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The Honey Dew Family Foundation Inc at a glance

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The Honey Dew Family Foundation Inc

Its FY2026 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$189k
Granted FY2026still arriving
29
Grants FY2026still arriving
9
States reached
$58k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0188% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Education$274kHuman Services$266kHealth$100kFood & Nutrition$97kReligion$88kYouth Development$47kArts & Culture$32kAnimals$15kOther$0
02FY2026 · 29 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2026

  • Under $10k26 grants · $51k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $31k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $108k
$1,000
Median grant
9
States reached
$722k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
OUR LADY OF THE ANGELS PARISH$57,500
MISC FOOD PANTRIES$50,000
SCHOLARSHIPS TO 59 STUDENTS$31,000
Individual grant recipient$9,625
SOUTH SHORE YMCA$6,450
CATHOLIC CHARITIES$5,000
WAKEFIELD FOOD PANTRY$5,000
J PARKER PRODUCTIONS$4,000
BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF EASTERN MA$2,500
JOSEPH W MARTIN SCHOOL$2,500
FRIENDSHIP HOME$2,500
MISC$2,268
NATIONAL MS SOCIETY$2,000
Individual grant recipient$1,200
DANA FARBER CANCER INSTITUTE$1,000
02The need
03

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 (FY17–26, $229k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 14% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%PORTAL TO HOPE: $500 → 10%OUR OPEN UMBRELLA: $3k → 11%ADOPTION RHODE ISLAND: $100 → 14%WORLD FOOD PROGRAM USA: $2k → 14%SOUTH SHORE YMCA: $30k → 7%SOUTH SHORE YMCA: $20k → 7%NEW HOPE INC: $5k → 11%WORLD FOOD PROGRAM USA: $1k → 14%SOUTH SHORE YMCA: $19k → 7%NEW HOPE INC: $5k → 11%SOUTH SHORE YMCA: $15k → 7%NEW HOPE INC: $5k → 11%SOUTH SHORE YMCA: $15k → 7%HEBRON FOOD PANTRY: $500 → 11%PINE STREET INN: $460 → 16%SOUTH SHORE YMCA: $13k → 7%MISSION OF DEEDS: $5k → 8%SOUTH SHORE YMCA: $10k → 7%A LEG FOREVER: $3k → 8%PINE STREET INN: $200 → 16%SOUTH SHORE YMCA: $10k → 7%SOUTH SHORE YMCA: $9k → 7%PINE STREET INN: $150 → 16%SOUTH SHORE YMCA: $7k → 7%PINE STREET INN: $100 → 16%SOUTH SHORE YMCA: $6k → 7%FRIENDSHIP HOME: $3k → 8%SOUTH SHORE YMCA: $5k → 7%FRIENDSHIP HOME: $3k → 8%FRIENDSHIP HOME: $2k → 8%FRIENDSHIP HOME: $2k → 8%SOUTH SHORE YMCA: $5k → 7%FRIENDSHIP HOME: $2k → 8%FRIENDSHIP HOME: $2k → 8%FRIENDSHIP HOME: $2k → 8%KENNEDY-DONOVAN CENTER: $1k → 7%FRIENDSHIP HOME: $2k → 8%SOUTH SHORE YMCA: $3k → 7%FRIENDSHIP HOME: $1k → 8%VICTIM RIGHTS LAW CENTER: $5k → 16%SOUTH SHORE YMCA: $600 → 7%FRIENDSHIP HOME: $750 → 8%VICTIM RIGHTS LAW CENTER: $5k → 16%VICTIM RIGHTS LAW CENTER: $450 → 16%GREG HILL FOUNDATION INC: $940 → 8%FRIENDS OF PLAINVILLE SENIORS: $250 → 7%SOUTH SHORE YMCA: $500 → 8%SOUTH SHORE YMCA: $250 → 8%0%20%40%50%more need →
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.

Which US states its grants reach

AK
NH
WA
IL
WI
NY
MA
SD
IA
PA
RI
CA
NE
KY
VA
MD
KS
TN
DC
OK
GA
TX
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.

62%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$814k · 65 repeat orgs$503k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +40% since the first grant, against +25% for those funded once.

65 repeat relationships: 19 still active in FY2026, 46 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2026 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

65
83

Total granted

$814k
$416k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+40%
+25%

Still filing today

51%
37%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2026, 54% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $87k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25’26
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25’26
Human ServicesHealthPhilanthropyAnimalsReligionFood & NutritionOther
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

  • SS
    South Shore Young Men's Christian Association
    10× · 2017–2026 · $169k · revenue +31%
  • TO
    Type One Inc
    9× · 2017–2025 · $49k · revenue +613%
  • FH
    FRIENDSHIP HOME INC
    10× · 2017–2026 · $17k · revenue +114%

Funded once

  • 51
    5000 10 HONEY DEW DONUTS GIFT CARDS
    one grant, 2020 · $50k
  • ST
    SCHOLARSHIPS TO 80 STUDENTS
    one grant, 2024 · $43k
  • ST
    SCHOLARSHIPS TO 82 STUDENTS
    one grant, 2025 · $43k
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.

1
Ocean State Cancer Crushers
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2
Mass General Brigham Incorporated & Affiliates Group Return

Mass general brigham incorporated is developing an integrated health care delivery system throughout the region that offers patients a continuum of coordinated, high-quality care.

Health
3
Dana-Farber Children's Hospital Cancer Care Inc

To oversee, coordinate and support the Pediatric Oncology Programs at Boston Children's Hospital and Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Inc.

Health
4
Mass General Brigham Incorporated

Patient care, teaching, research and serving the community.

Health
5
Mothers' Milk Bank Northeast Inc

Mothers' milk bank northeast is dedicated to the belief that every baby deserves the chance to thrive. the organization supports family and community health by providing equitable access to safe, lifesaving pasteurized donor human milk,…

Health
6
The Boston Athletic Association

The promotion of the common good and health and welfare of the general public and the encouragement of the general public to improve its physical condition by the promotion and regulation of amateur sports competition. the baa operates in…

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7
Food Link Inc

Food link is working to create a more equitable food system throughout greater boston by rescuing and distributing high-quality, customized food to under-resourced communities and by advocating for systems change.

Food & Nutrition
8
Spoonfuls

Spoonfuls is an organization that facilitates the recovery and distribution of healthy, perishable food that would otherwise be discarded. spoonfuls works efficiently to deliver this food directly to the community organizations and…

Food & Nutrition
9
The Open Door Cape Ann Food Pantry Inc

The open door's mission is to alleviate the impact of hunger in the community.

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10
Boston Foundation
Philanthropy
11
Mass General Brigham Health Plan Inc

Mass general brigham health plan's mission is to promote the health and wellness of our members, and to help ensure equitable, affordbale health care for the diverse communities we serve.

Health
12
Rhode Island Hospital

As a founding hospital in the brown university health system, rih is committed to its mission: delivering health with care.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is South Shore Young Men's Christian Association; the most unlike its peers is Type One 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

76 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 76 of the 159 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
18
Early backer (in before they grew)
70/76
Grantees still filing
48/76
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

OUR LADY OF THE ANGELS PARISH: $125,575 · OtherOUR LADY OF THE ANGELS PARISHIndividual grant recipient: $57,975 · OtherIndividual grant recipientIndividual grant recipient: $51,995 · OtherIndividual grant recipient5000 10 HONEY DEW DONUTS GIFT CARDS: $50,000 · OtherMISC FOOD PANTRIES: $50,000 · OtherType One Inc: $49,209 · OtherSCHOLARSHIPS TO 80 STUDENTS: $43,000 · OtherSCHOLARSHIPS TO 82 STUDENTS: $43,000 · OtherSCHOLARSHIPS TO 72 STUDENTS: $36,100 · OtherMISC: $32,978 · Other+95 more: $409,031 · Other+95 moreSouth Shore Young Men's Christian Association: $169,107 · Human ServicesSouth Shore Young Me…FRIENDSHIP HOME INC: $17,350 · Human ServicesFRIENDSHIP HOME INCNEW HOPE INC: $15,000 · Human ServicesNEW HOPE INCVICTIM RIGHTS LAW CENTER INC: $10,450 · Human Services+18 more: $27,800 · Human Services+18 moreMBA OPENS DOORS FOUNDATION: $18,333 · PhilanthropyRodman For Kids Inc: $15,000 · PhilanthropyHALEY CREMER FOUNDATION INC: $8,700 · PhilanthropyTHE BOSTON GLOBE FOUNDATION INC: $4,167 · PhilanthropyCommunity Foundation for MetroWest Inc: $2,500 · PhilanthropyTHE GIVING CIRCLE: $2,000 · Philanthropy+3 more: $1,400 · PhilanthropyNATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY: $16,000 · HealthJOE ANDRUZZI FOUNDATION INC: $9,975 · HealthJPARKER PRODUCTIONS: $7,400 · HealthBAILEYS TEAM INC: $4,167 · HealthELLA'S ARMY INC: $2,000 · Health+6 more: $4,781 · HealthWakefield Food Pantry Inc: $15,500 · ReligionCIRCLE OF HOPE INC: $3,500 · ReligionGrace Ministries North Shore Inc: $1,500 · ReligionBREAD OF LIFE INC: $1,000 · ReligionNEW ENGLAND HUMANE SOCIETY INC: $8,333 · AnimalsONE TAIL AT A TIME NFP: $1,000 · AnimalsMASSACHUSETTS SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS: $533 · AnimalsSECOND CHANCE ANIMAL SERVICES INC: $500 · Animals+1 more: $60 · AnimalsWORLD VISION INC: $6,750 · InternationalMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $1,225 · InternationalFEED THE CHILDREN INC: $1,000 · International
Other$948,863Human Services$239,707Philanthropy$52,100Health$44,323Religion$21,500Animals$10,426International$8,975

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSouth Shore Young Men's Christian Association: $169,107 over 10y, 0.1% of budgetType One Inc: $49,209 over 9y, 8.5% of budgetMBA OPENS DOORS FOUNDATION: $18,333 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetFRIENDSHIP HOME INC: $17,350 over 10y, 0.1% of budgetNATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY: $16,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetWakefield Food Pantry Inc: $15,500 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetNEW HOPE INC: $15,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetRodman For Kids Inc: $15,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetBIG SISTER ASSOCIATION OF GREATER BOSTON INC: $12,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetVICTIM RIGHTS LAW CENTER INC: $10,450 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetHALEY CREMER FOUNDATION INC: $8,700 over 6y, 5.3% of budgetNEW ENGLAND HUMANE SOCIETY INC: $8,333 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetGREATER BOSTON FOOD BANK INC: $7,912 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetJPARKER PRODUCTIONS: $7,400 over 2y, 5.9% of budgetBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF EASTERN MASSACHUSETTS INC: $6,800 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetWORLD VISION INC: $6,750 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetGREATER ATTLEBORO AREA COUNCIL FOR CHILDREN INC: $5,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetTHE BOSTON GLOBE FOUNDATION INC: $4,167 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetBAILEYS TEAM INC: $4,167 over 1y, 5.1% of budgetCIRCLE OF HOPE INC: $3,500 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetSPECIAL OLYMPICS MASSACHUSETTS INC: $2,750 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetOur Open Umbrella Inc: $2,652 over 1y, 4.7% of budgetWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $2,600 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION: $2,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCommunity Foundation for MetroWest Inc: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetA LEG FOREVER: $2,500 over 1y, 3.1% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE WORLD FOOD PROGRAM INC: $2,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE GIVING CIRCLE: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetELLA'S ARMY INC: $2,000 over 1y, 15% of budgetSCHOLAR ATHLETES INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPAN-MASSACHUSETTS CHALLENGE INC: $1,700 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetGrace Ministries North Shore Inc: $1,500 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetPROJECT BREAD-THE WALK FOR HUNGER INC: $1,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCRADLES TO CRAYONS INC: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $1,400 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $1,225 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetKENNEDY-DONOVAN CENTER INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetONE TAIL AT A TIME NFP: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBREAD OF LIFE INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGLOBAL FOR GOOD FUND INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetFEED THE CHILDREN INC: $1,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetGREG HILL FOUNDATION INC: $940 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPINE STREET INN INC: $910 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $850 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetJETT FOUNDATION INC: $600 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMASSACHUSETTS SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS: $533 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSECOND CHANCE ANIMAL SERVICES INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNORWELL FOOD PANTRY & FRIENDS INC: $500 over 1y, 0.4% of budget
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 South Shore Young Men's Christian Association ↗
  • Who funds Type One Inc ↗
  • Who funds MBA OPENS DOORS FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds FRIENDSHIP HOME INC ↗
  • Who funds NATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds Wakefield Food Pantry Inc ↗
  • Who funds NEW HOPE INC ↗
  • Who funds Rodman For Kids Inc ↗
  • Who funds BIG SISTER ASSOCIATION OF GREATER BOSTON INC ↗
  • Who funds VICTIM RIGHTS LAW CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds JOE ANDRUZZI FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds HALEY CREMER FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds NEW ENGLAND HUMANE SOCIETY INC ↗
  • Who funds GREATER BOSTON FOOD BANK INC ↗
  • Who funds JPARKER PRODUCTIONS ↗
  • Who funds BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF EASTERN MASSACHUSETTS 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.

Eastern Bank Foundati…Arbella Insurance Fou…Rockland Trust - Blue…Rockland Trust Charit…Boston Foundation IncThe New England Patri…Citizens Charitable F…Joy In Childhood Foun…Amica Companies Found…The Flatley FoundationMassachusetts Bankers…Bristol County Saving…
Eastern Bank FoundationMA36.3× affinity19 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Eastern Bank Foundation · Arbella Insurance Foundation · Rockland Trust - Blue Hills Charitable Foundation · Rockland Trust Charitable Foundation Inc · Boston Foundation Inc · The New England Patriots Charitable Foundation Inc · Citizens Charitable Foundation · Joy In Childhood Foundation Inc · Amica Companies Foundation · The Flatley Foundation · Massachusetts Bankers Association Charitable Foundation Inc · Bristol County Savings Charitable Foundation Inc

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 Honey Dew Family Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Honey Dew Family Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 230%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 10%
  • Victim Rights Law Center Inc: 89% of income from government
  • Portal to Hope: 81% of income from government
  • New Hope Inc: 73% of income from government
  • Friendship Home Inc: 66% of income from government
  • Kennedy-Donovan Center Inc: 62% of income from government
  • Greater Boston Food Bank Inc: 22% of income from government
  • Pine Street Inn Inc: 11% of income from government
  • Children's Hospital Corporation: 10% of income from government
  • Bread of Life Inc: 6% of income from government
  • Community Foundation for MetroWest Inc: 4% of income from government
  • Cradles to Crayons Inc: 2% of income from government
  • Special Olympics Massachusetts Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Feed the Children Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Rosie's Place Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Pan-Massachusetts Challenge Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Wounded Warrior Project Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
23get no government money at all
9report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
5rely on government for over half their income
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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How do I get to The Honey Dew Family Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to The Honey Dew Family 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 159 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2026, released 2026. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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