How much did HENNESSY FOUNDATION grant in FY2024?

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 59% of HENNESSY FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2018

prep

2019

prep

2020

deservingstudentsprep

2021

accessprepstudents

2022

empowereducationalstudents

2023

trainingblackarts educationalexpansion

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2024 · 13 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k2 grants · $10k
$10k–50k11 grants · $180k

$10,000

Median grant

States reached

$3.9M

Total assets

Largest grants

SHEPARDS INC$40,000
LACROSSE THE NATION$30,000
NEW CANAAN HIGH SCHOOL$25,000
ADVOCATES$15,000
HIGHER GROUND$10,000
REACH PREP$10,000
ICA CRISTO REY ACADEMY$10,000
WHITBY SCHOOL$10,000
HORIZONS SUMMER PROGRAM$10,000
EDUCATION JUSTICE ACADEMY$10,000
PROSPECTOR THEATER$10,000
NAVTITY PREP$5,000
HAILEY ICE$5,000

02The need

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:

Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $72k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13% — the area typically sits at 12%. 51% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

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.

87%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$1.2M · 23 repeat orgs$174k to everyone else

23 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2024, 13 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$1.2M

$149k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+17%

+47%

Still filing today

39%

38%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $25k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

EducationHuman ServicesRecreation & SportsCommunity ImprovementYouth DevelopmentPublic BenefitOther

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

RP
REACH PREP
8× · 2017–2024 · $80k · revenue +29%
HG
HIGHER GROUND SUN VALLEY
5× · 2018–2022 · $70k · revenue +17%
F5
FUTURE 5
7× · 2017–2023 · $60k · revenue +17%

Funded once

TS
THE SEVEN HILLS SCHOOLgraduated
one grant, 2017 · $15k · revenue +47%
AK
AMI KIDS BEAUFORT
one grant, 2022 · $10k
BC
BLAINE COUNTY CHARITABLE FUNDgraduated
one grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue +68%

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.

Innovate Public Schools

Build the parent and community demand for world-class public schools, and to accelerate the growth of these schools, particularly for low-income students, students of colors, and students with special needs.

Philanthropy

Future of School Inc

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Enterprise for Youth

Engage & empower sf youth on a path to economic independence through training and internships.

Youth Development

Wallin Education Partners

To ensure college and career success for high-potential students from low-income backgrounds, and through our efforts help build diverse, equitable, and vibrant communities. we do this through a comprehensive model of financial aid and…

Education

Future Initiative Inc

Philanthropy

Junior Achievement of Sacramento Inc

Provide in school programs that educate and inspire young people to value free enterprise, understand business, economics and improve the quality of their lives.

International

Wahupa Educational Enterprises Inc

To provide counseling to individuals from minority or economically disadvantaged areas.

Human Services

Uncommon New York City Charter Schools

Uncommon new york city charter schools prepares our students to enter, succeed in, and graduate from college. our organization comprises 23 high-performing public schools located in brooklyn neighborhoods, including brownsville, crown…

Education

Lead Program in Business

The mission is to address higher education access and career preparation by optimizing cross-sector collaborations and global partnerships that focus on identifiying and nurturing high potential youth of diverse backgrounds by developing…

Community Improvement

BossAbility Inc

—

Brooklyn Independent

Brooklyn independent is a 6th-8th private middle school with a fierce belief in diversity and inclusion. we specialize in middle school learning by balancing high rigor and high experiential learning. our sliding-scale tuition model…

Education

Teaching Matters Inc

Our mission is to close the opportunity gap of a radically unequal education system for underserved and historically marginalized children.

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Bottom Line Inc and the most unlike its peers is Hailey Ice Inc. 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 25 years old; the field is 21. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 15% of your grantees by number, and just 5% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 8% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

0.0%0/20

the rest of the field

1,866/22,425

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.

05the grantee network

19 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

18/19

Grantees still filing

14/19

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$819,300Education$297,000Recreation & Sports$90,000Human Services$72,000Youth Development$60,000Public Benefit$10,000Philanthropy$8,000

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.

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.

The Ayco Charitable FoundationNY11.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 9 of 9Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Ayco Charitable Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · 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 organisation HENNESSY 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24

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3get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%

typical government reliance, FY20–24

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: BLAINE COUNTY CHARITABLE FUND.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

low risk

~6 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 5 filed years.

Track record & reputation

low risk

5 years of Form 990 filings, still active; revenue up +68% since.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 845158057 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 BLAINE COUNTY CHARITABLE FUND, 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 6 months of cash on hand.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue grew over the period.
On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 2% 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.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to Hennessy Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Hennessy Foundation 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.

HENNESSY FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

19 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Hennessy Foundation?

More from the funding graph

HENNESSY FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

19 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Hennessy Foundation?

More from the funding graph