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Ted and Barbara Hebert Charitable Ventures 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.

$78k
Granted FY2025still arriving
12
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$22k
Largest
01What you fund
01

What you funded, over time

By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 84% of TED AND BARBARA HEBERT CHARITABLE VENTURES INC’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.

02FY2025 · 12 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k11 grants · $57k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $22k
$5,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$422k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
VARIOUS UNDER 2500$21,543
SECOND CHANCE ANIMAL SERVICES$6,500
THE ZOO IN FOREST PARK$6,000
LUDLOW COMM CTRBOYS & GIRLS CLUB$6,000
CHICOPEE BOYS & GIRLS CLUB$5,000
Individual grant recipient$5,000
ASNUNTUCK COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDAT$5,000
I FOUND LIGHT AGAINST ALL ODDS$5,000
WEST SPRINGFIELD BOYS & GIRLS CLUB$5,000
JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF W MA$5,000
Individual grant recipient$5,000
YMCA OF SPRINGFIELD$3,000
02The need
03

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.

show:

Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY20–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 100% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%GCC FOUNDATION: $10k → 14%YMCA OF SPRINGFIELD: $3k → 17%MERCY VOLUNTEER CORPS: $10k → 7%ASNUNTUCK COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDAT: $5k → 11%YMCA OF SPRINGFIELD: $3k → 17%ASNUNTUCK COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDAT: $5k → 11%DENNIS THEATRE: $5k → 8%YMCA OF SPRINGFIELD: $3k → 17%ASNUNTUCK COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDAT: $5k → 11%VARIOUS UNDER 2500: $34k → 17%ASNUNTUCK COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDAT: $5k → 11%VARIOUS UNDER 2500: $22k → 17%ASNUNTUCK COMMUNITY COLLEGE: $3k → 11%VARIOUS UNDER 2500: $18k → 17%JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF W MA: $10k → 17%VARIOUS: $5k → 17%I FOUND LIGHT AGAINST ALL ODDS: $5k → 17%JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF W MA: $5k → 17%JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF W MA: $5k → 17%JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF W MA: $5k → 17%CHD SLED HOCKEY: $5k → 17%I FOUND LIGHT AGAINST ALL ODDS: $5k → 17%I FOUND LIGHT AGAINST ALL ODDS: $4k → 17%CHD SLED HOCKEY: $3k → 17%THE ZOO IN FOREST PARK: $8k → 17%THE ZOO IN FOREST PARK: $8k → 17%THE ZOO IN FOREST PARK: $6k → 17%WEST SPRINGFIELD BOYS & GIRLS CLUB: $5k → 17%WEST SPRINGFIELD BOYS & GIRLS CLUB: $5k → 17%WEST SPRINGFIELD BOYS & GIRLS CLUB: $5k → 17%WEST SPRINGFIELD BOYS & GIRLS CLUB: $5k → 17%SECOND CHANCE ANIMAL SERVICES: $7k → 17%SECOND CHANCE ANIMAL SERVICES: $6k → 17%SPRINGFIELD TECHNICAL COMMUNITY COL: $6k → 17%SECOND CHANCE ANIMAL SERVICES: $5k → 17%SECOND CHANCE ANIMAL SERVICES: $3k → 17%LUDLOW COMM CTRBOYS & GIRLS CLUB: $6k → 17%LUDLOW COMM CTRBOYS & GIRLS CLUB: $6k → 17%LUDLOW BOYS & GIRLS CLUB: $5k → 17%LUDLOW COMM CTRBOYS & GIRLS CLUB: $5k → 17%LUPA GAME FARM: $5k → 17%SPRINGFIELD THUNDERBIRDS: $5k → 17%HOLYOKE COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATIO: $100k → 17%HOLYOKE COMMUNITY COLLEGE: $10k → 17%CHICOPEE BOYS & GIRLS CLUB: $5k → 17%CHICOPEE BOYS & GIRLS CLUB: $5k → 17%CHICOPEE BOYS & GIRLS CLUB: $5k → 17%CHICOPEE BOYS & GIRLS CLUB: $5k → 17%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge
repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

60%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$256k · 12 repeat orgs$173k to everyone else

12 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2025, 1 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

12
15

Total granted

$256k
$168k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+15%
+44%

Still filing today

42%
27%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureYouth DevelopmentAnimalsHealthOther

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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

  • SC
    SECOND CHANCE ANIMAL SERVICES INC
    4× · 2022–2025 · $21k · revenue +51%
  • BG
    BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF CHICOPEE INC
    4× · 2022–2025 · $20k · revenue +21%
  • WS
    WEST SPRINGFIELD BOYS & GIRLS CLUB INC
    4× · 2022–2025 · $20k · revenue +15%

Funded once

  • HC
    HOLYOKE COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATIONINCgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $100k · revenue +44%
  • MV
    MERCY VOLUNTEER CORPS INC
    one grant, 2022 · $10k
  • HC
    HOLYOKE COMMUNITY COLLEGE
    one grant, 2021 · $10k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Boys & Girls Club of Greater New Bedford Inc

The boys & girls club of greater new bedford, inc. is dedicated to providing a stimulating and wholesome environment which promotes social, educational, character and physical development for children and young adults ages 7 - 18 years.…

Youth Development
2
Boys & Girls Club of Greater Billerica Inc

To enable all young people, especially those that need us most, to reach their full potential as productive, caring, and responsible citizens.

Youth Development
3
Boys & Girls Clubs of Boston Inc

Boys & girls clubs of boston (bgcb) stands as a transformative force in boston and chelsea, where high expectations unlock greatness. we believe that every young person who walks through our doors carries limitless potential. through our…

Youth Development
4
Boys and Girls Club of Webster-Dudley Inc

The organization's mission is to provide a variety of recreational, educational and cultural activities for the youth in the webster-dudley massachusetts area.

Youth Development
5
Boys Girls Club
6
Boys and Girls Club of Worcester Inc

Our mission is to help youth, especially those who need us most, develop the qualities needed to become responsible citizens and community leaders, through caring professional staff who forge relationships with our youth members and…

7
Boys & Girls Clubs of Dorchester Inc

Our mission is to always welcome and connect young people and families to opportunities that embrace diversity, nurture growth, and inspire success.

Youth Development
8
Boys & Girls Club of Greater Lowell Inc

To inspire and enable young people, especially those who need us most, to realize their full potential as productive, responsible and caring citizens.

Youth Development
9
Boys and Girls Club of Stoneham Inc

To inspire and enable all young people especially those who need us most to realize their full potential as productive, responsible and caring citizens. offering a variety of youth development and community programs for over 40 years.

Youth Development
10
Boys & Girls Club of Fitchburg and Leominster - a Nonprofit Educational

To inspire and enable all young people, especially those from disadvantaged circumstances, to realize their full potential as productive, responsible, and caring citizens.

Youth Development
11
Boys and Girls Clubs of Warwick

The boys & girls clubs of warwick is a non-profit organization working to help youth of all backgrounds, with a special concern for those who need us most, develop the qualities to become responsible citizens and leaders. our core services…

Youth Development
12
Boys & Girls Club of the Wausau Area Inc

To enrich and transform the lives of young people, especially those who need us most.

Youth Development

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is West Springfield Boys & Girls Club Inc and the most unlike its peers is City Mosaic. 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

10 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 10 of the 28 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/10
Grantees still filing
6/10
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

HOLYOKE COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATIONINC — $100,000 · OtherHOLYOKE COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATIONINCVARIOUS UNDER 2500 — $73,742 · OtherVARIOUS UNDER 2500JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF W MA — $25,000 · OtherJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF W MATHE ZOO IN FOREST PARK — $21,776 · OtherTHE ZOO IN FOREST PARKBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF CHICOPEE INC — $20,000 · OtherBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF CHICOPEE INCASNUNTUCK COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDAT — $20,000 · OtherASNUNTUCK COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATLUDLOW COMM CTRBOYS & GIRLS CLUB — $17,000 · Other+14 more — $81,505 · Other+14 moreWEST SPRINGFIELD BOYS & GIRLS CLUB INC — $20,000 · Youth DevelopmentI FOUND LIGHT AGAINST ALL ODDS LIGHTHOUSE INC — $14,000 · Youth DevelopmentSECOND CHANCE ANIMAL SERVICES INC — $20,500 · AnimalsNEW ENGLAND PUBLIC MEDIA INC — $7,000 · Arts & CultureLUPA GAME FARM INC — $5,000 · Arts & CultureCITY MOSAIC — $2,000 · Arts & CultureCAMP WORDS UNSPOKEN CORPORATION — $1,000 · Health
Other$359,023Youth Development$34,000Animals$20,500Arts & Culture$14,000Health$1,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetHOLYOKE COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATIONINC — $100,000 over 1y, 5.0% of budgetSECOND CHANCE ANIMAL SERVICES INC — $20,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF CHICOPEE INC — $20,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetWEST SPRINGFIELD BOYS & GIRLS CLUB INC — $20,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetI FOUND LIGHT AGAINST ALL ODDS LIGHTHOUSE INC — $14,000 over 3y, 7.5% of budgetNEW ENGLAND PUBLIC MEDIA INC — $7,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetLUDLOW BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetLUPA GAME FARM INC — $5,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetCITY MOSAIC — $2,000 over 1y, 3.5% of budgetCAMP WORDS UNSPOKEN CORPORATION — $1,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budget
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

  • Who funds HOLYOKE COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATIONINC
  • Who funds SECOND CHANCE ANIMAL SERVICES INC
  • Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF CHICOPEE INC
  • Who funds WEST SPRINGFIELD BOYS & GIRLS CLUB INC
  • Who funds I FOUND LIGHT AGAINST ALL ODDS LIGHTHOUSE INC
  • Who funds NEW ENGLAND PUBLIC MEDIA INC
  • Who funds LUDLOW BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB INC
  • Who funds LUPA GAME FARM INC
  • Who funds CITY MOSAIC
  • Who funds CAMP WORDS UNSPOKEN CORPORATION

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Community Foundation of Western MassachusettsMA17.6× affinity6 shared granteesties to 5 of 5Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Community Foundation of Western Massachusetts · The Irene E and George A Davis Foundation · The Beveridge Family Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization Ted and Barbara Hebert Charitable Ventures Inc funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 40%1%3%6%10%your share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 2%
  • Lupa Game Farm Inc16% of income from government
  • Ludlow Boys and Girls Club Inc2% of income from government
  • Boys & Girls Club of Chicopee Inc2% of income from government
  • New England Public Media Inc0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
4get no government money at all
1report 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, FY2025

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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.

05Through Plinth

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How do I get to Ted and Barbara Hebert Charitable Ventures Inc?

Find your warmest path to Ted and Barbara Hebert Charitable Ventures 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 28 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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