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The Stephen JHendrickson FoundationInc

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$994k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
7
Grants FY2025
15
Organizations funded FY2024
27%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$40,500
Largest grant, FY2025
$705,047
Organizations funded a year
8 to 15
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
3
Total assets, FY2025
$12M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 27% of the organizations The Stephen JHendrickson FoundationInc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 5% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $57k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesArts & CultureHousing & ShelterOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving7$994k0%
FY202415$1.2M27%
FY202312$711k8%
FY202211$511k27%
FY20218$130k13%
FY202011$1.2M9%
FY201911$1.2M18%
FY201810$782k40%
100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Religion$4.0MArts & Culture$1.3MHuman Services$1.1MPublic Benefit$817kHealth$346kInternational$113kEmployment$72kYouth Development$40kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

VT
MN
IL
NY
MA
OR
CA
NC
OK
MS
AL
FL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
The Center for Investigative Reporting formrly Foundation for National Progress$817,22981%
Hadwen Park Congregational Church$784,5007n/a
Sherrill House Inc$346,09771%
Radio Workshop US Inc$260,00077%
Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church$176,6233n/a
Greenleaf Christian Church$100,0004n/a
The Christian Century$80,00081%
Focus on Tanzanian Communities Inc$50,000113%
Trinity Boston Connects Inc$40,05240%
Episcopal Church of the Good Shepherd Inc$37,0661n/a
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All grantees of The Stephen JHendrickson FoundationInc by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
The Center for Investigative Reporting formrly Foundation for National Progress$817,22981%
Hadwen Park Congregational Church$784,5007n/a
Sherrill House Inc$346,09771%
Radio Workshop US Inc$260,00077%
Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church$176,6233n/a
Greenleaf Christian Church$100,0004n/a
The Christian Century$80,00081%
Focus on Tanzanian Communities Inc$50,000113%
Trinity Boston Connects Inc$40,05240%
Episcopal Church of the Good Shepherd Inc$37,0661n/a
Grace House Inc$25,00010%
New Europe Vision Inc$25,00018%
Southern Poverty Law Center Inc$21,89520%
Pine Street Inn Inc$11,47010%
BACH IN THE CITY (formerly Bach Week Festival)$11,0002n/a
El Sol Jupiters Neighborhood Resource Center Inc$10,00011%
St Columba Episcopal Church$8,0001n/a
Hannah's Home of South Florida Inc$5,00010%
Christ Church - Portland$5,0001n/a
Treasure Coast Youth Symphony Inc$5,00016%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 7 recipients with no EIN on record ($5.0M), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Stephen JHendrickson FoundationInc supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetThe Center for Investigative Reporting formrly Foundation for National Progress: $817,229 over 8y, 0.8% of budgetSherrill House Inc: $346,097 over 7y, 0.9% of budgetRadio Workshop US Inc: $260,000 over 7y, 7.2% of budgetThe Christian Century: $80,000 over 8y, 0.6% of budgetFocus on Tanzanian Communities Inc: $50,000 over 1y, 13% of budgetTrinity Boston Connects Inc: $40,052 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetGrace House Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetNew Europe Vision Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 8.4% of budgetSouthern Poverty Law Center Inc: $21,895 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPine Street Inn Inc: $11,470 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEl Sol Jupiters Neighborhood Resource Center Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetHannah's Home of South Florida Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTreasure Coast Youth Symphony Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 6.4% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 13.

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.

Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust IncIN6.9× affinity4 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · 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.

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About The Stephen JHendrickson FoundationInc

How much does The Stephen JHendrickson FoundationInc give?
The Stephen JHendrickson FoundationInc reported 7 grants totaling $994,448 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 8 and 15 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does The Stephen JHendrickson FoundationInc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Religion (51%), Arts & Culture (17%), Human Services (14%).
Who are The Stephen JHendrickson FoundationInc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: The Center for Investigative Reporting formrly Foundation for National Progress ($817k), Hadwen Park Congregational Church ($785k), Sherrill House Inc ($346k).
Does The Stephen JHendrickson FoundationInc fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 27% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does The Stephen JHendrickson FoundationInc accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as The Stephen JHendrickson FoundationInc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc, Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program, Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund.
Where is The Stephen JHendrickson FoundationInc based?
The Stephen JHendrickson FoundationInc is based in MA.

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 27 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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