· Private foundation
Hunt Street Fund Inc
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Read this first · the figures below need context
67% of Hunt Street Fund Inc’s FY2024 grant dollars went to Goldman Sachs Philanthropy Fund, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2024 names 26 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k5 grants · $28k
- $10k–50k24 grants · $533k
- $50k–250k13 grants · $1.6M
- $250k+3 grants · $6.9M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| GOLDMAN SACHS PHILANTHROPHY FUND | $6,000,000 |
| CAMPAIGN FOR CATHOLIC SCHOOLS | $525,000 |
| CATHOLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION | $350,000 |
| FONTBONE ACADEMY | $200,000 |
| MCLEAN HOSPITAL | $200,000 |
| MALDEN CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOOL | $200,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $200,000 |
| MISSION GRAMMAR SCHOOL | $125,000 |
| ST CATHERINE OF SIENA | $100,000 |
| ST SEBATIANS SCHOOL | $100,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $100,000 |
| CATHOLIC MEMORIAL HIGH SCHOOL | $75,000 |
| SACRED HEART SCHOOL | $75,000 |
| HALE RESERVATION | $75,000 |
| ST THERESA OF THE CHILD JESUS SCHOOL | $67,500 |
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 (FY20–24, $223k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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.
58 repeat relationships — 42 still active in FY2024, 16 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $300k 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
- CSCATHOLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION INC5× · 2020–2024 · $1.1M · revenue +5%
- HEHALE EDUCATION INC5× · 2020–2024 · $285k · revenue +157%
- TCTHE CARROLL SCHOOL5× · 2020–2024 · $155k · revenue +25%
Funded once
- MGMASS GENERAL BRIGHAM INCORPORATEDone grant, 2021 · $10k
- MHMASSACHUSETTS HOSPITAL SCHOOL FOUNDATIONone grant, 2020 · $5k
REACH OUT AND READ INCgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $3k · revenue +113%
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.
Provider of pediatric healthcare, education, research & community service
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.
A preschool through 12th grade, private, college preparatory school. the school's mission statement is "together, cultivating the best in each for the benefit of all."
Bb&n, an all gender day school in cambridge, massachusetts, was established in 1974 by the merger of two independent schools, the buckingham school and the browne & nichols school, founded respectively in 1889 and 1883. located on multiple…
Wentworth institute of technology is a nationally recognized private coeducational and residential university of higher education with a mission to empower, inspire and innovate through experiential learning with a core purpose of career…
New england law/boston dedicates itself to preparing students to be successful lawyers and leaders in the public and private sectors through integrated practical, theoretical and ethical education of the highest caliber and to contributing…
To promote the growth and development of children while teaching them how to learn efficiently and experience the joy of learning
Mcphs university prepares students for careers in health care through teaching, scholarship, research, professional service and community engagement.
The organization's primary exempt purpose is to provide access to and conduct activities in furtherance of higher education.
Northfield mount hermon educates the head, heart and hands of our students. we engage their intellect, compassion, and talents, empowering them to act with humanity and purpose.
Dean college is a private, residential new england college grounded in a culture and tradition that all students deserve the opportunity to discover and exceed their greatest aspirations. a personal and transformative community since 1865,…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Cotting School Inc and the most unlike its peers is Bridge Over Troubled Waters Inc. 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 39 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% 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.
31 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. 31 of the 64 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 GS DONOR ADVISED PHILANTHROPY FUND FOR WEALTH MANAGEMENT INC ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds HALE EDUCATION INC ↗
- Who funds MOTHER CAROLINE ACADEMY & EDUCATION CENTER ↗
- Who funds THE CARROLL SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds STEPPINGSTONE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds NEW ENGLAND CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC ↗
- Who funds THE HOME FOR LITTLE WANDERERS INC ↗
- Who funds THE EPIPHANY SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds HOLE IN THE WALL GANG FUND INC ↗
- Who funds SQUASHBUSTERS INC ↗
- Who funds CROSSROADS FOR KIDS INC ↗
- Who funds COTTING SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds TENACITY INC ↗
- Who funds NATIVITY SCHOOL OF WORCESTER INC ↗
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.
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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 Hunt Street Fund Inc 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.
- House of Possibilities Inc — 76% of income from government
- The Home for Little Wanderers Inc — 38% of income from government
- Bridge Over Troubled Waters Inc — 32% of income from government
- Father Bill's & Mainspring Inc — 24% of income from government
- Boston Medical Center Corporation — 23% of income from government
- Johns Hopkins University — 12% of income from government
- Reach Out and Read Inc — 9% of income from government
- The Shriners' Hospital for Children — 6% of income from government
- Children's Trust Inc — 3% of income from government
- Crossroads for Kids Inc — 1% of income from government
- New England Conservatory of Music — 1% of income from government
- The Epiphany School Inc — 0% of income from government
- Steppingstone Foundation Inc — 0% of income from government
- Cotting School 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.
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