acquiring, sorting and distributing food to 617 member agencies, transportation and logistics, and community outreach to 69 direct distribution sites such as gbfb mobile markets, and federal distributions for low…

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6
Massachusetts Avenue Project Inc

The mission of Massachusetts Avenue Project is to nurture the growth of a diverse and equitable community food system and promote local economic opportunities, access to affordable, nutritious food and social-change education.

Human Services
7
Bedford Community Table-Pantry Inc

To fight food insecurity and honor the dignity of all community members by supporting food assistance efforts in and around Bedford, MA.

Human Services
8
Feed Every Need

Feed Every Need is fighting hunger and food insecurity in Vermont by providing prepared meals to partner organizations for distribution to htose in need.

Food & Nutrition
9
Community Cooks Inc

Community cooks mobilizes individuals, businesses, civic educational and faith-based groups to prepare home-cooked food for vulnerable populations seeking assistance from human service agencies throughout greater boston. the agency…

Food & Nutrition
10
Berk County Regional Employment Board

To provide policy guidance, selection and oversight and to organize programs for the purpose of work force development in berkshire county, massachusetts.

Employment
11
Berkshire Food Project Inc

To alleviate hunger, food insecurity and social isolation by serving healthy and dignified noontime meals every weekday by providing education in making good, nutritional choices and by helping people access available food resources.

Food & Nutrition
12
Root Ns Inc

Root's mission is to help young adults create a pathway to independence through food service training and employment. by developing essential life and work readiness skills, youth leave root prepared for success in the workplace.

Food & Nutrition
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is La Colaborativa Inc; the most unlike its peers is Bread and Roses Heritage Committee Inc. 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

9 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. 9 of the 17 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/9
Grantees still filing
7/9
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

STUDENT SCHOLARSHIPS CO TEWKSBURY M: $40,000 · OtherSTUDENT SCHOLARSHIPS CO TEWKSBURY MTEWKSBURY MEMORIAL HIGH SCHOOL: $35,000 · OtherTEWKSBURY MEMORIAL HIGH SCHOOLIndividual grant recipient: $30,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientCHALLENGE UNLIMITED INC: $15,000 · OtherCHALLENGE UNLIMITED INCTEWKSBURY MEMORIAL HIGH CHOOL: $15,000 · OtherTEWKSBURY MEMORIAL HIGH CHOOLA WORKSHOP OF OUR OWN CO FUSION PARTNERSHIPS INC: $12,000 · OtherA WORKSHOP OF OUR OWN CO FUSION PARTNERSHIPS INCTEWKSBURY MEMORIAL HIGH SCHOOL ROBOTICS CLUB: $9,000 · OtherTEWKSBURY MEMORIAL HIGH SCHOOL ROBOTICS CLUB+2 more: $7,000 · OtherUTEC Inc: $35,000 · Youth DevelopmentUTEC IncNorth Bennet Street School: $30,000 · EducationNorth Bennet…PARTNERS IN CHILD DEVELOPMENT INC: $10,000 · Human ServicesTEWKSBURY COMMUNITY PANTRY INC: $5,000 · Human ServicesLA COLABORATIVA INC: $5,000 · Human ServicesBREAD AND ROSES HERITAGE COMMITTEE INC: $10,250 · Recreation & SportsBREAD & ROSES INC: $5,231 · Food & NutritionMERRIMACK VALLEY FOOD BANK INC: $5,000 · Food & Nutrition
Other$163,000Youth Development$35,000Education$30,000Human Services$20,000Recreation & Sports$10,250Food & Nutrition$10,231

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetUTEC Inc: $35,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetNorth Bennet Street School: $30,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCHALLENGE UNLIMITED INC: $15,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetBREAD AND ROSES HERITAGE COMMITTEE INC: $10,250 over 2y, 13% of budgetPARTNERS IN CHILD DEVELOPMENT INC: $10,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetBREAD & ROSES INC: $5,231 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTEWKSBURY COMMUNITY PANTRY INC: $5,000 over 1y, 4.5% of budgetMERRIMACK VALLEY FOOD BANK INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLA COLABORATIVA INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
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 UTEC Inc ↗
  • Who funds North Bennet Street School ↗
  • Who funds CHALLENGE UNLIMITED INC ↗
  • Who funds BREAD AND ROSES HERITAGE COMMITTEE INC ↗
  • Who funds PARTNERS IN CHILD DEVELOPMENT INC ↗
  • Who funds BREAD & ROSES INC ↗
  • Who funds TEWKSBURY COMMUNITY PANTRY INC ↗
  • Who funds MERRIMACK VALLEY FOOD BANK INC ↗
  • Who funds LA COLABORATIVA 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.

Eastern Bank Foundati…The Bulens Family Fou…Essex County Communit…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Eastern Bank FoundationMA15.3× affinity5 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Eastern Bank Foundation · The Bulens Family Foundation · Essex County Community Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Holt & Bugbee Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Holt & Bugbee Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 40%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from government →median 34%
  • Utec Inc: 46% of income from government
  • La Colaborativa Inc: 34% of income from government
  • Partners in Child Development Inc: 31% of income from government
  • Merrimack Valley Food Bank Inc: 3% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
4get no government money at all
1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 17 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

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

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