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.

Where is The Henry Vincent Couper Charitable Foundation based?

The Henry Vincent Couper Charitable Foundation is based in MA.

The Henry Vincent Couper Charitable Foundation

The Henry Vincent Couper Charitable Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

The Henry Vincent Couper Charitable Foundation

Q: 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.

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$16k

Granted FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$8k

Largest

01What it funds

0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Environment$58kHuman Services$25kArts & Culture$22kEducation$22kFood & Nutrition$15kInternational$15kScience & Tech$11kCommunity Improvement$6kOther$0

02FY2025 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$1,000

Median grant

States reached

$360k

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
LITTLETON COUNCIL OF AGING	$8,000
LOAVES & FISHES FOOD PANTRY	$2,500
LITTLETON ROAD RACE TRACK ORGANIZATION	$1,000
LITTLETON ROTARY CLUB OF MA	$1,000
Individual grant recipient	$1,000
THINK OUTSIDE THE VOX	$1,000
SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DEPAUL	$1,000
OPEN DOOR THEATRE	$500
TOWN OF SHIRLEY	$100

02The need

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY20–25, $9k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 55% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

How this is measured

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

How this is measured

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.

03Its grantees

repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

88%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$163k · 21 repeat orgs$21k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +36% since the first grant, against +3% for those funded once.

21 repeat relationships: 8 still active in FY2025, 13 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$163k

$21k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+36%

+3%

Still filing today

52%

33%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $100 went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Human ServicesArts & CultureRecreation & SportsEducationYouth DevelopmentEnvironmentOther

How this is measured

First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

OD
OPEN DOOR THEATRE OF ACTON INC
5× · 2017–2025 · $13k · revenue +931%
LS
Littleton Scholarship Trust
4× · 2017–2024 · $10k · revenue +36%
RI
ROTARY INTERNATIONAL
9× · 2017–2025 · $10k · revenue +147%

Funded once

FO
FRIENDS OF REUBEN HOAR LIBRARY
one grant, 2020 · $8k
LA
LOAVES AND FISHES
one grant, 2017 · $3k
LA
LITTLETON ATHLETIC BOOSTERS ASSOCIA
one grant, 2017 · $1k

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.

04Its field

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.

Massachusetts Outdoor Heritage Foundation Inc Attn Susan Sacco

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Little League of Manomet Inc Nka Plymouth Little League Inc

Provide instruction and opportunity for children to participate in sports in order to promote a sense of fair play and healthy competition.

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Littleton Community Center

The Littleton Community Center (LCC) is the living historical and social centerpiece of Littleton. A historic property available to the public for meetings, community events, and social gatherings.

Human Services

Little Compton Community Center Corporation

Provide educational, social, and cultural programming for the enrichment of the community of Little Compton, Rhode Island.

Recreation & Sports

Lowell Farm and Wildlife Center

Animals

Holliston Historical Society

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Cohasset 250

250th Town of Cohasset, MA celebrations

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Actors Company of Natick

The Actors Company of Natick ACON creates theatre with purpose. At ACON, we celebrate artists and challenge community perspectives through equitable, professional and accessible productions.

Arts & Culture

Westwood Land Trust Inc

To promote the protection and stewardship of open space and natural resources in the Town of Westwood.

Environment

Hadley Historical Society Inc

Preservation of historical memorabilia - town of Hadley MA

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North Shore Children's Theatre Inc

The North Shore Children's Theater provides an inclusive and affordable theater arts education to children in the North Shore of Massachusetts and surrounding areas.

Arts & Culture

Little Compton Food Bank

Provide nourishing food and basic necessities to the residents of Little Compton and Tiverton Rhode Island.

Food & Nutrition

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Massachusetts Wonderfund Inc; the most unlike its peers is Open Door Theatre of Acton Inc. 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

18 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. 18 of the 40 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

17/18

Grantees still filing

14/18

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$144,335Arts & Culture$15,250Education$10,000Human Services$8,850Recreation & Sports$2,750Housing & Shelter$2,200Environment$1,000

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.

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.

Middlesex Savings Charitable Foundation IncMA15.6× affinity5 shared granteesties to 7 of 7Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Middlesex Savings Charitable Foundation Inc · Cummings Foundation Grants Inc (Fka Oneworld Boston Inc) · American Tower Corporation Foundation Inc · Verizon Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

How this is measured

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Henry Vincent Couper Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Henry Vincent Couper Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

9get no government money at all

2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%

typical government reliance, FY20–25

How this is measured

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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

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