· Private foundation
The Hopedale Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k21 grants · $69k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $60k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $377k
- $250k+1 grant · $299k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| HOPEDALE COMMUNITY HOUSE | $299,173 |
| TOWN OF HOPEDALE BRIGHT BEGINNINGS | $200,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $177,148 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| THE CLAFLIN HILL MUSIC PERFORMANCE FOUND INC | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| MAYFLOWER COUNCIL BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA | $7,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| MILFORD SALVATION ARMY | $5,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY20–20, $10k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
16 repeat relationships: 14 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down; 16 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $91k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- HCHopedale Community House Inc9× · 2017–2025 · $1.8M · revenue +22% · 35% of their budget
- UMUMASS MEMORIAL HEALTH - MILFORD REGIONAL MEDICAL CENTER INC5× · 2017–2021 · $925k · revenue +34%
- MCMAYFLOWER COUNCIL INC BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA8× · 2018–2025 · $60k · revenue +7%
Funded once
- MRMILFORD REGIONAL HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2020 · $10k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2022 · $10k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2022 · $10k
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.
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.
Our primary mission at Milford Regional Healthcare System, which includes Milford Regional Medical Center and Milford Regional Physician Group, is to provide exceptional healthcare services to all individuals in our community with dignity,…
Southern New Hampshire Health is dedicated to providing exceptional care that improves the health and well-being of individuals and communities we serve.
To effectively and efficiently provide high quality healthcare services.
The mission of winchester hospital is "to care. to heal. to excel." this ethos provides each and every staff member with clear expectations, promoting teamwork and respect while ensuring safety, quality and empathy for patients. winchester…
The mission of the beth israel deaconess hospital-milton, inc. (bid-milton or hospital) is to provide safe, high-quality, community-based health care and access to tertiary care in close collaboration with its sister hospital, beth israel…
The mission of new england baptist hospital (nebh or hospital) is the operation and maintenance of an acute care, orthopedic specialty hospital and provision of all services related thereto for the benefit of patients. nebh strives to…
How this is measured
8 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. 8 of the 134 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
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.
- Who funds Hopedale Community House Inc ↗
- Who funds UMASS MEMORIAL HEALTH - MILFORD REGIONAL MEDICAL CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds MAYFLOWER COUNCIL INC BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds The Claflin Hill Music Performance Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds GEORGE MARSTON WHITIN MEMORIAL COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds NEW ENGLAND AQUARIUM CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds MUSEUM OF SCIENCE ↗
- Who funds NEW HOPE 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.
Open a dossier: Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Hopedale Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Hopedale Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- New Hope Inc: 73% of income from government
- New England Aquarium Corporation: 12% of income from government
- Museum of Science: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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