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John W Henry Family Foundation 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.

$1.7M
Granted FY2024still arriving
30
Grants FY2024still arriving
4
States reached
$800k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Health$2.1MEducation$2.1MPhilanthropy$1.9MArts & Culture$634kYouth Development$244kCommunity Improvement$77kHuman Services$41kInternational$35kOther$0
02FY2024 · 30 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k11 grants · $51k
  • $10k–50k12 grants · $158k
  • $50k–250k5 grants · $350k
  • $250k+2 grants · $1.1M
$10,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Harvard Kennedy School$800,000
MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL$333,334
BOCA RATON REGIONAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION$100,000
WOMEN'S FOUNDATION OF BOSTON INC$100,000
BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC$50,000
THE MEADOWBROOK SCHOOL$50,000
THE FESSENDEN SCHOOL$50,000
Boston Ballet$25,000
RED SOX FOUNDATION$20,340
BOSTON'S CHILDREN MUSEUM$17,680
BOSTON BOOK FESTIVAL$15,000
Havard Graduate School of Education$10,000
Gloria's Foundation Inc$10,000
Nantucket Book Foundation$10,000
Reports Committee on Freedom of the Press$10,000
02The need
03

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 (FY20–24, $35k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 86% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%Cradles to Crayons Inc: $5k → 8%United South End Settlements: $10k → 16%BOSTON HEALTHCARE FOR THE HOMELESS: $10k → 16%United South End Settlements: $10k → 16%0%20%40%50%more need →
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.
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.

74%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$4.0M · 23 repeat orgs$1.4M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +45% since the first grant, against +30% for those funded once.

23 repeat relationships: 16 still active in FY2024, 7 since wound down; 12 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

23
27

Total granted

$4.0M
$1.3M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+45%
+30%

Still filing today

83%
63%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $85k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24
EducationArts & CulturePhilanthropyHuman ServicesCommunity ImprovementHealthOther
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

  • WF
    WOMEN'S FOUNDATION OF MASSACHUSETTS INC
    5× · 2020–2024 · $520k · revenue +300%
  • MS
    MEADOWBROOK SCHOOL OF WESTON INCORPORATED
    4× · 2020–2024 · $300k · revenue +51%
  • TF
    THE FESSENDEN SCHOOL
    5× · 2020–2024 · $200k · revenue +45%

Funded once

  • HK
    Havard Kennedy School
    one grant, 2023 · $800k
  • BC
    Boston Charitable Trust Fund City of Boston Trust Office
    one grant, 2020 · $250k · revenue -100%
  • TF
    Trustees for Harvard University
    one grant, 2020 · $25k · revenue +14%
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.

1
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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2
Trustees of Boston University

Organization's mission: boston university is an international, comprehensive, private research university, committed to educating students to be reflective, resourceful individuals ready to live, adapt, and lead in an interconnected world.…

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3
Trustees of Boston College

Mission strengthened by more than a century and a half of dedication to academic excellence, boston college commits itself to the highest standards of teaching and research in undergraduate, graduate and professional programs and to the…

Education
4
Children's Hospital Corporation

Provider of pediatric healthcare, education, research & community service

Health
5
President and Trustees of Bates College

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…

Education
6
New England Lawboston

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…

Education
7
Trustees of Dartmouth College

Dartmouth College educates the most promising students and prepares them for a lifetime of learning and of responsible leadership, through a faculty dedicated to teaching and the creation of knowledge.

Education
8
Massachusetts Higher Education Assistance Corporation

The organization's primary exempt purpose is to provide access to and conduct activities in furtherance of higher education.

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9
Wentworth Institute of Technology Inc

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…

Education
10
Boston Foundation
Philanthropy
11
Bentley University

Organization's mission bentley university believes good business can impact more than the bottom line - it can change the world. bentley is a community of future business leaders who will deliver value in the marketplace and lasting…

Education
12
Buckingham Browne & Nichols School

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…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Northeastern University; the most unlike its peers is Gloria's Foundation Inc. 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

51 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. 51 of the 65 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
8
Early backer (in before they grew)
49/51
Grantees still filing
36/51
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL: $1,336,834 · OtherMASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITALHavard Kennedy School: $800,000 · OtherHavard Kennedy SchoolBOSTONSIGHT: $475,000 · OtherBOSTONSIGHTBOSTON'S CHILDREN MUSEUM: $208,720 · OtherBOSTON'S CHILDREN MUSEUM+23 more: $207,000 · Other+23 moreBoston Foundation Inc: $1,000,000 · PhilanthropyBoston Foundation IncWOMEN'S FOUNDATION OF MASSACHUSETTS INC: $520,000 · PhilanthropyWOMEN'S FOUNDATION OF MASSACH…Boston Charitable Trust Fund City of Boston Trust Office: $250,000 · PhilanthropyBoston Charitable Trust Fund …THE RED SOX FOUNDATION INC: $69,340 · Philanthropy+2 more: $29,000 · PhilanthropyPresident and Fellows of Harvard College: $810,000 · EducationPresident and Fellows of…MEADOWBROOK SCHOOL OF WESTON INCORPORATED: $300,000 · EducationMEADOWBROOK SCHOOL OF WE…THE FESSENDEN SCHOOL: $199,900 · EducationTHE FESSENDEN SCHOOL+12 more: $223,000 · Education+12 moreBoca Raton Regional Hospital Foundation Inc: $310,000 · Community ImprovementMASSCHALLENGE INC: $75,000 · Community ImprovementBOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC: $120,000 · Arts & CultureAMERICAN REPERTORY THEATRE CO INC: $90,000 · Arts & CultureBOSTON BALLET INC: $37,500 · Arts & CultureISABELLA STEWART GARDNER MUSEUM INC: $28,000 · Arts & Culture+7 more: $38,500 · Arts & CultureUNITED SOUTH END SETTLEMENTS: $20,000 · Human ServicesBOSTON HEALTH CARE FOR THE HOMELESS PROGRAM INC: $10,000 · Human ServicesCRADLES TO CRAYONS INC: $5,000 · Human ServicesINTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE OF NEW ENGLAND INC: $20,000 · Civil Rights
Other$3,027,554Philanthropy$1,868,340Education$1,532,900Community Improvement$385,000Arts & Culture$314,000Human Services$35,000Civil Rights$20,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetBoston Foundation Inc: $1,000,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetPresident and Fellows of Harvard College: $810,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWOMEN'S FOUNDATION OF MASSACHUSETTS INC: $520,000 over 5y, 5.1% of budgetBoca Raton Regional Hospital Foundation Inc: $310,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetMEADOWBROOK SCHOOL OF WESTON INCORPORATED: $300,000 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetBoston Charitable Trust Fund City of Boston Trust Office: $250,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetTHE FESSENDEN SCHOOL: $199,900 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetBOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC: $120,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN REPERTORY THEATRE CO INC: $90,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetMASSCHALLENGE INC: $75,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetTHE RED SOX FOUNDATION INC: $69,340 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetUNITED NEGRO COLLEGE FUND INC: $40,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBOSTON BALLET INC: $37,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetBOSTON BOOK FESTIVAL INC: $35,000 over 3y, 2.8% of budgetMassachusetts Institute of Technology: $35,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetISABELLA STEWART GARDNER MUSEUM INC: $28,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTrustees for Harvard University: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCATHOLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPEDRO MARTINEZ FOUNDATION: $20,000 over 4y, 1.2% of budgetINTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE OF NEW ENGLAND INC: $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetUNITED SOUTH END SETTLEMENTS: $20,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetASSOCIATES OF BOSTON PUBLIC LIBRARY INC: $16,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetRon Burton Training Village Inc: $12,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBOSTON HEALTH CARE FOR THE HOMELESS PROGRAM INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE REPORTERS COMMITTEE FOR FREEDOM OF THE PRESS: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCARITAS COMMUNITIES INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSCHOLAR ATHLETES INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTHE BASEBALL INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetNANTUCKET ATHENEUM INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetNORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetINSTITUTE FOR NONPROFIT NEWS: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSEED GLOBAL HEALTH: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetBOSTON HARBOR NOW INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetGLORIA'S FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetNANTUCKET BOOK FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetTHE BOSTON GLOBE FOUNDATION INC: $9,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetPUPPET SHOWPLACE INC: $7,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetTHE INSTITUTE OF CONTEMPORARY ART INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFINE ARTS WORK CENTER IN PROVINCETOWN INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetNANTUCKET HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCRADLES TO CRAYONS INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLeadership Brainery Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetUNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNEW ENGLAND FIRST AMENDMENT COALITION INC: $5,000 over 1y, 3.2% of budgetBOSTON CHILDREN'S CHORUS INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNANTUCKET PARTNERSHIP FOR CHILDREN INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBABSON COLLEGE: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budget
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.

Boston Foundation IncCombined Jewish Phila…Eastern Bank Foundati…Highland Street Conne…Fidelity FoundationLovett-Woodsum Founda…The Red Sox Foundatio…Riley Mabel Louise Tr…The Hamilton Company …Eastern Cambridge Fou…Liberty Mutual Founda…National Philanthropi…
Boston Foundation IncMA36× affinity18 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Boston Foundation Inc · Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc · Eastern Bank Foundation · Highland Street Connection and Subsidiaries · Fidelity Foundation · Lovett-Woodsum Foundation Inc · The Red Sox Foundation Inc · Riley Mabel Louise Tr Uwill · The Hamilton Company Charitable Foundation · Eastern Cambridge Foundation · Liberty Mutual Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust

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 John W Henry Family Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from John W Henry Family Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 160%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →median 2%
  • Boston Harbor Now Inc: 45% of income from government
  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology: 35% of income from government
  • Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown Inc: 27% of income from government
  • International Institute of New England Inc: 24% of income from government
  • Boston Health Care for the Homeless Program Inc: 8% of income from government
  • President and Fellows of Harvard College: 7% of income from government
  • Northeastern University: 7% of income from government
  • Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: 7% of income from government
  • Puppet Showplace Inc: 4% of income from government
  • Masschallenge Inc: 3% of income from government
  • Babson College: 3% of income from government
  • Cradles to Crayons Inc: 2% of income from government
  • Boston Book Festival Inc: 2% of income from government
  • The Red Sox Foundation Inc: 2% of income from government
  • Boston Children's Chorus Inc: 2% of income from government
  • Nantucket Book Foundation Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Brookline Music School Inc: 1% of income from government
  • The Institute of Contemporary Art Inc: 1% of income from government
  • The Baseball Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Nantucket Historical Association: 1% of income from government
  • Boston Ballet Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Boston Symphony Orchestra Inc: 0% of income from government
  • American Repertory Theatre Co Inc: 0% of income from government
  • The Fessenden School: 0% of income from government
  • Boston Foundation Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
16get no government money at all
3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
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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Find your warmest path to John W Henry Family Foundation Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 65 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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