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The Henley 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.

$11k
Granted FY2025still arriving
18
Grants FY2025still arriving
7
States reached
$1k
Largest
01What you fund
0193% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20182025.

Education$28kReligion$19kHealth$19kArts & Culture$6kFood & Nutrition$5kInternational$3kHuman Services$2kHousing & Shelter$2kOther$0
02FY2025 · 18 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$500
Median grant
7
States reached
$134k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MAINE HEALTH$1,000
KENT SCHOOL$1,000
ST THOMAS EPISCOPAL CHURCH$1,000
MT SAINI HEALTH SYSTEM$1,000
Individual grant recipient$1,000
WDAV CLASSICAL PUBLIC RADIO$1,000
SAMARITAN'S PURSE$500
NOURISH UP$500
BUCKLEY INSTITUTE$500
CLASSROOM CENTRAL$500
SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK$500
CHARLOTTE COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL$500
TURNING POINT USA$500
CHARLOTTE BILINGUAL SCHOOL$500
HUMANE SOCIETY OF CHARLOTTE$250
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY18–25, $5k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%CHARLOTTE FAMILY HOUSING: $500 → 10%CHARLOTTE FAMILY HOUSING: $500 → 10%CHARLOTTE FAMILY HOUSING: $500 → 10%CHARLOTTE FAMILY HOUSING: $500 → 10%Penobscot Bay YMCA: $1k → 11%NOURISH UP: $500 → 10%LOAVES FISHES: $500 → 10%LOAVES FISHES: $500 → 10%LOAVES FISHES: $500 → 10%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

87%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$83k · 20 repeat orgs$13k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +7% since the first grant, against +3% for the ones you funded once.

20 repeat relationships — 15 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

20
8

Total granted

$83k
$11k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+7%
+3%

Still filing today

55%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationHuman ServicesAnimalsHealthPhilanthropyArts & CultureOther

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

  • KS
    KENT SCHOOL
    8× · 2018–2025 · $8k · revenue +7%
  • CC
    CHARLOTTE COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL
    8× · 2018–2025 · $5k · revenue +19%
  • CC
    CLASSROOM CENTRAL INC
    7× · 2019–2025 · $3k · revenue +14%

Funded once

  • RL
    ROCKPORT LIBRARY FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2019 · $5k · revenue -89%
  • BC
    BLOOD CANCER UNITED INC
    one grant, 2021 · $3k · revenue -25%
  • PB
    PENOBSCOT BAY YMCA
    one grant, 2018 · $1k · revenue +3%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Central Maine Healthcare Corporation

To provide exceptional healthcare services in a safe and trustful environment through the expertise, committment, and compassion of our family of caregivers.

Health
2
Commonwealth Care Alliance Inc

Commonwealth care alliance, inc.'s mission is to improve the health and well-being of people with significant needs by innovating, coordinating and providing the highest quality, individualized care.

Health
3
Northeast College of Health Sciences

Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.

Education
4
Salem Health Hospitals & Clinics

To support salem health, salem health west valley and related organizations.

5
Central Maine Medical Center

To provide exceptional healthcare services in a safe and trustfulenvironment through the expertise, commitment and compassion of ourfamily of caregivers.

Health
6
Waldo County General Hospital

Waldo County General Hospital's mission is to be the BEST - Better, Empathy, Service and Teamwork. Our goal is to ensure quality, accessible and affordable health care services and to improve the health and well-being of our community.

7
MaineGeneral Health

To enhance, every day, the health of our patients, our families and our communities. We do that through a range of health care services for people of all ages, in a variety of care settings.

Health
8
Rumford Hospital

To provide exceptional healthcare services in a safe and trustfulenvironment through the expertise, commitment and compassion of ourfamily of caregivers.

Health
9
Gaston Memorial Hospital Foundation Inc

To engage and inspire our community to support caromont health in providing compassionate, exceptional and highly reliable care.

Health
10
Banner -University Medical Group

Assist banner health complete its mission to make health care easier so life can be better by providing integrated & coordinated care & population health management.

Health
11
Caromont Health

To provide compassionate, exceptional and highly reliable care.

Health
12
Penobscot Bay Medical Center

Penobscot Bay Medical Center (PBMC) is an acute care hospital that offers inpatient and outpatient care, diagnostic, therapeutic and rehabilitative services, patient and community education, and a full range of specialty services through…

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Wounded Warrior Project Inc and the most unlike its peers is Samaritan's Purse. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

04the grantee network

19 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 19 of the 31 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
18/19
Grantees still filing
9/19
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

St Thomas Episcopal Church — $19,000 · OtherSt Thomas Episcopal ChurchIndividual grant recipient — $9,250 · OtherIndividual grant recipientMT SAINI HEALTH SYSTEM — $7,000 · OtherMT SAINI HEALTH SYSTEMPen Bay Waldo Healthcare Foundation — $7,000 · OtherPen Bay Waldo Healthcare FoundationWDAV CLASSICAL PUBLIC RADIO — $4,000 · OtherWDAV CLASSICAL PUBLIC RADIOCHARLOTTE BILINGUAL SCHOOL — $3,000 · OtherSECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK — $3,000 · Other+7 more — $4,000 · Other+7 moreKENT SCHOOL — $8,000 · EducationKENT SCHOOLCHARLOTTE COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL — $5,000 · EducationCHARLOTTE COUNTRY DAY SCHOO…ROCKPORT LIBRARY FOUNDATION — $5,000 · EducationROCKPORT LIBRARY FOUNDATIONCLASSROOM CENTRAL INC — $3,250 · EducationCLASSROOM CENTRAL INCBUCKLEY INSTITUTE INC — $1,000 · EducationSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION — $1,000 · EducationCharlotte Family Housing — $2,000 · Human ServicesNourish Up — $2,000 · Human ServicesPENOBSCOT BAY YMCA — $1,250 · Human ServicesWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC — $1,000 · Human ServicesBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC — $2,500 · HealthMaineHealth — $1,000 · HealthSAMARITAN'S PURSE — $2,500 · ReligionMINT HILL ARTS — $2,000 · Arts & CultureACTS LEGACY FOUNDATION INC — $1,750 · PhilanthropyPAWS Animal Adoption Center — $250 · AnimalsHumane Society of Charlotte Inc — $250 · Animals
Other$56,250Education$23,250Human Services$6,250Health$3,500Religion$2,500Arts & Culture$2,000Philanthropy$1,750Animals$500

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetKENT SCHOOL — $8,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetPen Bay Waldo Healthcare Foundation — $7,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetCHARLOTTE COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL — $5,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetROCKPORT LIBRARY FOUNDATION — $5,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetCLASSROOM CENTRAL INC — $3,250 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSAMARITAN'S PURSE — $2,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMINT HILL ARTS — $2,000 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetCharlotte Family Housing — $2,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetNourish Up — $2,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetACTS LEGACY FOUNDATION INC — $1,750 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetPENOBSCOT BAY YMCA — $1,250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBUCKLEY INSTITUTE INC — $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION — $1,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC — $1,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTURNING POINT USA INC — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPAWS Animal Adoption Center — $250 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
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 KENT SCHOOL
  • Who funds Pen Bay Waldo Healthcare Foundation
  • Who funds CHARLOTTE COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL
  • Who funds ROCKPORT LIBRARY FOUNDATION
  • Who funds CLASSROOM CENTRAL INC
  • Who funds BLOOD CANCER UNITED INC
  • Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE
  • Who funds MINT HILL ARTS
  • Who funds Charlotte Family Housing
  • Who funds Nourish Up
  • Who funds ACTS LEGACY FOUNDATION INC
  • Who funds PENOBSCOT BAY YMCA
  • Who funds BUCKLEY INSTITUTE INC
  • Who funds STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION
  • Who funds WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC
  • Who funds MaineHealth
  • Who funds TURNING POINT USA INC
  • Who funds PAWS Animal Adoption Center
  • Who funds Humane Society of Charlotte Inc

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.

Vanguard Charitable Endowment ProgramPA12.2× affinity8 shared granteesties to 7 of 7Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Duke Energy Foundation · Baird Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 Henley Foundation 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 0%
  • Wounded Warrior Project Inc0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
typical government reliance, FY2025

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.

05Through Plinth

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How do I get to The Henley Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Henley Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 31 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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