FundersMassachusetts

Hyde Charitable Foundation

Southbridge, MA · EIN 04-2752893. Reported 121 grants totalling $905,636 to 63 organizations across tax years 2021-2024. This foundation did not tell the IRS it funds only preselected organizations.

Yesaccepts unsolicited requests
$3,000median grant
$905,636granted, 2021-2024
63organizations funded
61%of grantees funded again the next year
$5,602,339assets, latest filing

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. Hyde Charitable Foundation did not check that box on its most recent filing, which puts it in the minority that is at least open to being approached.

This is the foundation's own statement to the IRS, not our judgement, and it says nothing about whether they have a form, a deadline, or an appetite for new grantees. Treat it as the reason this foundation is worth your research time, not as an invitation. Many small foundations of this kind have no website and no application process -- a letter of inquiry is the normal first step.

How big are its grants?

The median grant is $3,000. Half of everything it gave fell between $1,750 and $5,000; the smallest was $250 and the largest $60,000. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong foundation.

Under $1,000
14 grants
$1,000 - $5,000
64 grants
$5,000 - $10,000
21 grants
$10,000 - $25,000
10 grants
$25,000 - $50,000
8 grants
$50,000 - $100,000
4 grants

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.

OrganizationLocationTotal receivedGrantsYears fundedLast
Old Sturbridge VillageSturbridge, MA$160,000442024
Tri-Community YMCASouthbridge, MA$103,000442024
Veteran's Council of SouthbridgeSouthbridge, MA$103,000442024
Center of HopeSouthbridge, MA$100,000332024
Harrington Memorial HospitalSouthbridge, MA$60,000112021
Trinity Catholic AcademySouthbridge, MA$60,000442024
Elm Street Congregational ChurchSouthbridge, MA$30,000332024
Our Bright Future IncCharlton, MA$25,000442024
EcotariumWorcester, MA$23,000222022
Southbridge High SchoolSouthbridge, MA$14,548112022
Gateway Players TheaterSouthbridge, MA$14,288442024
Chase Bjork FoundationConcord, MA$11,000332024
CatrWorcester, MA$10,500222023
LeapWorcester, MA$10,500222023
Nichols CollegeDudley, MA$10,000222022
Southbridge Food ShareSouthbridge, MA$10,000442024
St Michael's Romanian ChurchSouthbridge, MA$10,000222022
Music WorcesterWorcester, MA$9,500442024
Literacy VolunteersWorcester, MA$8,000332024
Southbridge Cop's for KidsSouthbridge, MA$7,500112022
Girl Scouts of Central Ma CouncilWorcester, MA$7,000442024
Heart of New England Council- BSARutland, MA$6,800222024
St Michael Romanian ChurchSouthbridge, MA$6,000222024
Quinebaug Masonic Lodge Af & AmSouthbridge, MA$5,500112021
Bikers Against Bullies USAMissoula, MT$5,000112021
Saint John Paul II ParishSouthbridge, MA$5,000112021
St Luke's GuesthouseSouthbridge, MA$5,000112021
Trinity Catholic Academy- Bobcat ParkSouthbridge, MA$5,000112023
St Lukes Guest HouseSouthbridge, MA$4,500222024
Boy Scouts of America-Coastal Carolina CouncilNorth Oxford, MA$4,000222022
Bridge of FaithSouthbridge, MA$4,000112024
Proctor AcademyAndover, MA$4,000222023
The Federated Church of SturbridgeSturbridge, MA$4,000222024
Water MissionNorth Charleston, SC$4,000222024
Jeremiah's InnWorcester, MA$3,250442024
Bay Path RoboticsCharlton, MA$3,000112022
Capen Hill Nature SanctuaryCharlton, MA$3,000112021
Community Food CollaborativeSturbridge, MA$3,000222023
Healthy Families of Southern Worcester CountySouthbridge, MA$3,000112021
Kennedy-Donavan CenterSouthbridge, MA$3,000112023
Southbridge Holiday Visions Co Hyde Charitable FoundationSouthbridge, MA$3,000222022
Southbridge Police DepartmentSouthbridge, MA$3,000112024
Southbridge Business PartnershipSouthbridge, MA$2,500112021
St Lukes Guest HoueSouthbridge, MA$2,500112022
WcacWorcester, MA$2,500222024
Abby's HouseWorcester, MA$2,250442024
Boy Scouts of America Coastal Carolina CouncilCharleston, SC$2,000112023
Holiday Visions Town of SouthbridgeSouthbridge, MA$2,000112023
Proctor AcademyAndover, NH$2,000112021
Saint John Paul II Food PantrySouthbridge, MA$2,000112023
Southbridge Cops for KidsSouthbridge, MA$2,000112024
St John Paul II Parish Food PantrySouthbridge, MA$2,000112022
Wellstorm Inc (bridge Fridge)Southbridge, MA$1,500112022
Community Food CollaboraticeSturbridge, MA$1,000112022
Friends of Jacob Edwards LibrarySouthbridge, MA$1,000222023
Low Country Equine-Assisted Psychotherapy (leap)Worcester, MA$1,000112024
RccMilford, MA$1,000112024
Ruth Wells Center for the ArtsSouthbridge, MA$1,000112024
Southbridge Holiday VisionsSouthbridge, MA$1,000112024
YMCA (southbridge)Southbridge, MA$1,000112024
Opacum Land TrustBrimfield, MA$750222024
Walk for AlzhiemersNewton, MA$500112023
Alzheimer's AssociationWorcester, MA$250112024

32 of 63 (51%) 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 61%, across 3 year-to-year transitions. The median foundation retains about 67%, so this one is about typical. 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 kind of organizations it funds

By the recipient's own IRS classification, for the 44 grants where we could identify the organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses.

Arts & Culture
10 grants
Human Services
7 grants
Youth Development
7 grants
Housing & Shelter
5 grants
Mental Health
3 grants
Education
3 grants
Public & Societal Benefit
2 grants
Environment
2 grants

Giving by year

Tax yearGrantsTotalMedian grant
202129$208,288$5,000
202233$272,548$3,000
202328$194,800$2,500
202431$230,000$1,000

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

Foundations concentrate geographically far more than their mission statements suggest. 99% of this one's giving went to organizations in Massachusetts. If you are outside its footprint, that matters more than how well your programme fits.

Massachusetts
$893K
South Carolina
$6K
Montana
$5K
New Hampshire
$2K

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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.

Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund10 shared recipientsDonor Advised Charitable Giving Inc10 shared recipientsAmerican Online Giving Foundation Inc8 shared recipientsGreater Worcester Community Foundation8 shared recipientsThe Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc6 shared recipientsFidelity Foundation5 shared recipients

How to approach this foundation

  1. Check you are its size. The median grant is $3,000. Asking for ten times that is the most common way small organizations waste a submission.
  2. Check you are in its geography. Its giving is concentrated in Massachusetts.
  3. 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.
  4. 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 Hyde Charitable Foundation'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: 54 Eastford Road, Southbridge, MA, 01550. 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.

EIN 04-2752893 · See the original filings on ProPublica · How we build this

This is history, not an open call. Foundation returns are published about a year after the tax year ends. Nothing on this page is a deadline. It is a record of who this foundation has actually funded, which is the best available predictor of who it will fund next -- and a much better basis for deciding whether to write to them than a mission statement.

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