· Private foundation
The Henderson Family 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.
Read this first · the figures below need context
62% of The Henderson Family Foundation’s FY2025 grant dollars went to Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2025 names 8 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2023, the last year The Henderson Family Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 30 organizations, $228k. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2023
- Under $10k38 grants · $102k
- $10k–50k8 grants · $126k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE STEPPING STONE FOUNDATION | $30,000 |
| HOMELESS CHILDREN FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| DHARMAKAYA CENTER FOR WELLBEING | $21,250 |
| HELP ME SEE | $10,000 |
| VERO BEACH MUSEUM OF ART | $10,000 |
| DARTMOUTH COLLEGE | $10,000 |
| ORCA CONSERVANCY | $10,000 |
| FOXCROFT SCHOOL | $10,000 |
| GEISEL SCHOOL OF MEDICINE | $6,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,500 |
| CARROLL SCHOOL | $5,000 |
| JOEL KATZ RESIDENCY EDUCATION FUND | $5,000 |
| MASSACHUSETTS COLLEGE OF ART | $5,000 |
| INDIAN RIVER HOSPITAL FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| CHOOSE LOVE | $5,000 |
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 (FY20–23, $30k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 67% 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 +59% since the first grant, against +37% for those funded once.
36 repeat relationships: 26 still active in FY2023, 10 since wound down; 17 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call). Read against FY2023, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.
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, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $15k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- VBVERO BEACH MUSEUM OF ART INC9× · 2017–2025 · $110k · revenue +916%
STEPPINGSTONE FOUNDATION INC6× · 2018–2023 · $102k · revenue +59%- DCDHARMAKAYA CENTER FOR WELLBEING INC6× · 2018–2023 · $82k · revenue +129%
Funded once
- HMHIGH MOUNTAIN INSTITUTE INCone grant, 2019 · $3k · revenue -19%
- UAUNITED AGAINST POVERTY INCone grant, 2019 · $3k · revenue +12%
- GOGREENWAVE ORGANIZATION CORPgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $2k · revenue +424%
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.
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…
New york school of interior design provides the most innovative, immersive, and transformative interior design education in the world, demonstrating the impact of professionally designed interiors on the health, happiness, and well-being…
Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.
Wpi transforms lives, turns knowledge into action to confront global challenges, and revolutionizes stem through distinctive and inclusive education, projects and research. (http://www.wpi.edu/about/mission.html)
Williams College strives to achieve educational excellence by fostering a community of learning in collaboration with students, faculty, staff, devoted alumni and parents.
Organization's mission: boston university is an international, comprehensive, private research university, committed to educating students to be reflective, resourceful individuals ready to live, adapt, and lead in an interconnected world.…
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…
Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…
Education and Research
The peak school seeks to ignite a passion for learning, to develop students of diverse talents and backgrounds who think critically and act with integrity, and to graduate compassionate, confident, capable students who will embrace their…
How this is measured
49 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 49 of the 66 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 FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ↗
- Who funds Trustees of Dartmouth College ↗
- Who funds VERO BEACH MUSEUM OF ART INC ↗
- Who funds STEPPINGSTONE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds DHARMAKAYA CENTER FOR WELLBEING INC ↗
- Who funds BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC ↗
- Who funds RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOR LEARNING & DEVELO DEVELOPMENT INC ↗
- Who funds THE TRUSTEES OF THE SMITH COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds ORCA CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE RESEARCH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds INDIAN RIVER HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds NOBLE AND GREENOUGH SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds NEW ENGLAND CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC ↗
- Who funds RIVERSIDE THEATRE INC ↗
- Who funds SHINING HOPE FOR COMMUNITIES INC ↗
- Who funds Foxcroft School ↗
- Who funds JOHN HAY ESTATE AT THE FELLS ↗
- Who funds RIAN IMMIGRANT CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds ST ANDREW'S SCHOOL OF DELAWARE INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF INDIAN RIVER COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds CRADLES TO CRAYONS INC ↗
- Who funds HELP ME SEE INC ↗
- Who funds NEW LONDON BARN PLAYHOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN ACADEMY OF ARTS & SCIENCES ↗
- Who funds THE CARROLL SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds MYRIAD USA INC ↗
- Who funds CHOOSE LOVE INC ↗
- Who funds WILLIAM JAMES COLLEGE INC ↗
- Who funds ONE TREE PLANTED INC ↗
- Who funds INDIAN RIVER LAND TRUST 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 · Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · The Schooner Foundation · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · Citizens Charitable Foundation · The Robert and Judith Sturgis Family Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Jewish Communal Fund · National Philanthropic Trust · American Endowment Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Henderson Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Henderson Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- William James College Inc: 11% of income from government
- Als Therapy Development Foundation Inc: 8% of income from government
- Familyaid Boston Inc: 4% of income from government
- American Academy of Arts & Sciences: 3% of income from government
- Cradles to Crayons Inc: 2% of income from government
- The Trustees of the Smith College: 1% of income from government
- United Way of Indian River County Inc: 1% of income from government
- New England Conservatory of Music: 1% of income from government
- Boston Symphony Orchestra Inc: 0% of income from government
- Indian River Land Trust Inc: 0% of income from government
- Steppingstone Foundation Inc: 0% of income from government
- St Andrew's School of Delaware Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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