The funder's latest Form 990-PF says it gives only to organizations it has already chosen and does not accept unsolicited requests. An introduction is usually the only route.
How to apply
Deadlines
Restrictions
Send applications to
Not publishedPLYMOUTH, MA, 02360The filing names a person as the application contact. We publish role-based contacts (a committee, an office, a shared inbox) but not named individuals.An email address and a phone number for applications is on the filing. On the filing, not published; see “How to reach them” for any published channel.
Application policy: Funds preselected organizations only, as stated on the FY2025 return.
What its returns show
Stated the same way on all 10 Form 990-PF returns on record (FY2016 to FY2025).
On its FY2025 Form 990-PF return this foundation listed grants to 27 named recipients.
These lines count this foundation's own Form 990-PF returns that the IRS has published as data. An amended return replaces its original. They describe past returns only.
This is a count from past returns. It does not say the foundation will consider a new request. How it is counted: names are compared as written on the returns, without "The" at the start, without endings such as "Inc" or "LLC", and without spaces and punctuation. A recipient also counts as already listed when our records link it to the same organization as an earlier recipient, or when its name is almost the same as an earlier name (a trigram similarity of 0.8 or more, where 1 means identical). The state on the grant row is not compared. Grants that the foundation marked as paid to an individual, such as a scholarship, are left out of both numbers, and no count is shown when most of its grants are marked that way. A person whom the foundation did not mark as an individual is still counted as a recipient. A recipient can still look new when its name is written very differently from year to year, and two different recipients with almost the same name can be counted as one.
Application guidance comes from the funder's own Form 990-PF, Part XV (the section where a private foundation says how to apply), shown as filed. It is the funder's words, not ours. These fields are free text and the IRS form cuts them short. Filers sometimes put whole sentences in the contact-name box. Shown exactly as filed.
Financials
Giving
$1.6M
FY2025 · qualifying distributions
Total assets
$36.8M
FY2025 · end of year
Revenue
$3.7M
FY2025
Expenses
$1.8M
FY2025
Giving by year
Total assets by year
Year
Form
Revenue
Expenses
Giving
Assets
Net assets
FY2025
990-PF
$3,707,764
$1,774,221
$1,586,222
$36,795,274
Figures are as reported on the e-filed return, with no restatement. Fiscal years are the funder's own tax year, labelled by the calendar year the period ends in. A blank line means the return does not carry that figure; a real zero shows as $0. When an amended return replaces an original, every figure here uses the amended return. The original is not shown. Giving is what the funder actually paid out toward its charitable purpose in the year (qualifying distributions on Form 990-PF, charitable disbursements otherwise). Assets are what it holds; giving is what moves.
What they fund
Recipient focus areas
Education$333K · 10
Youth development$180K · 10
Health care$128K · 10
Arts and culture$105K · 10
Human services$82.5K · 11
Philanthropy and grantmaking$49.8K · 1
Where recipients are
MA$12.4M · 263
Based on the 32% of grant rows we could match to an organization record. The rest stay as reported. The IRS assigns the NTEE category when it grants exemption. It often reflects the original filing, not today's giving.
Grants paid
263 on file
Recipient
Purpose
Amount
Year
Source
BOSTON CHILDREN'S HOSPITALBOSTON, MA
TO BENEFIT HANDICAPPED CHILDREN &/RELATED RESEARCH.
$436,290
2024
Recipients are shown as the funder wrote them on the return. A recipient with a link was matched to an organization record; the rest stay as reported and are never guessed.
Officers and directors
Name
Title
Hours / week
Compensation
Ms Judith E Rhoades
EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR
40.00
$50,000
Christopher D Perry Esq
PRESIDENT/TRUSTEE
0.55
$0
Mr John Ea Safford
TREASURER/TRUSTEE
0.55
$0
Ms Mary Liz Van Dyck
VICE-PRESIDENT/TRUSTEE
From the officer list on the latest e-filed return. Compensation is as reported there; a blank means the return carries no figure.
$36,469,781
FY2024
990-PF
$1,960,905
$1,475,804
$1,326,590
$35,695,388
$35,382,422
FY2023
990-PF
$2,097,827
$1,488,145
$1,346,456
$28,552,027
$28,327,989
FY2022
990-PF
$765,910
$1,486,193
$1,366,175
$24,607,746
$24,439,061
FY2021
990-PF
$2,286,057
$1,511,526
$1,376,040
$29,071,038
$28,826,264
FY2020
990-PF
$999,282
$1,375,527
$1,259,634
$25,183,719
$25,049,354
FY2019
990-PF
$1,736,561
$1,272,639
$1,143,919
$23,577,445
$23,452,650
FY2018
990-PF
$1,171,960
$1,187,723
$1,081,599
$23,269,668
$23,146,971
FY2017
990-PF
$762,567
$1,191,702
$1,085,451
$21,926,702
$21,808,281
FY2016
990-PF
$927,304
$1,227,780
$1,130,245
$20,705,170
$20,593,527
BOSTON CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL
BOSTON, MA
TO BENEFIT HANDICAPPED CHILDREN &/RELATED RESEARCH.
$386,492
2022
BOSTON CHILDREN'S HOSPITALBOSTON, MA
TO BENEFIT HANDICAPPED CHILDREN &/RELATED RESEARCH.
$380,006
2021
BOSTON CHILDREN'S HOSPITALBOSTON, MA
TO BENEFIT HANDICAPPED CHILDREN &/RELATED RESEARCH.
$359,729
2023
MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITALBOSTON, MA
TO BENEFIT HANDICAPPED CHILDREN &/RELATED RESEARCH.
$339,316
2017
BOSTON CHILDREN'S HOSPITALBOSTON, MA
TO BENEFIT HANDICAPPED CHILDREN &/RELATED RESEARCH.
$339,128
2025
MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITALBOSTON, MA
TO BENEFIT HANDICAPPED CHILDREN &/RELATED RESEARCH.
$300,523
2016
MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITALBOSTON, MA
TO BENEFIT HANDICAPPED CHILDREN &/RELATED RESEARCH.
$290,000
2023
BOSTON CHILDREN'S HOSPITALBOSTON, MA
TO BENEFIT HANDICAPPED CHILDREN &/RELATED RESEARCH.
$285,000
2020
BOSTON CHILDREN'S HOSPITALBOSTON, MA
TO BENEFIT HANDICAPPED CHILDREN &/RELATED RESEARCH.
$281,927
2016
BOSTON CHILDREN'S HOSPITALBOSTON, MA
TO BENEFIT HANDICAPPED CHILDREN &/RELATED RESEARCH.
$274,227
2019
BOSTON CHILDREN'S HOSPITALBOSTON, MA
TO BENEFIT HANDICAPPED CHILDREN &/RELATED RESEARCH.
$266,192
2017
MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITALBOSTON, MA
TO BENEFIT HANDICAPPED CHILDREN &/RELATED RESEARCH.
$263,863
2018
BOSTON CHILDREN'S HOSPITALBOSTON, MA
TO BENEFIT HANDICAPPED CHILDREN &/RELATED RESEARCH.
$257,678
2018
MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITALBOSTON, MA
TO BENEFIT HANDICAPPED CHILDREN &/RELATED RESEARCH.
$256,418
2025
MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITALBOSTON, MA
TO BENEFIT HANDICAPPED CHILDREN &/RELATED RESEARCH.
$243,769
2019
MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITALBOSTON, MA
TO BENEFIT HANDICAPPED CHILDREN &/RELATED RESEARCH.
$239,000
2020
MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITALBOSTON, MA
TO BENEFIT HANDICAPPED CHILDREN &/RELATED RESEARCH.
$225,000
2022
MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITALBOSTON, MA
TO BENEFIT HANDICAPPED CHILDREN &/RELATED RESEARCH.
$215,657
2021
BRIGHAM AND WOMEN'S HOSPITALBOSTON, MA
TO BENEFIT HANDICAPPED CHILDREN &/RELATED RESEARCH.
$200,000
2020
BRIGHAM AND WOMEN'S HOSPITALBOSTON, MA
TO BENEFIT HANDICAPPED CHILDREN &/RELATED RESEARCH.
$175,000
2022
BRIGHAM AND WOMEN'S HOSPITALBOSTON, MA
TO BENEFIT HANDICAPPED CHILDREN &/RELATED RESEARCH.
$175,000
2021
MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITALBOSTON, MA
TO BENEFIT HANDICAPPED CHILDREN &/RELATED RESEARCH.
$167,752
2024
BRIGHAM AND WOMEN'S HOSPITALBOSTON, MA
TO BENEFIT HANDICAPPED CHILDREN &/RELATED RESEARCH.
$125,000
2025
SHRINER'S HOSPITAL FOR CHILDRENBOSTON, MA
TO BENEFIT HANDICAPPED CHILDREN &/RELATED RESEARCH.