· Private foundation
Hegardt Foundation
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.
Read this first · the figures below need context
100% of Hegardt Foundation’s FY2024 grant dollars went to Schwab Charitable Fund, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2024 names 0 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2022, the last year Hegardt Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 9 organizations, $440k. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2022
- Under $10k1 grant · $5k
- $10k–50k9 grants · $160k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $275k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Office of People | $125,000 |
| Armory Arts & Music Center | $100,000 |
| Gooden Center | $50,000 |
| Perspectives Ensemble | $25,000 |
| Santa Fe Community Foundation | $25,000 |
| Guthrie Theater | $20,000 |
| PRX Incorporated | $20,000 |
| American Craft Council | $20,000 |
| Tubman | $20,000 |
| International Shakespeare Center | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| San Francisco Ballet | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
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 (FY20–20, $1k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% 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.
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 +67% since the first grant, against +29% for the ones you funded once.
12 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2022, 3 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2022 (too recent to call). Read against FY2022, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.
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 FY2023, 66% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $58k 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
- AAARMORY ARTS AND MUSIC CENTER4× · 2020–2023 · $400k · revenue +496% · 50% of their budget
- GTGUTHRIE THEATER FOUNDATION3× · 2020–2022 · $75k · revenue +93%
- ACAMERICAN CRAFT COUNCIL3× · 2020–2022 · $50k · revenue +6%
Funded once
- LILA-MAS INCgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $85k · revenue +29%
- MIMERRICK INCgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $20k · revenue +138%
THE FOOD DEPOTone grant, 2020 · $1k · revenue +17%
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.
Guided by artists, rooted in new mexico, site santa fe celebrates contemporary creative expression.
Minnesota fringe connects adventurous artists with adventurous audiences by creating open, supportive forums for free and diverse artistic expression.
Dallas contemporary presents art in a forum that cultivates artists, ignites learning and inspires the community. dallas contemporary is a non-collecting art museum presenting new and challenging ideas from regional, national and…
Support and enhance the development of the arts in northwestern minnesota. facilitate and encourage the creation and appreciation of the arts.
Aquila theatre's mission is to create bold reinterpretations of the classics for contemporary audiences. by expanding the canon and diversifying the classics, aquila dares to expand our collective perspectives. aquila theatre is one of the…
On the Boards' mission is to invest in leading contemporary performing artists near and far and connect them to a diverse range of communities interested in forward-thinking art and ideas.
Mixed Blood Theatre Company uses theater to disrupt injustice. We are a social justice organization catalyzing action and change through art. Our work is guided by deep community engagement and rooted in radical hospitality.
As creative producers, we are devoted to the production and presentation of groundbreaking experiences in contemporary performance that use innovative approaches to collaboration, technology, and social engagement. As a service…
See schedule operformance space new york is committed to promoting the arts (including performance, visual and all other contemporary arts), fostering artistic development (including through direct grants), advancing diversity in the field…
Bare bait dance with westside theater commits to nurturing the development, education, and presentation of the performing arts in western montana, particularly celebrating dance and contemporary performance.
To collect, display and interpret objects in craft art and design.
Central square theater, the oldest female-led theater organization in greater boston, is an innovator in the non-profit arts field in collaborative leadership. cst engages over 35,000 people annually through live performance, rigorous…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Office of People. 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 36 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 2% 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.
20 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. 20 of the 27 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 DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ↗
- Who funds LIBERTY HILL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SAINT PAUL & MINNESOTA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds DULUTH-SUPERIOR AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ARMORY ARTS AND MUSIC CENTER ↗
- Who funds OFFICE OF PEOPLE ↗
- Who funds LA-MAS INC ↗
- Who funds SANTA FE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GUTHRIE THEATER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE GOODEN CENTER ↗
- Who funds VISIONS IN RHYTHM ↗
- Who funds PERSPECTIVES ENSEMBLE INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CRAFT COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds INCITE SHAKESPEARE COMPANY SANTA FE ↗
- Who funds SAN FRANCISCO BALLET ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds MOSTLY MODERN PROJECTS INC ↗
- Who funds TUBMAN ↗
- Who funds WILDWOODS ↗
- Who funds MERRICK INC ↗
- Who funds THE FOOD DEPOT ↗
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: National Philanthropic Trust · 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 Hegardt 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.