George B Henderson Foundation JH5090
Boston, MA · EIN 04-6089310. Reported 55 grants totalling $1,683,410 to 45 organizations across tax years 2021-2024. This foundation did not tell the IRS it funds only preselected organizations.
Does this foundation accept applications?
Yes -- on its own tax return. Form 990-PF asks every private foundation whether it makes grants only to organizations it selects itself. Of the 91,758 foundations in our data that made a grant and answered, 78% said yes -- and applying to those is wasted effort. George B Henderson Foundation JH5090 did not check that box on its most recent filing, which puts it in the minority that is at least open to being approached.
How big are its grants?
The median grant is $30,000. Half of everything it gave fell between $17,653 and $40,000; the smallest was $306 and the largest $99,850. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong foundation.
Every organization it funded
This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Years funded is the number of separate tax years in which the organization received money -- more than one means a real relationship rather than a one-off.
| Organization | Location | Total received | Grants | Years funded | Last |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Historic Boston Inc | Boston, MA | $99,850 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| First Congregational Society | Jamica Plain, MA | $91,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| First Baptist Church in Dorchester | Dorchester, MA | $90,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| National Center of Afro-American Artists Inc | Boston, MA | $90,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Old North Foundation of Boston Inc | Boston, MA | $60,700 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy Greenway Conserv | Boston, MA | $54,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Boston Green Academy Foundation Inc | Brighton, MA | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Footlight Club | Jamaica Plain, MA | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Pleasant Hill Baptist Church | Dorchester, MA | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Artists for Humanity | Boston, MA | $46,601 | 2 | 1 | 2021 |
| General Federation of Womens Clubs of Ma | Boston, MA | $43,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Boston Public Housing Corporation | Boston, MA | $40,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Chinese Economic Development Council Inc | Boston, MA | $40,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Church of St Augustine and St Martin | Boston, MA | $40,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Church of the Covenant | Boston, MA | $40,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Codman Square Health Center | Dorchester, MA | $40,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Dudley Neighbors Inc | Roxbury, MA | $40,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Eliot Congregational Church of Roxbury | Roxbury, MA | $40,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Greenwood Memorial United Methodist Chur | Dorchester, MA | $40,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Haley House | Boston, MA | $40,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Nuestra Comunidad Development Corporatio | Roxbury, MA | $40,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Ruggles Street Baptist Church | Boston, MA | $40,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Second Church in Dorchester | Dorchester, MA | $40,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| St Luke's Chaple | Roxbury, MA | $40,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| The Fund for Parks & Recreation in Boston | Boston, MA | $40,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| St John's Episcopal Church | Jamaica Plain, MA | $39,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Sponsor Inc | Framingham, MA | $34,050 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| 2LIFE Communities Inc | Brighton, MA | $30,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Friends of Memorial Hall | Charlestown, MA | $30,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Huntington Theatre Company Inc | Boston, MA | $30,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Emerald Necklace Conservancy Inc | Boston, MA | $27,500 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Deutsches Altenheim Inc | West Roxbury, MA | $27,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Our Saviours Lutheran Church | East Boston, MA | $26,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Vilna Shul Boston Center for Jewish Cult | Boston, MA | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Episcopal Diocese of Massachusetts | Boston, MA | $24,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Southwest Corridor Park Conservancy | Boston, MA | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Dorchester Gardenlands Preserve and Development Corporation | Dorchester, MA | $18,797 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Dorchester Gardenlands Preserves and Dev | Dorchester, MA | $17,653 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Substation Community Supporters Inc | Rosindale, MA | $14,640 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Dorchester Comm Center for Visual Arts | Dorchester, MA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| United Neighbors of Lower Roxbury | Dorchester, MA | $7,500 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Sponsor Inc (aka Missionearth) | Framingham, MA | $5,950 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| The First Baptist in Dorchester | Dorchester, MA | $5,137 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Boston City Lights Foundation | Boston, MA | $4,944 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Gibson Society Inc | Boston, MA | $1,088 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
9 of 45 (20%) received money in more than one year over the 4 years we hold.
Measured the way we measure every foundation -- what share of one year's grantees are funded again the next -- this one retains 15%, across 3 year-to-year transitions. The median foundation retains about 67%, so this one is less consistent than most. A high number means its list is close to settled and a newcomer has to displace someone; a low one means it is still moving money around, which is where an opening is.
What the money was for
Taken verbatim from the purpose field of its filings. This is the closest thing to a statement of what this foundation cares about, in its own words.
- Footlight Club
EXTERIOR HISTORICAL ELEMENTS IN THE ELIOT HALL ACCESSIBILITY PROJECT - First Baptist Church in Dorchester
RESTORATION OF THE STAINED GLASS WINDOW - National Center of Afro-American Artists Inc
EXTERIOR ROOF REPLACEMENT PROJECT AT THE ABBOTSFORD MANSION - Haley House
REPAIR AND RESTORATION OF THE FRONT STEPS OF 23 DARTMOUTH STREET - St Luke's Chaple
THE REPAIR AND RESTORATION OF THE LYDIA LYMAN PAINE WINDOW AND WOODEN FRAME AS WELL AS SMALLER REPAIRS TO THE REMAINING WINDOWS - The Fund for Parks & Recreation in Boston
FOR THE BENEFIT FO THE HISTORIC BURYING GROUNDS INITIATIVE FOR GRAVE MARKER CONSERVATION AT ELIOT BURYING GROUND
What kind of organizations it funds
By the recipient's own IRS classification, for the 26 grants where we could identify the organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses.
Giving by year
| Tax year | Grants | Total | Median grant |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 14 | $396,164 | $39,150 |
| 2022 | 13 | $439,019 | $39,000 |
| 2023 | 13 | $423,191 | $28,211 |
| 2024 | 15 | $425,036 | $26,000 |
Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- filings arrive about a year late, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a foundation winding down.
Where its money goes
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Funders that support the same organizations
These funders gave to organizations this one also funded -- some private foundations, some community foundations and other grantmaking charities. Shared grantees are the strongest available signal that two funders have overlapping priorities, and a funder already backing your peers is a far warmer prospect than one that merely lists your cause.
How to approach this foundation
- Check you are its size. The median grant is $30,000. Asking for ten times that is the most common way small organizations waste a submission.
- Check you are in its geography. Its giving is concentrated in Massachusetts.
- Read the recipient list above for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer, and a cheap one to get.
- Look up the current filing before writing. The 990-PF names the foundation's officers and, where one exists, its application procedure. We link it below.
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Where these numbers come from
Everything above is taken from George B Henderson Foundation JH5090's own Form 990-PF filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2021-2024). Nothing here is scraped, inferred, or estimated.
Address of record on the latest return: 50 Congress St Ste 832, Boston, MA, 02109. This is the address the foundation gave the IRS; many small foundations file through an accountant or a bank trust department, so it may not be where post to a programme officer should go.
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