· Private foundation
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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k12 grants · $42k
- $10k–50k8 grants · $113k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD NH | $50,000 |
| MCLEAN HOSPITAL | $27,500 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD MA | $25,000 |
| ONE BY ONE PROJECT | $10,000 |
| WBUR | $10,000 |
| FRIENDS OF EAST BOSTON | $10,000 |
| RIPPLES OF HOPE | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| WGBH | $10,000 |
| HESTIA | $7,000 |
| PLAYWORKS | $6,167 |
| BRIGHAM & WOMEN'S | $5,000 |
| GIVE DIRECTLY | $5,000 |
| BRIGID ALLIANCE | $5,000 |
| HAND IN HAND | $3,600 |
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, $63k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 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 +20% since the first grant, against +14% for those funded once.
33 repeat relationships: 18 still active in FY2025, 15 since wound down; 3 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, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $26k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- BABEACON ACADEMY INC7× · 2018–2024 · $221k · revenue +66%
- TSTHRIVE SCHOLARS7× · 2018–2024 · $205k · revenue +152%
GIVEDIRECTLY INC7× · 2019–2025 · $39k · revenue +358%
Funded once
- WMWHITE MOUNTAIN TRAIL COLLECTIVEone grant, 2020 · $20k
- UVUPPER VALLEY TRAILS ASSOCIATIONone grant, 2018 · $20k
- REROMANIA EVANGELICAL MEDICAL MISSIONone grant, 2019 · $10k
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.
The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.
The organization's primary exempt purpose is to provide access to and conduct activities in furtherance of higher education.
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…
Organization's mission bentley university believes good business can impact more than the bottom line - it can change the world. bentley is a community of future business leaders who will deliver value in the marketplace and lasting…
Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.
New england law/boston dedicates itself to preparing students to be successful lawyers and leaders in the public and private sectors through integrated practical, theoretical and ethical education of the highest caliber and to contributing…
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…
Dartmouth College educates the most promising students and prepares them for a lifetime of learning and of responsible leadership, through a faculty dedicated to teaching and the creation of knowledge.
Dean college is a private, residential new england college grounded in a culture and tradition that all students deserve the opportunity to discover and exceed their greatest aspirations. a personal and transformative community since 1865,…
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…
The mission of the roundtable is to make massachusetts the most desirable place to live, work and do business by engaging private sector executives and public leaders to ensure access to a robust, diverse and talented workforce that…
How this is measured
34 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. 34 of the 63 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 BEACON ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds THRIVE SCHOLARS ↗
- Who funds New Hampshire Charitable Foundation ↗
- Who funds GIVEDIRECTLY INC ↗
- Who funds Catie's Closet Inc ↗
- Who funds BROWN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds WHITE MOUNTAIN TRAIL COLLECTIVE ↗
- Who funds FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ↗
- Who funds THE ONE BY ONE PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds DONORSCHOOSEORG ↗
- Who funds THE BRIGID ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds RIPPLES OF HOPE INC ↗
- Who funds EDVESTORS INC ↗
- Who funds THE ALLIANCE FOR CLIMATE PROTECTION ↗
- Who funds The Philanthropy Connection Inc ↗
- Who funds HUNTINGTON THEATRE CO INC ↗
- Who funds SOCIAL INNOVATION FORUM INC ↗
- Who funds PRO PUBLICA INC ↗
- Who funds DIRECT RELIEF ↗
- Who funds ESPLANADE ASSOCIATION 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: 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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Hearthstone Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Hearthstone Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Hias Inc: 88% of income from government
- Greater Boston Food Bank Inc: 22% of income from government
- Trustees of Boston University: 12% of income from government
- Boston Debate League Incorporated: 7% of income from government
- Huntington Theatre Co Inc: 4% of income from government
- Catie's Closet Inc: 4% of income from government
- Appalachian Mountain Club: 1% of income from government
- Beacon Academy Inc: 1% of income from government
- Edvestors Inc: 1% of income from government
- Boston Arts Academy Foundation Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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