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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 FY2025still arriving
102
Grants FY2025still arriving
6
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What it funds
01100% 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
02FY2025 · 102 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k53 grants · $56k
  • $10k–50k48 grants · $1.3M
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
$4,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$26M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
GREATER WASHINGTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$50,000
LONGWOOD UNIVERSITY$40,000
EAST CAROLINA UNIVERSITY$40,000
BOWIE STATE UNIVERSITY$35,000
GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY$35,000
WESTERN CAROLINA UNIVERSITY$35,000
UNIVERSITY OF MARY WASHINGTON$35,000
RADFORD UNIVERSITY$35,000
SALISBURY UNIVERSITY$35,000
COLLEGE TRACKS$30,000
CHILDREN'S CHORUS OF WASHINGTON$30,000
UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA-WILMINGTON$30,000
JAMES MADISON UNIVERSITY$30,000
UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BALTIMORE COUNTY$30,000
TOWSON UNIVERSITY$30,000
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.

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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%LIBERTY'S PROMISE: $25k → 9%LIBERTY'S PROMISE: $25k → 9%ASPIRE AFTERSCHOOL LEARNING: $25k → 7%LIBERTY'S PROMISE: $25k → 9%CAMPAGNA CENTER: $15k → 9%CAMPAGNA CENTER: $15k → 9%COMMUNITY BRIDGES INC: $25k → 8%COMMUNITY BRIDGES INC: $25k → 8%COMMUNITY BRIDGES INC: $25k → 8%CRITTENTON SERVICES OF GREATER WASHINGTON: $25k → 8%COMMUNITY BRIDGES: $15k → 8%CRITTENTON SERVICES OF GREATER WASHINGTON: $5k → 8%SMYAL: $25k → 14%SMYAL: $15k → 14%FOR LOVE OF CHILREN: $15k → 14%FOR LOVE OF CHILDREN: $15k → 14%THE STAND FOUNDATION: $25k → 14%SOULTRAK OUTDOORS: $25k → 14%CENTRONIA: $5k → 14%URBAN ADVENTURE SQUAD (SS): $5k → 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.

Which US states its grants reach

MN
NY
PA
KY
WV
VA
MD
DE
NC
SC
DC
LA
GA
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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

88%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$7.1M · 135 repeat orgs$997k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

135
140

Total granted

$7.1M
$623k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+14%
+17%

Still filing today

46%
16%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 72% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $374k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationArts & CultureYouth DevelopmentHuman ServicesRecreation & SportsPhilanthropyOther
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

  • ND
    NOTRE DAME OF MARYLAND UNIVERSITY INC
    5× · 2020–2024 · $150k · revenue +12%
  • SHENANDOAH UNIVERSITY
    6× · 2020–2025 · $140k · revenue +34%
  • SA
    SALEM ACADEMY AND COLLEGE
    6× · 2020–2025 · $140k · revenue +14%

Funded once

  • SC
    SHAW COMMUNITY MINISTRY INC
    one grant, 2020 · $30k · revenue -2%
  • KP
    KID POWER INC
    one grant, 2024 · $25k · revenue +7%
  • E
    EDU-FUTUROgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $25k · revenue +175%
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
Ingenuity Prep

Ingenuity prep public charter school was formed to prepare students to succeed in college and beyond as impactful civiic leaders.

Education
2
Browne Academy

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…

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3
Corporation of the Washington Latin School

To provide a rigorous, classical education to public school middle and high school students from across the district of columbia.

Education
4
Dc Bilingual Public Charter School

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.

Education
5
Global Kids Inc

Global kids educates, inspires and mobilizes youth to become global citizens who are positively engaged in the world and are prepared for their future.

Youth Development
6
Capitol Hill Day School

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…

Education
7
Washington Leadership Academy Public Charter School

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.

Education
8
Learn Dc Public Charter School

Provide students with the academic foundation and ambition to earn a college degree.

Education
9
School in the Square Public Charter School

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…

Education
10
The Peak School

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…

Education
11
Youthbuild Dc Public Charter School Inc

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…

Education
12
Harmony Dc Public Charter Schools

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,…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Kid Power Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

99 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. 99 of the 320 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)
23
Early backer (in before they grew)
95/99
Grantees still filing
65/99
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

TOWSON UNIVERSITY: $195,000 · OtherGEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY: $190,000 · OtherLONGWOOD UNIVERSITY: $190,000 · OtherSALISBURY UNIVERSITY: $185,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA-WILMINGTON: $185,000 · OtherOLD DOMINION UNIVERSITY: $185,000 · OtherRADFORD UNIVERSITY: $185,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF MARY WASHINGTON: $185,000 · OtherEAST CAROLINA UNIVERSITY: $180,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BALTIMORE COUNTY: $180,000 · OtherJAMES MADISON UNIVERSITY: $180,000 · OtherBOWIE STATE UNIVERSITY: $175,000 · OtherWESTERN CAROLINA UNIVERSITY: $165,000 · OtherNORTH CAROLINA A & T STATE UNIVERSITY: $165,000 · Other+114 more: $2,025,390 · Other+114 moreNOTRE DAME OF MARYLAND UNIVERSITY INC: $150,000 · EducationNOTRE DAME OF MARYLAND …SHENANDOAH UNIVERSITY: $140,000 · EducationSHENANDOAH UNIVERSITYSALEM ACADEMY AND COLLEGE: $140,000 · EducationSALEM ACADEMY AND COLLE…COLLEGETRACKS INC: $130,000 · EducationCOLLEGETRACKS INCElon University: $115,000 · EducationElon UniversityCOLLEGIATE DIRECTIONS INC: $105,000 · EducationCOLLEGIATE DIRECTIONS I…THE CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF AMERICA: $100,000 · EducationTHE CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY…COLLEGE TRIBE: $90,000 · EducationCOLLEGE TRIBELATINO STUDENT FUND: $85,000 · EducationONE WORLD EDUCATION: $75,000 · EducationIN REACH INC: $75,000 · EducationGALLAUDET UNIVERSITY: $65,000 · Education+15 more: $379,973 · Education+15 morePROJECT CREATE: $95,000 · Youth DevelopmentPROJECT C…HORIZONS GREATER WASHINGTON INC: $87,900 · Youth DevelopmentHORIZONS …CITY BLOSSOMS INC: $80,000 · Youth DevelopmentCITY BLOS…WASHINGTON TENNIS & EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $80,000 · Youth DevelopmentWASHINGTO…THE BLACK SWAN ACADEMY INC: $75,000 · Youth DevelopmentTHE BLACK…LATIN AMERICAN YOUTH CENTER: $65,000 · Youth DevelopmentLATIN AME…Critical Exposure Inc: $62,900 · Youth DevelopmentCritical …TEENS RUN DC: $55,000 · Youth DevelopmentTEENS RUN…Best Kids Inc: $40,000 · Youth DevelopmentBest Kids…KID POWER INC: $25,000 · Youth DevelopmentLittle Lights Urban Ministries Inc: $25,000 · Youth Development+1 more: $5,000 · Youth DevelopmentLEVINE MUSIC INC: $75,000 · Arts & CultureLIFE PIECES TO MASTERPIECES: $65,000 · Arts & CultureTHE THEATRE LAB INC: $60,000 · Arts & CultureCHILDREN'SCHORUSOFWASHINGTON: $55,000 · Arts & CultureYoung Playwrights Theater: $45,000 · Arts & CultureSITAR ARTS CENTER: $40,000 · Arts & CultureWASHINGTON DRAMA SOCIETY INC: $27,900 · Arts & CultureSHOUTMOUSEPRESSINC: $25,000 · Arts & CultureThe MusicianShip DC: $25,000 · Arts & CultureCITYDANCE ENSEMBLE INC: $25,000 · Arts & CultureONE COMMON UNITY: $25,000 · Arts & Culture+2 more: $20,000 · Arts & CultureCommunity Bridges Inc: $90,000 · Human ServicesLIBERTY'S PROMISE: $75,000 · Human ServicesSMYAL Inc: $40,000 · Human ServicesFlorence Crittenton Services of Greater Washington: $30,000 · Human ServicesFOR LOVE OF CHILDREN: $30,000 · Human ServicesTHE CAMPAGNA CENTER INC: $30,000 · Human ServicesASPIRE AFTERSCHOOL LEARNING: $25,000 · Human ServicesTHE STAND FOUNDATION: $25,000 · Human ServicesSoul Trak Outdoors: $25,000 · Human Services+2 more: $10,000 · Human ServicesGREATER WASHINGTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $50,000 · PhilanthropyWASHINGTON REGIONAL ASSOCIATION OF GRANTMAKERS: $39,500 · PhilanthropyCouncil on Foundations Inc: $38,000 · PhilanthropySO WHAT ELSE INC: $37,900 · PhilanthropyNATIONAL CENTER FOR FAMILY PHILANTHROPY INC: $9,000 · PhilanthropyWILDERNESS LEADERSHIP & LEARNING INC: $70,000 · Recreation & SportsOPEN GOAL PROJECT: $30,000 · Recreation & SportsFriends of Fort Dupont Ice Arena Inc: $25,000 · Recreation & SportsJUNIOR TENNIS CHAMPIONS CENTER INC: $5,000 · Recreation & Sports
Other$4,570,390Education$1,649,973Youth Development$695,800Arts & Culture$487,900Human Services$380,000Philanthropy$174,400Recreation & Sports$130,000

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

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

25%50%75%100%$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 budgetGREATER WASHINGTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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 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.

  • Who funds NOTRE DAME OF MARYLAND UNIVERSITY INC ↗
  • Who funds SHENANDOAH UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds SALEM ACADEMY AND COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds COLLEGETRACKS INC ↗
  • Who funds Elon University ↗
  • Who funds COLLEGIATE DIRECTIONS INC ↗
  • Who funds THE CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF AMERICA ↗
  • Who funds PROJECT CREATE ↗
  • Who funds Community Bridges Inc ↗
  • Who funds COLLEGE TRIBE ↗
  • Who funds HORIZONS GREATER WASHINGTON INC ↗
  • Who funds LATINO STUDENT FUND ↗
  • Who funds CITY BLOSSOMS INC ↗
  • Who funds WASHINGTON TENNIS & EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds DANCE INSTITUTE OF WASHINGTON ↗
  • Who funds LIBERTY'S PROMISE ↗
  • Who funds HORTON'S KIDS INC ↗
  • Who funds ONE WORLD EDUCATION ↗
  • Who funds LEVINE MUSIC INC ↗
  • Who funds THE BLACK SWAN ACADEMY INC ↗
  • Who funds IN REACH INC ↗

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 50%5%19%42%75%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →median 9%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
5get no government money at all
42report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
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.
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Find your warmest path to Hattie M Strong Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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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