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Florence O Hopkins Charitable Fund Inc at a glance

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Florence O Hopkins Charitable Fund Inc

Its FY2017 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$317k
Granted FY2017
11
Grants FY2017
6
States reached
$90k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01FY2017 · 11 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2017

  • Under $10k3 grants · $16k
  • $10k–50k6 grants · $134k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $167k
$20,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$16k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
VANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM$90,000
THEATER TALK PRODUCTIONS$77,000
DANBURY WORKSHOP INC$40,000
CHICAGO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA$29,000
THE ORIENTAL INSTITUTE$25,000
NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY FEINBERG SCHOOL OF MEDICINE$20,000
VERMONT CENTER FOR ECOSTUDIES$10,000
MILLSAP'S COLLEGE$10,000
MERIT SCHOOL OF MUSIC$7,500
UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO$5,000
URBAN GETWAYSART RESOURCES IN TEACHING$3,000
02The need
02

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–17) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 56% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%VANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM: $90k → 8%THEATER TALK PRODUCTIONS: $77k → 17%NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY FEINBERG SCHOOL OF MEDICINE: $20k → 14%MILLSAP'S COLLEGE: $10k → 23%VERMONT CENTER FOR ECOSTUDIES: $10k → 9%DANBURY WORKSHOP INC: $40k → 7%THE ORIENTAL INSTITUTE: $25k → 14%UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO: $5k → 14%MERIT SCHOOL OF MUSIC: $8k → 14%URBAN GETWAYSART RESOURCES IN TEACHING: $3k → 14%CHICAGO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: $29k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Trustees of Dartmouth College

Dartmouth College educates the most promising students and prepares them for a lifetime of learning and of responsible leadership, through a faculty dedicated to teaching and the creation of knowledge.

Education
2
Vanderbilt University

See Disclosure Above.

Education
3
Manhattan University

Manhattan university is an independent catholic instituion of higher learning that embraces qualified men and women of all faiths, cultures, and traditions. the mission of manhattan university is to provide a contemporary, person-centered…

Education
4
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education
5
Trustees of Tufts College

Education and Research

Education
6
Trinity University

Trinity university is an independent co-educational university whose mission is excellence in the interrelated areas of teaching, research and services.

Education
7
Music Institute of Chicago

The music institute of chicago ("music institute") leads people toward a lifelong engagement with music, by providing widely accessible resources for high quality music teaching, performing, and service activities.

Arts & Culture
8
President and Fellows of Harvard College

Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.

Education
9
The President and Trustees of Colby College

to provide a rigorous and transformative liberal arts education that prepares students to become thoughtful, engaged citizens.

Education
10
Loyola University of Chicago

We are chicago's jesuit, catholic university - a diverse community seeking god in all things and working to expand knowledge in the service of humanity through learning, justice, and faith.

Education
11
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
12
University of Miami

See Form 990, Part I, Line 1, Description of Organization Mission.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is University of Chicago; the most unlike its peers is Danbury Workshop Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
03the grantee network

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

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 9 of the 11 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/9
Grantees still filing
6/9
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THEATER TALK PRODUCTIONS INC: $77,000 · Arts & CultureTHEATER TALK PRODUCTIONS INCChicago Symphony Orchestra: $29,000 · Arts & CultureChicago Symphony OrchestraMERIT SCHOOL OF MUSIC: $7,500 · Arts & CultureMERIT SCHOOL OF MUSICVANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM: $90,000 · PhilanthropyVANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PR…Danbury Workshop Inc: $40,000 · Recreation & SportsDanbury Workshop IncNorthwestern University: $20,000 · Recreation & SportsNorthwestern Universi…THE ORIENTAL INSTITUTE: $25,000 · OtherTHE ORIENT…URBAN GETWAYSART RESOURCES IN TEACHING: $3,000 · OtherURBAN GETW…Millsaps College: $10,000 · EducationUniversity of Chicago: $5,000 · EducationTHE VERMONT CENTER FOR ECOSTUDIES INC: $10,000 · Environment
Arts & Culture$113,500Philanthropy$90,000Recreation & Sports$60,000Other$28,000Education$15,000Environment$10,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTHEATER TALK PRODUCTIONS INC: $77,000 over 1y, 50% of budgetDanbury Workshop Inc: $40,000 over 1y, 49% of budgetChicago Symphony Orchestra: $29,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNorthwestern University: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE VERMONT CENTER FOR ECOSTUDIES INC: $10,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetMillsaps College: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMERIT SCHOOL OF MUSIC: $7,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetUniversity of Chicago: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

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

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Florence O Hopkins Charitable Fund Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Florence O Hopkins Charitable Fund Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →median 4%
  • The Vermont Center for Ecostudies Inc: 4% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 11 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2017, released 2017. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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