· Private foundation
Hewlett Packard Enterprise 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.
Read this first · the figures below need context
68% of Hewlett Packard Enterprise Foundation’s FY2025 grant dollars went to American Online Giving Foundation Inc, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2025 names 8 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2021, the last year Hewlett Packard Enterprise Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 5 organizations, $7M. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2021
- $10k–50k3 grants · $70k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $300k
- $250k+5 grants · $6.7M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| AMERICA ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION | $4,220,000 |
| FFWD HPE Foundation | $1,269,925 |
| SILICON VALLEY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $740,000 |
| NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL | $250,000 |
| AMERICAN NATIONAL RED CROSS | $250,000 |
| UNITED WAY OF GREATER HOUSTON | $200,000 |
| UNITED STATES FOR UNICEF | $100,000 |
| UK CHARITABLE GIVING FOUNDATION | $35,000 |
| AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION | $25,000 |
| ONE MIND INSTITUTE | $10,000 |
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 (FY18–25, $2.0M) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 53% 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 +46% since the first grant, against -54% for the ones you funded once.
11 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2021, 7 since wound down; 20 grantees were first funded in FY2021 (too recent to call). Read against FY2021, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.
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 FY2025, 78% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $551k 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
- FFFWD2× · 2019–2020 · $2.4M · revenue +518% · 32% of their budget
- ANAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches6× · 2018–2023 · $1.5M · revenue +9%
- YGYWCA GOLDEN GATE SILICON VALLEY2× · 2018–2020 · $433k · revenue +255%
Funded once
NAACP LEGAL DEFENSE & EDUC FUND INCone grant, 2020 · $100k · revenue -54%
WASHINGTON UNIVERSITYgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $25k · revenue +76%- ZFZOE FOUNDATION FOR INFUSION ART THERAPYone grant, 2019 · $15k · revenue -84%
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.
Medtech innovator organizes and runs a global competition and virtual accelerator for medical device, digital health, and diagnostic startup companies.
Endeavor is leading the high-impact entrepreneurship movement around the world.
Project drawdown's mission is to drive meaningful climate action by advancing science-based solutions and strategies. project drawdown's work is focused on three pillars: science - advancing science-based climate solutions and strategies;…
The nstmf's mission is to build inclusive stem communities across the united states. fundamental to these communities are the significant, inspirational connections we foster between the individuals who have received national recognition…
Ai4all's mission is to ensure that the next generation of ai leaders reflects humanity. ai4all is transforming the pipeline of ai practitioners who will shape ai for the benefit of humanity.
Poptech's mission is to accelerate the positive impact of world-changing people, projects and ideas. founded in 1996 by bob metcalfe (inventor, ethernet) and john sculley (apple, pepsi), poptech originally provided a forum to critically…
To research and develop centrist policy ideas.
Creating a more sustainable, peaceful, and just world through education, development, and exchange since 1932. as both an accredited academic institution and an international ngo, world learning, inc. offers the best of theory and practice…
The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.
The open markets institute works to help people relearn how to use competition policy to build stronger democracies, more just and equitable societies, more innovative and sustainable economies, and a more secure and peaceful world.
Third way institute supports charitable and educational activities that advance centrist solutions to major economic, national security, energy and social policy issues.
Activate empowers scientists to reinvent the world by bringing their research to market. activate partners with u.s. based funders, research institutions, and other pillars of the hard technology community to help entrepreneurial…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Vilcap Inc and the most unlike its peers is Zoe Foundation for Infusion Art Therapy. 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 33 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 27% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 17% 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.
28 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. 28 of the 37 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 AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Silicon Valley Community Foundation ↗
- Who funds FFWD ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds YWCA GOLDEN GATE SILICON VALLEY ↗
- Who funds LABSTART INNOVATIONS INC ↗
- Who funds International Rescue Committee INC ↗
- Who funds HALCYON HOUSE ↗
- Who funds VILCAP INC ↗
- Who funds United Way of Greater Houston ↗
- Who funds CAREERVILLAGE INC ↗
- Who funds Teach for America Inc ↗
- Who funds NAACP LEGAL DEFENSE & EDUC FUND INC ↗
- Who funds ROBERT F KENNEDY CENTER FOR JUSTICE AND HUMAN RIGHTS ↗
- Who funds Good Reason Houston Inc ↗
- Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
- Who funds HOPE IGNITES ↗
- Who funds ASIA SOCIETY TEXAS CENTER ↗
- Who funds WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL ACTION COUNCIL FOR MINORITIES IN ENGINEERING INC ↗
- Who funds JUST CAPITAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds DEVELOP FOR GOOD ↗
- Who funds Centro Community Partners ↗
- Who funds ZOE FOUNDATION FOR INFUSION ART THERAPY ↗
- Who funds LEGAL SERVICES CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA ↗
- Who funds ONE MIND ↗
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: Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Tides Foundation · Impactassetsinc · National Philanthropic Trust · Gates Foundation · Truist Foundation Inc · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · Greater Houston Community Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Jpmorgan Chase 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 Hewlett Packard Enterprise 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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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