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Hargrove Pierce Foundation at a glance

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Hargrove Pierce 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.

$229k
Granted FY2024still arriving
25
Grants FY2024still arriving
7
States reached
$100k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Arts & Culture$921kHealth$618kEducation$252kCivil Rights$187kFood & Nutrition$81kInternational$75kEnvironment$57kMembership Benefit$57kOther$0
02FY2024 · 25 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k19 grants · $23k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $56k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $150k
$1,033
Median grant
7
States reached
$5.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ORCHESTRA OF ST LUKE'S$100,000
Individual grant recipient$50,000
VIVIAN BEAUMONT THEATER INC$25,000
CARINGKIND$11,354
ROUNDABOUT THEATRE COMPANY$10,000
TREATMENT ACTION GROUP$10,000
LOOSE CANNONS INC$5,000
NYFOS$2,500
FRIENDS OF THIRTEEN$2,200
BROADWAY CARESEQUITY FIGHTS AIDS$1,548
CHANGING TIDES FOUNDATION$1,069
WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN$1,043
BLOOMERANG$1,033
THE ACTORS FUND$1,030
HUMANE SOCIETY OF THE US$1,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

show:

Its human-services grants (FY17–23, $13k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 91% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%CROTCHED MOUNTAIN FOUNDATION: $1k → 7%SOS CHILDREN'S VILLAGES ILLINOIS: $10k → 14%HUDSON GUILD: $974 → 17%BRIGID ALLIANCE: $540 → 17%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.

Which US states its grants reach

VT
NH
MN
IL
MI
NY
MA
IN
PA
NJ
CT
CA
CO
VA
MD
TN
NC
DC
TX
FL
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.
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Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 11% of Hargrove Pierce Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 71% of the giving stays in NY; by stated purpose, 53%.

Hargrove Pierce Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 16% directed abroad (not shown)
How this is measured
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

81%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.0M · 52 repeat orgs$467k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +19% since the first grant, against +13% for those funded once.

52 repeat relationships: 15 still active in FY2024, 37 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

52
88

Total granted

$2.0M
$415k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+19%
+13%

Still filing today

75%
57%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 77% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $51k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureHealthHuman ServicesInternationalEducationAnimalsOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • SL
    ST LUKES CHAMBER ENSEMBLE INC
    7× · 2017–2024 · $552k · revenue +69%
  • AD
    ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC
    6× · 2017–2024 · $119k · revenue +40%
  • BC
    BROADWAY CARESEQUITY FIGHTS AIDS INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $98k · revenue +43%

Funded once

  • MS
    MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTING CANCER CENTER
    one grant, 2021 · $100k
  • LB
    LEWY BODY DEMENTIA RESOURCE CENTER OF NEW YORK INC
    one grant, 2021 · $25k · revenue -16%
  • FRACTURED ATLAS INCgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $25k · revenue +49%
How this is measured

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

04Its 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
New York Genome Center Inc

Operate a state-of-the-art, world-class genomic research center that creates and uses advanced genomics to understand the genetic basis of disease. for more information, see schedule o.

Health
2
New York City Center Inc

The mission of new york city center is to be new york city's leading center for dance and musical theater. dedicated to making the arts accessible to the broadest possible audience, city center seeks to create a welcoming environment and…

Arts & Culture
3
New York Foundation for the Arts Inc

Established in 1971, the mission of the new york foundation for the arts (nyfa) is to empower artists in all disciplines, as well as cultural workers, to achieve success on their own terms by providing critical support, resources, and…

Arts & Culture
4
Transport Group Inc Dba Transport Group Theatre Company

Producing and developing plays and musicals.

Arts & Culture
5
The Paris Review Foundation Inc

The mission of the organization is to foster the development of creative individuals as writers and artists and to promote public appreciation of excellence in the literary and graphic arts by publishing a magazine containing fiction,…

Education
6
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
7
Manhattan Theatre Club Inc

Mtc's work includes producing and developing new work on and off-broadway, nurturing artists throughout their careers, and positively impacting the lives of many through innovative education programs. we are committed to equity, diversity…

Arts & Culture
8
Academy of Television Arts and Sciences

The Television Academy is dedicated to celebrating excellence, innovation and the advancement of the telecommunications arts and sciences through recognition, education and leadership, while fostering a diverse, inclusive and accessible…

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9
New York University

Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.

Education
10
Los Angeles Opera Company

To serve the public by producing world-class opera that preserves, promotes and advances the art form while embodying the diversity, spirit and artistic sensibility unique to los angeles. we envision an engaged and enlightened community in…

Arts & Culture
11
En Garde Arts Inc

To produce bold theatre experiences that reach across artistic, physical and social boundries. We aim to increase empathy and open-mindedness by illuminating nuanced perspectives and unspoken truths behind the salient issues of our time.…

Arts & Culture
12
City Report Inc

CITY REPORT, INC. serves the people of New York through independent journalism that answers their information needs and holds the powerful to account.

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Actors' Fund of America; the most unlike its peers is Changing Tides Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network

97 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 97 of the 151 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
8
Early backer (in before they grew)
96/97
Grantees still filing
63/97
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHAPEL HILL: $165,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHAPEL HILLMEMORIAL SLOAN KETTING CANCER CENTER: $100,000 · OtherMEMORIAL SLOAN KETTING CANCER CENTERBROADWAY CARESEQUITY FIGHTS AIDS INC: $97,846 · OtherBROADWAY CARESEQUITY FIGHTS AIDS INCYALE UNIVERSITY: $75,000 · OtherYALE UNIVERSITYIndividual grant recipient: $55,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientNEW YORK RESTORATION PROJECT: $50,000 · OtherTHE ACTORS' FUND OF AMERICA: $56,665 · OtherTHE ACTORS' FUND OF AMERICA+89 more: $408,553 · Other+89 moreST LUKES CHAMBER ENSEMBLE INC: $552,030 · Arts & CultureST LUKES CHAMBER ENSEMBLE INCSARATOGA PERFORMING ARTS CENTER INC: $50,000 · Arts & CultureSARATOGA PERFORMING ARTS CENTER INCMidwest Young Artists: $30,000 · Arts & Culture+21 more: $140,104 · Arts & Culture+21 moreALZHEIMER'S DISEASE AND RELATED DISORDERS NEW YORK CITY INC: $187,280 · HealthALZHEIMER'S DIS…ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC: $118,500 · HealthALZHEIMER'S DIS…LEWY BODY DEMENTIA RESOURCE CENTER OF NEW YORK INC: $25,000 · HealthLEWY BODY DEMEN…+9 more: $17,111 · HealthPEOPLE FOR THE AMERICAN WAY FOUNDATION: $120,000 · Civil Rights+2 more: $4,500 · Civil RightsFeeding America: $77,000 · Food & Nutrition+3 more: $2,558 · Food & NutritionFAMILY EQUALITY: $60,000 · EducationNICHOLS SCHOOL OF BUFFALO: $10,000 · Education+3 more: $2,500 · EducationLOOSE CANNONS INC: $30,000 · InternationalInternational Rescue Committee INC: $26,530 · International+5 more: $4,642 · International
Other$1,008,064Arts & Culture$772,134Health$347,891Civil Rights$124,500Food & Nutrition$79,558Education$72,500International$61,172

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 budgetST LUKES CHAMBER ENSEMBLE INC: $552,030 over 7y, 1.6% of budgetALZHEIMER'S DISEASE AND RELATED DISORDERS NEW YORK CITY INC: $187,280 over 7y, 2.1% of budgetPEOPLE FOR THE AMERICAN WAY FOUNDATION: $120,000 over 4y, 1.3% of budgetALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC: $118,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetBROADWAY CARESEQUITY FIGHTS AIDS INC: $97,846 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetFeeding America: $77,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetFAMILY EQUALITY: $60,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetTHE ACTORS' FUND OF AMERICA: $56,665 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetNEW YORK RESTORATION PROJECT: $50,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetSARATOGA PERFORMING ARTS CENTER INC: $50,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetLOOSE CANNONS INC: $30,000 over 6y, 48% of budgetMidwest Young Artists: $30,000 over 4y, 1.1% of budgetInternational Rescue Committee INC: $26,530 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLEWY BODY DEMENTIA RESOURCE CENTER OF NEW YORK INC: $25,000 over 1y, 10% of budgetTHE VIVIAN BEAUMONT THEATERINC D/B/A LINCOLN CENTER THEATER: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFRACTURED ATLAS INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE NEW YORK FESTIVAL OF SONG INC: $20,000 over 3y, 2.4% of budgetORIGINAL MUSIC WORKSHOP INC: $16,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetCANINE COMPANIONS FOR INDEPENDENCE INC: $11,036 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE NATIONAL ALLIANCE FOR MUSICAL THEATRE INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetPULMONARY FIBROSIS FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE TOBY PROJECT INC: $10,000 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetHAITIAN GLOBAL HEALTH ALLIANCE: $10,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetTUNA CANYON DETENTION STATION COALITION: $10,000 over 1y, 24% of budgetNICHOLS SCHOOL OF BUFFALO: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTAG TREATMENT ACTION GROUP INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetMASTERVOICES INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetROUNDABOUT THEATRE COMPANY INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetONE FAMILY ILLINOIS: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHISPANIC FEDERATION INC: $7,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGood Shepherd Ministries of Wilmington Inc: $6,021 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSIERRA CLUB FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetClubbed Thumb Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetALL FOR ONE THEATER FESTIVAL INC: $5,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetWRITERS GUILD FOUNDATION: $4,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetARTS IGNITE INC: $3,072 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetCANCER SUPPORT COMMUNITY: $3,030 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetDRAMATISTS LEGAL DEFENSE FUND INC: $3,000 over 3y, 4.3% of budgetRED BULL THEATER INC: $3,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetUNITED SERVICE ORGANIZATIONS INC: $2,875 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetRIVERSIDE PARK CONSERVANCY INC: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSIERRA CLUB: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetJOHN & ANNA NEWTON PORTER FOUNDATION: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE YOUNG MEN'S AND YOUNG WOMEN'S HEBREW ASSOCIATION: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNORTH CAROLINA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetANIMAL RESCUE FUND OF THE HAMPTONS INC: $2,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetHumane World for Animals Inc: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetRHINEBECK WRITERS RETREAT INC: $2,000 over 2y, 1.2% 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.

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

The Howard Gilman Fou…Marta Heflin Foundati…Jewish Communal FundThe New York Communit…The Shubert Foundatio…Boston Foundation IncMorgan Stanley Global…The Ford FoundationGe Aerospace Foundati…The Lucille Lortel Fo…The Macmillan Family …The Robert Wood Johns…
The Howard Gilman Foundation IncNY19× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Howard Gilman Foundation Inc · Marta Heflin Foundation · Jewish Communal Fund · The New York Community Trust · The Shubert Foundation Inc · Boston Foundation Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Ford Foundation · Ge Aerospace Foundation · The Lucille Lortel Foundation Inc · The Macmillan Family Foundation Inc · The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Hargrove Pierce Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Hargrove Pierce Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%3%13%28%50%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Gavin Foundation Inc: 12% of income from government
  • Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: 7% of income from government
  • The Weston Playhouse Theater: 0% of income from government
  • Hope for Haiti Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Bennington College Corporation: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
27report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
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 151 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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