· Private foundation
Richard a Heald 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, FY2020 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k20 grants · $44k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| DANA HALL SCHOOL ANNUAL FUND | $10,000 |
| FIRST UNITARIAN CHURCH | $5,000 |
| FALMOUTH ACADEMY INC | $5,000 |
| WEST FALMOUTH MASSACHUSETTS LIBRARY | $4,500 |
| NEW ENGLAND BOTANIC GARDEN AT TOWER HILL | $3,500 |
| AMERICAN ANTIQUARIAN SOCIETY | $3,000 |
| WORCESTER ART MUSEUM | $3,000 |
| FALMOUTH HISTORICAL SOCIETY | $2,000 |
| WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INST | $2,000 |
| BUZZARDS BAY COALITION | $2,000 |
| WORCESTER HISTORICAL MUSEUM | $2,000 |
| NAPLES FL HISTORICAL SOCIETY | $1,500 |
| BANCROFT SCHOOL | $1,500 |
| MIDDLESEX SCHOOL | $1,500 |
| WCAI CAPE & ISLANDS NPR STATION | $1,500 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY20–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 84% of its 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.
29 repeat relationships: 18 still active in FY2025, 11 since wound down; 2 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, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- FAFALMOUTH ACADEMY INC6× · 2020–2025 · $32k · revenue +17%
- BSBANCROFT SCHOOL6× · 2020–2025 · $22k · revenue +15%
WORCESTER ART MUSEUM6× · 2020–2025 · $17k · revenue +57%
Funded once
- JGJENNIFER GATES ART THERAPY FDone grant, 2020 · $3k
- PAPresident and Fellows of Middlebury Collegeone grant, 2024 · $2k · revenue -2%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2024 · $1k
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.
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…
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…
Williams College strives to achieve educational excellence by fostering a community of learning in collaboration with students, faculty, staff, devoted alumni and parents.
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…
Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.
Wpi transforms lives, turns knowledge into action to confront global challenges, and revolutionizes stem through distinctive and inclusive education, projects and research. (http://www.wpi.edu/about/mission.html)
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…
The organization's primary exempt purpose is to provide access to and conduct activities in furtherance of higher education.
The mission of westminster college is to help students develop competencies, commitments, and characteristics which have distinguished human beings at their best. see continuation on schedule o.the liberal arts tradition is the foundation…
Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.
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…
How this is measured
16 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. 16 of the 37 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 FALMOUTH ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds BANCROFT SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds WORCESTER ART MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN ANTIQUARIAN SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds FALMOUTH HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION ↗
- Who funds Yale University ↗
- Who funds PRESERVATION WORCESTER INC ↗
- Who funds ROCKY MOUNTAIN PLANNED PARENTHOOD INC ↗
- Who funds WORCESTER HISTORICAL MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds GIRLS INCORPORATED OF WORCESTER ↗
- Who funds THE FORT LEWIS COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BUZZARDS BAY COALITION ↗
- Who funds President and Fellows of Middlebury College ↗
- Who funds MIDDLESEX SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER OF CAPE COD 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: The C Jean & Myles McDonough Charitable Foundation · Ruth H & Warren a Ellsworth Foundation · Hermann Foundation Inc · The Fred Harris Daniels Foundation · Stoddard Charitable Trust · Judy and Tony King Foundation · Tonna Charitable Trust · Wyman Gordon · The Fletcher Foundation · The George I Alden Trust · Massachusetts Foundation for the Humanities & Public Policy Inc · Greater Worcester Community Foundation Inc
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Richard a Heald Fund funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Richard a Heald Fund. Bigger dots raise more.
- Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution: 63% of income from government
- Buzzards Bay Coalition: 37% of income from government
- Yale University: 12% of income from government
- Preservation Worcester Inc: 10% of income from government
- Community Health Center of Cape Cod Inc: 9% of income from government
- American Antiquarian Society: 7% of income from government
- Worcester Historical Museum: 5% of income from government
- Girls Incorporated of Worcester: 2% of income from government
- President and Fellows of Middlebury College: 1% of income from government
- Worcester Art Museum: 1% of income from government
How this is measured
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