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The Hearthstone Charitable Foundation

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.

$204k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
21
Grants FY2025
25
Organizations funded FY2024
28%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$6,167
Largest grant, FY2025
$50,000
Organizations funded a year
19 to 26
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
5
Total assets, FY2025
$1.5M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 28% of the organizations The Hearthstone Charitable Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 17% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $26k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesArts & CulturePhilanthropyEducationCommunity ImprovementOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving21$204k14%
FY202425$158k28%
FY202322$154k27%
FY202220$148k20%
FY202120$218k20%
FY202019$212k16%
FY201921$90k29%
FY201826$131kn/a
96% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.

Education$497kInternational$369kHealth$228kPhilanthropy$107kHuman Services$82kEnvironment$33kRecreation & Sports$31kArts & Culture$25kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

VT
NH
WA
IL
NY
MA
IA
RI
CA
KY
MD
NC
DC
TX
FL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2018 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Beacon Academy Inc$220,50072%
Thrive Scholars$205,00071%
Mass General Brigham Incorporated$93,0008n/a
Mass General Brigham Incorporated$40,0008n/a
Givedirectly Inc$39,00070%
Catie's Closet Inc$29,50080%
Trustees of Boston University$20,80080%
White Mountain Trail Collective$20,00014%
The One by One Project Inc$15,00022%
Donorschooseorg$14,86170%
Show all 33 grantees
All grantees of The Hearthstone Charitable Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Beacon Academy Inc$220,50072%
Thrive Scholars$205,00071%
Mass General Brigham Incorporated$93,0008n/a
Mass General Brigham Incorporated$40,0008n/a
Givedirectly Inc$39,00070%
Catie's Closet Inc$29,50080%
Trustees of Boston University$20,80080%
White Mountain Trail Collective$20,00014%
The One by One Project Inc$15,00022%
Donorschooseorg$14,86170%
The Brigid Alliance Inc$13,00030%
Ripples of Hope Inc$13,00021%
Edvestors Inc$7,00040%
The Alliance for Climate Protection$7,00020%
The Philanthropy Connection Inc$6,00041%
Huntington Theatre Co Inc$6,00050%
Social Innovation Forum Inc$5,50040%
Pro Publica Inc$5,00010%
Direct Relief$5,00010%
Esplanade Association Inc$5,00010%
The Winnipesaukee Playhouse$4,00040%
Appalachian Mountain Club$4,00030%
Standing Together Inc$3,6001n/a
Prosperity Catalyst Inc$3,00030%
Youth Renewal Fund$3,00010%
Hias Inc$2,50010%
Greater Boston Food Bank Inc$2,00010%
Lake Winnipesaukee Association$1,50020%
The Derryfield School$1,50020%
Businesses United in Investing Lending & Development$1,00010%
Boston Debate League Incorporated$5001n/a
Boston Arts Academy Foundation Inc$50010%
New Hampshire Boat Museum$10010%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 26 recipients with no EIN on record ($518k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Hearthstone Charitable Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetBeacon Academy Inc: $220,500 over 7y, 2.5% of budgetThrive Scholars: $205,000 over 7y, 0.7% of budgetGivedirectly Inc: $39,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetCatie's Closet Inc: $29,500 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetTrustees of Boston University: $20,800 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetWhite Mountain Trail Collective: $20,000 over 1y, 4.0% of budgetThe One by One Project Inc: $15,000 over 2y, 2.2% of budgetDonorschooseorg: $14,861 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetThe Brigid Alliance Inc: $13,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetRipples of Hope Inc: $13,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetEdvestors Inc: $7,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetThe Alliance for Climate Protection: $7,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Philanthropy Connection Inc: $6,000 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetHuntington Theatre Co Inc: $6,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetSocial Innovation Forum Inc: $5,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetPro Publica Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDirect Relief: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEsplanade Association Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetThe Winnipesaukee Playhouse: $4,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetAppalachian Mountain Club: $4,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetProsperity Catalyst Inc: $3,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetYouth Renewal Fund: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHias Inc: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGreater Boston Food Bank Inc: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLake Winnipesaukee Association: $1,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetThe Derryfield School: $1,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBusinesses United in Investing Lending & Development: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBoston Arts Academy Foundation Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNew Hampshire Boat Museum: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 29.

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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.

Boston Foundation IncMA19.8× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Boston Foundation Inc · Eastern Bank Foundation · Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc · New Hampshire Charitable Foundation · Fidelity Foundation · The Rands Foundation · Wellington Management Foundation · Liberty Mutual Foundation Inc · Cummings Foundation Grants Inc (Fka Oneworld Boston Inc) · American Endowment Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Jpmorgan Chase 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.

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How do I get to The Hearthstone Charitable Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Hearthstone Charitable Foundation 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.

About The Hearthstone Charitable Foundation

How much does The Hearthstone Charitable Foundation give?
The Hearthstone Charitable Foundation reported 21 grants totaling $204,267 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 19 and 26 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does The Hearthstone Charitable Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (35%), International (26%), Health (16%).
Who are The Hearthstone Charitable Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2018 to FY2025: Beacon Academy Inc ($221k), Thrive Scholars ($205k), Mass General Brigham Incorporated ($93k).
Does The Hearthstone Charitable Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 28% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does The Hearthstone Charitable Foundation 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 Hearthstone Charitable Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Boston Foundation Inc, Eastern Bank Foundation, Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc.
Where is The Hearthstone Charitable Foundation based?
The Hearthstone Charitable Foundation is based in NH.

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 63 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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