· 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 Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund For Wealth Management Inc, 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| MALDEN CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOOL | $200,000 |
| MCLEAN HOSPITAL | $200,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $200,000 |
| MISSION GRAMMAR SCHOOL | $125,000 |
| ST CATHERINE OF SIENA | $100,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $100,000 |
| ST SEBATIANS SCHOOL | $100,000 |
| HALE RESERVATION | $75,000 |
| SACRED HEART SCHOOL | $75,000 |
| CATHOLIC MEMORIAL HIGH SCHOOL | $75,000 |
| ST THERESA OF THE CHILD JESUS SCHOOL | $67,500 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
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
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- CSCATHOLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION INC5× · 2020–2024 · $1.1M · revenue +5%
- HEHALE EDUCATION INC5× · 2020–2024 · $285k · revenue +92%
- 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%
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.
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.
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,…
How this is measured
31 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. 31 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 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 SQUASHBUSTERS INC ↗
- Who funds HOLE IN THE WALL GANG FUND INC ↗
- Who funds CROSSROADS FOR KIDS INC ↗
- Who funds COTTING SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds TENACITY INC ↗
- Who funds NATIVITY SCHOOL OF WORCESTER 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.
Open a dossier: Eastern Bank Foundation · Fidelity Foundation · Boston Foundation Inc · Catholic Schools Foundation Inc · The Flatley Foundation · The Bay State Federal Savings Charitable Foundation · Rockland Trust - Blue Hills Charitable Foundation · The Lynch Foundation · Yawkey Foundation II · Rockland Trust Charitable Foundation Inc · Arbella Insurance Foundation · Ge Aerospace Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Hunt Street Fund Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Hunt Street Fund Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
- 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
How this is measured
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