Massachusetts · Private foundation
Hurdle Hill 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.
- $271k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 109
- Grants FY2025
- 80
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 15%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $1,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $27,750
- Organizations funded a year
- 57 to 87
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 16
- Total assets, FY2025
- $885k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 15% of the organizations Hurdle Hill Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 43% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 57% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $70k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 106 | $269k | 22% |
| FY2024 | 80 | $161k | 15% |
| FY2023 | 87 | $93k | 24% |
| FY2022 | 69 | $60k | 9% |
| FY2021 | 69 | $68k | 16% |
| FY2020 | 69 | $69k | 16% |
| FY2019 | 58 | $57k | 10% |
| FY2018 | 57 | $52k | 14% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Essex County Greenbelt Association | $75,250 | 9 | 0% |
| Governor Dummer Academy the Governor's Academy | $52,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Mass General Brigham Incorporated | $50,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Sewpportive Friends Inc | $33,800 | 8 | 18% |
| The Trustees of Reservations | $30,850 | 9 | 0% |
| Grow Food Northampton Inc | $26,750 | 3 | 1% |
| Wenham Historical Association & Museum Inc | $25,800 | 9 | 1% |
| Windrush Farm Therapeutic Equitation Inc | $24,200 | 9 | 0% |
| Proctor Academy | $22,250 | 3 | 0% |
| Ipswich River Watershed Association | $19,500 | 9 | 0% |
Show all 97 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 53 recipients with no EIN on record ($188k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Hurdle Hill Foundation supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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: The Beveridge Family Foundation · Institution for Savings in Newburyport & Its Vicinity Charitable Foundation Inc · Essex County Community Foundation Inc · Boston Foundation Inc · Salem Five Charitable Foundation Inc · Community Foundation of Western Massachusetts · Eastern Bank Foundation · Cummings Foundation Grants Inc (Fka Oneworld Boston Inc) · Living Springs Foundation · People's United Community Foundation of Eastern Massachusetts Inc · The Zoe Foundation · Peoplesbank Charitable Foundation Inc
How this is measured
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About Hurdle Hill Foundation
- How much does Hurdle Hill Foundation give?
- Hurdle Hill Foundation reported 109 grants totaling $271,200 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 57 and 87 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Hurdle Hill Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Environment (27%), Health (16%), Education (15%).
- Who are Hurdle Hill Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Essex County Greenbelt Association ($75k), Governor Dummer Academy the Governor's Academy ($52k), Mass General Brigham Incorporated ($50k).
- Does Hurdle Hill Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 15% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Hurdle Hill Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Hurdle Hill Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Beveridge Family Foundation, Institution for Savings in Newburyport & Its Vicinity Charitable Foundation Inc, Essex County Community Foundation Inc.
- Where is Hurdle Hill Foundation based?
- Hurdle Hill Foundation is based in MA.
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