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The Hershey Family Foundation Choate Hall & Stewart LLP C Casey: 43 grants to organizations, $6.6 million (tax year ended December 2024)
The Hershey Family Foundation Choate Hall & Stewart LLP C Casey, a private foundation in Boston, MA, paid 43 grants to organizations totaling $6,616,585 in its tax year ended December 2024, according to its Form 990-PF filed with the IRS on November 17, 2025. The largest was $750,000 to Whole School Mindfulness in Wrentham, MA for women's studio workshop envisions a society where women's visual art is integral to the cultural mainstream and permanently recorded in history. our mission is to operate and maintain an artists' work.
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- EIN
- 341574366
- Based in
- Boston, MA
- Assets
- $82,775,414
- Grants paid
- $6,616,585
- Tax year ended
- December 2024
Grants paid, tax year ended December 2024
From the Form 990-PF filed November 17, 2025, IRS object ID 202503219349107120. It reported $6,616,585 in grants paid; 43 grants to organizations are listed.
| Recipient | Location | Purpose | Cause | Amount | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Whole School Mindfulness | Wrentham, MA | Women's studio workshop envisions a society where women's visual art is integral to the cultural mainstream and permanently recorded in history. our mission is to operate and maintain an artists' work | $750,000 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Pres & Fellows Harvard University | Cambridge, MA | Scholarships, grants, and awards to students (both undergraduate and graduate) and faculty of harvard university, ma | $500,000 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Mind and Life Institute | Boulder, CO | Fund projects that advance our understanding of the mechanisms, implementation, and outcomes of contemplative approaches to promote well-being and prosocial behavior in individuals and communities. | $451,900 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Women's Studio Workshop | Kingston, NY | To operate and maintain an artists workspace that encourages the voice and vision of individual women artists, to provide professional opportunities for artists and to promote programs designed to sti | $400,000 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Partners in Health | Boston, MA | Our mission is a preferential option for the poor in health care. by establishing long-term relationships with sister organizations based in settings of poverty, partners in health strives to achieve | $350,000 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Hershey Montessory School | Concord TWP, OH | Funding for educating children from infancy to 12 years of age and adolescents. | $300,000 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Brigham & Women's Hospital | Boston, MA | Funding for physical wellness fund at brigham and womans. brigham and women's hospital is dedicated to: serving the needs of our local and global community, providing the highest quality health care t | $250,000 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Univ of Wisconsin Foundation | Madison, WI | Aids university of wisconsin-madison by soliciting gifts and bequests, administers and invests securities and property and distributes payments for benefit of uw-madison. | Education | $250,000 | apps.irs.gov |
| Harvard Divinity School | Cambridge, MA | Harvard divinity school is a nonsectarian school of religious and theological studies that educates students both in the pursuit of the academic study of religion and in preparation for leadership in | $200,000 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Inward Bound Mindfulness Education | N Andover, MA | Funding for youth training | $200,000 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Oxfam America | Boston, MA | Funding is for the creation of lasting solutions to end poverty, hunger and injustice. 170(b)(1)(a)(vi) | International, foreign affairs and national security | $200,000 | apps.irs.gov |
| Graduate School Fund (harvard) | Cambridge, MA | Funding to harvard university for graduate programs. | $150,000 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Karuna-Shechen | New York, NY | Karuna-shechen works to provide health care, education, and social services for the under-served populations of india, nepal, and tibet. | $143,600 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Uc Davis Foundation | Davis, CA | Funding for university of california, davis to educate students. | $137,304 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Mind and Life Institute Summer Research Institute | Boulder, CO | Funding for meetings between western scientists and leading contemplative figures to study similarities and differences between western scientific practices and contemplative meditational techniques. | $132,195 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Mind and Life Institute Europe Varela | Boulder, CO | Funding for grants awarded annually to research scientists who have attended the european summer research institute (esri). these grants fund scientific and scholarly examinations of contemplative tec | $128,084 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Prison Mindfulness Institute | Cranston, RI | Provides prisoners, and those who work with them, with the most effective contemplative tools for self-transformation and rehabilitation. | $125,000 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Mind and Life Institute Mind & Life Europe | Boulder, CO | Mle is a home for unconventional interdisciplinary encounters, where researchers and practitioners enrich one another in their understanding of mind and life, through the rigour of scientific inquiry, | $108,502 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Buddhist Digital Resource Center | Boston, MA | Using state-of-the art technology, the buddhist digital resource center is the leader in the field of digital preservation of buddhist texts, working with local partners to provide free access for the | Religion-related | $100,000 | apps.irs.gov |
| Equal Justice Initiative | Montgomery, AL | Eji is committed to ending mass incarceration and excessive punishment in the united states, to challenging racial and economic injustice, and to protecting basic human rights for the most vulnerable | Civil rights, social action and advocacy | $100,000 | apps.irs.gov |
| Feeding America | Chicago, IL | Funding for america's hungry through a nationwide network of food banks in the fight to end hunger. | Food, agriculture and nutrition | $100,000 | apps.irs.gov |
| Finca | Washington, DC | Funding helps provide financial services to the world's lowest-income entrepreneurs. | $100,000 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Health Equity International Fka Saint Boniface Haiti Foundation | Newton, MA | Health equity international is dedicated to providing essential health services to the people of southern haiti, especially the most vulnerable. we are committed to building a comprehensive, efficient | $100,000 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Holden Forests & Gardens | Cleveland, OH | Connects people with the wonder, beauty, and value of trees and plants, to inspire action for healthy communities. | $100,000 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Institute for Advanced Study | Princeton, NJ | The institute exists to encourage and support fundamental scholarshipthe original, often speculative, thinking that produces advances in knowledge that change the way we understand the world. work at | Science and technology | $100,000 | apps.irs.gov |
| Sravasti Abbey | Newport, WA | Funding supports a flourishing monastic community where learning and practicing buddhas ancient teachings cultivate peace in the hearts of residents, visitors, and the world. | Religion-related | $100,000 | apps.irs.gov |
| The Hunger Project | New York, NY | Funding goes towards empowering people to create lasting progress through education, health, nutrition, family incomes and gender equality. | $100,000 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Upaya Institue and Zen Center | Santa Fe, NM | Upaya zen center is model of socially engaged buddhism. it brings together many projects focused on social transformation, including work in prisons, end-of-life care, serving the homeless, training o | $100,000 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Brown University | Providence, RI | Funding to brown university for contemplatice studies initiative. | $90,000 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Altruism in Medical Institute | Pittsburgh, PA | To increase compassion and resilience among health care professionals and their patients. we deliver lectures and workshops; write curriculum; publish books; and collaborate on metrics to measure outc | $80,000 | apps.irs.gov | |
| St Barbara Institute for Consciousness Studies | Santa Barbara, CA | Contemplative research and education. | $80,000 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Funderburg Scholars | Concord, MA | Funderburg scholars is an all volunteer organization that helps inner city youth attend college. 86% of our funds were used for tuition and 13% for textbooks. the students are those who attended the u | Education | $75,000 | apps.irs.gov |
| Haiti Projects Inc | Annisquam, MA | Funding for the employment of local haitian women to create embroidered products and linens to stimulate income production and employment opportunities. | $75,000 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Teensmart International | Morrisville, NC | Funding life-skills education for teenagers | $60,000 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Wisdom Publications | Somerville, MA | The leading publisher of contemporary and classic books and practical works on buddhism, mindfulness, meditation, and other contemplative traditions. wisdom is a nonprofit charitable organization dedi | $60,000 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Harvard Law School | Cambridge, MA | Harvard law school offers a range of academic programs, clinics, and student organizations for j.d. and graduate students. | $50,000 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Lama Yeshe Wisdom Publications | Weston, MA | Funding helps translate, edit, reproduce, publish and distribute educational materials on the teachings of lama yeshe and lama zapa rinpoche to the general public. | $50,000 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Tergar International | Minneapolis, MN | Transform hearts and minds by making the ancient wisdom of meditation accessible to the modern world. | $50,000 | apps.irs.gov | |
| The Huntington | Boston, MA | Funding for the huntington theater company. the mission of the huntington is to engage, inspire, entertain, educate, and challenge audiences with culturally diverse theatrical productions that range f | $50,000 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Global Arts Project for Peace | Tucson, AZ | Funding for the promotion of world peace through use of the arts. | $35,000 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Project Bread | Boston, MA | Funding provides hunger relief grants to food pantries, soup kitchens, food banks, food salvage programs, and food transportation programs. | $30,000 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Rosie's Place | Boston, MA | Funding helps provide food and nutrition, housing, employment, and health services for poor and homeless women in boston. | $30,000 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Macdowell | Peterborough, NH | The mission of macdowell is to nurture the arts by offering creative individuals an inspiring environment in which they can produce enduring works of the imagination. our admissions philosophy is that | $25,000 | apps.irs.gov |
Causes funded
From grants whose recipient has a cause.
| Cause | Granted |
|---|---|
| Education | $325,000 |
| International, foreign affairs and national security | $200,000 |
| Religion-related | $200,000 |
| Civil rights, social action and advocacy | $100,000 |
| Food, agriculture and nutrition | $100,000 |
| Science and technology | $100,000 |
States funded
| Recipient state | Granted |
|---|---|
| Massachusetts | $3,220,000 |
| Colorado | $820,681 |
| New York | $643,600 |
| Ohio | $400,000 |
| Wisconsin | $250,000 |
| California | $217,304 |
| Rhode Island | $215,000 |
| Alabama | $100,000 |
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Updated November 17, 2025. Read from IRS Form 990-PF e-file data. Public domain (U.S. government work). Grants are as each foundation reported them to the IRS on its Form 990-PF. Grants to individuals are left out. A grant has a cause only where the recipient's name and city match one organization in the IRS Business Master File, and the cause is that organization's NTEE major group. Free to reuse with credit to SpecStream under CC BY 4.0. Spot a wrong value? Write to [email protected] with the link to this page.