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Hedberg Foundation Inc

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.

$8.3M
Granted FY2024still arriving
3
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$3.0M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Philanthropy$9.2MEducation$320kArts & Culture$198kHealth$193kReligion$121kAnimals$82kHousing & Shelter$55kFood & Nutrition$52kOther$0
02FY2024 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$3,007,251
Median grant
1
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
PEGGY HEDBERG FOUNDATION$3,009,259
CARLA WESTCOTT GIVING FUND$3,007,251
DEAM FAMILY FUND$2,257,257
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 (FY17–22, $28k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 53% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 10%CRADLES TO CRAYONS INC: $1k → 8%NARAL PRO-CHOICE AMERICA: $2k → 14%CRADLES TO CRAYONS INC: $1k → 8%GOODMAN COMMUNITY CENTER: $5k → 10%CHILDREN'S SERVICES OF ROXBURY: $500 → 16%INNOCENCE PROJECT INC: $2k → 17%CHILDREN'S SERVICES OF ROXBURY: $500 → 16%INNOCENCE PROJECT INC: $2k → 17%BAY AREA WOMENS AND CHILDRENS CENTER: $3k → 10%GORTON COMMUNITY CENTER: $3k → 8%GORTON COMMUNITY CENTER: $3k → 8%GORTON COMMUNITY CENTER: $3k → 8%MOTHERS TRUST FOUNDATION: $1k → 8%GORTON COMMUNITY CENTER: $1k → 8%GORTON COMMUNITY CENTER: $1k → 8%MOTHERS TRUST FOUNDATION: $1k → 8%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
MN
IL
WI
MI
NY
MA
OH
CT
CA
CO
VA
MD
DE
DC
AL
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.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$10M · 66 repeat orgs$368k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +38% since the first grant, against +20% for those funded once.

66 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2024, 63 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

66
52

Total granted

$10M
$368k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+38%
+20%

Still filing today

74%
54%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
EducationHuman ServicesArts & CultureYouth DevelopmentAnimalsEnvironmentOther
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

  • HC
    HEADLANDS CENTER FOR THE ARTS
    5× · 2017–2021 · $98k · revenue +76%
  • BC
    BOLINAS COMMUNITY LAND TRUST
    5× · 2017–2021 · $47k · revenue +431%
  • TA
    THE ALOHA FOUNDATION INC
    5× · 2017–2021 · $40k · revenue +13%

Funded once

  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $110k · revenue +29%
  • CO
    CENTER OF HEALTHY MINDS - CHM DISTINGUISHED CHAIR IN CONTEMPLATIVE HUMANITI
    one grant, 2019 · $40k
  • UF
    UW FOUNDATION - CHM FUND
    one grant, 2021 · $35k
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
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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2
Lake Forest College

Provide post-secondary education leading to a baccalaureate degree. Program service expenditures are made in conjunction with the operation of a liberal arts college spread over 107 acres with approximately 63 educational and support…

Education
3
Lake Forest Graduate School of Management

Lake Forest Graduate School of Management's mission is to bring the real world to business education and leadership development.

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4
Npr Foundation

The npr foundation ("foundation") is organized and operated exclusively for the benefit of its sole supported organization, national public radio, inc. ("npr inc."). the foundation supports npr inc. through various activities such as…

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5
Lake Forest Academy

Lake forest academy strives to embody in its practices - and to cultivate in its students -excellence of character, scholarship, citizenship, and responsibility.

Education
6
San Francisco Friends School

At san francisco friends school, students learn in a community grounded in the quaker values of reflection, integrity, peaceful problem-solving and stewardship. our teachers challenge students with a dynamic curriculum that inspires…

Education
7
Wheaton College

Wheaton college provides a transformative liberal arts education, combining theory and practice, for intellectually curious students within a collaborative and vibrant extended community and network that values and strives to create an…

Education
8
The Water Research Foundation

The purpose of the water research foundation (wrf) is a definitive research organization to advance the science of all things water to better meet the evolving needs of its subscribers and the water sector. to engage exclusively in…

Environment
9
United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

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10
University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education
11
Furman University

The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.

Education
12
Wilson College

Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Lake County Community Foundation; the most unlike its peers is San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. 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

81 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. 81 of the 119 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
20
Early backer (in before they grew)
78/81
Grantees still filing
61/81
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

PEGGY HEDBERG FOUNDATION: $3,309,259 · OtherPEGGY HEDBERG FOUNDATIONCARLA WESTCOTT GIVING FUND: $3,307,251 · OtherCARLA WESTCOTT GIVING FUNDDEAM FAMILY FUND: $2,557,257 · OtherDEAM FAMILY FUND+82 more: $660,913 · Other+82 moreUNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION: $109,819 · EducationTHE COLLEGE OF WOOSTER: $39,500 · EducationSAN FRANCISCO UNIVERSITY HIGH SCHOOL: $38,000 · EducationHEDBERG PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION: $25,000 · EducationTHE BAY SCHOOL OF SAN FRANCISCO: $20,000 · EducationTHE BAY SCHOOL: $17,500 · Education+10 more: $25,750 · EducationHEADLANDS CENTER FOR THE ARTS: $97,500 · Arts & CultureBOLINAS MUSEUM: $12,500 · Arts & CultureELAWA FARM FOUNDATION: $10,500 · Arts & Culture+3 more: $6,500 · Arts & CultureFELLOW MORTALS INC: $35,000 · AnimalsLAKELAND ANIMAL WELFARE SOCIETY INC: $30,000 · AnimalsTRI COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY: $14,500 · Animals+1 more: $2,000 · AnimalsUNITED WAY OF WALWORTH COUNTY: $27,500 · PhilanthropyUnited Way of Palm Beach County Inc: $17,500 · PhilanthropyTIPPING POINT COMMUNITY: $13,000 · PhilanthropyTHE LAKE COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $4,000 · PhilanthropyBOLINAS COMMUNITY LAND TRUST: $47,000 · Housing & ShelterROSIE'S PLACE INC: $3,000 · Housing & ShelterTHE ALOHA FOUNDATION INC: $40,000 · Recreation & Sports+1 more: $1,000 · Recreation & Sports
Other$9,834,680Education$275,569Arts & Culture$127,000Animals$81,500Philanthropy$62,000Housing & Shelter$50,000Recreation & Sports$41,000

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 budgetUNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION: $109,819 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHEADLANDS CENTER FOR THE ARTS: $97,500 over 5y, 2.3% of budgetBOLINAS COMMUNITY LAND TRUST: $47,000 over 5y, 2.5% of budgetTHE ALOHA FOUNDATION INC: $40,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetTHE COLLEGE OF WOOSTER: $39,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSAN FRANCISCO UNIVERSITY HIGH SCHOOL: $38,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetFELLOW MORTALS INC: $35,000 over 4y, 2.1% of budgetLAKELAND ANIMAL WELFARE SOCIETY INC: $30,000 over 4y, 1.5% of budgetUNITED WAY OF WALWORTH COUNTY: $27,500 over 4y, 3.4% of budgetSAN FRANCISCO FOOD BANK: $25,916 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHEDBERG PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION: $25,000 over 1y, 17% of budgetTHE BAY SCHOOL OF SAN FRANCISCO: $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetUnited Way of Palm Beach County Inc: $17,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BAY SCHOOL: $17,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetVERA INSTITUTE OF JUSTICE INC: $15,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTRI COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY: $14,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF DANE COUNTY INC: $13,333 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTIPPING POINT COMMUNITY: $13,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetBOLINAS MUSEUM: $12,500 over 5y, 1.2% of budgetLAKE FOREST COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL: $12,300 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE OCEAN CLEANUP FOUNDATION: $11,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetELAWA FARM FOUNDATION: $10,500 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetWILLIAM GUY FORBECK RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetTHE RIVER FOOD PANTRY INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCAMP MANITO-WISH YMCA INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetGorton Community Center: $9,500 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetNorth Chicago Community Partners: $7,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetTERGAR INTERNATIONAL: $6,667 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetRepresentUs Education Fund: $5,750 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMILLBROOK SCHOOL: $5,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetREADING POWER INC: $5,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetFRIENDS OF MONOMOY THEATRE INC: $5,000 over 2y, 3.5% of budgetSAN FRANCISCO FREE CLINIC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetIRWIN A AND ROBERT D GOODMAN COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTREVOR PROJECT INC: $4,300 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE INNOCENCE PROJECT INC: $4,300 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetRole Model Movement Inc (NFP): $4,016 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE LAKE COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $4,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE ALLENDALE SHELTER CLUB: $3,500 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetLAKE FOREST OPEN LANDS ASSOCIATION: $3,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetSAN FRANCISCO MUSEUM OF MODERN ART: $3,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF HARTFORD: $3,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBERNIE'S BOOK BANK: $3,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetNORTHERN ILLINOIS FOOD BANK: $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetROSIE'S PLACE INC: $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGENEVA LAKE CONSERVANCY INC: $2,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetPRESIDENT-BOARD OF TRUSTEES SANTA CLARA COLLEGE: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetINSPIRE MEXICO FOUNDATION: $2,500 over 1y, 0.7% 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 UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds HEADLANDS CENTER FOR THE ARTS ↗
  • Who funds BOLINAS COMMUNITY LAND TRUST ↗
  • Who funds THE ALOHA FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds THE COLLEGE OF WOOSTER ↗
  • Who funds SAN FRANCISCO UNIVERSITY HIGH SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds FELLOW MORTALS INC ↗
  • Who funds LAKELAND ANIMAL WELFARE SOCIETY INC ↗
  • Who funds UNITED WAY OF WALWORTH COUNTY ↗
  • Who funds SAN FRANCISCO FOOD BANK ↗
  • Who funds HEDBERG PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds THE BAY SCHOOL OF SAN FRANCISCO ↗
  • Who funds United Way of Palm Beach County Inc ↗
  • Who funds THE BAY SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds VERA INSTITUTE OF JUSTICE INC ↗
  • Who funds TRI COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF DANE COUNTY INC ↗
  • Who funds TIPPING POINT COMMUNITY ↗
  • Who funds BOLINAS MUSEUM ↗
  • Who funds LAKE FOREST COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE OCEAN CLEANUP FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds ELAWA FARM FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds WILLIAM GUY FORBECK RESEARCH FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds THE RIVER FOOD PANTRY INC ↗
  • Who funds CAMP MANITO-WISH YMCA 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.

Butler Family Foundat…The Chicago Community…Clarks Fork FoundationThe Gorter Family Fou…The Buchanan Family F…Jewish Community Fede…Carney Family Foundat…Garrett Family Founda…CMB FoundationRed Bird Hollow Found…John and Kathleen Sch…Little Orchard Founda…
Butler Family FoundationIL28.3× affinity11 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Butler Family Foundation · The Chicago Community Trust · Clarks Fork Foundation · The Gorter Family Foundation · The Buchanan Family Foundation · Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma · Carney Family Foundation · Garrett Family Foundation · CMB Foundation · Red Bird Hollow Foundation · John and Kathleen Schreiber Foundation D/B/A Schreiber Philanthropy · Little Orchard 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 Hedberg Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Hedberg Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%1%5%11%20%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • Children's Services of Roxbury Inc: 35% of income from government
  • City Year Inc: 11% of income from government
  • Cradles to Crayons Inc: 2% of income from government
  • West End House Inc: 2% of income from government
  • University of Hartford: 1% of income from government
  • United Way of Palm Beach County Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Rosie's Place Inc: 0% of income from government
  • The Fessenden School: 0% of income from government
  • Steppingstone Foundation Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
15report 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.
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How do I get to Hedberg Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to Hedberg Foundation Inc 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 119 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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