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.

Where is Hurdle Hill Foundation based?

Hurdle Hill Foundation is based in MA.

Hurdle Hill Foundation

Hurdle Hill Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

Hurdle Hill Foundation

Q: 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.

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 FY2025still arriving

109

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$28k

Largest

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.

Environment$240kHealth$142kEducation$134kFood & Nutrition$68kInternational$62kArts & Culture$58kHuman Services$45kReligion$24kOther$0

02FY2025 · 109 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k103 grants · $172k
$10k–50k6 grants · $99k

$1,000

Median grant

States reached

$885k

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
ESSEX COUNTY GREENBELT ASSOCIATION	$27,750
PROCTOR ACADEMY	$21,000
MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL	$19,500
PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA	$11,000
MERRIMACK COLLEGE	$10,000
GROW FOOD NORTHAMPTON	$10,000
CAMBRIDGE REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH CONSULTANTS	$7,000
OGDEN VALLEY LAND TRUST	$6,500
ALL OUT ADVENTURES	$6,000
SIERRA CLUB FOUNDATION	$5,500
NATIONAL NETWORK OF ABORTION FUNDS	$5,500
ABORTION RIGHTS FUND OF WESTERN MA	$5,000
THE TRUSTEES	$5,000
FOS FEMINISTA	$5,000
SOUTHERN UTAH WILDERNESS ALLIANCE	$5,000

02The need

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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Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $42k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 99% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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

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.

81%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$710k · 104 repeat orgs$164k to everyone else

104 repeat relationships: 83 still active in FY2025, 21 since wound down; 23 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

104

Total granted

$710k

$80k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+30%

+41%

Still filing today

62%

43%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 69% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $84k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

EnvironmentEducationHealthHuman ServicesInternationalArts & CultureOther

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

GOVERNOR DUMMER ACADEMY THE GOVERNOR'S ACADEMY
9× · 2017–2025 · $52k · revenue +51%
THE TRUSTEES OF RESERVATIONS
9× · 2017–2025 · $31k · revenue +50%
GF
GROW FOOD NORTHAMPTON INC
3× · 2023–2025 · $27k · revenue +77%

Funded once

MG
MASS GENERAL BRIGHAM INCORPORATED
one grant, 2024 · $50k
LR
LAKES REGION SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATIONgraduated
one grant, 2020 · $4k · revenue +140%
SH
SALEM HOSPITAL
one grant, 2022 · $3k

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.

Wildlands Trust Inc

The wildlands trust works throughout southeastern massachusetts to conserve and permanently protect native habitats, farmland, and lands of high ecologic and scenic value that serve to keep our communities healthy and our residents…

Environment

Native Plant Trust Inc

The organization's mission is to conserve and promote new england's native plants to ensure healthy, biologically diverse landscapes.

Environment

Sudbury Valley Trustees Inc

Sudbury valley trustees, inc. ("the organization") works to protect natural areas and farmland for wildlife and people in the 36 communities that surround the sudbury, assabet, and concord rivers. the organization cares for some of the…

Environment

Rainforest Trust

Rainforest trust saves endangered wildlife and protects our planet by creating rainforest reserves through partnerships, community engagement, and donor support.

International

Ceres Inc

Ceres is a nonprofit advocacy organization working to accelerate the transition to a cleaner, more just, and resilient world. through education and research, we make the business case for action on the most pressing sustainability…

Environment

Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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Northeast Wilderness Trust Corporation

Northeast wilderness trust is a regional land trust working to preserve and restore forever-wild landscapes for nature and people in new york, vermont, new hampshire, maine, massachusetts and connecticut.

Environment

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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.

Education

Environmental Investigation Agency

To establish and promote programs to protect the global climate, forests, wildlife and the natural environment, through research, advocacy, and investigation.

International

Eastern National

Eastern national promotes the public's understanding and support of america's national parks and other public trust partners by providing quality educational experiences, products and services.

Recreation & Sports

Environmental League of Massachusetts Inc

The organization's mission is to advocate for policy that meets the scale and urgency of our environmental challenges. as a massachusetts-based organization that engages in advocacy across a full spectrum of climate, environmental, and…

Environment

Bartlett Arboretum Association Inc

To cultivate and develop an expansive collection of trees, gardens, and plants for all to explore, enjoy and study; and to provide through education and stewardship, a greener, healthier, more beautiful environment.

Environment

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Third Sector New England Inc; the most unlike its peers is Cambridge Reproductive Health Consultants. 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

94 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 94 of the 152 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

93/94

Grantees still filing

62/94

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$372,350Environment$204,050Education$107,050Health$57,250Food & Nutrition$54,500Arts & Culture$43,450Human Services$41,850

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.

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 Beveridge Family FoundationMA35.4× affinity15 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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

2024

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

21get no government money at all

8report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

6rely on government for over half their income

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.

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