· Private foundation
Harold Grant Hester and Patricia Marie Hester Family Foundation
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k3 grants · $10k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $75k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| TERRACE OF LOS GATOS | $28,324 |
| HEARTS & MINDS ACTIVITY CENTER | $27,000 |
| ONE STEP CLOSER | $10,000 |
| PEO FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| YOUTH ON COURSE | $5,000 |
| GLOBAL COMPUTER LITERACY | $3,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,000 |
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 (FY19–19, $500) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +39% since the first grant, against +28% for the ones you funded once.
13 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2025, 10 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 49% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $43k 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
- CCCANCER CAREPOINT INC7× · 2017–2023 · $163k · revenue +2%
- HMHEARTS & MINDS ACTIVITY CENTER8× · 2018–2025 · $93k · revenue +62%
- NFNCGA FOUNDATION7× · 2019–2025 · $55k · revenue +244%
Funded once
- YLYOUNG LIFE--SAN JOSEone grant, 2017 · $20k
- RREALOPTIONSgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $15k · revenue +79%
- AGARUKAH GLOBAL INCone grant, 2020 · $15k · revenue -47%
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.
At humangood we believe everyone should have the opportunity to live with enthusiasm, confidence and security, regardless of physical, social, or economic circumstances. and when we say everyone, we mean everyone - including you. continued…
At humangood we believe everyone should have the opportunity to live with enthusiasm, confidence and security, regardless of physical, social, or economic circumstances. and when we say everyone, we mean everyone - including you. continued…
At humangood we believe everyone should have the opportunity to live with enthusiasm, confidence and security, regardless of physical, social, or economic circumstances. and when we say everyone, we mean everyone - including you. continued…
At humangood we believe everyone should have the opportunity to live with enthusiasm, confidence and security, regardless of physical, social, or economic circumstances. and when we say everyone, we mean everyone - including you. because…
The Academy's mission is to enhance member career fulfillment and promote brain health for all.
At humangood we believe everyone should have the opportunity to live with enthusiasm, confidence and security, regardless of physical, social, or economic circumstances. and when we say everyone, we mean everyone - including you. continued…
At humangood we believe everyone should have the opportunity to live with enthusiasm, confidence and security, regardless of physical, social, or economic circumstances. and when we say everyone, we mean everyone - including you.because we…
At humangood we believe everyone should have the opportunity to live with enthusiasm, confidence and security, regardless of physical, social, or economic circumstances. and when we say everyone, we mean everyone - including you.because we…
At humangood we believe everyone should have the opportunity to live with enthusiasm, confidence and security, regardless of physical, social, or economic circumstances. and when we say everyone, we mean everyone - including you. continued…
At humangood we believe everyone should have the opportunity to live with enthusiasm, confidence and security, regardless of physical, social, or economic circumstances. and when we say everyone, we mean everyone - including you. continued…
To advocate for, develop and operate quality housing and services for the aging and other people with limited resources and/or disabilities, enabling them to thrive in a positive, affordable and supportive community.
At humangood we believe everyone should have the opportunity to live with enthusiasm, confidence and security, regardless of physical, social, or economic circumstances. and when we say everyone, we mean everyone - including you. because…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Water Missions International and the most unlike its peers is San Jose Sting Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
14 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. 14 of the 43 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 CANCER CAREPOINT INC ↗
- Who funds HEARTS & MINDS ACTIVITY CENTER ↗
- Who funds NCGA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds YOUNG LIFE ↗
- Who funds REALOPTIONS ↗
- Who funds ARUKAH GLOBAL INC ↗
- Who funds PEO Foundation ↗
- Who funds FOLDS OF HONOR FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WATER MISSIONS INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
- Who funds San Jose Sting Inc ↗
- Who funds ANGELS ON STAGE ↗
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: Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Network for Good · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · 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 Harold Grant Hester and Patricia Marie Hester Family 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.
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.