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The Henry Sears 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.

$78k
Granted FY2025still arriving
12
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What you fund
0197% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172025.

Education$329kArts & Culture$236kEnvironment$113kAnimals$72kHealth$59kReligion$13kScience & Tech$11kPhilanthropy$11kOther$0
02FY2025 · 12 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k10 grants · $18k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
$1,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$1.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
NATIONAL MUSIC FESTIVAL$50,000
RADCLIFFE CREEK SCHOOL$10,000
NORTH HAVEN CONSERVATION PARTNERS$5,000
GOOD NEIGHBOR FUND$5,000
SULTANA EDUCATION FOUNDATION$1,500
ANIMAL CARE SHELTER FOR KENT COUNTY$1,000
WETA$1,000
ALZHEIMERS ASSOCIATION$1,000
CHESAPEAKE BAY FOUNDATION$1,000
MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKIN$1,000
NORTH HAVEN LIBRARY$1,000
NORTH HAVEN BAPTIST CHURCH$500
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 (FY24–24, $100) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%SOUTHERN HARBOR ELDERCARE SERVICES: $100 → 11%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.

Which US states your grants reach

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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.

89%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$746k · 31 repeat orgs$91k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +23% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.

31 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2025, 20 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

31
17

Total granted

$746k
$90k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+23%
0%

Still filing today

55%
41%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureEducationHealthAnimalsEnvironmentPhilanthropyOther

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

  • WC
    WASHINGTON COLLEGE
    4× · 2017–2020 · $300k · revenue +21%
  • TJ
    THE JACKSON LABORATORY
    4× · 2017–2024 · $50k · revenue +74%
  • AD
    ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC
    2× · 2024–2025 · $6k · revenue +3%

Funded once

  • KC
    KENT CULTURAL ALLIANCE INC
    one grant, 2022 · $57k · revenue -53%
  • TT
    TALL TIMBERS RESEARCH STATION
    one grant, 2017 · $10k
  • EC
    EMMANUEL CHURCH
    one grant, 2024 · $6k

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
American Museum of Natural History

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."

Arts & Culture
2
The Connecticut River Foundation At Steamboat Dock Inc

The connecticut river museum's mission is to deepen appreciation of the river's history and to inspire its stewardship by providing unique educational and recreational experiences to diverse audiences.

Arts & Culture
3
The Rhode Island Historical Society

The rhode island historical society, through its collections, museums, and educational initiatives, welcomes everyone to engage with rhode island's complex and significant past.

Arts & Culture
4
The Quebec-Labrador Foundation Inc

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…

Philanthropy
5
Maine Historical Society

Maine Historical Society, founded in 1822, is a private non-profit whose mission is to preserve and share Maine's story. Based in Portland, we work closely with communities and partners throughout the state, and serve a statewide and…

Arts & Culture
6
Montauk Historical Society

The purpose of the montauk historical society is to collect, restore, preserve and display historically significant buildings, objects and writings and to preserve and share the history and cultures of montauk and the east end for this and…

Arts & Culture
7
Western New England University

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…

Education
8
The North Shore Land Alliance Inc

To conserve and steward long island's natural and historic lands, waters and environmental resources. through education, outreach and volunteerism, we connect people to nature and inspire a community conservation ethic.

Environment
9
Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum Inc

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…

Arts & Culture
10
Norwalk Seaport Association Inc

The norwalk seaport association, inc. offers a cultural, environmental, and historical journey to the norwalk islands. the sheffield island lighthouse and the light keeper's cottage provide a unique historical and educational venue which…

Arts & Culture
11
The Company of the Redwood Library and Athenaeum

Founded in 1747 on the enlightenment ideals of intellectual pursuit and civic engagement, the redwood library and athenaeum generates knowledge in the humanities for the benefit of the widest possible audience with nothing in view but the…

12
Baltimore Museum of Art

The baltimore museum of art connects art to baltimore and baltimore to the world, embodying a commitment to artistic excellence and social equity in every decision from art presentation, interpretation, and collecting, to the composition…

Arts & Culture

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is North Haven Conservation Partners and the most unlike its peers is Humane World for Animals Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyCommunity Arts OrganizationsIndependent K-8 SchoolsLand Conservation Organizat…Public Library SupportGovernment Accountability R…Senior Support ServicesVolunteer Fire DepartmentsCancer Support OrganizationsAnimal Rescue and AdoptionFaith-Based Liberal Arts Co…
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 52 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%0%<5yr16%0%5–10yr19%4%10–20yr16%25%20–35yr11%29%35–55yr16%43%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%0%<5yr16%0%5–10yr19%0%10–20yr16%8%20–35yr11%14%35–55yr16%78%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/29
the rest of the field
14%
5,903/41,820

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.

04the grantee network

27 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. 27 of the 50 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
26/27
Grantees still filing
18/27
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

NATIONAL MUSIC FESTIVAL — $170,900 · OtherNATIONAL MUSIC FESTIVALCENTER FOR ENVIRONMENT & SOCIETY — $75,000 · OtherCENTER FOR ENVIRONMENT & SOCIETYKENT CULTURAL ALLIANCE INC — $57,060 · OtherKENT CULTURAL ALLIANCE INCANIMAL CARE SHELTER FOR KENT COUNTY — $56,000 · OtherANIMAL CARE SHELTER FOR KENT COUNTY+26 more — $64,050 · Other+26 moreWASHINGTON COLLEGE — $300,000 · EducationWASHINGTON COLLEGERADCLIFFE CREEK SCHOOL INC — $23,000 · EducationRADCLIFFE CREEK SCHOOL INC+3 more — $1,450 · EducationTHE JACKSON LABORATORY — $50,000 · HealthALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC — $6,000 · Health+1 more — $1,500 · HealthHumane World for Animals Inc — $6,000 · AnimalsMASSACHUSETTS SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS — $4,000 · AnimalsTHE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS — $3,000 · AnimalsNORTH HAVEN CONSERVATION PARTNERS — $6,000 · EnvironmentCHESAPEAKE BAY FOUNDATION INC — $2,500 · EnvironmentEASTERN SHORE LAND CONSERVANCY INC — $1,000 · EnvironmentSULTANA EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC — $4,600 · Arts & CultureWGBH Educational Foundation — $1,500 · Arts & CultureMASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL SOCIETY — $1,000 · Arts & CulturePEABODY ESSEX MUSEUM INC — $1,000 · Arts & CultureNEW YORK PUBLIC RADIO — $1,000 · Arts & CultureTALL TIMBERS RESEARCH INC — $2,000 · Science & Tech
Other$423,010Education$324,450Health$57,500Animals$13,000Environment$9,500Arts & Culture$9,100Science & Tech$2,000

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 budgetWASHINGTON COLLEGE — $300,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetKENT CULTURAL ALLIANCE INC — $57,060 over 1y, 4.9% of budgetTHE JACKSON LABORATORY — $50,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetRADCLIFFE CREEK SCHOOL INC — $23,000 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC — $6,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHumane World for Animals Inc — $6,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNORTH HAVEN CONSERVATION PARTNERS — $6,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetSULTANA EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC — $4,600 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetMASSACHUSETTS SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS — $4,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS — $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCHESAPEAKE BAY FOUNDATION INC — $2,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTALL TIMBERS RESEARCH INC — $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWGBH Educational Foundation — $1,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetKENT & QUEEN ANNE'S RESCUE SQUADIN — $1,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK — $1,250 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWatermans Community Center — $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL SOCIETY — $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNORTH HAVEN LIBRARY — $1,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetPEABODY ESSEX MUSEUM INC — $1,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNEW YORK PUBLIC RADIO — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetQUEEN ANNES CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION IN — $750 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetCHESTER RIVER ASSOCIATION INC — $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNorth Haven Historical Society — $500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetETHEL WALKER SCHOOL INC — $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetST MARK'S SCHOOL OF SOUTHBOROUGH INC — $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSOUTHERN HARBOR ELDERCARE SERVICES — $100 over 1y, 0.0% 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 WASHINGTON COLLEGE
  • Who funds KENT CULTURAL ALLIANCE INC
  • Who funds THE JACKSON LABORATORY
  • Who funds RADCLIFFE CREEK SCHOOL INC
  • Who funds ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC
  • Who funds Humane World for Animals Inc
  • Who funds NORTH HAVEN CONSERVATION PARTNERS
  • Who funds SULTANA EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC
  • Who funds MASSACHUSETTS SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS
  • Who funds THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS
  • Who funds CHESAPEAKE BAY FOUNDATION INC
  • Who funds TALL TIMBERS RESEARCH INC
  • Who funds WGBH Educational Foundation
  • Who funds KENT & QUEEN ANNE'S RESCUE SQUADIN
  • Who funds THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK
  • Who funds Watermans Community Center
  • Who funds MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL SOCIETY
  • Who funds NORTH HAVEN LIBRARY
  • Who funds PEABODY ESSEX MUSEUM 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.

Haven TrustMA20× affinity7 shared granteesties to 6 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Haven Trust · Middlecott Foundation · Strypemonde Foundation · Lynn W and Timothy W Peters Family Foundation · The Shared Earth Foundation · David a Bramble Foundation Inc · Weld Foundation · Schumann Robert F Fdn-Main · Mid Shore Community Foundation Inc · Maine Community Foundation Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc

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 Henry Sears 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.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 50%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 8%
  • Eastern Shore Land Conservancy Inc100% of income from government
  • Kent Cultural Alliance Inc27% of income from government
  • Massachusetts Historical Society22% of income from government
  • Tall Timbers Research Inc10% of income from government
  • Sultana Education Foundation Inc8% of income from government
  • Peabody Essex Museum Inc3% of income from government
  • Chesapeake Bay Foundation Inc2% of income from government
  • Wgbh Educational Foundation1% of income from government
  • Washington College0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
5get no government money at all
3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
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.

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How do I get to The Henry Sears Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to The Henry Sears Foundation Inc 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 50 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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