Massachusetts · Private foundation
The Hopedale Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $806k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 30
- Grants FY2025
- 30
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 60%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $299,173
- Organizations funded a year
- 21 to 30
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $14M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 60% of the organizations The Hopedale Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 22% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 78% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $96k 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 | 30 | $806k | 53% |
| FY2024 | 30 | $439k | 60% |
| FY2023 | 28 | $473k | 54% |
| FY2022 | 27 | $584k | 59% |
| FY2021 | 27 | $981k | 56% |
| FY2020 | 25 | $538k | 52% |
| FY2019 | 24 | $508k | 46% |
| FY2018 | 21 | $496k | 43% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hopedale Community House Inc | $1,769,173 | 9 | 35% |
| Umass Memorial Health - Milford Regional Medical Center Inc | $925,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Hopedale Public Schools | $117,025 | 4 | n/a |
| Mayflower Council Inc Boy Scouts of America | $60,000 | 8 | 0% |
| The Claflin Hill Music Performance Foundation Inc | $50,000 | 9 | 3% |
| George Marston Whitin Memorial Community Association Inc | $33,532 | 9 | 0% |
| New England Aquarium Corporation | $22,625 | 9 | 0% |
| Museum of Science | $22,500 | 9 | 0% |
| Friends of the Hopedale Library Inc | $18,000 | 9 | n/a |
| Milford Regional Healthcare Foundation Inc | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
Show all 11 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hopedale Community House Inc | $1,769,173 | 9 | 35% |
| Umass Memorial Health - Milford Regional Medical Center Inc | $925,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Hopedale Public Schools | $117,025 | 4 | n/a |
| Mayflower Council Inc Boy Scouts of America | $60,000 | 8 | 0% |
| The Claflin Hill Music Performance Foundation Inc | $50,000 | 9 | 3% |
| George Marston Whitin Memorial Community Association Inc | $33,532 | 9 | 0% |
| New England Aquarium Corporation | $22,625 | 9 | 0% |
| Museum of Science | $22,500 | 9 | 0% |
| Friends of the Hopedale Library Inc | $18,000 | 9 | n/a |
| Milford Regional Healthcare Foundation Inc | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| New Hope Inc | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
Plus 123 recipients with no EIN on record ($2.3M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
The Hopedale Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 8 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
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About The Hopedale Foundation
- How much does The Hopedale Foundation give?
- The Hopedale Foundation reported 30 grants totaling $805,528 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 21 and 30 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does The Hopedale Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (38%), Housing & Shelter (33%), Health (17%).
- Who are The Hopedale Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Hopedale Community House Inc ($1.8M), Umass Memorial Health - Milford Regional Medical Center Inc ($925k), Hopedale Public Schools ($117k).
- Does The Hopedale Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 60% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Hopedale Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Hopedale Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund, Amazonsmile Foundation.
- Where is The Hopedale Foundation based?
- The Hopedale Foundation is based in MA.
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