Massachusetts · Private foundation
The Hearthstone 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.
- $118k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 20
- Grants FY2025
- 15
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 27%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $2,500
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $27,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 15 to 30
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 6
- Total assets, FY2025
- $1.3M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 27% of the organizations The Hearthstone Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 19% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $22k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 20 | $118k | 30% |
| FY2024 | 15 | $111k | 27% |
| FY2023 | 26 | $100k | 23% |
| FY2022 | 21 | $111k | 10% |
| FY2021 | 29 | $115k | 34% |
| FY2020 | 23 | $98k | 30% |
| FY2019 | 16 | $95k | 50% |
| FY2018 | 30 | $102k | 67% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Elizabethtown College | $224,500 | 9 | 0% |
| Duke University | $139,740 | 9 | 0% |
| Wellesley Friends Meeting Inc | $30,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Boston Bullpen Project Inc | $26,500 | 4 | 4% |
| Westport Land Conservation Trust Inc | $26,250 | 3 | 1% |
| Needham Community Council Inc | $21,700 | 6 | 1% |
| The Estaugh Ta Medford Leas | $21,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Kimball Union Academy | $8,000 | 1 | 0% |
| American Farmland Trust | $6,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Medford Leas Residents Association | $6,000 | 1 | 2% |
Show all 44 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 46 recipients with no EIN on record ($382k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Hearthstone Foundation supplied at peak.
Tap a dot to name the grantee.
How this is measured
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 · Bushrod H Campbell & Adah F Hall Charity Fund · Rockland Trust - Blue Hills Charitable Foundation · Cummings Foundation Grants Inc (Fka Oneworld Boston Inc) · Aetna Foundation Inc · Eastern Bank Foundation · Lissy Family Foundation · Needham Bank Charitable Foundation Inc · Philanthropy Massachusetts Inc · Rockland Trust Charitable Foundation Inc · Liberty Mutual Foundation Inc · The Rhode Island Community Foundation
How this is measured
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About The Hearthstone Foundation
- How much does The Hearthstone Foundation give?
- The Hearthstone Foundation reported 20 grants totaling $118,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 15 and 30 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does The Hearthstone Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (42%), Religion (19%), Environment (13%).
- Who are The Hearthstone Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Elizabethtown College ($225k), Duke University ($140k), Wellesley Friends Meeting Inc ($30k).
- Does The Hearthstone Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 27% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Hearthstone 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 Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Boston Foundation Inc, Bushrod H Campbell & Adah F Hall Charity Fund, Rockland Trust - Blue Hills Charitable Foundation.
- Where is The Hearthstone Foundation based?
- The Hearthstone Foundation is based in MA.
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