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Hennessy Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k2 grants · $10k
- $10k–50k11 grants · $180k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SHEPARDS INC | $40,000 |
| LACROSSE THE NATION | $30,000 |
| NEW CANAAN HIGH SCHOOL | $25,000 |
| ADVOCATES | $15,000 |
| ICA CRISTO REY ACADEMY | $10,000 |
| HORIZONS SUMMER PROGRAM | $10,000 |
| EDUCATION JUSTICE ACADEMY | $10,000 |
| HIGHER GROUND | $10,000 |
| WHITBY SCHOOL | $10,000 |
| REACH PREP | $10,000 |
| PROSPECTOR THEATER | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| HAILEY ICE | $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 (FY17–24, $77k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 55% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
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.
Which US states your grants reach
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 +44% since the first grant, against +5% for the ones you funded once.
22 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2024, 12 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $25k 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
- TWTHE WHITBY SCHOOL INCORPORATED8× · 2017–2024 · $130k · revenue +1%
- LTLACROSSE THE NATIONS8× · 2017–2024 · $100k · revenue +20%
- HGHIGHER GROUND USA INC7× · 2018–2024 · $90k · revenue +73%
Funded once
- TSTHE SEVEN HILLS SCHOOLgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $15k · revenue +86%
- TDTHE DAVID ROSS FETZER FOUNDATIONone grant, 2023 · $10k
- GFGREEN FARMSone grant, 2018 · $10k
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.
Springboard collaborative combines targeted student instruction with parent training in an incentivized system that closes the literacy gap, by transferring the summer from a barrier into a springboard for financially disadvantaged…
Darrow school is dedicated to serving students with diverse backgrounds and abilities, building on each student's talents and interests to inspire enduring confidence for success in college and life. this mission is accomplished through…
The peak school seeks to ignite a passion for learning, to develop students of diverse talents and backgrounds who think critically and act with integrity, and to graduate compassionate, confident, capable students who will embrace their…
Wla combines best practices in teaching and learning, with the latest in educational technology to create an unparalleled high school experience. students will graduate from wla prepared for college, career, and lives of public leadership.
Presidio hill school is a co-ed k-8 independent, progressive school. learning is collaborative and an active experience with an emphasis on inquiry. students are engaged in their own learning and guided by an expert faculty through a…
High jump is a tuition free, two-year enrichment program for talented and motivated middle school students with limited family income. the students attend classes for a five week session during the summers before 7th and 8th grade; as well…
Lowell school (the school) provides educational services to approximately 314 students in grades pre-kindergarten through 8th grade. the school strives to create a diverse, equitable, and inclusive learning environment, and offers a…
Great oaks charter school is a public school providing high-dosage tutoring, data-driven learning strategies & extra-curricular opportunities to students in grades 6-12 to ensure success in the career or college of their choice. great oaks…
The team at kipp chicago schools is guided by a simple, yet powerful mission: to create a network of excellent schools in chicago that teach our students the character and academic skills necessary to succeed in college and beyond, and to…
Our mission is to educate the whole child using a combination of innovative curriculum and instruction along with social/emotional education embedded in the program. students will be enabled to reach their innate intellectual, creative,…
The bridge academy, inc. was granted a charter to operate the bridge academy, a public school located in the city of bridgeport, ct. the school was founded in 1997 to provide college preparatory curriculum designed to overcome the…
Innovative and full of heart, mark day school nurtures each child to pursue their curiosity, think critically, embrace challenge with courage and joy, and work in partnership with others to build more caring and inclusive communities.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Bottom Line Inc and the most unlike its peers is Ride to Dc Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
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) — 13% of your grantees by number, and just 4% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 10% 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.
24 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. 24 of the 46 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 THE WHITBY SCHOOL INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds LACROSSE THE NATIONS ↗
- Who funds HIGHER GROUND USA INC ↗
- Who funds REACH PREP INC ↗
- Who funds GREENS FARMS ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds FUTURE 5 INC ↗
- Who funds SHEPHERDS INC ↗
- Who funds WATERSIDE SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds FILLING IN THE BLANKS INC ↗
- Who funds ADVOCATES INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds Education Justice Academy ↗
- Who funds HAILEY ICE INC ↗
- Who funds THE CHILDRENS STOREFRONT ↗
- Who funds THE SEVEN HILLS SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds LA COLABORATIVA INC ↗
- Who funds BLAINE COUNTY CHARITABLE FUND INC ↗
- Who funds RIDE TO DC INC ↗
- Who funds PRISON JOURNALISM PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds SAN FRANCISCO AIDS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds YEAR UP INC ↗
- Who funds THE BOTTOM LINE INC ↗
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: Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · 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 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.
- La Colaborativa Inc — 34% of income from government
- The Bottom Line Inc — 0% of income from government
- Year Up Inc — 0% of income from government
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.
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