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Hewit Family Foundation at a glance

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Hewit Family Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$1.0M
Granted FY2024still arriving
7
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$600k
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, FY2019 to 2024.

Health$3.6MEducation$1.8MEnvironment$252kAnimals$146k
02FY2024 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k1 grant · $2k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $103k
  • $250k+2 grants · $900k
$30,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$16M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ROCKY MTN ADVENTIST HEALTHCARE$600,000
UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION$300,000
BONEFISH AND TARPON TRUST$30,000
RESTLESS LEGS SYNDROME FOUNDATION$30,000
GUY HARVEY OCEAN FOUNDATION$30,000
OCEAN'S FIRST INSTITUTE$13,000
EPILEPSY FOUNDATION OF COLORADO & WYOMING$2,000
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 10%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 39% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%GUY HARVEY OCEAN FOUNDATION: $60k → 11%RESTLESS LEGS SYNDROME FOUNDATION: $30k → 10%BONEFISH AND TARPON TRUST: $30k → 15%CARING AMBASSADORS: $20k → 8%CRAIG HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $50k → 8%ROCKY MTN ADVENTIST HEALTHCARE: $600k → 9%OCEAN'S FIRST INSTITUTE: $14k → 12%PORTER HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $100k → 12%GUY HARVEY OCEAN FOUNDATION: $30k → 11%RESTLESS LEGS SYNDROME FOUNDATION: $10k → 10%BONEFISH AND TARPON TRUST: $30k → 15%EPILEPSY FOUNDATION OF COLORADO & WYOMING: $14k → 8%OCEAN'S FIRST INSTITUTE: $13k → 12%UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION: $700k → 12%GUY HARVEY OCEAN FOUNDATION: $30k → 11%BONEFISH AND TARPON TRUST: $30k → 15%EPILEPSY FOUNDATION OF COLORADO: $8k → 8%OCEAN'S FIRST INSTITUTE: $10k → 12%UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION: $375k → 12%GUY HARVEY OCEAN FOUNDATION: $30k → 11%BONEFISH AND TARPON TRUST: $30k → 15%MILE HIGH RESCUE: $5k → 8%OCEAN'S FIRST INSTITUTE: $5k → 12%UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION: $300k → 12%GUY HARVEY OCEAN FOUNDATION: $30k → 11%BONEFISH AND TARPON TRUST: $10k → 15%EPILEPSY FOUNDATION OF COLORADO & WYOMING: $5k → 8%UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION: $300k → 12%GUY HARVEY OCEAN FOUNDATION: $30k → 11%BONEFISH AND TARPON TRUST: $10k → 15%EPILEPSY FOUNDATION OF COLORADO & WYOMING: $4k → 8%UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION: $100k → 12%EPILEPSY FOUNDATION OF COLORADO & WYOMING: $2k → 8%MILE HIGH RESCUE: $1k → 8%LITTLETON ADVENTIST HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $680k → 8%LITTLETON ADVENTIST HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $575k → 8%LITTLETON ADVENTIST HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $546k → 8%LITTLETON ADVENTIST HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $500k → 8%LITTLETON ADVENTIST HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $500k → 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.
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.
$5.0M · 8 repeat orgs$770k to everyone else

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

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

8
3

Total granted

$5.0M
$170k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+31%
+110%

Still filing today

88%
67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 40% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $600k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24
HealthEducationEnvironmentAnimalsOther
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

  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION
    5× · 2019–2024 · $1.8M · revenue +58%
  • GH
    GUY HARVEY OCEAN FUND INC
    6× · 2019–2024 · $210k · revenue +146%
  • OF
    Ocean First Institute
    4× · 2021–2024 · $42k · revenue +187%

Funded once

  • PH
    PORTER HOSPITAL FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2022 · $100k
  • CH
    Craig Hospital Foundationgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $50k · revenue +110%
  • CA
    CARING AMBASSADORS PROGRAM INC
    one grant, 2021 · $20k · revenue -84%
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
Cystic Fibrosis Foundation

To cure cf and provide all people with cf the opportunity to lead long, fulfilling lives by funding research and drug development, partnering with the cf community, and advancing high-quality, specialized care.

Health
2
The Colorado Health Foundation
Health
3
The Coral Reef and Marine Science Foundation Inc C/O James Bildner
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4
Curepsp Inc

To raise awareness, build community, improve care and find a cure for psp, cbd and msa.

Health
5
Scleroderma Research Foundation

The mission of the Scleroderma Research Foundation is to fund and facilitate the most promising, highest quality research aimed at new treatments and, ultimately, a cure for scleroderma.

Health
6
The Foundation Fighting Blindness Inc

To drive the research that will provide preventions, treatments and cures, for people affected by retinitis pigmentosa, macular degeneration, usher syndrome, and the spectrum of retinal degenerative diseases.

Health
7
Pulmonary Fibrosis Foundation

The pulmonary fibrosis foundation is committed to accelerating research, empowering our community, and transforming care so that everyone with pulmonary fibrosis can live a better life. our ultimate goal is to find a cure for pulmonary…

Health
8
Colorado Health Institute
Health
9
Conservation International Foundation

Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.

Environment
10
Open Medicine Foundation

Funds collaborative medical research and education for multi-system chronic complex diseases.

Health
11
University of Hawaii Foundation

To unite donors' passions with the university of hawai'i's (uh) aspirations by raising philanthropic support and managing investments to benefit uh, the people of hawai'i and our future generations.

Education
12
Epilepsy Research Foundation

A supporting organization of the epilepsy foundation to facilitate efforts to develop innovative research

Philanthropy
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Epilepsy Foundation of Colorado; the most unlike its peers is Ocean First Institute. 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 12 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)
9/9
Grantees still filing
7/9
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

LITTLETON ADVENTIST HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $2,801,000 · OtherLITTLETON ADVENTIST HOSPITAL FOUNDATIONROCKY MTN ADVENTIST HEALTHCARE: $600,000 · OtherROCKY MTN ADVENTIST HEALTHCARE+3 more: $139,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION: $1,775,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION+1 more: $42,000 · EducationGUY HARVEY OCEAN FUND INC: $210,000 · EnvironmentBONEFISH & TARPON TRUST INC: $140,000 · AnimalsCraig Hospital Foundation: $50,000 · HealthRESTLESS LEGS SYNDROME FOUNDATION: $40,000 · HealthCARING AMBASSADORS PROGRAM INC: $20,000 · Health
Other$3,540,000Education$1,817,000Environment$210,000Animals$140,000Health$110,000

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 budgetUNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION: $1,775,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetGUY HARVEY OCEAN FUND INC: $210,000 over 6y, 5.3% of budgetBONEFISH & TARPON TRUST INC: $140,000 over 6y, 0.8% of budgetCraig Hospital Foundation: $50,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetOcean First Institute: $42,000 over 4y, 4.8% of budgetRESTLESS LEGS SYNDROME FOUNDATION: $40,000 over 2y, 2.7% of budgetEPILEPSY FOUNDATION OF COLORADO: $33,000 over 5y, 1.5% of budgetCARING AMBASSADORS PROGRAM INC: $20,000 over 1y, 4.7% of budgetMILE HIGH RESCUE: $6,000 over 2y, 2.9% 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.

  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds GUY HARVEY OCEAN FUND INC ↗
  • Who funds BONEFISH & TARPON TRUST INC ↗
  • Who funds Craig Hospital Foundation ↗
  • Who funds Ocean First Institute ↗
  • Who funds RESTLESS LEGS SYNDROME FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds EPILEPSY FOUNDATION OF COLORADO ↗
  • Who funds CARING AMBASSADORS PROGRAM INC ↗
  • Who funds MILE HIGH RESCUE ↗

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.

The Bank of America C…Donor Advised Charita…Amazonsmile Foundation
The Bank of America Charitable Foundation IncNC8.8× affinity4 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · 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 Hewit Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Hewit Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Guy Harvey Ocean Fund Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
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 Hewit Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Hewit Family Foundation 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 12 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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