· Private foundation
The Henke Family 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BREMEN COMMUNITY CARES | $9,020 |
| COMMON CHORD | $1,000 |
| INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE OF NEW ENGL | $1,000 |
| UTEC PROGRAM | $1,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $750 |
| CHURCH OF THE BRETHREN PRESCHOOL | $750 |
| NEIGHBORS IN NEED | $500 |
| THE BIKE CONNECTOR | $500 |
| NEST | $500 |
| SOUTH CHURCH IN ANDOVER | $500 |
| LAZARUS HOUSE MINISTRIES | $500 |
| BREAD AND ROSES | $500 |
| PROJECT RENEWAL | $500 |
| HADWIN PARK CHURCH | $500 |
| BREAD AND ROSES | $500 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY20–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 6%. 100% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
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 +48% since the first grant, against +19% for those funded once.
18 repeat relationships: 10 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down; 7 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, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- BCBREMEN COMMUNITY CARES INCORPORATED3× · 2020–2025 · $11k · revenue +15%
NEIGHBORS IN NEED INC5× · 2020–2025 · $4k · revenue +408%
BREAD & ROSES INC5× · 2020–2025 · $4k · revenue +142%
Funded once
- MRMISSION RESOURCEone grant, 2022 · $1k
- ICINTERNATIONAL CULTURAL EXCHANGEone grant, 2023 · $500
- N(NEST (NOURISH EVERYONE SUSTAINABLY)one grant, 2023 · $500
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.
Organizing and operating community choirs, focusing on youth and senior citizens
Music worcester brings inspiring and varied musical experiences to expanding audiences through concerts, performances and educational programs.
To provide clean, safe, well maintained, and affordable apartments and townhouses, suitable for anyone, in many locations throughout rochester, new york.
To promote economic, community, and human development in holyoke, massachusetts through projects related to food and agriculture.
Provide a forum for the sharing of information, experience, and perspective concerning public and private housing within the state of oregon and participate with local, public, and private partnerships in the creation of affordable housing…
To broaden experience, knowledge and enjoyment of every style of new music by embracing the full range of today's compositional activity and giving voice to music that might otherwise not be heard.
The mission of the lawrence arts center is to create meaningful arts experiences with and for the community through education, exhibitions, and performances.
To enrich the cultural life of the island by fostering and supporting music education and performance opportunities for young people and adults.
The organization operates a job training and educational center by offering courses to help low income families to improve their quality of life by developing self sufficiency skills.
Promotion of the arts in lynn and greater boston
To teach, inspire, and mentor talented children from 9 to 18 in all aspects of musical expression, whether their goal is a career in music or simply to enrich their lives, and to do so in an adirondack setting rich in recreational…
The rochester opera house is a nonprofit performing arts organization. its mission is to entertain, stimulate and educate audiences of all ages with high quality artistic programming, and to preserve historic rochester opera house as a…
How this is measured
13 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. 13 of the 38 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 BREMEN COMMUNITY CARES INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds COMMON CHORD ↗
- Who funds NEIGHBORS IN NEED INC ↗
- Who funds BREAD & ROSES INC ↗
- Who funds QUAD CITIES INTERFAITH ↗
- Who funds THE BIKE CONNECTOR INC ↗
- Who funds NORTHEAST MASSACHUSETTS YOUTH ORCHESTRAS INC ↗
- Who funds LAZARUS HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds UTEC Inc ↗
- Who funds THE TUSKEGEE NEXT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds O'HANA HERITAGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CANTERBURY SHAKER VILLAGE INC ↗
- Who funds EMPIRE STATE YOUTH ORCHESTRA 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.
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How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Henke Family Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Henke Family Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
- Utec Inc: 46% of income from government
- Northeast Massachusetts Youth Orchestras Inc: 3% of income from government
- Neighbors in Need Inc: 3% of income from government
- Lazarus House Inc: 1% of income from government
How this is measured
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