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Herbert W Hoover Foundation Pfdn at a glance

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Herbert W Hoover Foundation Pfdn

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$1.2M
Granted FY2024still arriving
8
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$547k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0190% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.

Education$2.2MPublic Benefit$195kEnvironment$174kArts & Culture$77kHuman Services$10kOther$0
02FY2024 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k2 grants · $45k
  • $50k–250k5 grants · $647k
  • $250k+1 grant · $547k
$84,850
Median grant
3
States reached
$23M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION$547,000
STARK COUNTY EDUCATIONAL SERVICES CENTER$243,650
PEW CHARITABLE TRUST$195,000
MALONE UNIVERSITY$84,850
UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI MILLER SCHOOL$68,000
KENT STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION$55,153
THE OCEAN FOUNDATION$35,000
YMCA$10,000
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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY19–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 99% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 13%PEW MARINE FELLOWS PROGRAM: $65k → 22%University of Hawaii: $22k → 9%CORNELL UNIVERSITY: $107k → 16%PEW CHARITABLE TRUST: $195k → 14%UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI MILLER SCHOOL: $68k → 15%THE WILDERNESS CENTER: $21k → 8%ENRICHMENT: $5k → 13%Ohio State University: $100k → 15%See Attached List: $1.1M → 17%THE OCEAN FOUNDATION: $35k → 14%University of Miami - Miller School: $52k → 15%STARK COUNTY DISTRICT LIBRARY: $63k → 13%OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $547k → 15%See Attached List: $716k → 17%THE OCEAN FOUNDATION: $35k → 14%Encounters in Excellence: $10k → 15%MALONE UNIVERSITY: $85k → 13%OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $374k → 15%See Attached List: $598k → 17%YMCA: $10k → 14%South Florida National Parks Trust: $66k → 15%MALONE UNIVERSITY: $80k → 13%ENCOUNTERS IN EXCELLENCE INC: $7k → 15%Malone University: $60k → 13%Stark County Educational Services Center: $20k → 13%STARK COUNTY EDUCATIONAL SERVICES CENTER: $244k → 13%NORTH CANTON HERITAGE SOCIETY INC: $7k → 13%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.

69%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.9M · 7 repeat orgs$835k to everyone else

7 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2024, 1 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

7
10

Total granted

$1.9M
$630k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+7%
+54%

Still filing today

86%
60%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $205k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’23’24
EducationEnvironmentArts & CultureRecreation & SportsPhilanthropyOther
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

  • OS
    OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION
    2× · 2023–2024 · $921k · revenue +7%
  • MU
    MALONE UNIVERSITY
    3× · 2020–2024 · $224k · revenue +1%
  • UO
    University of Miami
    2× · 2020–2024 · $120k · revenue +66%

Funded once

  • KS
    KENT STATE UNIVERSITY
    one grant, 2020 · $175k
  • Cornell Universitygraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $107k · revenue +27%
  • OS
    Ohio State University
    one grant, 2020 · $100k
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
William Marsh Rice University

As a leading research university with a distinctive commitment to undergraduate education, Rice University aspires to path breaking research, unsurpassed teaching, and contributions to the betterment of our world. It seeks to fulfill this…

Education
2
American Museum of Natural History

The museum's mission statement is: "to discover, interpret, and disseminate - through scientific research and education - knowledge about human cultures, the natural world, and the universe."

Arts & Culture
3
Case Western Reserve University

Case Western Reserve University is an independent, research-oriented university with broadly based strengths in health, including medicine, nursing and dentistry; in engineering; in the arts and sciences; and in law, management and social…

Education
4
Marine Biological Laboratory

The Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL) is a world-renowned center for biological discovery and training that is notably affiliated with more than 60 Nobel Prize winners. Research is conducted by full-time faculty as well as hundreds of the…

Science & Tech
5
The Pierpont Morgan Library

The Morgan Library & Museum celebrates and shares the history and process of human creativity from antiquity to the present day through the preservation, study, and interpretation of a dynamic and growing collection.

Education
6
Chancellor Masters & Scholars of the University of Oxford

The principal objects of the University are the advancement of learning by teaching and research, and its dissemination by every means. We work as one Oxford bringing together our staff, students and alumni, our colleges, faculties,…

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7
Trustees of Dartmouth College

Dartmouth College educates the most promising students and prepares them for a lifetime of learning and of responsible leadership, through a faculty dedicated to teaching and the creation of knowledge.

Education
8
Wake Forest University

Wake Forest University, a 501(c)(3) institution of higher education, is dedicated to the pursuit of excellence in the liberal arts and in graduate and professional education. The organization is comprised of seven constituent parts: Wake…

Education
9
Nova Southeastern University Inc

The mission of Nova Southeastern University-a selective, doctoral research university-is to deliver academic programs in a dynamic, innovative environment. We foster academic excellence, leadership, integrity (continued on Schedule O) and…

Education
10
University of Delaware

The university of delaware is a major research university dedicated to cultivating learning, advancing knowledge, and fostering the exchange of ideas through teaching, research and public service.

—
11
The Trustees of Princeton University

Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…

Education
12
Trinity University

Trinity university is an independent co-educational university whose mission is excellence in the interrelated areas of teaching, research and services.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Wilderness Center Inc; the most unlike its peers is University of Miami. 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

13 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. 13 of the 19 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
13/13
Grantees still filing
10/13
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $921,390 · EducationOHIO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATIONKENT STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $244,345 · EducationKENT STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATIONMALONE UNIVERSITY: $224,300 · EducationMALONE UNIVERSITYUniversity of Miami: $120,000 · EducationUniversity of MiamiCornell University: $106,505 · EducationCornell UniversitySTARK COUNTY DISTRICT LIBRARY: $63,050 · EducationSTARK COUNTY EDUCATIONAL SERVICES CENTER: $263,650 · OtherSTARK COUNTY EDUCATIONAL SE…KENT STATE UNIVERSITY: $175,000 · OtherKENT STATE UNIVERSITYOhio State University: $100,000 · OtherOhio State UniversityPEW MARINE FELLOWS PROGRAM: $65,000 · OtherPEW MARINE FELLOWS PROGRAMUniversity of Hawaii: $22,000 · Other+2 more: $26,500 · OtherThe Pew Charitable Trusts: $195,000 · PhilanthropyThe Ocean Foundation: $70,000 · EnvironmentTHE WILDERNESS CENTER INC: $21,148 · EnvironmentTHE ALLIANCE FOR FLORIDA'S NATIONAL PARKS INC: $66,000 · Recreation & SportsNORTH CANTON HERITAGE SOCIETY INC: $6,500 · Arts & CultureEN-RICH-MENT: $5,000 · Arts & Culture
Education$1,679,590Other$652,150Philanthropy$195,000Environment$91,148Recreation & Sports$66,000Arts & Culture$11,500

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 budgetOHIO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $921,390 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetKENT STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $244,345 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetMALONE UNIVERSITY: $224,300 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetThe Pew Charitable Trusts: $195,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetUniversity of Miami: $120,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCornell University: $106,505 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Ocean Foundation: $70,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetTHE ALLIANCE FOR FLORIDA'S NATIONAL PARKS INC: $66,000 over 1y, 4.9% of budgetSTARK COUNTY DISTRICT LIBRARY: $63,050 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTHE WILDERNESS CENTER INC: $21,148 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetENCOUNTERS IN EXCELLENCE INC: $16,500 over 2y, 14% of budgetEN-RICH-MENT: $5,000 over 1y, 1.1% 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.

Hoover Foundation Inc…Stark Community Found…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Hoover Foundation Income AccountOH13.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Hoover Foundation Income Account · Stark Community Foundation · 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 Herbert W Hoover Foundation Pfdn funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Herbert W Hoover Foundation Pfdn. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%6%13%19%25%share of the org’s income from government →median 5%
  • University of Miami: 5% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–25%
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.
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How do I get to Herbert W Hoover Foundation Pfdn?

Find your warmest path to Herbert W Hoover Foundation Pfdn through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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 19 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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