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· Private foundation
HELLMAN FELLOWS FUND
This foundation does not accept unsolicited requests — it funds preselected organizations.
$70M
Granted FY2020
14
Grants
2
Communities
$12M
Largest
01What you fund
0161% classified
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2020.
Education$46MPhilanthropy$7.4MSocial Science$900kOther$35M
02FY2020 · 14 grants
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
$5,725,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
- UC San Diego Foundation$12,457,472
- UC Berkeley Foundation$9,650,000
- UCLA Foundation$7,800,000
- Hellman Foundation$7,417,863
- UC Davis Foundation$6,250,000
- University of California RegentsIrvine$6,000,000
- UC Santa Barbara Foundation$5,725,000
- UC Riverside Foundation$5,200,000
- Regents - University of California Merced$3,700,000
- UC Santa Cruz Foundation$3,650,000
- Regents of the University of California$750,000
- American Academy of Arts & Sciences$600,000
- UCSF Foundation$500,000
- Regents - University of California Irvine$250,000
02The need
03
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.
show:
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–20) land where the poverty rate runs at 12% — the area typically sits at 10%. 65% of your dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
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; 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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
03Your edge
repeat funding
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.
84%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$76M · 12 repeat orgs$14M to everyone else
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +28% since the first grant, against -89% for the ones you funded once.
12 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2020, 1 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2020 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Re-uppedFunded once
Organizations
12
3
Total granted
$76M
$14M
Median revenue growth · since first grant
+28%
-89%
Still filing today
58%
33%
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2020, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $14M went to new ones.
RenewedFirst-time
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
EducationSocial SciencePhilanthropyOther
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
- USUC San Diego Foundation4× · 2017–2020 · $14M · revenue +28%
- UFUCLA Foundation4× · 2017–2020 · $8.7M · revenue +31%
- UDUC Davis Foundation4× · 2017–2020 · $7.0M · revenue +91%
Funded once
- HFHellman Foundationone grant, 2020 · $7.4M · revenue -89%
- UOUniversity of California RegentsIrvineone grant, 2020 · $6.0M
- UFUCSF Foundationone grant, 2020 · $500k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
04Your field
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.
1
San Diego State University Foundation
To support and further the research, education and community service objectives of san diego state university.
Education
2
University of California
To raise and manage private funds to support uci's broader mission of excellence in teaching, research and public service.
Education
3
Uc Chinese Alumni Foundation
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4
Ucla Alumni Association
The mission of the ucla alumni association is to enrich the lives of alumni and involve them in the future of ucla.
Education
5
University of Oregon Foundation
In support of the foundation's mission, staff endeavor to positively impact society by supporting the university of oregon's mission of education, research and entrepreneurship through exemplary stewardship of relationships and resources.
Education
6
Ucsb Charitable Foundation Inc
Philanthropy
7
University of Massachusetts Foundation
The mission of the university of massachusetts foundation, inc. is to foster and promote the growth, progress and general welfare of the university of massachusetts as stated in the original 1950 articles of organization. the foundation…
Education
8
Lsu Research Foundation
Community Improvement
9
The University of Cincinnati Foundation
To inspire a community of uc and uc health supporters through the power of philanthropy.
Philanthropy
10
Stanbridge University Foundation
Education
11
University of Illinois Foundation
The University of Illinois Foundation's corporate mission is to advance the interests and welfare of the University of Illinois. As stated in its Articles of Incorporation, the role of the Foundation is procuring private support on behalf…
Education
12
University of Wisconsin Foundation
University of wisconsin foundation aids university of wisconsin-madison by soliciting gifts & bequests, administers & invests securities & properties, & distributes payments for the benefit of university of wisconsin - madison.
Education
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Uc San Diego Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Hellman Foundation. 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
8 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.
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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/8
Grantees still filing
6/8
Grew since you first funded
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Education$46,007,472Other$35,275,000Philanthropy$7,417,863Social Science$900,000
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.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organisation HELLMAN FELLOWS FUND 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.
2025
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
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. 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.
05Through Plinth
Through Plinth
Your grantmaking, live and operational
This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: UC Riverside Foundation.
Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk
Financial management
low risk
~16 months of operating runway; revenue contracted over 6 filed years.
Track record & reputation
low risk
6 years of Form 990 filings, still active.
Legal standing
low risk
US 501(c)(3); EIN 237433570 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.
Governance
Live in Plinth
Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.
Compliance & sanctions
Live in Plinth
OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.
Program capacity
Live in Plinth
Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.
Live · Plinth’s real DD engine
Run the actual assessment on UC Riverside Foundation, cold from public data.
Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.
Post-award monitoring · continuous checks
- On trackFinancial stability— Roughly 16 months of cash on hand.
- WatchSustained operations— Filing through 2023; revenue contracted over the period.
- On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 21% of their budget — diversified.
- Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.
What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.
Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing
Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.
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Find your warmest path to Hellman Fellows Fund through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.
Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.
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The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars pass through an intermediary
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
Strange bedfellows
the named clusters of US funding
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home
State money flows
the interactive map of money crossing state lines