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Hattie M Strong 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.

$1.4M
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
102
Grants FY2025
95
Organizations funded FY2024
37%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$4,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$50,000
Organizations funded a year
95 to 123
FY2020 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
6
Total assets, FY2025
$26M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 37% of the organizations Hattie M Strong Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 14% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $179k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24
EducationYouth DevelopmentHuman ServicesArts & CultureEmploymentCommunity ImprovementOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving99$1.3M44%
FY202495$1.3M37%
FY2023106$1.4M27%
FY2022114$1.4M46%
FY202198$1.2M37%
FY2020123$1.5Mn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Education$4.9MYouth Development$1.9MArts & Culture$613kPhilanthropy$174kHuman Services$145kEmployment$100kRecreation & Sports$95kEnvironment$65kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

MN
NY
PA
KY
WV
VA
MD
DE
NC
SC
DC
LA
GA
FL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Longwood University$190,0006n/a
James Madison University$180,0006n/a
Notre Dame of Maryland University Inc$150,00050%
Shenandoah University$140,00060%
Salem Academy and College$140,00060%
Collegetracks Inc$130,00051%
Elon University$115,00060%
Collegiate Directions Inc$105,00042%
The Catholic University of America$100,00060%
Project Create$95,00052%
Show all 105 grantees
All grantees of Hattie M Strong Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Longwood University$190,0006n/a
James Madison University$180,0006n/a
Notre Dame of Maryland University Inc$150,00050%
Shenandoah University$140,00060%
Salem Academy and College$140,00060%
Collegetracks Inc$130,00051%
Elon University$115,00060%
Collegiate Directions Inc$105,00042%
The Catholic University of America$100,00060%
Project Create$95,00052%
Community Bridges Inc$90,00043%
College Tribe$90,000416%
Horizons Greater Washington Inc$87,90063%
Latino Student Fund$85,00043%
City Blossoms Inc$80,00033%
Washington Tennis & Education Foundation$80,00051%
Dance Institute of Washington$75,00031%
Liberty's Promise$75,00032%
Horton's Kids Inc$75,00031%
One World Education$75,00032%
Levine Music Inc$75,00030%
The Black Swan Academy Inc$75,00032%
In Reach Inc$75,000367%
Wilderness Leadership & Learning Inc$70,00046%
Gallaudet University$65,00060%
Life Pieces to Masterpieces$65,00032%
Latin American Youth Center$65,00030%
Critical Exposure Inc$62,90052%
Fihankra Akoma Ntoaso$60,00054%
The Theatre Lab Inc$60,00052%
DC Scores$60,00031%
Teens Run DC$55,000210%
Children'Schorusofwashington$55,00024%
Washington Urban Debate League Inc$52,900213%
Higher Achievement Program Inc$50,00020%
College Success Foundation - District of Columbia$50,00021%
Reading Partners$50,00020%
The Literacy Lab$50,00020%
The Posse Foundation Inc$50,00020%
Young Playwrights Theater$45,00032%
DC Students Construction Trades Foundation Inc$45,00026%
After-School All-Stars$40,00020%
Sitar Arts Center$40,00021%
Best Kids Inc$40,00022%
SMYAL Inc$40,00020%
Washington Regional Association of Grantmakers$39,50050%
Council on Foundations Inc$38,00060%
So What Else Inc$37,90051%
Alice Ferguson Foundation Inc$35,00021%
The Urban Alliance Foundation Inc$30,00020%
Florence Crittenton Services of Greater Washington$30,00021%
Open Goal Project$30,00021%
For Love of Children$30,00021%
Live It Learn It$30,00022%
Shaw Community Ministry Inc$30,00014%
The Campagna Center Inc$30,00020%
Washington Drama Society Inc$27,90050%
Shoutmousepressinc$25,0001n/a
On-Ramps to Careers Inc$25,00015%
Kid Power Inc$25,00011%
The MusicianShip DC$25,00021%
Edu-Futuro$25,00012%
Raising A Village Foundation$25,00013%
Friends of Fort Dupont Ice Arena Inc$25,00041%
Citydance Ensemble Inc$25,00012%
Our Minds Matter$25,00012%
Jubilee Housing Inc$25,0001n/a
Aspire Afterschool Learning$25,00011%
One Common Unity$25,00012%
The Stand Foundation$25,0001n/a
Little Lights Urban Ministries Inc$25,0001n/a
Soul Trak Outdoors$25,00018%
The Swaliga Foundation$20,00016%
Math Speaks$20,0001n/a
The House DC$15,00030%
Mikva Challenge Grant Foundation$15,00010%
Alliance for New Music-Theatre$15,0001n/a
Pen Faulkner Foundation$15,00012%
DC Youth Orchestra Program$15,00011%
Casa Chirilagua$15,00011%
Fairfax Library Foundation$10,00021%
Reading Is Fundamental Inc$10,00010%
Bank Street College of Education$10,00010%
National Center for Family Philanthropy Inc$9,00060%
Children's Defense Fund$5,00010%
Junior Tennis Champions Center Inc$5,00010%
Amherst College Trustees$5,00010%
Centronia$5,00010%
Girls Incorporated of the Washington DC Metro Area$5,00011%
Urban Learning and Teaching Center$5,00011%
Gala Inc Grupo de Artistas Latino Americanos$5,00010%
Thomas Jefferson High School for Science & Technology$1,5283n/a
Oak Grove Elementary School PTA$1,0572n/a
Carrolltowne Elementary School PTA$1,04921%
Thomas Jefferson Classical Academy$1,04520%
Hope for Hyndman Charter School$1,02820%
Metro Deaf School Inc$54910%
University of Maryland College Park$5401n/a
Grafton Village PTA$53911%
Covington Harper Elementary School PTO$5231n/a
Freedom Hill Elementary School PTA$5191n/a
Silverbrook Elementary School Parent Teacher Org Inc$51711%
Walsingham Academy$5061n/a
North Metro Academy of Perform$4821n/a
Great Bridge Primary PTA$2621n/a

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 214 recipients with no EIN on record ($3.6M), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Hattie M Strong Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 89 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetNotre Dame of Maryland University Inc: $150,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetShenandoah University: $140,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetSalem Academy and College: $140,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetCollegetracks Inc: $130,000 over 5y, 1.1% of budgetElon University: $115,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetCollegiate Directions Inc: $105,000 over 4y, 1.5% of budgetThe Catholic University of America: $100,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetProject Create: $95,000 over 5y, 2.4% of budgetCommunity Bridges Inc: $90,000 over 4y, 3.3% of budgetCollege Tribe: $90,000 over 4y, 16% of budgetHorizons Greater Washington Inc: $87,900 over 6y, 2.6% of budgetLatino Student Fund: $85,000 over 4y, 2.9% of budgetCity Blossoms Inc: $80,000 over 3y, 3.4% of budgetWashington Tennis & Education Foundation: $80,000 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetDance Institute of Washington: $75,000 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetLiberty's Promise: $75,000 over 3y, 2.1% of budgetHorton's Kids Inc: $75,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetOne World Education: $75,000 over 3y, 2.3% of budgetLevine Music Inc: $75,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetThe Black Swan Academy Inc: $75,000 over 3y, 2.0% of budgetIn Reach Inc: $75,000 over 3y, 67% of budgetWilderness Leadership & Learning Inc: $70,000 over 4y, 6.2% of budgetGallaudet University: $65,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetLife Pieces to Masterpieces: $65,000 over 3y, 2.1% of budgetLatin American Youth Center: $65,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCritical Exposure Inc: $62,900 over 5y, 1.9% of budgetFihankra Akoma Ntoaso: $60,000 over 5y, 3.6% of budgetThe Theatre Lab Inc: $60,000 over 5y, 1.7% of budgetDC Scores: $60,000 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetTeens Run DC: $55,000 over 2y, 9.7% of budgetChildren'Schorusofwashington: $55,000 over 2y, 3.6% of budgetWashington Urban Debate League Inc: $52,900 over 2y, 13% of budgetHigher Achievement Program Inc: $50,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetCollege Success Foundation - District of Columbia: $50,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetReading Partners: $50,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetThe Literacy Lab: $50,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetThe Posse Foundation Inc: $50,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetYoung Playwrights Theater: $45,000 over 3y, 1.8% of budgetDC Students Construction Trades Foundation Inc: $45,000 over 2y, 6.1% of budgetAfter-School All-Stars: $40,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSitar Arts Center: $40,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetBest Kids Inc: $40,000 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetSMYAL Inc: $40,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetWashington Regional Association of Grantmakers: $39,500 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetCouncil on Foundations Inc: $38,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetSo What Else Inc: $37,900 over 5y, 1.2% of budgetAlice Ferguson Foundation Inc: $35,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetThe Urban Alliance Foundation Inc: $30,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 89.

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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 Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz FoundationDC85.9× affinity42 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation · Greater Washington Community Foundation · United Way of the National Capital Area · Philip L Graham Fund co Graham Holdings Company · Dimick Foundation John M Lynham Jr Trustee · Nora Roberts Foundation · Clark-Winchcole Foundation · John Edward Fowler Memorial Foundation · Harman Family Foundation · Corina Higginson Trust Co Laura Ford Trustee · Jack Kent Cooke Foundation · Humanities Council of Washington DC

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.

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About Hattie M Strong Foundation

How much does Hattie M Strong Foundation give?
Hattie M Strong Foundation reported 102 grants totaling $1,366,956 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 95 and 123 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
What does Hattie M Strong Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (61%), Youth Development (23%), Arts & Culture (8%).
Who are Hattie M Strong Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Longwood University ($190k), James Madison University ($180k), Notre Dame of Maryland University Inc ($150k).
Does Hattie M Strong Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 37% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Hattie M Strong Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as Hattie M Strong Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation, Greater Washington Community Foundation, United Way of the National Capital Area.
Where is Hattie M Strong Foundation based?
Hattie M Strong Foundation is based in VA.

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 320 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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