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Howland Family Foundation

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.

$53k
Granted FY2025still arriving
52
Grants FY2025still arriving
11
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Health$105kEducation$84kHuman Services$40kAnimals$22kFood & Nutrition$22kPublic Safety & Disaster$21kHousing & Shelter$19kReligion$19kOther$0
02FY2025 · 52 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k51 grants · $43k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
$1,000
Median grant
11
States reached
$586k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UMASS AMHERST$10,000
MASS EASTER SEAL SOC$1,500
BOSTON CHILDRENS HOSPITAL FUND$1,500
ALS ASSOC OF MASSACHUSETTS$1,200
SALVATION ARMY$1,000
MAKE A WISH OF MA$1,000
DOUG FLUTIE JR FOUNDATION FOR AUTISM$1,000
SMILE TRAIN$1,000
HABITAT FOR HUMANITY$1,000
CHRISTMAS CHARITABLE TRUST$1,000
DANA FARBER- JIMMY FUND$1,000
BOB WOODRUFF FOUNDATION$1,000
MASS GENERAL HOSPITAL$1,000
NATIONAL KIDNEY FOUNDATION OF NE$1,000
BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF AMERICA$1,000
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 (FY17–25, $22k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 33% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%Old Colony YMCA: $500 → 8%READING- WEST WINDSOR FOOD SHELF: $750 → 9%OLD COLONY YMCA: $500 → 8%READING- WEST WINDSOR FOOD SHELF: $500 → 9%OLD COLONY YMCA: $500 → 8%Reading-West Windsor Food Shelf: $500 → 9%OLD COLONY YMCA: $500 → 8%READING- WEST WINDSOR FOOD SHELF: $500 → 9%OLD COLONY YMCA: $500 → 8%READING- WEST WINDSOR FOOD SHELF: $500 → 9%OLD COLONY YMCA: $500 → 8%READING- WEST WINDSOR FOOD SHELF: $500 → 9%OLD COLONY YMCA: $500 → 8%READING- WEST WINDSOR FOOD SHELF: $500 → 9%Old Colony YMCA: $500 → 8%READING- WEST WINDSOR FOOD SHELF: $500 → 9%OLD COLONY YMCA: $500 → 8%Reading-West Windsor Food Shelf: $500 → 9%PINE STREET INN: $1k → 16%PINE STREET INN: $850 → 16%PINE STREET INN: $850 → 16%MEDFIELD FOOD CUPBOARD: $750 → 7%MEDFIELD FOOD CUPBOARD: $600 → 7%MEDFIELD FOOD CUPBOARD: $600 → 7%PINE STREET INN: $750 → 16%MEDFIELD FOOD CUPBOARD: $600 → 7%PINE STREET INN: $750 → 16%MEDFIELD FOOD CUPBOARD: $600 → 7%PINE STREET INN: $750 → 16%Pine Street Inn: $750 → 16%PINE STREET INN: $750 → 16%Pine Street Inn: $750 → 16%MEDFIELD FOOD CUPBOARD: $500 → 7%Medfield Food Cupboard: $500 → 7%MEDFIELD FOOD CUPBOARD: $500 → 7%Medfield Food Cupboard: $500 → 7%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.

Which US states its grants reach

VT
NH
IL
NY
MA
IA
CT
CA
AR
TN
DC
TX
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.

99%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$384k · 59 repeat orgs$4k to everyone else

59 repeat relationships: 50 still active in FY2025, 9 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

59
3

Total granted

$384k
$2k

Still filing today

46%
0%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthHuman ServicesAnimalsHousing & ShelterRecreation & SportsEducationOther
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

  • PF
    PULMONARY FIBROSIS FOUNDATION
    9× · 2017–2025 · $9k · revenue +9%
  • AN
    American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches
    8× · 2018–2025 · $8k · revenue +9%
  • PINE STREET INN INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $7k · revenue +123%

Funded once

  • AA
    ALA ASSOC OF MASSACHUSETTS
    one grant, 2019 · $1k
  • AR
    American Red Cross - Harvey Relief
    one grant, 2017 · $1k
  • OS
    OLD STONE CHURCH
    one grant, 2019 · $200
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
Mass General Brigham Incorporated & Affiliates Group Return

Mass general brigham incorporated is developing an integrated health care delivery system throughout the region that offers patients a continuum of coordinated, high-quality care.

Health
2
Mass General Brigham Incorporated

Patient care, teaching, research and serving the community.

Health
3
Winchester Hospital

The mission of winchester hospital is "to care. to heal. to excel." this ethos provides each and every staff member with clear expectations, promoting teamwork and respect while ensuring safety, quality and empathy for patients. winchester…

Health
4
Reading Hospital

Website: www.towerhealth.org/locations/reading-hospital the mission of reading hospital is to provide compassionate, accessible, high-quality, cost-effective healthcare to the community; to promote health; to education healthcare…

Health
5
Harvard Medical Faculty Physicians At Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center Inc

As previously noted in this form 990, the mission of harvard medical faculty physicians at beth israel deaconess medical center, inc. is to provide extraordinary healthcare services, where the patient comes first, supported by world-class…

Health
6
Greenwich Hospital

To provide healthcare services.

Health
7
Mount Auburn Hospital

The mission of new england baptist hospital (nebh or hospital) is the operation and maintenance of an acute care, orthopedic specialty hospital and provision of all services related thereto for the benefit of patients. nebh strives to…

Health
8
Beth Israel Deaconess Hospital-Plymouth Inc

The mission of the beth israel deaconess hospital-plymouth, inc. (bid-plymouth or hospital) is to improve the health and well-being of its patients and communities by providing a full continuum of healthcare services with excellence and…

Health
9
Beth Israel Deaconess Hospital - Milton

The mission of the beth israel deaconess hospital-milton, inc. (bid-milton or hospital) is to provide safe, high-quality, community-based health care and access to tertiary care in close collaboration with its sister hospital, beth israel…

Health
10
Northeast Hospital Corporation

Centering on a concept and continuum of care that embraces the health, well-being and dignity of each patient, regardless of their ability to pay, northeast hospital corporation (nhc) has four facilities, beverly hospital, addison gilbert…

Health
11
Americares Foundation Inc

Americares mission is to help people and communities around the world access (see schedule o).

International
12
Lahey Clinic Foundation Inc

The lahey clinic foundation, inc. (lcf) serves as the sole member and supports the lahey clinic (lc) and lahey clinic hospital d/b/a lahey hospital & medical center (lhmc), enabling lhmc and lc to provide superior health care leading to…

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Bob Woodruff Family Foundation Inc; the most unlike its peers is Reading-West Windsor Food Shelf 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

27 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. 27 of the 64 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)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
27/27
Grantees still filing
23/27
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

UMASS AMHERST: $60,000 · OtherUMASS AMHERSTMCLEAN HOSPITAL FUND: $10,750 · OtherBOSTON CHILDRENS HOSPITAL FUND: $10,500 · OtherMASS EASTER SEAL SOC: $10,500 · OtherMass General Hospital: $9,500 · OtherALS ASSOC OF MASSACHUSETTS: $9,400 · Other+39 more: $168,115 · Other+39 morePULMONARY FIBROSIS FOUNDATION: $8,750 · HealthPULMONARY FI…THE DOUG FLUTIE JR FOUNDATION FOR AUTISM INC: $7,000 · HealthTHE DOUG FLU…Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: $7,000 · HealthDana-Farber …BOB WOODRUFF FAMILY FOUNDATION INC: $6,600 · HealthBOB WOODRUFF…BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER INC: $5,000 · HealthBETH ISRAEL …MEDIC ALERT FOUNDATION UNITED STATES: $4,750 · HealthMEDIC ALERT …ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $3,200 · HealthST JUDE CHIL…+1 more: $400 · HealthAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $8,000 · Human ServicesPINE STREET INN INC: $7,200 · Human ServicesMEDFIELD FOOD CUPBOARD: $5,150 · Human ServicesREADING-WEST WINDSOR FOOD SHELF INC: $4,750 · Human ServicesOLD COLONY YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION INC: $4,500 · Human ServicesMASSACHUSETTS SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS: $7,100 · AnimalsAMERICAN LAB RESCUE INC: $5,750 · AnimalsMEDFIELD ANIMAL SHELTER INC: $4,750 · AnimalsROSIE'S PLACE INC: $7,200 · Housing & ShelterHALE EDUCATION INC: $6,750 · Recreation & SportsGIFFT HILL SCHOOL INC: $5,304 · Education
Other$278,765Health$42,700Human Services$29,600Animals$17,600Housing & Shelter$7,200Recreation & Sports$6,750Education$5,304

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetPULMONARY FIBROSIS FOUNDATION: $8,750 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $8,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetPINE STREET INN INC: $7,200 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetROSIE'S PLACE INC: $7,200 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetMASSACHUSETTS SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS: $7,100 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetSMILE TRAIN INC: $7,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetTHE DOUG FLUTIE JR FOUNDATION FOR AUTISM INC: $7,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetDana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: $7,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetHALE EDUCATION INC: $6,750 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetBOB WOODRUFF FAMILY FOUNDATION INC: $6,600 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetGREATER BOSTON FOOD BANK INC: $6,350 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN LAB RESCUE INC: $5,750 over 9y, 0.3% of budgetGIFFT HILL SCHOOL INC: $5,304 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetMEDFIELD FOOD CUPBOARD: $5,150 over 9y, 0.6% of budgetBETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER INC: $5,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetMEDFIELD COALITION FOR PUBLIC EDUCATION INC: $5,000 over 8y, 2.1% of budgetMEDFIELD ANIMAL SHELTER INC: $4,750 over 9y, 0.2% of budgetMEDIC ALERT FOUNDATION UNITED STATES: $4,750 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetAnimal Care Center Of St John Inc: $4,750 over 9y, 0.2% of budgetREADING-WEST WINDSOR FOOD SHELF INC: $4,750 over 9y, 0.6% of budgetOLD COLONY YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION INC: $4,500 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetWESTWOOD COMMUNITY CHEST: $3,700 over 9y, 0.4% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $3,200 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetWESTWOOD FOOD PANTRY INC: $3,150 over 3y, 3.5% of budgetTHE HUNDRED CLUB OF MASS INC: $1,700 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetOLD STURBRIDGE INC: $700 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMary Hitchcock Memorial Hospital: $400 over 2y, 0.0% 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 PULMONARY FIBROSIS FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
  • Who funds PINE STREET INN INC ↗
  • Who funds ROSIE'S PLACE INC ↗
  • Who funds MASSACHUSETTS SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS ↗
  • Who funds SMILE TRAIN INC ↗
  • Who funds THE DOUG FLUTIE JR FOUNDATION FOR AUTISM INC ↗
  • Who funds Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc ↗
  • Who funds HALE EDUCATION INC ↗
  • Who funds BOB WOODRUFF FAMILY FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds GREATER BOSTON FOOD BANK INC ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN LAB RESCUE INC ↗
  • Who funds GIFFT HILL SCHOOL INC ↗
  • Who funds MEDFIELD FOOD CUPBOARD ↗
  • Who funds BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds MEDFIELD COALITION FOR PUBLIC EDUCATION INC ↗
  • Who funds MEDFIELD ANIMAL SHELTER INC ↗
  • Who funds MEDIC ALERT FOUNDATION UNITED STATES ↗
  • Who funds Animal Care Center Of St John 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.

Arbella Insurance Fou…American Tower Corpor…Citizens Charitable F…The Weezie Foundation…The Carney Family Cha…Analog Devices Founda…Fidelity FoundationGe Aerospace Foundati…The Pfizer Foundation…Morgan Stanley Global…The Bank of America C…Network for Good
Arbella Insurance FoundationMA17.3× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Arbella Insurance Foundation · American Tower Corporation Foundation Inc · Citizens Charitable Foundation · The Weezie Foundation Xxxxx0005 · The Carney Family Charitable Foundation · Analog Devices Foundation · Fidelity Foundation · Ge Aerospace Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Network for Good

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 Howland Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Howland Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 90%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%8%15%22%30%share of the org’s income from government →median 6%
  • Greater Boston Food Bank Inc: 22% of income from government
  • Pine Street Inn Inc: 11% of income from government
  • Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: 7% of income from government
  • Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center Inc: 6% of income from government
  • Medfield Food Cupboard: 6% of income from government
  • Old Sturbridge Inc: 4% of income from government
  • Rosie's Place Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
9get no government money at all
4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–30%
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 64 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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