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Humphrey Foundation at a glance

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Humphrey Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$10k
Granted FY2025still arriving
5
Grants FY2025still arriving
5
States reached
$7k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0194% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Animals$209kHealth$102kEducation$11kHuman Services$7kEnvironment$5kArts & Culture$2kPhilanthropy$2kRecreation & Sports$100Other$0
02FY2025 · 5 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$1,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$492k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Individual grant recipient$7,000
ASPCA$1,000
West Place Animal Sanctuary$1,000
Proctor Academy$1,000
Hartford Marathon Foundation$100
02The need
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Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 78% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%Community Foundation of Southeastern Massachusetts: $500 → 11%Dana Farber Cancer Institute: $1k → 16%ASPCA: $1k → 17%Hartford Marathon Foundation: $100 → 11%St Judes Children's Research Hospital: $100 → 17%Raymond & Nancy Lundgren Endowment Fund: $500 → 7%Blithewold Mansion: $1k → 7%Potter League: $1k → 7%Rhode Island Hospital: $100k → 14%Proctor Academy: $5k → 7%Alma del Mar Charter School: $500 → 11%Dana Farber Cancer Institute: $500 → 16%ASPCA: $1k → 17%Blithewold: $1k → 7%Tiverton Land Trust: $3k → 7%Proctor Academy: $1k → 7%The Acoaxet Chapel: $7k → 11%Tiverton Senior Center: $1k → 7%Tiverton Land Trust: $1k → 7%West Place Animal Sanctuary: $1k → 7%West Place Animal Sanctuary: $1k → 7%Tiverton Senior Center: $1k → 7%Tiverton Historical Society: $300 → 7%Stay at Home Little Compton: $2k → 7%Stay at Home Little Compton: $1k → 7%Stay at Home Little Compton: $1k → 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.
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.

66%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$228k · 10 repeat orgs$117k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +47% since the first grant, against +31% for those funded once.

10 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

10
11

Total granted

$228k
$110k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+47%
+31%

Still filing today

70%
36%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 30% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $7k 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
HealthAnimalsEducationArts & CultureHousing & ShelterRecreation & 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

  • PA
    PROCTOR ACADEMY
    2× · 2018–2025 · $6k · revenue +47%
  • SA
    Stay at Home in Little Compton Inc
    3× · 2021–2023 · $4k · revenue +19%
  • TL
    Tiverton Land Trust
    2× · 2019–2021 · $4k · revenue +148%

Funded once

  • Rhode Island Hospitalgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $100k · revenue +40%
  • RW
    Roseway World Ocean School
    one grant, 2019 · $4k
  • PL
    Potter League
    one grant, 2023 · $1k
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
The Miriam Hospital

As a founding hospital in the Brown University Health system, TMH is committed to its mission: Delivering health with care.

Health
2
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center Inc

Tertiary care academic medical center

Health
3
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
4
St Vincent Hospital of the Hospital Sisters of the Third Order of St Franci s

To continue christ's healing love through delivery of competent & compassionate healthcare in an environment sensitive to the needs of all people. the hospital is committed to providing a broad range of quality inpatient and outpatient…

Health
5
Southern New Hampshire Health System Inc

Southern New Hampshire Health is dedicated to providing exceptional care that improves the health and well-being of individuals and communities we serve.

Health
6
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
7
Greenwich Hospital

To provide healthcare services.

Health
8
Children's Hospital Corporation

Provider of pediatric healthcare, education, research & community service

Health
9
The Animal Medical Center

Dedicated to providing compassionate and collaborative care to animals and to leading the advancement of veterinary medicine through innovative clinical research and education.

Animals
10
Yale New Haven Hospital

The mission of ynhh is to provide innovative and excellent patient care, teaching, research, and service to the communities it serves.

Health
11
St Joseph's Health System Subordinate Group Return

We are committed to providing exceptional quality care which sustains and improves both individual and community health, with a special concern for those who are poor, vulnerable and underserved.

—
12
Windsor Hospital Corporation

Mt. ascutney hospital and health center's mission is to improve the lives of those we serve.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is St Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc; the most unlike its peers is Dana-Farber Cancer Institute 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

13 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. 13 of the 24 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)
13/13
Grantees still filing
11/13
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

St Croix Animal Shelter: $145,299 · OtherSt Croix Animal ShelterIndividual grant recipient: $7,000 · Other+12 more: $13,050 · Other+12 moreRhode Island Hospital: $100,000 · HealthRhode Island Hospital+2 more: $1,600 · HealthST CROIX ANIMAL WELFARE CENTERINC: $60,000 · AnimalsST CROIX ANIMAL WELF…+2 more: $4,000 · Animals+2 morePROCTOR ACADEMY: $6,000 · EducationStay at Home in Little Compton Inc: $4,000 · Housing & ShelterTiverton Land Trust: $3,596 · EnvironmentBLITHEWOLD INC: $1,000 · Arts & Culture
Other$165,349Health$101,600Animals$64,000Education$6,000Housing & Shelter$4,000Environment$3,596Arts & Culture$1,000

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 budgetRhode Island Hospital: $100,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetST CROIX ANIMAL WELFARE CENTERINC: $60,000 over 2y, 3.0% of budgetPROCTOR ACADEMY: $6,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetStay at Home in Little Compton Inc: $4,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetTiverton Land Trust: $3,596 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetWEST PLACE ANIMAL SANCTUARY: $2,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetTHE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetDana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: $1,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBLITHEWOLD INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSOUTHCOAST COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $100 over 1y, 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.

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.

The Rhode Island Comm…Amica Companies Found…Vanguard Charitable E…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
The Rhode Island Community FoundationRI13.3× affinity4 shared granteesties to 5 of 5Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Rhode Island Community Foundation · Amica Companies Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving 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 Humphrey Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Humphrey Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →median 7%
  • Southcoast Community Foundation Inc: 10% of income from government
  • Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: 7% of income from government
  • Hartford Marathon Foundation Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
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.
05Through Plinth

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How do I get to Humphrey Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Humphrey Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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 24 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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