· Private foundation
John W and Clara C Higgins Foundation
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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k43 grants · $98k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ANIMAL HUMANE ASSOCIATION OF NEW MEXICO | $10,000 |
| WILD SPIRIT WOLF SANCTUARY PKA CANDY | $5,250 |
| GREATER ALBUQUERQUE HABITAT FOR HUMANITY | $5,250 |
| FLAGSTAFF INTERNATIONAL RELIEF EFFORT | $5,000 |
| PISCATAQUOG LAND CONSERVANCY FORMERLY | $3,500 |
| VERDE VALLEY HUMANE SOCIETY | $3,500 |
| ROCKEND INC | $3,333 |
| FEAST | $3,000 |
| THE PUTNEY SCHOOL | $3,000 |
| ARTIST ORGANIZED ART INC | $3,000 |
| CONCORD HOSPITAL TRUST | $3,000 |
| JERICHO PROJECT | $3,000 |
| PAW PLACEMENT OF NORTHERN ARIZONA | $3,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $3,000 |
| EMILY HARVEY FOUNDATION | $2,500 |
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 (FY18–24, $14k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 81% 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.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +33% since the first grant, against +22% for those funded once.
90 repeat relationships: 31 still active in FY2024, 59 since wound down; 12 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, 63% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $39k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- GAGREATER ALBUQUERQUE HABITAT FOR HUMANITY6× · 2018–2024 · $33k · revenue +56%
- TETHE EMILY HARVEY FOUNDATION7× · 2018–2024 · $21k · revenue +54%
- PPPAW PLACEMENT OF NORTHERN ARIZONA7× · 2018–2024 · $20k · revenue +572%
Funded once
- VVVERDE VALLEY HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INCone grant, 2023 · $5k · revenue +15%
- NCNHTI - CONCORD'S COMMUNITY COLLEGEone grant, 2022 · $4k
ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INCgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $3k · revenue +29%
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.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
Saint anselm is a catholic, benedictine college providing all of its students a distinctive liberal arts education that incorporates opportunities for professional and career preparation. it does so in a learning community that encourages…
Bates is a college of the liberal arts and sciences, and is a coeducational, nonsectarian, residential college with special commitments to academic rigor, and to assuring in all of its efforts the dignity of each individual, and access to…
To collect, display and interpret objects in craft art and design.
Wheaton college provides a transformative liberal arts education, combining theory and practice, for intellectually curious students within a collaborative and vibrant extended community and network that values and strives to create an…
The organization's mission is to conserve and promote new england's native plants to ensure healthy, biologically diverse landscapes.
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.
The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
To preserve the unique character and natural resources of harvard.
The Museum of Modern Art is a private, non-profit institution chartered by the State of New York Department of Education in 1929 to foster public awareness of modern and contemporary art. (Continued in Schedule O)
Natural History Institute is organized to provide leadership and resources for a revitalized practice of natural history that integrates art, science, and humanities to promote the health and well-being of humans and the rest of the…
Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.
How this is measured
109 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. 109 of the 149 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.
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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: Maine Community Foundation Inc · Hattie a and Fred C Lynam Trust · Colket Family Foundation · The Chicago Community Trust · John D and Catherine T Macarthur Foundation · Berkshire Taconic Community Foundation Inc · Arizona Community Foundation · Dr Robert C & Tina Sohn Foundation · Ethel D Colket Foundation · The Feigenbaum Foundation Inc · Berkshire United Way Inc · Fidelity Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization John W and Clara C Higgins Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from John W and Clara C Higgins Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Hias Inc: 88% of income from government
- Asylee Women Enterprise Inc: 26% of income from government
- Stowe Land Trust: 10% of income from government
- Greenagers Inc: 7% of income from government
- The New England Center for Children Inc: 3% of income from government
- Chesapeake Bay Foundation Inc: 2% of income from government
- Berkshire Pulse Inc: 1% of income from government
- Berkshire Theatre Group Inc: 1% of income from government
- Worcester Art Museum: 1% of income from government
- Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival Inc: 1% of income from government
- Farm and Wilderness Foundation Inc: 0% of income from government
- Bread & Puppet Theatre Inc: 0% of income from government
- Anthropocene Alliance: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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