· Private foundation
Hemphill Family 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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k7 grants · $18k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $37k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CENTER FOR FREE INQUIRY | $14,000 |
| NEWBURYPORT ART ASSO ADULT ART ADVENTURE | $13,000 |
| BOERNE PUBLIC LIBRARY | $10,000 |
| ACLU | $5,000 |
| SA YOUTH LITERACY | $3,000 |
| FFRF - FREEDOM FROM RELIGION FOUNDATION | $2,000 |
| NCSE | $2,000 |
| PASCO PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION | $2,000 |
| HILL COUNTY COMMINUTY MINUSTRIES | $2,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 90% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +162% since the first grant, against +29% for those funded once.
16 repeat relationships: 7 still active in FY2025, 9 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
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 FY2025, 75% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $14k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- AACLU9× · 2017–2025 · $62k
- CFCENTER FOR FREE INQUIRY9× · 2017–2025 · $34k
- VCVERMONT COLLEGE OF FINE ARTS INC6× · 2017–2022 · $27k · revenue -51%
Funded once
- 8D826 DCone grant, 2018 · $3k
826 BOSTON INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $3k · revenue +475%- NSNashville Symphony Associationgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $3k · revenue +29%
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.
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.
The mission of the national academy of design is to promote the fine arts in america through exhibition and education.
Nashville public radio's mission is to be the most trusted & independent nashville voice, connecting our communities through non-partisan journalism, compelling storytelling, civil conversation and music discovery.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
Jewelers of america, the most trusted and influential voice of the jewelry industry, empowers and unites its members through expert guidance and advocacy, driving excellence, integrity, and success in an ever-changing marketplace.
National public radio, inc. ("npr") works collaboratively with member public radio station licensees ("member stations") to create a more informed public, one that is challenged and invigorated by a deeper understanding and appreciation of…
Arts+ teaches music and art to students of all socioeconomic backgrounds, offering financial assistance, scholarship and free outreach programs to honor its founding mission to make high-quality arts instruction available to all.
Arts & business council of greater nashville supports and promotes the arts by driving collaboration between arts and business that contribute to the creativity, vitality, and prosperity of greater nashville/the regions/the city.
Glasstire is a website about visual art in Texas. Our mission is to expand the conversation about visual art in Texas.
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…
The mission of the organization is to foster the development of creative individuals as writers and artists and to promote public appreciation of excellence in the literary and graphic arts by publishing a magazine containing fiction,…
Vermont public informs, educates, and entertains through public service journalism and enlightening content rooted in vermont. our storytelling enriches lives and fosters community connection and understanding.
To collect, display and interpret objects in craft art and design.
How this is measured
9 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. 9 of the 29 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 VERMONT COLLEGE OF FINE ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds Newburyport Art Association Inc ↗
- Who funds PRISON BOOK PROGRAM ↗
- Who funds ARIZONA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HIGHLIGHTS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds 826 BOSTON INC ↗
- Who funds Nashville Symphony Association ↗
- Who funds FREEDOM FROM RELIGION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds HOMEWORK HOTLINE 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.
Open a dossier: Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Hemphill Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Hemphill Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- 826 Boston Inc: 3% of income from government
- Newburyport Art Association Inc: 1% of income from government
- Vermont College of Fine Arts Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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