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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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k53 grants · $56k
- $10k–50k48 grants · $1.3M
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| GREATER WASHINGTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| EAST CAROLINA UNIVERSITY | $40,000 |
| LONGWOOD UNIVERSITY | $40,000 |
| SALISBURY UNIVERSITY | $35,000 |
| BOWIE STATE UNIVERSITY | $35,000 |
| GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY | $35,000 |
| WESTERN CAROLINA UNIVERSITY | $35,000 |
| RADFORD UNIVERSITY | $35,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MARY WASHINGTON | $35,000 |
| JAMES MADISON UNIVERSITY | $30,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $30,000 |
| OLD DOMINION UNIVERSITY | $30,000 |
| TOWSON UNIVERSITY | $30,000 |
| COLLEGIATE DIRECTIONS INC | $30,000 |
| COLLEGE TRACKS | $30,000 |
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 (FY20–25, $380k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 93% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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.
135 repeat relationships — 55 still active in FY2025, 80 since wound down; 44 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, 72% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $374k 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
- NDNOTRE DAME OF MARYLAND UNIVERSITY INC5× · 2020–2024 · $150k · revenue +12%
- SASALEM ACADEMY AND COLLEGE6× · 2020–2025 · $140k · revenue +14%
SHENANDOAH UNIVERSITY6× · 2020–2025 · $140k · revenue +34%
Funded once
- SCSHAW COMMUNITY MINISTRY INCone grant, 2020 · $30k · revenue -2%
- RARaising A Village Foundationone grant, 2023 · $25k · revenue +5%
- OCONE COMMON UNITYone grant, 2020 · $25k · revenue +223%
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.
Ingenuity prep public charter school was formed to prepare students to succeed in college and beyond as impactful civiic leaders.
The Academy is a pre-kindergarten through grade eight independent school preparing girls and boys in the metropolitan Washington, DC area for competitive secondary schools. The Academy is a diverse independent day school committed to…
To provide a rigorous, classical education to public school middle and high school students from across the district of columbia.
The mission of dc bilingual public charter school is to create a learning community that ensures high academic achievement for all students in both spanish and english, develops leadership, and values all cultures.
Global kids educates, inspires and mobilizes youth to become global citizens who are positively engaged in the world and are prepared for their future.
Capitol Hill Day School is a co-educational independent school serving students from pre-kindergarten through 8th grade. Capitol Hill Day School deeply engages a diverse community of students in connecting the classroom with the larger…
Wla combines best practices in teaching and learning, with the latest in educational technology to create an unparalleled high school experience. students will graduate from wla prepared for college, career, and lives of public leadership.
Provide students with the academic foundation and ambition to earn a college degree.
School in the square ("s2") engages, educates and empowers adolescents to respond mindfully and creatively to life's opportunities and challenges. s2 is a place where students, families and educators are seen, heard, and inspired and where…
The peak school seeks to ignite a passion for learning, to develop students of diverse talents and backgrounds who think critically and act with integrity, and to graduate compassionate, confident, capable students who will embrace their…
Youthbuild pcs seeks to transform the lives of disconnected youth by offering a program, in english and spanish, that combines rigorous academic instruction with vocational training, life and employability skills- building, and community…
The mission of the charter school is to prepare students for higher learning in a safe, caring, and collaborative atmosphere through a quality learner-centered educational program with a strong emphasis on science, technology, engineering,…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Kid Power Inc and the most unlike its peers is Covington Harper Elementary School Pto. 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 28 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% 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.
99 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 99 of the 320 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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.
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- Who funds COLLEGETRACKS INC ↗
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- Who funds HORIZONS GREATER WASHINGTON INC ↗
- Who funds LATINO STUDENT FUND ↗
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- Who funds CITY BLOSSOMS INC ↗
- Who funds HORTON'S KIDS INC ↗
- Who funds LEVINE MUSIC INC ↗
- Who funds ONE WORLD EDUCATION ↗
- Who funds LIBERTY'S PROMISE ↗
- Who funds IN REACH INC ↗
- Who funds THE BLACK SWAN ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds DANCE INSTITUTE OF WASHINGTON ↗
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: 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
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 Hattie M Strong 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.
- Alice Ferguson Foundation Inc — 34% of income from government
- Notre Dame of Maryland University Inc — 9% of income from government
- Amherst College Trustees — 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.
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