· Private foundation
Ryan Patrick Jones Heart of a Hero 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.
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.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Montachusett Regional High School | $2,741 |
| Montachusett Regional High School | $1,513 |
| Forbush Memorial Library | $1,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,000 |
| Blum's Landing Inc | $1,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,000 |
| Friends of Hubbardston Senior Cente | $750 |
| St Edward Church | $700 |
| Individual grant recipient | $700 |
| St Vincent DePaul | $600 |
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 (FY18–25, $4k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% 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 +14% since the first grant, against +10% for those funded once.
57 repeat relationships: 20 still active in FY2025, 37 since wound down; 25 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, 53% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $12k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- NHNEIGHBORS HELPING NEIGHBORS INC3× · 2019–2022 · $4k · revenue +94%
- BLBLUM'S LANDING INC4× · 2018–2025 · $2k · revenue +14%
- TGTHE GARDNER MUSEUM INC4× · 2019–2023 · $685 · revenue +38%
Funded once
- WCWestminster Council on Aginone grant, 2020 · $6k
- FLForbush Libraryone grant, 2021 · $5k
- CCCatholic Charitiesone grant, 2020 · $2k
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.
Long-term care facility; residential care for middle age adults and elders who require a suprvised and protective environment
Transitional and permanent supportive housing - provides shelter in the greater Manchester NH area. Services include housing, counseling (including substance abuse counseling), job search assistance, etc.
House of hope, a temporary shelter, provides advocacy and care for homeless individuals and families. rooted in a belief in god, and under direction of an ecumenical board, it seeks to affirm the dignity of life to all who are served.
The basic philosophy guiding all habitat plus programs and services is to provide safe, supportive, and affordable housing to psychiatrically disabled veterans who would otherwise be homeless. all residents are treated with care,…
Establish continued food source and housing for elderly, veterans, children and low income persons and families
Provide shelter/housing for low income
To provide housing and supportive services to the veterans of the united states military
Direct service for those in need of housing & meals as well as funding for other similar non-profit organizations.
Sojourner house is a shelter of hope for families;providing a circle of support and empowering them towards independence.
To provide and coordinate lodging for our active military, veteran, and retired military families being treated at hospitals in the boston area.
How this is measured
12 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. 12 of the 208 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
Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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.
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: United Way of North Central Mass Inc · Community Foundation of North Central Ma · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Ryan Patrick Jones Heart of a Hero Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Ryan Patrick Jones Heart of a Hero Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
- Guild of Saint Agnes of Worcester: 60% of income from government
- Montachusett Veterans Outreach Center I: 17% of income from government
- Neighbors Helping Neighbors Inc: 14% of income from government
- Food for the Poor Inc: 0% of income from government
- Shriners Hospitals for Children: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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