Massachusetts · Nonprofit
The Hyams Foundation Inc
The Hyams Foundation Inc (Massachusetts) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,295,000 to it, the largest being BARR FOUNDATION ($1,015,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $8.7M
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $1.3M
- Net assets
- $143M
What The Hyams Foundation Inc does
Program
Interest earned from loans to low-income housing development projects and other program related investments which further the Foundation's mission of increasing economic, racial and social justice and power within low-income communities in Boston and Chelsea, Massachusetts.
The first program described on its most recent Form 990-PF.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2021 to 2022, from $164M to $131M (−20%).
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Chief executive
Lisa Owens
Executive Director
Board chair
Penn Loh
President/Chair/Trustee
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990-PF.
Who funds it, year by year
2022 → 2023: the base narrowed from 3 funders to 1 funder, grant income rose $325k → $375k.
From the IRS filings of The Hyams Foundation Inc’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
The Hyams Foundation Inc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 78% of grant income and the top three 96%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2022 74% · 2023 100% — growing more concentrated.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Where its funders are
90% of The Hyams Foundation Inc's grant income comes from Massachusetts funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
The Hyams Foundation Inc holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 5,127 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 5,127 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like The Hyams Foundation Inc
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Massachusetts
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for The Hyams Foundation Inc: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds The Hyams Foundation Inc?
- The Hyams Foundation Inc (Massachusetts) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,295,000 to it, the largest being BARR FOUNDATION ($1,015,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does The Hyams Foundation Inc have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $1,295,000 in grants to The Hyams Foundation Inc, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of The Hyams Foundation Inc?
- BARR FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $1,015,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like The Hyams Foundation Inc find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Massachusetts. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 4 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing