· Private foundation
Howard E Stark Charitable Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k5 grants · $23k
- $10k–50k11 grants · $230k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| REACHING OUT COMMUNITY SERVICES | $25,000 |
| NEIGHBORS TOGETHER | $25,000 |
| Amherst Survival Center | $25,000 |
| CIRCLE OF HOPE | $25,000 |
| THE NORTHAMPTON SURVIVAL CENTER | $25,000 |
| ACE PROGRAMS FOR THE HOMELESS | $25,000 |
| BREAD AND ROSES | $20,000 |
| MISSION OF DEEDS | $15,000 |
| MOMMAS INC | $15,000 |
| OPEN PANTR COMMUNITY SERVICES | $15,000 |
| XAVIER MISSION | $15,000 |
| FRIENDS OF MACC | $5,000 |
| OLD DOGS GO TO HELEN | $5,000 |
| FRIENDS OF MAURY COUNTY ANIMAL SERV | $5,000 |
| BLIND DOG RESCUE ALLIANCE | $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 (FY18–25, $691k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 52% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +44% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
35 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2025, 24 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 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
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
- BTBetter Together Dog Rescue3× · 2022–2024 · $525k · revenue +99% · 46% of their budget
- SCSURVIVAL CENTERS INC7× · 2018–2025 · $206k · revenue +208%
- NSNORTHAMPTON SURVIVAL CENTER INC7× · 2018–2025 · $203k · revenue +44%
Funded once
- TSTRINITY SVCS FOOD FOR THE HOMELESSone grant, 2019 · $50k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2018 · $10k
- ABAMHERST BOYS & GIRLS CLUB INCone grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue -99%
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.
Dog orphans, inc., was founded in 1971 by a small group of animal lovers dedicated to saving dogs from pain and suffering. we house stray, homeless and unwanted dogs until suitable permanent homes are found. we teach and promote the…
Animal rescue league of new bedford, inc., d/b/a humane society & shelter-southcoast, provides services to reduce the number of homeless pets. the organization provides quarantine services to other rescue organizations bringing animals…
Rescue and rehome animals
Brown dog coalition and rescue limited works to evaluate, transport, and rehome companion animals to approved rescues and adopters. the organization promotes the adoption of homeless animals and encourages spay and neutering through…
Our mission is to rescue, rehabilitate and provide safe haven for abandoned, abused and neglected companion and farm animals and promote humane education.
At Paws From Afar Rescue, a 501c3, New England foster based dog rescue, where the wagging tails meet their happy tails. Our mission is a joyful one: to sprinkle a little magic in matching rescue dogs with their perfect human buddies.
Sophies circle provides pet food to financially challenged families in an ongoing effort to keep pets in their homes. we also rescue, rehabilitiate and rehome dogs and cats in private foster homes until we find them their forever home.
The mission of the Animal Shelter of Marthas Vineyard is to provide shelter, health care, lover and support to all domestic animals until a permanent home is found for them.
Sheltering and rehoming abandoned and unwanted pets
The Organization's mission is to rescue dogs from high-kill animal shelters and place them in loving forever homes. All dogs rescued are given necessary medical care prior to adoption, including required vaccinations. Dogs are placed in…
To rehabilitate terriers who are homeless and in need of medical care
C.A.R.E works to assist families and individuals experiencing financial hardship with spay/neuter services. All pets in the sheltering programs receive medical care, vaccinations, feline leukemia testing and are spayed and neutered before…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Survival Centers Inc and the most unlike its peers is Southern Nevada Animal Rescue League. 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 18 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 13% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 5% lost their exemption, against 11% 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.
51 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. 51 of the 77 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 Better Together Dog Rescue ↗
- Who funds SURVIVAL CENTERS INC ↗
- Who funds REACHING OUT COMMUNITY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds NORTHAMPTON SURVIVAL CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds NEIGHBORS TOGETHER CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds CIRCLE OF HOPE INC ↗
- Who funds XAVIER MISSION INC ↗
- Who funds BREAD & ROSES INC ↗
- Who funds Mission of Deeds Inc ↗
- Who funds Mommas Inc ↗
- Who funds REBUILDING TOGETHER LONG ISLAND INC ↗
- Who funds OPEN PANTRY COMMUNITY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds Lorraine's Soup Kitchen and Pantry Inc ↗
- Who funds St Johns Bread & Life Program Inc ↗
- Who funds ISLAND HARVEST LTD ↗
- Who funds HONEST BEGINNINGS INC ↗
- Who funds SIBLING CONNECTIONS INC ↗
- Who funds THE SATO PROJECT ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY HARVEST PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds DONORSCHOOSEORG ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FARMS OUTREACH INC ↗
- Who funds AMHERST BOYS & GIRLS CLUB INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF CHICOPEE INC ↗
- Who funds Just Roots Inc ↗
- Who funds MARCH OF DIMES INC ↗
- Who funds SECOND CHANCE ANIMAL SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds PA PETS INC ↗
- Who funds THE ENCHANTED CIRCLE INC ↗
- Who funds BEST FRIENDS ANIMAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF MACC ↗
- Who funds SPOONFULS ↗
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: 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
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 Howard E Stark 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.
- Hitchcock Center for the Environment Inc — 55% of income from government
- Valley Opportunity Council Inc — 25% of income from government
- Community Farms Outreach Inc — 20% of income from government
- Community Harvest Project Inc — 18% of income from government
- Just Roots Inc — 15% of income from government
- Manna Soup Kitchen — 15% of income from government
- Sibling Connections Inc — 10% of income from government
- Survival Centers Inc — 9% of income from government
- The Enchanted Circle Inc — 9% of income from government
- Northampton Survival Center Inc — 3% of income from government
- Boys & Girls Club of Chicopee Inc — 2% of income from government
- The Downtown Amherst 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.