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Milton Hart Foundation Inc at a glance

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Milton Hart 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.

$19k
Granted FY2025still arriving
8
Grants FY2025still arriving
6
States reached
$5k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0191% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2022 to 2025.

Environment$15kInternational$13kArts & Culture$7kCivil Rights$7kEducation$3kFood & Nutrition$3kPublic Benefit$2kRecreation & Sports$2kOther$0
02FY2025 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$2,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$305k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Individual grant recipient$5,000
GLOBAL NETWORK AGAINST WEAPONS AND NUCLEAR POWER IN SPACE$3,000
AMERICAN FRIENDS SERVICE COMMITTEE$3,000
CURTIS MEMORIAL LIBRARY$2,000
JEWISH VOICES FOR PEACE$2,000
DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS$2,000
MID-COAST HUNGER PREVENTION PROGRAM$2,000
CHARITY WATCH$200
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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY22–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 47% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 13%PINEWOOD CAMP: $1k → 8%EARTH WATCH: $3k → 8%VALLEY CLASSICAL CONCERTS: $2k → 12%MASSACHUSETTS BUTTERFLY CLUB (NABA): $300 → 12%HILLTOWN LAND TRUST: $10k → 14%TRUSTEES OF RESERVATIONS: $1k → 16%SPRINGFIELD SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: $1k → 17%AMERICAN FRIENDS SERVICE COMMITTEE: $3k → 22%LYRA MUSIC FESTIVAL: $200 → 9%HUMANE SOCIETY: $200 → 14%CHARITY WATCH: $300 → 14%LAKE CHAMPLAIN MARITIME MUSEUM: $2k → 9%GLOBAL NETWORK AGAINST WEAPONS AND NUCLEAR POWER IN SPACE: $3k → 7%FRIENDS OF MERRYMEETING BAY: $1k → 9%BLUE HERITAGE TRUST: $1k → 11%PINEWOODS CAMP INC: $200 → 8%EARTH ACTION: $5k → 12%TANGLEWOOD: $500 → 12%TOWN OF WILLIAMSBURG - WILLIAMSBURG WOODLAND TRAILS: $1k → 14%NON VIOLENCE INTERNATIONAL: $5k → 14%CHARITY WATCH: $300 → 14%MID-COAST HUNGER PREVENTION PROGRAM: $2k → 7%TANGLEWOOD: $300 → 12%FRIENDS COMMITTEE ON NATIONAL LEGISLATION: $2k → 14%CHARITY WATCH: $200 → 14%CURTIS MEMORIAL LIBRARY: $2k → 7%GLOBAL NETWORK AGAINST WEAPONS AND NUCLEAR POWER IN SPACE: $2k → 7%CURTIS MEMORIAL LIBRARY: $1k → 7%MID-COAST HUNGER PREVENTION PROGRAM: $1k → 7%WILD SEED PROJECT: $300 → 7%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.

Which US states its grants reach

ME
VT
IL
NY
MA
PA
MD
DE
AZ
DC
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.

32%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$19k · 7 repeat orgs$39k to everyone else

7 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2025, 1 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

7
17

Total granted

$19k
$31k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

0%
+54%

Still filing today

29%
59%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 58% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8k went to new ones.

50%100%’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’22’23’24’25
EnvironmentArts & CultureInternationalAnimalsRecreation & SportsOther
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

  • GN
    Global Network Against Weapons and Nuclear Power in Space
    2× · 2024–2025 · $5k · revenue -65%
  • JV
    JEWISH VOICES FOR PEACE
    2× · 2024–2025 · $4k
  • MC
    Mid Coast Hunger Prevention Program
    2× · 2024–2025 · $3k · revenue +38%

Funded once

  • HL
    HILLTOWN LAND TRUST INCgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue +165%
  • NI
    NON-VIOLENCE INTERNATIONAL
    one grant, 2024 · $5k · revenue 0%
  • EW
    EARTH WATCH
    one grant, 2024 · $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.

1
Midcoast Conservancy

The mission of Midcoast Conservancy is to protect vital lands and waters on a scale that matters and to inspire wonder and action on behalf of all species and the Earth.

Environment
2
Massachusetts Land Conservation Trust

Conservation and preservation of land.

Environment
3
Somerset Woods Trustees

To conserve lands with significant ecological or cultural resources and manage them in a sustainable way for public benefit.

Environment
4
Harpswell Heritage Land Trust

Land Conservation, Trails and Public Access, Education

Environment
5
Mount Desert Land and Garden Preserve

The mission of the mount desert land & garden preserve is to conserve and share the beauty of our historic lands and gardens.

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6
Mahoosuc Land Trust Inc

To protect and conserve land and traditional land uses including farming, recreation, significant habitats, scenery, and water resources for the benefit of the public. The organization facilitates community-based conservation.

Environment
7
Nantucket Conservation Foundation Inc

The nantucket conservation foundation owns, protects, and stewards over 9,000 acres of land and coastal shoreline, conserves nantucket's rare and significant natural resources, and engages in impactful ecological research to inform…

Environment
8
Nashoba Conservation Trust

Acquire, preserve and maintain natural resources and wildlife habitat areas (land conservation).

Environment
9
Upper Saco Valley Land Trust

The Organization works with local landowners to permanently protect natural land and waters that define its community and enrich the quality of life by purchasing, managing, negotiating and developing conservations easements in the Upper…

Food & Nutrition
10
Ammonoosuc Conservation Trust

To protect open spaces with conservation, historic or scenic value, including agricultural and forested lands, and wildlife habitats, within the western White Mountains region of Northern New Hampshire.

Environment
11
Wetlands Foundation
Environment
12
Coastal Mountains Land Trust

We conserve land permanently to benefit the natural and human communities of western the Penobscot Bay region.

Environment
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Trustees of Reservations; the most unlike its peers is Humane World for Animals 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

13 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. 13 of the 26 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)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
12/13
Grantees still filing
8/13
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

NON-VIOLENCE INTERNATIONAL: $5,000 · OtherNON-VIOLENCE INTERNATIONALIndividual grant recipient: $5,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientJEWISH VOICES FOR PEACE: $3,500 · OtherJEWISH VOICES FOR PEACEMid Coast Hunger Prevention Program: $3,000 · OtherMid Coast Hunger Prevention ProgramCURTIS MEMORIAL LIBRARY: $3,000 · OtherCURTIS MEMORIAL LIBRARYEARTH WATCH: $3,000 · OtherEARTH WATCHAMERICAN FRIENDS SERVICE COMMITTEE: $3,000 · OtherAMERICAN FRIENDS SERVICE COMMITTEEFRIENDS COMMITTEE ON NATIONAL LEGISLATION: $2,000 · OtherFRIENDS COMMITTEE ON NATIONAL LEGISLATION+7 more: $5,100 · Other+7 moreHILLTOWN LAND TRUST INC: $10,000 · EnvironmentHILLTOWN LAND TRUST INCTHE TRUSTEES OF RESERVATIONS: $1,000 · EnvironmentTHE TRUSTEES OF RESERVAT…FRIENDS OF MERRYMEETING BAY: $1,000 · EnvironmentFRIENDS OF MERRYMEETING …+1 more: $300 · EnvironmentGlobal Network Against Weapons and Nuclear Power in Space: $5,000 · InternationalGlobal Network…MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $2,500 · InternationalMEDECINS SANS …Valley Classical Concerts Inc: $2,000 · Arts & CultureValley Cla…LAKE CHAMPLAIN MARITIME MUSEUM AT BASIN HARBOR INC: $2,000 · Arts & CultureLAKE CHAMP…SPRINGFIELD SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC: $1,250 · Arts & CultureSPRINGFIEL…PINEWOODS CAMP INC: $200 · Recreation & SportsHumane World for Animals Inc: $200 · Animals
Other$32,600Environment$12,300International$7,500Arts & Culture$5,250Recreation & Sports$200Animals$200

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 budgetHILLTOWN LAND TRUST INC: $10,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetNON-VIOLENCE INTERNATIONAL: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMid Coast Hunger Prevention Program: $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $2,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetValley Classical Concerts Inc: $2,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetLAKE CHAMPLAIN MARITIME MUSEUM AT BASIN HARBOR INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSPRINGFIELD SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC: $1,250 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF RESERVATIONS: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF MERRYMEETING BAY: $1,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetWild Seed Project: $300 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPINEWOODS CAMP INC: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHumane World for Animals Inc: $200 over 1y, 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.

Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Donor Advised Charitable Giving IncCO6.3× affinity7 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →median 2%
  • Springfield Symphony Orchestra Inc: 8% of income from government
  • Lake Champlain Maritime Museum at Basin Harbor Inc: 2% of income from government
  • The Trustees of Reservations: 2% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
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.

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 26 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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