· Private foundation
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2021–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k25 grants · $96k
- $10k–50k9 grants · $129k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| LAWRENCE BOYS & GIRLS CLUB | $25,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $20,500 |
| EMERSON HOSPITAL FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| GROTON HILL MUSIC | $12,500 |
| GREATER BOSTON FOOD BANK | $10,350 |
| MUSEUM OF SCIENCE | $10,300 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,250 |
| USS CONSTITUTION MUSEUM | $10,000 |
| CHILDREN'S LITERACY FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| WILDLIFE CONSERVATION SOCIETY | $7,650 |
| TRUSTEES OF RESERVATIONS | $5,175 |
| ROSIE'S PLACE | $5,150 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD LEAGUE OF MA | $5,150 |
| FISHER HOUSE | $5,135 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,125 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY21–24, $30k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +23% since the first grant, against +18% for the ones you funded once.
44 repeat relationships — 28 still active in FY2025, 16 since wound down; 6 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, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $14k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
LAWRENCE BOYS & GIRLS CLUB INC4× · 2021–2025 · $80k · revenue +41%
TRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY4× · 2021–2024 · $40k · revenue +24%- SVSUDBURY VALLEY TRUSTEES INC3× · 2021–2023 · $30k · revenue +104%
Funded once
PARTNERS IN HEALTH A NONPROFIT CORPORATIONone grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue -14%- MGMA GOLF ASSOCIATIONone grant, 2021 · $3k
- PFPAWS FOR PURPLE HEARTSone grant, 2023 · $3k · revenue -4%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Western new england university, a comprehensive private institution with a tradition of excellence in teaching and scholarship and a commitment to service, awards undergraduate, master's, and doctoral degrees in various departments from…
The mission of lowell observatory is to pursue the study of astronomy, especially the study of our solar system and its evolution; to conduct pure research in astronomical phenomena; and to maintain quality public education and outreach…
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.
To protect the nature of massachusetts for people and for wildlife through education, land conservation, advocacy, scientific research, and habitat stewardship/restoration.
The museum's mission statement is: "to discover, interpret, and disseminate - through scientific research and education - knowledge about human cultures, the natural world, and the universe."
Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.
Organization's mission statement true to the ambitious vision of its founder and her spirit of creative risk-taking, the mission of the isabella stewart gardner museum is: - to bring to life and preserve the rich historic collection; - to…
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
The program mission of the quebec-labrador foundation u.s. is defined by a regional component (new england and eastern canada), and an international component, which ties our regional model to a global conservation network. qlf's program…
The wildlands trust works throughout southeastern massachusetts to conserve and permanently protect native habitats, farmland, and lands of high ecologic and scenic value that serve to keep our communities healthy and our residents…
Conservation law foundation, inc. (clf) protects new england's environment for the benefit of all people and future generations. we use the law, science, and markets to create solutions that preserve and restore our natural resources,…
Ocean conservancy unites science, people, and policy to protect our ocean, today and for generations to come.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Trustees of Reservations and the most unlike its peers is Littleton Scholarship Trust. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 46 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
31 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 31 of the 58 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds CHILDREN'S LITERACY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LAWRENCE BOYS & GIRLS CLUB INC ↗
- Who funds GREATER BOSTON FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds GROTON HILL MUSIC INC ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds SUDBURY VALLEY TRUSTEES INC ↗
- Who funds GUIDING EYES FOR THE BLIND INC ↗
- Who funds MUSEUM OF SCIENCE ↗
- Who funds Wildlife Conservation Society ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD LEAGUE OF MASSACHUSETTS INC ↗
- Who funds THE TRUSTEES OF RESERVATIONS ↗
- Who funds ROSIE'S PLACE INC ↗
- Who funds USS CONSTITUTION MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds MUSIC WORCESTER INC ↗
- Who funds HIMALAYAN CATARACT PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds Appalachian Mountain Club ↗
- Who funds BOSTON CASA INC ↗
- Who funds WORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC ↗
- Who funds COMPASSION & CHOICES ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WICN PUBLIC RADIO INC ↗
- Who funds OGLALA LAKOTA COLLEGE ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
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Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization The Helen G Hauben Foundation Inc funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Greater Boston Food Bank Inc — 22% of income from government
- Boston Casa Inc — 20% of income from government
- Uss Constitution Museum Inc — 17% of income from government
- Trustees of Boston University — 12% of income from government
- Sudbury Valley Trustees Inc — 11% of income from government
- Music Worcester Inc — 7% of income from government
- Planned Parenthood League of Massachusetts Inc — 3% of income from government
- The Trustees of Reservations — 2% of income from government
- Merrimack Repertory Theatre Inc — 2% of income from government
- Wicn Public Radio Inc — 1% of income from government
- Appalachian Mountain Club — 1% of income from government
- Museum of Science — 0% of income from government
- Groton Hill Music Inc — 0% of income from government
- Rosie's Place Inc — 0% of income from government
- Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation — 0% of income from government
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.