Massachusetts · Private foundation
The Henry Vincent Couper Charitable Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $16k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 9
- Grants FY2025
- 10
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 30%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $1,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $8,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 9 to 13
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $360k
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 30% of the organizations The Henry Vincent Couper Charitable Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 23% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 77% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 9 | $16k | 11% |
| FY2024 | 10 | $6k | 30% |
| FY2023 | 9 | $8k | 11% |
| FY2022 | 10 | $18k | 40% |
| FY2021 | 10 | $18k | 40% |
| FY2020 | 13 | $29k | 31% |
| FY2019 | 13 | $21k | 23% |
| FY2018 | 11 | $19k | 55% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Open Door Theatre of Acton Inc | $12,500 | 5 | 3% |
| Littleton Scholarship Trust | $10,000 | 4 | 2% |
| Rotary International | $9,950 | 9 | 4% |
| Horace Mann Educational Associates Inc | $4,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Loaves & Fishes Food Pantry Inc | $4,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Nashoba Valley Chorale Inc The | $3,500 | 3 | 2% |
| Littleton Community Farm | $2,200 | 4 | 1% |
| Sleep in Heavenly Peace Inc | $2,200 | 2 | 0% |
| Littleton Track Organization | $1,750 | 5 | 9% |
| Think Outside the Vox | $1,750 | 2 | 1% |
Show all 20 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Open Door Theatre of Acton Inc | $12,500 | 5 | 3% |
| Littleton Scholarship Trust | $10,000 | 4 | 2% |
| Rotary International | $9,950 | 9 | 4% |
| Horace Mann Educational Associates Inc | $4,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Loaves & Fishes Food Pantry Inc | $4,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Nashoba Valley Chorale Inc The | $3,500 | 3 | 2% |
| Littleton Community Farm | $2,200 | 4 | 1% |
| Sleep in Heavenly Peace Inc | $2,200 | 2 | 0% |
| Littleton Track Organization | $1,750 | 5 | 9% |
| Think Outside the Vox | $1,750 | 2 | 1% |
| The Roudenbush Community Center Inc | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Littleton Historical Society | $1,000 | 2 | 2% |
| Littleton Conservation Trust | $1,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Sudbury Valley Trustees Inc | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Littleton Tigers Youth Football & Cheer | $750 | 1 | 1% |
| Massachusetts Wonderfund Inc | $500 | 1 | 0% |
| Catie's Closet Inc | $350 | 1 | 0% |
| Doli Atamian Campership Program Inc | $300 | 1 | n/a |
| Leominster High School Music Boosters Inc | $250 | 1 | n/a |
| Town of Shirley | $100 | 1 | n/a |
Plus 20 recipients with no EIN on record ($126k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Henry Vincent Couper Charitable Foundation supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
Co-funders
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About The Henry Vincent Couper Charitable Foundation
- How much does The Henry Vincent Couper Charitable Foundation give?
- The Henry Vincent Couper Charitable Foundation reported 9 grants totaling $16,100 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 9 and 13 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does The Henry Vincent Couper Charitable Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Environment (31%), Human Services (14%), Arts & Culture (12%).
- Who are The Henry Vincent Couper Charitable Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Open Door Theatre of Acton Inc ($13k), Littleton Scholarship Trust ($10k), Rotary International ($10k).
- Does The Henry Vincent Couper Charitable Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 30% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Henry Vincent Couper Charitable Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Henry Vincent Couper Charitable Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Middlesex Savings Charitable Foundation Inc, Cummings Foundation Grants Inc (Fka Oneworld Boston Inc), American Tower Corporation Foundation Inc.
- Where is The Henry Vincent Couper Charitable Foundation based?
- The Henry Vincent Couper Charitable Foundation is based in MA.
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