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Hesed Foundation Inc at a glance

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Hesed Foundation Inc

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$318k
Granted FY2025still arriving
10
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$250k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Religion$250kHealth$135kHuman Services$74kCrime & Legal$43kCivil Rights$27kEducation$16kYouth Development$15kPhilanthropy$15kOther$0
02FY2025 · 10 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k6 grants · $33k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $35k
  • $250k+1 grant · $250k
$7,500
Median grant
4
States reached
$681k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
TEMPLE ISRAEL$250,000
PPNNE$15,000
JEWISH QUEER YOUTH$10,000
AVODAH$10,000
NORTHERN MANHATTAN COALITION$7,500
CASA OF NH$7,500
GREENWICH HOUSE MMTP$5,000
COMMUNITY PARTNERS$5,000
TEMPLE ISAIAH OF LEXINGTON$5,000
PETER WESTBROOK FOUNDATION$2,500
02The need
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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:

Its human-services grants (FY20–24, $54k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 19% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%BROCKTON DAY NURSERY: $5k → 8%HORIZONS FOR HOMELESS CHILDREN: $5k → 16%ORGANIZATION FOR REFUGEE AND IMMIGRANT SUCCESS: $10k → 7%BROCKTON DAY NURSERY: $2k → 8%HOUSING FAMILIES: $4k → 8%DIGNITY MATTERS: $5k → 8%MOMS FOR MOMS NYC: $5k → 20%THE CHASE HOME: $8k → 5%THE CHILDREN'S ROOM: $10k → 8%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.
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Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 45% of Hesed Foundation Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 78% of the giving stays in NH; by stated purpose, 35%.

Hesed Foundation Inclessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 2.9% directed abroad (not shown)
How this is measured
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

36%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$224k · 9 repeat orgs$401k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +29% since the first grant, against +25% for those funded once.

9 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

9
22

Total granted

$224k
$111k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+29%
+25%

Still filing today

56%
73%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 9% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $290k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesHealthEducationCommunity ImprovementCivil RightsEmploymentOther
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

  • PP
    Planned Parenthood of Northern New England Inc
    5× · 2020–2024 · $63k · revenue +30%
  • CA
    COURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATES OF NEW HAMPSHIRE INC
    3× · 2020–2025 · $28k · revenue +5%
  • KR
    KISMET ROCK FOUNDATION
    3× · 2022–2024 · $14k · revenue +76%

Funded once

  • BD
    BROOKLYN DEFENDERS PROJECT
    one grant, 2021 · $10k
  • TC
    The Childrens Room Center for Grieving Children
    one grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue +7%
  • OF
    ORGANIZATION FOR REFUGEE ANDgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue +191%
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
United States Association for Unhcr

USA for UNHCR protects and supports refugees by mobilizing resources, elevating awareness, and driving action through a network of engaged supporters.

International
2
Worker Justice Center of New York Inc

Worker Justice Center of New York, Inc. (WJCNY) pusues juistice for those denied hian rights, with a focus on agricultural and other low-wage workers, through legal representation, community empowerment and advocacy for institutional…

Crime & Legal
3
Lenox Hill Neighborhood House Inc

Lenox Hill Neighborhood House is dedicated to helping those in need who live, work, or go to school on Manhattan's East Side, primarily the Upper East Side, and to improving the quality of life for all individuals and families in its…

Human Services
4
The Center for Youth Services Inc

We partner with youth to realize their full potential, by creating opportunities, removing barriers, and promoting racial justice.

Human Services
5
New Hampshire Juvenile Court Diversion Network

The Network supports accredited Diversion programs for at-risk youth involved with law enforcement to hold them accountable for their actions, ignite growth and community engagement, and encourage opportunities to develop compassion and…

Crime & Legal
6
Housing Rights Initiative

To help tenants stand up for their legal rights.

Housing & Shelter
7
Massachusetts Affordable Housing Alliance Inc

Maha breaks down barriers facing first-time and first-generation home buyers and owners through education, counseling, advocacy, and grassroots organizing.

Housing & Shelter
8
Jewish Family Service of Greater New Hav

Jewish family service of greater new haven (jfsgnh) supports and strengthens individual, family, and community life by providing a wide range of social services. we welcome people of all ages, races, ethnicities, sexual orientations,…

Human Services
9
Human Rights for Kids

Human Rights for Kids is an international non-profit organization dedicated to the promotion and protection of human rights for children. We use an integrated, multi-faceted approach which consists of research & public education, coalition…

International
10
Merrimack Valley Day Care Service

Daycare services

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11
The History Co-Lab Inc

Creating impactful learning for all learners in support of youth thriving

Education
12
Inner City Law Center

In 2024, Inner City Law Center, ICLC, served over 3,400 people, helping vulnerable Angelenos to remain in their homes and recover nearly $20.5 million in financial benefits.

Crime & Legal
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Make the Road New York; the most unlike its peers is Tam High Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network

25 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. 25 of the 37 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
24/25
Grantees still filing
17/25
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

TEMPLE ISRAEL: $250,000 · OtherTEMPLE ISRAELGREENWICH HOUSE MMTP: $45,135 · OtherGREENWICH HOUSE MMTPJOAN G LOVERING CENTER: $26,750 · OtherJOAN G LOVERING CENTERCOMMUNITY PARTNERS: $18,000 · OtherPPNNE: $15,000 · Other+14 more: $62,000 · Other+14 morePlanned Parenthood of Northern New England Inc: $63,000 · HealthPlanned Parenth…JQY: $17,500 · HealthJQYHEALTH IMPERATIVES INC: $7,500 · HealthHEALTH IMPERATI…The Childrens Room Center for Grieving Children: $10,000 · Human ServicesThe Child…ORGANIZATION FOR REFUGEE AND: $10,000 · Human ServicesORGANIZAT…The Chase Home: $7,500 · Human ServicesThe Chase…Brockton Day Nursery Inc: $7,000 · Human ServicesBrockton …MOMS FOR MOMS NYC INC: $5,000 · Human ServicesMOMS FOR …Dignity Matters Inc: $5,000 · Human ServicesDignity M…HORIZONS FOR HOMELESS CHILDREN: $5,000 · Human ServicesHORIZONS …HOUSING FAMILIES INC: $4,000 · Human ServicesHOUSING F…COURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATES OF NEW HAMPSHIRE INC: $27,500 · Civil RightsAVODAH THE JEWISH SERVICE CORPS INC: $10,000 · Community ImprovementNorthern Manhattan Coalition For Immigrant Rights: $7,500 · Community ImprovementKISMET ROCK FOUNDATION: $14,000 · EducationTAM HIGH FOUNDATION: $1,500 · Education+1 more: $500 · EducationGREEN GUERILLAS INC: $5,000 · Employment
Other$416,885Health$88,000Human Services$53,500Civil Rights$27,500Community Improvement$17,500Education$16,000Employment$5,000

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 budgetPlanned Parenthood of Northern New England Inc: $63,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetCOURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATES OF NEW HAMPSHIRE INC: $27,500 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetJQY: $17,500 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetKISMET ROCK FOUNDATION: $14,000 over 3y, 2.0% of budgetThe Childrens Room Center for Grieving Children: $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetAVODAH THE JEWISH SERVICE CORPS INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetORGANIZATION FOR REFUGEE AND: $10,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetRESTAURANT OPPORTUNITIES CENTERS UNITED INC: $8,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNorthern Manhattan Coalition For Immigrant Rights: $7,500 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetHEALTH IMPERATIVES INC: $7,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThe Chase Home: $7,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetBrockton Day Nursery Inc: $7,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetMOMS FOR MOMS NYC INC: $5,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetDignity Matters Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetGREEN GUERILLAS INC: $5,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetHORIZONS FOR HOMELESS CHILDREN: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHOUSING FAMILIES INC: $4,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCENTER FOR HUMAN RIGHTS ANDCONSTITUTIONAL LAW INC: $4,000 over 1y, 4.0% of budgetUPPER VALLEY HUMANE SOCIETY INC: $4,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetTHE NATURE CONNECTION INC: $3,750 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetJOHN F KENNEDY FAMILY SERVICE CENTER INC: $1,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTAM HIGH FOUNDATION: $1,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetMake the Road New York: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe New York Public Library Astor Lenox and Tilden Foundations: $500 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

Eastern Bank Foundati…Eversource Energy Fou…New Hampshire Charita…Boston Foundation IncHarvard Pilgrim Healt…Health Resources in A…The Bank of America C…American Online Givin…Vanguard Charitable E…Fidelity Investments …National Philanthropi…Donor Advised Charita…
Eastern Bank FoundationMA22.1× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Eastern Bank Foundation · Eversource Energy Foundation Inc · New Hampshire Charitable Foundation · Boston Foundation Inc · Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Foundation Inc · Health Resources in Action Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc

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 Hesed Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Hesed Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 21%
  • Health Imperatives Inc: 79% of income from government
  • Brockton Day Nursery Inc: 36% of income from government
  • Horizons for Homeless Children: 21% of income from government
  • Housing Families Inc: 12% of income from government
  • The Nature Connection Inc: 5% of income from government
  • Planned Parenthood of Northern New England Inc: 2% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
6report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
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.
05Through Plinth

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How do I get to Hesed Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to Hesed Foundation Inc 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 37 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
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The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home