Massachusetts · Private foundation
Howard E Stark Charitable Foundation
Its FY2026 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $378k
- Granted FY2026(still arriving)
- 20
- Grants FY2026
- 16
- Organizations funded FY2025
- 31%
- First-time grantees FY2025
- Median grant, FY2026
- $20,000
- Largest grant, FY2026
- $100,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 1 to 45
- FY2019 to FY2025
- States reached, FY2026
- 4
- Total assets, FY2026
- $2.1M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2025, 31% of the organizations Howard E Stark Charitable Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 9% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $23k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2026still arriving | 17 | $378k | 12% |
| FY2025 | 16 | $253k | 31% |
| FY2024 | 18 | $495k | 17% |
| FY2023 | 1 | $250k | 0% |
| FY2022 | 17 | $523k | 6% |
| FY2021 | 34 | $345k | 26% |
| FY2020 | 33 | $377k | 36% |
| FY2019 | 45 | $426k | 69% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.
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, FY2018 to FY2026, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Better Together Dog Rescue | $650,285 | 4 | 46% |
| Survival Centers Inc | $231,423 | 8 | 2% |
| Reaching Out Community Services Inc | $230,000 | 8 | 3% |
| Northampton Survival Center Inc | $227,795 | 8 | 2% |
| Neighbors Together Corporation | $220,000 | 8 | 3% |
| Circle of Hope Inc | $185,000 | 7 | 4% |
| Xavier Mission Inc | $150,000 | 8 | 2% |
| Bread & Roses Inc | $140,000 | 6 | 2% |
| Mommas Inc | $115,000 | 8 | 3% |
| Mission of Deeds Inc | $115,000 | 8 | 2% |
Show all 59 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 20 recipients with no EIN on record ($438k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Howard E Stark Charitable Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 45 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: Community Foundation of Western Massachusetts · The Beveridge Family Foundation · Easthampton Savings Bank Foundation Inc · Marguerite Jossel Charitable Foundation · Florence Savings Charitable Foundation Inc · Eastern Bank Foundation · Eversource Energy Foundation Inc · Arbella Insurance Foundation · Peoplesbank Charitable Foundation Inc · Project Bread-The Walk for Hunger Inc · Shatz Schwartz and Fentin Charitable Foundation · The Irene E and George A Davis Foundation
How this is measured
Compare Howard E Stark Charitable Foundation with peer funders
About Howard E Stark Charitable Foundation
- How much does Howard E Stark Charitable Foundation give?
- Howard E Stark Charitable Foundation reported 20 grants totaling $377,785 in its FY2026 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 45 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2025.
- What does Howard E Stark Charitable Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2026, its largest causes are Food & Nutrition (33%), Housing & Shelter (26%), Animals (21%).
- Who are Howard E Stark Charitable Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2018 to FY2026: Better Together Dog Rescue ($650k), Survival Centers Inc ($231k), Reaching Out Community Services Inc ($230k).
- Does Howard E Stark Charitable Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2025, 31% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Howard E Stark Charitable Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Howard E Stark Charitable Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Community Foundation of Western Massachusetts, The Beveridge Family Foundation, Easthampton Savings Bank Foundation Inc.
- Where is Howard E Stark Charitable Foundation based?
- Howard E Stark Charitable Foundation is based in MA.
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