· Private foundation
Mabel a Horne Fund
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k1 grant · $3k
- $10k–50k29 grants · $337k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MORE THAN WORDS INC | $15,000 |
| MERRIMACK VALLEY FOOD BANK INC | $15,000 |
| RAINBOW CHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTER INC | $15,000 |
| CARITAS COMMUNITIES | $15,000 |
| HILLTOWN VILLAGE INC | $15,000 |
| PROJECT BREAD WALK FOR HUNGER | $15,000 |
| HE IS ME INSTITUTE INC | $15,000 |
| SCHOOL ON WHEELS OF MASSACHUSETTS | $15,000 |
| MUJERES UNIDAS AVANZANDO | $15,000 |
| APPALACHIAN MOUNTAIN CLUB | $12,000 |
| HOUSE OF POSSIBILITIES | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| CRADLES TO CRAYONS | $10,000 |
| YOUTHBUILD BOSTON INC | $10,000 |
| ECONOMIC MOBILITY PATHWAYS | $10,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $421k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 83% 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
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 +59% since the first grant, against +26% for those funded once.
37 repeat relationships: 21 still active in FY2025, 16 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 76% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $83k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
MORE THAN WORDS INC6× · 2017–2025 · $90k · revenue +87%
THE HOME FOR LITTLE WANDERERS INC7× · 2017–2025 · $85k · revenue +101%
MERRIMACK VALLEY FOOD BANK INC7× · 2017–2025 · $84k · revenue +51%
Funded once
- FOFRIENDS OF THE RAFAEL HERNANDEZ SCHOOL INCone grant, 2024 · $15k · revenue -41%
CAMBRIDGE COMMUNITY CENTER INCone grant, 2024 · $15k · revenue -24%- AAASIAN AMERICAN CIVIC ASSOCIATION INCone grant, 2024 · $15k · revenue +18%
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.
Massachusetts education and career opportunities, inc. (massedco, inc.) is a statewide network of service sites that provides education and career advising to over 12,000 low-income, first generation individuals each year. massedco…
Mfhc is committed to ending systemic housing discrimination and creating inclusive communities through education, outreach, advocacy, housing counseling and enforcement.
Maha breaks down barriers facing first-time and first-generation home buyers and owners through education, counseling, advocacy, and grassroots organizing.
Our costs consist of acquiring, sorting and distributing food to 617 member agencies, transportation and logistics, and community outreach to 69 direct distribution sites such as gbfb mobile markets, and federal distributions for low…
Metro housing boston mobilizes wide-ranging resources to provide innovative and personalized services that lead families and individuals to housing stability, economic security, and an improved quality of life.
Brookview's mission is to help homeless and at risk families learn the skills necessary to break the cycle of homelessness and poverty.
Women's money matters, inc. empowers low-income women through financial literacy. the organization's comprehensive programming combines one-to-one coaching with a series of workshops that develop core money management skills and…
Familyaid boston empowers parents and caregivers facing homelessness to secure and sustain housing and build strong foundations for their children's futures.
Mhic's mission is to be an innovative private financier of afforable housing and community development throughout new england, providing financing that would not otherwise be available, and extending the impact of that financing to ensure…
To advance the interests of the human services sector and providers through advocacy, education, and engagement of diverse stakeholders for collective impact.
Project hope is a multi service agency that moves families up and out of poverty.project hope works in partnership with women and families in the dorchester and roxbury neighborhoods of boston on their journeys up and out of poverty. we do…
The organization's primary exempt purpose is to provide access to and conduct activities in furtherance of higher education.
How this is measured
61 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. 61 of the 83 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 MORE THAN WORDS INC ↗
- Who funds THE HOME FOR LITTLE WANDERERS INC ↗
- Who funds MERRIMACK VALLEY FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds MUJERES UNIDAS AVANZANDO INC ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR WOMEN & ENTERPRISE INC ↗
- Who funds RAINBOW CHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds SILVER LINING MENTORING INC ↗
- Who funds SCHOOL ON WHEELS OF MASSACHUSETTS INC ↗
- Who funds THE TREEHOUSE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds VIETNAM VETERANS WORKSHOP INC DBA NEW ENGLAND CENTER AND HOME FOR VETERANS ↗
- Who funds ESPERANZA ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds THE URBAN FARMING INSTITUTE OF BOSTONINC ↗
- Who funds ROXBURY STONE HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds CARITAS COMMUNITIES INC ↗
- Who funds HOMEWORK HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds HILLTOWN VILLAGE ↗
- Who funds PROJECT BREAD-THE WALK FOR HUNGER INC ↗
- Who funds THE CRISPUS ATTUCKS CHILDREN'S CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds He Is Me Institute Inc ↗
- Who funds Franklin Food Pantry Inc ↗
- Who funds THE EPIPHANY SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds YOUTHBUILD BOSTON INC ↗
- Who funds LAZARUS HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF TRI COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds THE LITERACY LAB ↗
- Who funds THE METROWEST FREE MEDICAL PROGRAM INC ↗
- Who funds ECONOMIC MOBILITY PATHWAYS INC ↗
- Who funds HOPE AND COMFORT INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE RAFAEL HERNANDEZ SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds CAMBRIDGE COMMUNITY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds ASIAN AMERICAN CIVIC ASSOCIATION 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 · Cummings Foundation Grants Inc (Fka Oneworld Boston Inc) · Boston Foundation Inc · Liberty Mutual Foundation Inc · United Way Of Massachusetts Bay Inc · Rockland Trust Charitable Foundation Inc · Agnes M Lindsay Trust · Eversource Energy Foundation Inc · Bushrod H Campbell & Adah F Hall Charity Fund · Amelia Peabody Charitable Fund Trust · Yawkey Foundation II · Rockland Trust - Blue Hills Charitable Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Mabel a Horne Fund funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Mabel a Horne Fund. Bigger dots raise more.
- Arc Massachusetts Inc: 100% of income from government
- Hopewell Inc: 83% of income from government
- House of Possibilities Inc: 76% of income from government
- Vietnam Veterans Workshop Inc Dba New England Center and Home for Veterans: 66% of income from government
- Justice Resource Institute Inc: 48% of income from government
- Mujeres Unidas Avanzando Inc: 44% of income from government
- Mothers for Justice and Equality Inc: 43% of income from government
- Homework House Inc: 38% of income from government
- The Home for Little Wanderers Inc: 38% of income from government
- Brockton Day Nursery Inc: 36% of income from government
- Lowell Community Health Center Inc: 34% of income from government
- Roxbury Stone House Inc: 29% of income from government
- Center for Women & Enterprise Inc: 27% of income from government
- More Than Words Inc: 24% of income from government
- The Treehouse Foundation Inc: 23% of income from government
- Boston Area Gleaners Inc: 20% of income from government
- Asian American Civic Association Inc: 19% of income from government
- United Way of Tri County Inc: 18% of income from government
- He Is Me Institute Inc: 16% of income from government
- Helping Our Women Inc: 14% of income from government
- Friends of the Rafael Hernandez School Inc: 13% of income from government
- Fresh Start Furniture Bank Inc: 12% of income from government
- United Way of Pioneer Valley Inc: 10% of income from government
- Silver Lining Mentoring Inc: 10% of income from government
- Youthbuild Boston Inc: 9% of income from government
- Cambridge Community Center Inc: 8% of income from government
- School On Wheels of Massachusetts Inc: 7% of income from government
- Open Table Inc: 7% of income from government
- Hilltown Village: 7% of income from government
- Economic Mobility Pathways Inc: 6% of income from government
- The Urban Farming Institute of Bostoninc: 4% of income from government
- Merrimack Valley Food Bank Inc: 3% of income from government
- Franklin Food Pantry Inc: 3% of income from government
- Third Sector New England Inc: 3% of income from government
- Young Man With a Plan Inc: 3% of income from government
- Greater Boston Legal Services Inc: 3% of income from government
- Cradles to Crayons Inc: 2% of income from government
- Crossroads for Kids Inc: 1% of income from government
- Compass Working Capital Inc: 1% of income from government
- Hope and Comfort Inc: 1% of income from government
- Lazarus House Inc: 1% of income from government
- Year Up Inc: 0% of income from government
- The Epiphany School Inc: 0% of income from government
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