How much does The Frank W Holas Charitable Trust give?

The Frank W Holas Charitable Trust reported 19 grants totaling $34,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 15 and 27 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.

What does The Frank W Holas Charitable Trust fund?

By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (50%), Philanthropy (13%), Housing & Shelter (10%).

Who are The Frank W Holas Charitable Trust's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: St Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc ($36k), Shepherd Center Inc ($27k), The Salvation Army ($26k).

Does The Frank W Holas Charitable Trust fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 14% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does The Frank W Holas Charitable Trust accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

Which funders back the same organizations as The Frank W Holas Charitable Trust?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Amazonsmile Foundation.

Where is The Frank W Holas Charitable Trust based?

The Frank W Holas Charitable Trust is based in MA.

The Frank W Holas Charitable Trust

The Frank W Holas Charitable Trust at a glance

· Private foundation

The Frank W Holas Charitable Trust

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.

$34k

Granted FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$5k

Largest

01What it funds

0192% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Health$168kPhilanthropy$44kHousing & Shelter$33kHuman Services$31kAnimals$22kFood & Nutrition$11kInternational$9kEducation$2kOther$0

02FY2025 · 19 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$2,000

Median grant

States reached

$79k

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
SHEPARD CENTER	$5,000
OVARIAN CANCER ALLIANCE	$3,000
HABITAT FOR HUMANITY	$3,000
CHRIS NORTON FOUNDATION	$2,500
AMERICAN DIABETES ASSOCIATION	$2,000
PINE STREET INN	$2,000
ALZHEIMERS ASSOCIATION	$2,000
AMERICAN KIDNEY FUND	$2,000
AUTISM SPEAKS	$2,000
SAMARITAN'S PURSE	$2,000
BOSTON FOOD BANK	$2,000
DANA FARBER CANCER	$1,500
AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY	$1,000
DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS	$1,000
SALVATION ARMY	$1,000

02The need

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

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Its human-services grants (FY20–25, $21k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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

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.

92%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$309k · 27 repeat orgs$28k to everyone else

27 repeat relationships: 17 still active in FY2025, 10 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$309k

$27k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+30%

+32%

Still filing today

56%

73%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

HealthAnimalsHuman ServicesEducationInternationalReligionOther

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

ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC
5× · 2020–2024 · $36k · revenue +78%
SC
SHEPHERD CENTER INC
5× · 2020–2025 · $27k · revenue +22%
PINE STREET INN INC
6× · 2020–2025 · $20k · revenue +36%

Funded once

SQ
S Q Rescue Inc
one grant, 2020 · $4k · revenue -91%
BC
BLOOD CANCER UNITED INC
one grant, 2021 · $4k · revenue -25%
SHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDRENgraduated
one grant, 2023 · $3k · revenue +67%

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.

Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center

Leadership in the prevention, treatment, and cure of cancer through excellence, vision and cost effectiveness in patient care, outreach programs, research, and education.

Health

Target Als Foundation Inc

Our mission is to break down barriers to als research to find effective treatments. by uniting academia, the pharma and biotech industry, government, venture capital, related nonprofits, and the als community, we aim to overcome the…

Education

Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute

Sanford burnham prebys medical discovery institute's mission is to advance the biomedical sciences by cultivating the next generation of scientific leaders, providing meaningful opportunities for researchers of all backgrounds to learn,…

Health

American Lung Association

The american lung association's mission is to save lives by improving lung health and preventing lung disease. we do this through education, advocacy, and research.

Health

American Heart Association Inc

The american heart association's mission is to be a relentless force for a world of longer, healthier lives.

Health

Mila's Miracle Foundation

The mission of mila's miracle foundation is to find and fund paths to a cure for batten and other life-threatening neurological disorders. families in this community have been pivotal in raising the necessary funds and awareness. together,…

Health

Cedars-Sinai Medical Center

As a leading academic healthcare organization, our mission is to elevate the health status of the communities we serve.(see schedule o for continuation)(continued)-we deliver exceptional healthcare enhanced by research and education-we…

Health

The Johns Hopkins Hospital

For more than 125 years, the mission of the johns hopkins hospital has been to lead the world in the diagnosis and treatment of disease and to train tomorrow's great physicians, nurses and scientists. above all, we aim to provide the…

Health

Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center

Fred hutch cancer center ("fred hutch") unites innovative research and compassionate care to prevent and eliminate cancer and infectious disease. continued on schedule o

Health

The Susan G Komen Breast Cancer Fdn Group

Susan g. komen 's mission is to save lives by meeting the most critical needs in our communities & investing in breakthrough research to prevent & cure breast cancer.

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The Translational Genomics Research Institute

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Health

Critical Path Institute

The critical path institute is a catalyst in the development of new approaches that advance medical innovation and regulatory science. this is achieved by leading teams that share data, knowledge and expertise resulting in sound, consensus…

Health

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Shepherd Center Inc; the most unlike its peers is S Q Rescue 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

27 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. 27 of the 44 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

27/27

Grantees still filing

20/27

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$149,651Health$142,500Human Services$21,000Animals$13,000Religion$5,000International$3,500Education$1,500

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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.

Amazonsmile FoundationWA3.3× affinity4 shared granteesties to 0 of 0Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: 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 The Frank W Holas Charitable Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Frank W Holas Charitable Trust. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24’25

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

4get 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 · 0–20%

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.

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