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Barbara Hope Foundation Inc

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$498k
Granted FY2024still arriving
22
Grants FY2024still arriving
6
States reached
$100k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
0196% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2025.

Arts & Culture$1.3MPhilanthropy$773kInternational$247kCivil Rights$160kEnvironment$140kEducation$132kHealth$122kReligion$36kOther$0
02FY2024 · 22 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 22 grants below total $435,385 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $497,585 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $62,200 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k11 grants · $42k
  • $10k–50k8 grants · $143k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $250k
$10,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$14M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UJA-Federation of New York$100,000
New York University$100,000
Facing History and Ourselves$50,000
Trustees of Tufts College$30,000
UJA-Federation of New York$25,000
National Council of Jewish Women$25,000
Elluminate Inc$18,000
Parsons Dance Foundation Inc$15,000
Elluminate Inc$10,000
Anti-Defamation League Foundation$10,000
MasterVoices Inc$10,000
Stephen Wise Free Synagogue$9,485
Northwestern Memorial Healthcare$7,200
Peace Work Ltd$5,000
American Friends of the Parents Circle Families Forum$5,000
02The need
03

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.

show:

Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY19–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 96% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%FACING HISTORY AND OURSELVES: $50k → 7%SEE list Attached: $921k → 14%VITAL VOICES GLOBAL PARTNERSHIP INC: $90k → 14%CONNECTICUT PUBLIC BROADCASTING: $10k → 11%UJA Federation: $133k → 16%NATIONAL FOUNDATION FOR FACIAL RECONSTRUCTION: $5k → 8%FACING HISTORY AND OURSELVES: $50k → 7%MYFACE: $30k → 17%VITAL VOICES GLOBAL PARTNERSHIP INC: $53k → 14%CONNECTICUT PUBLIC: $5k → 11%FACING HISTORY AND OURSELVES INC: $15k → 7%MYFACE: $25k → 17%VITAL VOICES GLOBAL PARTNERSHIP INC: $50k → 14%Phipps Neighborhoods: $30k → 11%MYFACE: $25k → 17%VITAL VOICES GLOBAL PARTNERSHIP INC: $10k → 14%MYFACE: $10k → 17%MYFACE: $5k → 17%MYFACE: $5k → 17%MASTERVOICES INC: $3k → 17%PURE EARTH: $11k → 17%PURE EARTH: $10k → 17%PURE EARTH: $10k → 17%PURE EARTH: $5k → 17%PURE EARTH: $5k → 17%UJA FEDERATION OF NEW YORK INC: $56k → 17%AMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE: $50k → 17%UJA FEDERATION OF NEW YORK INC: $50k → 17%JEWISH WOMEN'S FOUNDATION OF NEW YORK INC: $25k → 17%AMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE: $10k → 17%AMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE: $10k → 17%AMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE: $10k → 17%JEWISH WOMEN'S FOUNDATION OF NEW YORK INC: $10k → 17%PELLETTIERI STONE CARVERS ACADEMY INC: $10k → 17%Pelletieri stone carvers academy: $5k → 17%NATIONAL COUNCIL FOR JEWISH WOMEN: $25k → 17%WNET: $200k → 17%WNET: $200k → 17%WNET: $200k → 17%WNET: $200k → 17%NASSAU LAND TRUST: $40k → 17%NASSAU LAND TRUST: $30k → 17%NASSAU LAND TRUST: $30k → 17%PARSONS DANCE FOUNDATION INC: $15k → 17%PARSONS DANCE FOUNDATION INC: $9k → 17%CONGREGATION B'NAI JESHURUN: $6k → 17%CONGREGATION B'NAI JESHURUN: $3k → 17%PARSONS DANCE FOUNDATION INC: $10k → 17%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge
repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

82%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$2.4M · 18 repeat orgs$529k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +31% since the first grant, against +6% for the ones you funded once.

18 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2024, 10 since wound down; 10 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

18
13

Total granted

$2.4M
$347k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+31%
+6%

Still filing today

83%
62%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 58% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $182k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’19’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureEducationInternationalPhilanthropyCivil RightsHealthOther

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

  • WNET
    5× · 2019–2023 · $1.0M · revenue +0%
  • UJ
    UNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC
    5× · 2019–2024 · $389k · revenue +27%
  • FH
    FACING HISTORY & OURSELVES INC
    5× · 2019–2024 · $216k · revenue +15%

Funded once

  • FI
    Fidelity Investments Charitable
    one grant, 2022 · $250k
  • PN
    PHIPPS NEIGHBORHOODS INC
    one grant, 2022 · $30k · revenue +6%
  • NC
    NATIONAL COUNCIL FOR JEWISH WOMEN
    one grant, 2020 · $25k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Public Media Nj Inc

To bring quality public television programs and resources to communities throughout new jersey and its tri-state neighbors. its content, both on-air and online, aims to reflect the diverse

Arts & Culture
2
The Trustees of Princeton University

Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…

Education
3
Metropolitan Jewish Health System Inc

Mjhs health system is a charitable not-for-profit established to support the activities of affiliated organizations. mjhs is built on the core values of compassion, dignity and respect, first established by the four brooklyn ladies in…

Health
4
United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

—
5
University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education
6
Foundation for Jewish Philanthropies Inc

See schedule othe organization is a not-for-profit, public charity established in 1911 to provide for the quality and continuity of jewish life in western new york and around the world through private philanthropy. the foundation seeks,…

Philanthropy
7
Neurology Associates of Stony Brook University Faculty Practice Corp

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
8
Stony Brook Internists University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
9
Npr Foundation

The npr foundation ("foundation") is organized and operated exclusively for the benefit of its sole supported organization, national public radio, inc. ("npr inc."). the foundation supports npr inc. through various activities such as…

—
10
Stony Brook Urology University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
11
Stony Brook Ophthalmology University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
12
University Associates in Obstetrics and Gynecology University Faculty Pract ice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is National Council of Jewish Women Incorporated and the most unlike its peers is Pellettieri Stone Carvers Academy Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyJewish Community FederationsFaith-Based Liberal Arts Co…Domestic Violence and Sexua…Environmental Advocacy and …Classical Music OrchestrasCharter and Independent Sch…Childhood Cancer SupportCommunity Arts CentersProfessional Dance CompaniesChristian Outreach Ministri…Government Accountability &…
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 36 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number18%0%<5yr13%0%5–10yr20%13%10–20yr21%32%20–35yr14%29%35–55yr14%26%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value18%0%<5yr13%0%5–10yr20%39%10–20yr21%23%20–35yr14%27%35–55yr14%11%55yr+

The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 10% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/32
the rest of the field
10%
2,681/26,064

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

04the grantee network

30 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 30 of the 41 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
30/30
Grantees still filing
20/30
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

WNET — $1,000,000 · Arts & CultureWNETFACING HISTORY & OURSELVES INC — $216,000 · Arts & CultureFACING HISTORY & OURSELVES INCPARSONS DANCE FOUNDATION INC — $48,450 · Arts & Culture+5 more — $56,000 · Arts & CultureFidelity Investments Charitable — $250,000 · OtherFidelity Investments Cha…ELLUMINATE INC — $129,000 · OtherELLUMINATE INCNATIONAL FOUNDATION FOR FACIAL RECONSTRUCTION INC — $101,500 · OtherNATIONAL FOUNDATION FOR …PHIPPS NEIGHBORHOODS INC — $30,000 · OtherNATIONAL COUNCIL FOR JEWISH WOMEN — $25,072 · OtherNATIONAL COUNCIL OF JEWISH WOMEN INCORPORATED — $25,000 · Other+14 more — $79,872 · Other+14 moreUNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC — $389,000 · PhilanthropyUNITED JEWISH …+1 more — $5,000 · PhilanthropyVITAL VOICES GLOBAL PARTNERSHIP INC — $203,000 · InternationalVITAL VOI…BLACKSMITH INSTITUTE INC — $43,500 · InternationalBLACKSMIT…+1 more — $5,000 · InternationalNASSAU LAND TRUST INC — $130,000 · EnvironmentLANDMARK CONSERVANCY INC — $10,000 · EnvironmentNew York University — $100,000 · EducationTrustees of Tufts College — $30,000 · Education+2 more — $1,500 · EducationAMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE — $80,000 · Civil RightsANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE FOUNDATION — $20,000 · Civil Rights
Arts & Culture$1,320,450Other$640,444Philanthropy$394,000International$251,500Environment$140,000Education$131,500Civil Rights$100,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetWNET — $1,000,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetUNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC — $389,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetFACING HISTORY & OURSELVES INC — $216,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetVITAL VOICES GLOBAL PARTNERSHIP INC — $203,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetNASSAU LAND TRUST INC — $130,000 over 4y, 11% of budgetELLUMINATE INC — $129,000 over 4y, 4.2% of budgetNATIONAL FOUNDATION FOR FACIAL RECONSTRUCTION INC — $101,500 over 4y, 1.4% of budgetNew York University — $100,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE — $80,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetPARSONS DANCE FOUNDATION INC — $48,450 over 4y, 1.3% of budgetBLACKSMITH INSTITUTE INC — $43,500 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetPHIPPS NEIGHBORHOODS INC — $30,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTrustees of Tufts College — $30,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL COUNCIL OF JEWISH WOMEN INCORPORATED — $25,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE FOUNDATION — $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetPELLETTIERI STONE CARVERS ACADEMY INC — $20,000 over 3y, 7.3% of budgetCONNECTICUT PUBLIC BROADCASTING INC — $15,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMASTERVOICES INC — $13,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetPERSONAL DEVELOPMENT CENTER INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetLANDMARK CONSERVANCY INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE PARENTS CIRCLE - FAMILIES FORUM — $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCENTER FOR HEARING AND COMMUNICATION — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE ABRAHAM INITIATIVES INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetWHYHUNGER INC — $5,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetJOYCE THEATER FOUNDATION INC — $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEDEN VILLAGE CAMP INC — $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPROJECT SUNSHINE INC — $1,800 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BRIDGE ACADEMY INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Jewish Communal FundJewish Community Fede…Roy J Zuckerberg Fami…United Jewish Appeal-…FjcThe New York Communit…Vanguard Charitable E…National Philanthropi…American Endowment Fo…Morgan Stanley Global…Network for GoodDonor Advised Charita…
Jewish Communal FundNY20.7× affinity10 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Jewish Communal Fund · Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma · Roy J Zuckerberg Family Foundation · United Jewish Appeal-Federation of Jewish Philanthropies of New York Inc · Fjc · The New York Community Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · American Endowment Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Network for Good · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization Barbara Hope Foundation Inc funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%1%4%8%15%your share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →median 3%
  • Connecticut Public Broadcasting Inc — 3% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
typical government reliance, FY20–25

Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.

05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to Barbara Hope Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to Barbara Hope Foundation Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 41 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports $921k of grant expense with no grantee named in the published copy. A private foundation itemizes every grant it makes, so a return carrying none has filed its list as an attachment that the public copy does not include. The figures above are therefore from FY2024, the most recent year this funder’s grantee list reached the public record.

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