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The Helen G Hauben Foundation 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.

$225k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
34
Grants FY2025
36
Organizations funded FY2024
6%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$5,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$25,000
Organizations funded a year
34 to 44
FY2021 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
8
Total assets, FY2025
$3.7M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 6% of the organizations The Helen G Hauben Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 1% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k went to new ones.

50%100%’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’22’23’24
Arts & CultureCivil RightsEnvironmentHealthPublic BenefitEducationOther
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 arriving34$225k18%
FY202436$230k6%
FY202336$227k8%
FY202244$285k27%
FY202134$203kn/a
82% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.

Health$173kEducation$172kArts & Culture$125kEnvironment$96kYouth Development$82kInternational$68kAnimals$55kFood & Nutrition$50kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

VT
NY
MA
OR
SD
RI
CA
VA
AZ
AR
DC
OK

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2021 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Children's Literacy Foundation$107,50055%
Lawrence Boys & Girls Club Inc$80,40041%
Mass General Brigham Incorporated$57,5004n/a
Greater Boston Food Bank Inc$50,35050%
Groton Hill Music Inc$50,00040%
Trustees of Boston University$40,10040%
Sudbury Valley Trustees Inc$30,00030%
Guiding Eyes for the Blind Inc$30,00030%
Museum of Science$29,30050%
Wildlife Conservation Society$28,25050%
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What it could do for these grantees

Plus 25 recipients with no EIN on record ($458k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Helen G Hauben Foundation Inc supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetChildren's Literacy Foundation: $107,500 over 5y, 4.8% of budgetLawrence Boys & Girls Club Inc: $80,400 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetGreater Boston Food Bank Inc: $50,350 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetGroton Hill Music Inc: $50,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetTrustees of Boston University: $40,100 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSudbury Valley Trustees Inc: $30,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetGuiding Eyes for the Blind Inc: $30,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMuseum of Science: $29,300 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetWildlife Conservation Society: $28,250 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetPlanned Parenthood League of Massachusetts Inc: $25,650 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetThe Trustees of Reservations: $23,175 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetRosie's Place Inc: $22,650 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetUss Constitution Museum Inc: $20,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetMusic Worcester Inc: $14,600 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetHimalayan Cataract Project Inc: $14,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetAppalachian Mountain Club: $12,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBoston Casa Inc: $10,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetWorld Wildlife Fund Inc: $9,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNational Park Foundation: $7,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCompassion & Choices: $7,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWicn Public Radio Inc: $7,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetOglala Lakota College: $5,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPartners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMerrimack Repertory Theatre Inc: $5,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetPaws for Purple Hearts: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerica's Vetdogs the Veterans K-9 Corps Inc: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBig Brothers Big Sisters of Central Mass /Metrowest Inc: $1,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLittleton Scholarship Trust: $1,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetCommon Cause: $250 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.

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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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About The Helen G Hauben Foundation Inc

How much does The Helen G Hauben Foundation Inc give?
The Helen G Hauben Foundation Inc reported 34 grants totaling $224,635 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 34 and 44 organizations a year over FY2021 to FY2024.
What does The Helen G Hauben Foundation Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2021 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (15%), Education (15%), Arts & Culture (11%).
Who are The Helen G Hauben Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2021 to FY2025: Children's Literacy Foundation ($108k), Lawrence Boys & Girls Club Inc ($80k), Mass General Brigham Incorporated ($58k).
Does The Helen G Hauben Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 6% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does The Helen G Hauben Foundation Inc 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 Helen G Hauben Foundation Inc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include American Tower Corporation Foundation Inc, Eastern Bank Foundation, Boston Foundation Inc.
Where is The Helen G Hauben Foundation Inc based?
The Helen G Hauben Foundation Inc is based in MA.

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 58 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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