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Hegardt Foundation at a glance

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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.

$440k
Granted FY2022
13
Grants FY2022
5
States reached
$125k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead

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

12
’20
7
’21
9
’22
2
’23
0
’24

Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.

01What it funds
0188% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Philanthropy$4.9MArts & Culture$715kCommunity Improvement$260kHealth$60kHuman Services$30kAnimals$20kEmployment$20kFood & Nutrition$1kOther$0
02FY2022 · 13 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2022

  • Under $10k1 grant · $5k
  • $10k–50k9 grants · $160k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $275k
$20,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
PRX Incorporated$20,000
American Craft Council$20,000
Tubman$20,000
Guthrie Theater$20,000
International Shakespeare Center$10,000
Individual grant recipient$10,000
San Francisco Ballet$10,000
Individual grant recipient$5,000
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 (FY20–20, $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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%The Food Depot: $1k → 12%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.
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.

71%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$833k · 12 repeat orgs$344k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +67% since the first grant, against +29% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

12
3

Total granted

$833k
$106k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+67%
+29%

Still filing today

83%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 66% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $58k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23
Arts & CultureHealthScience & TechAnimalsEmploymentHuman ServicesOther
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

  • AA
    ARMORY ARTS AND MUSIC CENTER
    4× · 2020–2023 · $400k · revenue +496% · 50% of their budget
  • GT
    GUTHRIE THEATER FOUNDATION
    3× · 2020–2022 · $75k · revenue +93%
  • AC
    AMERICAN CRAFT COUNCIL
    3× · 2020–2022 · $50k · revenue +6%

Funded once

  • LI
    LA-MAS INCgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $85k · revenue +29%
  • MI
    MERRICK INCgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $20k · revenue +138%
  • THE FOOD DEPOT
    one grant, 2020 · $1k · revenue +17%
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
Site Santa Fe

Guided by artists, rooted in new mexico, site santa fe celebrates contemporary creative expression.

Arts & Culture
2
Minnesota Fringe Festival

Minnesota fringe connects adventurous artists with adventurous audiences by creating open, supportive forums for free and diverse artistic expression.

Arts & Culture
3
Dallas Contemporary

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…

Arts & Culture
4
Northwest Minnesota Arts Council

Support and enhance the development of the arts in northwestern minnesota. facilitate and encourage the creation and appreciation of the arts.

Arts & Culture
5
Aquila Theatre Company

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…

Arts & Culture
6
On the Boards

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.

—
7
Mixed Blood Theatre Company

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.

—
8
Los Angeles Performance Practice

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…

Arts & Culture
9
Performance Space 122 Inc

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…

Arts & Culture
10
Bare Bait Dance

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.

Arts & Culture
11
Museum of Arts and Design

To collect, display and interpret objects in craft art and design.

Arts & Culture
12
Central Square Theater Inc

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…

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation; 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.
04the grantee network

20 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

3
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
20/20
Grantees still filing
15/20
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC: $1,359,624 · PhilanthropyDONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INCLIBERTY HILL FOUNDATION: $1,225,622 · PhilanthropyLIBERTY HILL FOUNDATIONSAINT PAUL & MINNESOTA FOUNDATION: $1,185,622 · PhilanthropySAINT PAUL & MINNESOTA FOUNDATIONDULUTH-SUPERIOR AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $1,015,622 · PhilanthropyDULUTH-SUPERIOR AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION+1 more: $75,000 · PhilanthropyARMORY ARTS AND MUSIC CENTER: $400,000 · Arts & CultureARMORY ARTS …GUTHRIE THEATER FOUNDATION: $75,000 · Arts & CultureGUTHRIE THEA…AMERICAN CRAFT COUNCIL: $50,000 · Arts & CultureAMERICAN CRA…PERSPECTIVES ENSEMBLE INC: $50,000 · Arts & CulturePERSPECTIVES…INCITE SHAKESPEARE COMPANY SANTA FE: $30,000 · Arts & CultureMOSTLY MODERN PROJECTS INC: $30,000 · Arts & CultureSAN FRANCISCO BALLET ASSOCIATION: $30,000 · Arts & CulturePRX Incorporated: $50,000 · OtherVISIONS IN RHYTHM: $50,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $25,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $18,000 · OtherBRAI: $12,500 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $10,000 · OtherPlanned Parenthood NCS: $10,000 · OtherMERRICK INC: $20,000 · Other+2 more: $6,000 · OtherOFFICE OF PEOPLE: $125,000 · Housing & ShelterLA-MAS INC: $85,000 · Science & TechTHE GOODEN CENTER: $50,000 · HealthTUBMAN: $30,000 · HealthWILDWOODS: $20,000 · Animals
Philanthropy$4,861,490Arts & Culture$665,000Other$201,500Housing & Shelter$125,000Science & Tech$85,000Health$80,000Animals$20,000

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 budgetDONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC: $1,359,624 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLIBERTY HILL FOUNDATION: $1,225,622 over 2y, 4.4% of budgetSAINT PAUL & MINNESOTA FOUNDATION: $1,185,622 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetDULUTH-SUPERIOR AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $1,015,622 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetARMORY ARTS AND MUSIC CENTER: $400,000 over 4y, 50% of budgetOFFICE OF PEOPLE: $125,000 over 1y, 99% of budgetLA-MAS INC: $85,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetSANTA FE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $75,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetGUTHRIE THEATER FOUNDATION: $75,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetTHE GOODEN CENTER: $50,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetAMERICAN CRAFT COUNCIL: $50,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetVISIONS IN RHYTHM: $50,000 over 2y, 5.8% of budgetPERSPECTIVES ENSEMBLE INC: $50,000 over 2y, 56% of budgetINCITE SHAKESPEARE COMPANY SANTA FE: $30,000 over 3y, 18% of budgetMOSTLY MODERN PROJECTS INC: $30,000 over 2y, 6.6% of budgetSAN FRANCISCO BALLET ASSOCIATION: $30,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTUBMAN: $30,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetWILDWOODS: $20,000 over 2y, 5.2% of budgetMERRICK INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE FOOD DEPOT: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

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.

National Philanthropi…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
National Philanthropic TrustPA7× affinity4 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Hegardt Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Hegardt Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
    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.

    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 27 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 2022, released 2022. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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