· Private foundation
Eleanor and Henry Hitchcock Charitable Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2018–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k1 grant · $9k
- $10k–50k10 grants · $187k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $346k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CREEDE REPERATORY THEATER | $145,000 |
| COLORADO OPEN LANDS | $125,000 |
| DENVER ART MUSEUM | $75,750 |
| GROWING GARDENS OF BOULDER | $40,000 |
| CREEDE EARLY LEARNING CENTER | $25,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $25,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $22,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $19,305 |
| CREEDE MUSICAL ARTS COLLECTIVE INC | $15,000 |
| THE WILD ANIMAL SANCTUARY | $10,000 |
| RIO GRANDE WATERSHED CONSERVATION AND EDUCATION INITIATIVE | $10,000 |
| FOUR WINDS WESTWARD HO CAMP | $10,000 |
| ST LOUIS VALLEY LOCAL FOOD COALITION | $10,000 |
| BALDWIN GALLERY LLC | $8,750 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY23–24, $35k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
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.
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.
20 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2024, 12 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $97k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- DADENVER ART MUSEUM7× · 2018–2024 · $1.3M · revenue +18%
- CRCREEDE REPERTORY THEATRE7× · 2018–2024 · $655k · revenue +15%
- COCOLORADO OPEN LANDS4× · 2021–2024 · $380k · revenue +93%
Funded once
- TATRIPLE AUGHT FOUNDATIONone grant, 2022 · $50k · revenue -77%
- FFFRANKLIN FURNACE ARCHIVE INCgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $35k · revenue +112%
- WMWHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ARTgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $15k · revenue +125%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
The museum's mission statement is: "to discover, interpret, and disseminate - through scientific research and education - knowledge about human cultures, the natural world, and the universe."
Impart knowledge and appreciation of humanity's relationship with wildlife through art.
The mission of the cleveland museum of art (cma) is to fulfill its dual roles as one of the world's most distinguished comprehensive art museums and as one of northeastern ohio's principal civic and cultural institutions. the museum,…
Organization's mission statement true to the ambitious vision of its founder and her spirit of creative risk-taking, the mission of the isabella stewart gardner museum is: - to bring to life and preserve the rich historic collection; - to…
Inspiring communities to save wildlife for future generations.
See schedule osfmoma believes the art of our time is vital and shares it with passion and purpose, and that art and the creative process can open minds and help build a better world. for that reason, we assemble unparalleled collections,…
To inspire, educate and cultivate curiosity through great works of art.
We are a community oasis where reverence for the cultural and natural ecology of the sonoran desert region inspires responsible stewardship so that future generations may thrive.
The huntington library, art museum, and botanical gardens shares its world-renowned collections to support scholarship, foster learning, inspire creativity, and offer transformative experiences for diverse audiences.
The santa fe botanical garden celebrates, cultivates and conserves the rich botanical heritage and biodiversity of our region. in partnership with nature, we demonstrate our commitment through education, science, conservation, community…
The museum's mission is to inspire all californians to create a more vibrant future for themselves and their communities. through collections, exhibitions, education programs, and public dialogue, we inspire people of all ages and…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Rio Grande Headwaters Land Trust and the most unlike its peers is Creede Early Learning Center. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 34 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
19 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. 19 of the 29 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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.
- Who funds DENVER ART MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds CREEDE REPERTORY THEATRE ↗
- Who funds COLORADO OPEN LANDS ↗
- Who funds CLYFFORD STILL MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds WESTERN RIVERS CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds MANHATTAN INSTITUTE FOR POLICY RESEARCH INC ↗
- Who funds GROWING GARDENS OF BOULDER COUNTY ↗
- Who funds THE WILD ANIMAL SANCTUARY ↗
- Who funds DENVER BOTANIC GARDENS INC ↗
- Who funds STEPHEN GAYNOR SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds TRIPLE AUGHT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BOULDER MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART ↗
- Who funds FRANKLIN FURNACE ARCHIVE INC ↗
- Who funds CREEDE EARLY LEARNING CENTER ↗
- Who funds RIO GRANDE HEADWATERS LAND TRUST ↗
- Who funds Creede Musical Arts Collective Inc ↗
- Who funds CREEDE MINING HERITAGE INC ↗
- Who funds WHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART ↗
- Who funds RIO GRANDE WATERSHED CONSERVATION & EDUCATION INITIATIVE ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Colorado Gives Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
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 Eleanor and Henry Hitchcock Charitable Foundation 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.
- Western Rivers Conservancy — 0% of income from government
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.