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Hester Family Foundation at a glance

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Hester 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.

$600k
Granted FY2025still arriving
3
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$200k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2022 to 2025.

Human Services$2.3MEducation$800kCivil Rights$100kPhilanthropy$50kArts & Culture$25kYouth Development$10kReligion$10kMembership Benefit$5k
02FY2025 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$200,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$5.7M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
STANFORD UNIVERSITY$200,000
THE JOE TORRE SAFE AT HOME FOUNDATION$200,000
SAGE RIDGE SCHOOL$200,000
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY22–25, $2.3M) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%The Joe Torre Safe at Home Foundation: $1.1M → 17%The Joe Torre Safe at Home Foundation: $1.0M → 17%NEVADA YOUTH EMPOWERMENT PROJECT: $5k → 10%THE JOE TORRE SAFE AT HOME FOUNDATION: $200k → 17%NEVADA YOUTH EMPOWERMENT PROJECT: $5k → 10%The Joe Torre Safe at Home Foundation: $25k → 17%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.

87%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.5M · 3 repeat orgs$390k to everyone else

3 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

3
5

Total granted

$2.5M
$190k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

-23%
-20%

Still filing today

100%
80%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 50% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $200k went to new ones.

50%100%’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesEducationMembership BenefitReligionArts & CultureOther
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

  • TJ
    THE JOE TORRE SAFE AT HOME FOUNDATION
    4× · 2022–2025 · $2.3M · revenue +115%
  • LT
    Lake Tahoe School
    2× · 2022–2023 · $200k · revenue -51%
  • NY
    NEVADA YOUTH EMPOWERMENT PROJECT
    2× · 2023–2024 · $10k · revenue -23%

Funded once

  • GF
    GLIDE FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $100k · revenue +51%
  • CS
    Collaborative Support Services Inc
    one grant, 2023 · $50k · revenue -34%
  • MA
    MAUI ARTS & CULTURAL CENTER
    one grant, 2023 · $25k · revenue -20%
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
Achievekids

Achievekids schools provide individualized and multi-disciplinary programs that deliver special education, mental health, and family support services for students ages 5 to 22 who have complex and often severe developmental, emotional, and…

Education
2
'Iolani School

To develop educated, well-rounded individuals who are well prepared for college.

Education
3
Southern California University of Health Sciences

The mission of southern california university of health sciences (scu) is to educate students as competent, caring and successful practitioners of integrative healthcare. the university is committed to providing excellence in academics,…

Education
4
Silicon Valley International School

Silicon valley international school's focus on inquiry and bilingualism empowers young minds to embrace complexity, think critically from multiple perspectives, and demonstrate integrity and sensitivity across cultures.

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5
Sage Hill School

We inspire in our students a love of knowledge and the ability to use that knowledge creatively, compassionately and courageously throughout their lives.sage hill school's commitment to academic excellence and our outstanding college…

Education
6
Silicon Valley Education Foundation

Who we are - silicon valley education foundation (svef) focuses on raising student performance in the critical areas of math and science across all 33 santa clara county school districts, and also adjoining san mateo and alameda counties.…

Community Improvement
7
Edgewood Center for Children and Families

To be the place to begin for all bay area children, youth and families who need mental health, social services and academic support. edgewood is the premier provider of a full continuum of behavioral health services that transform the…

Health
8
Terra Marin School

Our mission is to spark wonder and intellectual curiosity in each child. We achieve this through a purposeful blend of:Engaging academics custom-tailored to each child's abilities, strengths and interests;An unparalleled social-emotional…

Education
9
University of Southern California

The central mission of the university of southern california is the development of human beings and society as a whole through the cultivation and enrichment of the human mind and spirit. the principal means by which our mission is…

Education
10
Montessori of Maui Inc

The montessori school of maui provides a comprehensive curriculum from early childhood into adolescence by following the principles, spirit and philosophy of dr. maria montessori's method of education. this approach features a…

Education
11
The Seven Hills School

The institution provides educational instruction and activities to students ranging from preschool through 8th grade.

—
12
The San Francisco School

A private school that cultivates and celebrates the intellectual, imaginative, and humanitarian promise of each student in a community that practices mutual respect, embraces diversity, and inspires passion for learning.

—
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Collaborative Support Services Inc; the most unlike its peers is Nevada Youth Empowerment Project. 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

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 10 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)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/9
Grantees still filing
2/9
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE JOE TORRE SAFE AT HOME FOUNDATION: $2,325,000 · Human ServicesTHE JOE TORRE SAFE AT HOME FOUNDATION+1 more: $10,000 · Human ServicesTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $400,000 · EducationTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF TH…SAGE RIDGE SCHOOL: $200,000 · EducationSAGE RIDGE SCHOOLLake Tahoe School: $200,000 · EducationLake Tahoe SchoolGLIDE FOUNDATION: $100,000 · ReligionCollaborative Support Services Inc: $50,000 · Membership BenefitCHP 11-99 FOUNDATION: $4,756 · Membership BenefitMAUI ARTS & CULTURAL CENTER: $25,000 · Arts & CultureKAHANA DOOR OF FAITH CHURCH: $10,000 · Other
Human Services$2,335,000Education$800,000Religion$100,000Membership Benefit$54,756Arts & Culture$25,000Other$10,000

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 budgetTHE JOE TORRE SAFE AT HOME FOUNDATION: $2,325,000 over 4y, 23% of budgetTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $400,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSAGE RIDGE SCHOOL: $200,000 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetLake Tahoe School: $200,000 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetGLIDE FOUNDATION: $100,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetCollaborative Support Services Inc: $50,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetMAUI ARTS & CULTURAL CENTER: $25,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetNEVADA YOUTH EMPOWERMENT PROJECT: $10,000 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetCHP 11-99 FOUNDATION: $4,756 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.

Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …
Donor Advised Charitable Giving IncCO6.5× affinity4 shared granteesties to 1 of 1Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%2%6%14%25%funder's share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
    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.

    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 10 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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