· Private foundation
HF Foundation Inc
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.
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 · FY2025
- Under $10k1 grant · $8k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $50k
- $50k–250k19 grants · $1.4M
- $250k+4 grants · $2.0M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| St Marcus School | $750,000 |
| Big Shoulders Fund | $650,000 |
| Twyla Tharp Dance Foundation | $350,000 |
| Aim Higher Foundation | $250,000 |
| Keystone Church | $200,000 |
| American Heart Association | $100,000 |
| High Jump | $100,000 |
| After School Matters | $100,000 |
| Manhattan Institute for Policy Research | $100,000 |
| Phoenix Art Museum | $100,000 |
| Competitive Enterprise Institute | $100,000 |
| University of Wisconsin Foundation | $75,000 |
| St Mary's Springs Academy | $60,000 |
| PAWS Chicago | $50,000 |
| Paul's Pantry Inc Fund Drive | $50,000 |
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 (FY22–25, $275k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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 +14% since the first grant, against +11% for the ones you funded once.
24 repeat relationships — 15 still active in FY2025, 9 since wound down; 12 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
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, 79% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $740k 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
- TTTWYLA THARP DANCE FOUNDATION INC5× · 2018–2025 · $1.6M · revenue +310% · 88% of their budget
- MCMIAMI CITY BALLET INC2× · 2023–2024 · $1.5M · revenue +13%
- AHAIM HIGHER FOUNDATION4× · 2022–2025 · $625k · revenue +18%
Funded once
BARD COLLEGEgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $1.2M · revenue +241%- BNBARROW NEUROLOGICAL FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $350k · revenue +44%
- NFNATIONAL FOUNDATION FOR ADVANCEMENT IN THE ARTS INCone grant, 2019 · $250k · revenue +17%
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.
The organization's mission is to educate students for creative occupations in diverse fields of arts and media.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
Mcad provides a transformative education within a community of support for creative students of all backgrounds to work, collaborate, and lead with confidence in a dynamic, interconnected world.
The chicago theatre group is committed to producing both classic and contemporary works giving full voice to a wide range of artists and visions. by dedicating itself to three guiding principles - quality, equity, and community - the…
Chicago opera theater expands the tradition of opera as a living art form by engaging lovers of music and storytelling through innovative experiences, predominantly of new and rarely performed works.
The music institute of chicago ("music institute") leads people toward a lifelong engagement with music, by providing widely accessible resources for high quality music teaching, performing, and service activities.
New york school of interior design provides the most innovative, immersive, and transformative interior design education in the world, demonstrating the impact of professionally designed interiors on the health, happiness, and well-being…
The cleveland institute of music's mission is to empower the world's most talented classical music students to fulfill their dreams and potential.
To collect, display and interpret objects in craft art and design.
The new york academy of art is a unique graduate school that combines intensive technical training in the fine arts with active critical discourse. we believe that rigorously trained artists are best able to realize their artistic vision.…
The mission of the jewish museum is to collect, preserve, exhibit and interpret art and jewish culture. see schedule o for more information.
The milwaukee institute of art and design's mission is to ignite curious minds through art, design and service. we value courage to seek our own path, integrity to pursue our lives and work with meaning, kindness to thoughtfully engage…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is National Foundation for Advancement in the Arts Inc and the most unlike its peers is Twyla Tharp Dance Foundation Inc. 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 42 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
43 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. 43 of the 55 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 MILWAUKEE REPERTORY THEATER INC ↗
- Who funds TWYLA THARP DANCE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MIAMI CITY BALLET INC ↗
- Who funds Big Shoulders Fund ↗
- Who funds BARD COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds AIM HIGHER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MANHATTAN INSTITUTE FOR POLICY RESEARCH INC ↗
- Who funds NAVY SEAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds AFTER SCHOOL MATTERS INC ↗
- Who funds BARROW NEUROLOGICAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MIDWEST ATHLETES AGAINST CHILDHOOD CANCER INC ↗
- Who funds UDT - SEAL MUSEUM ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO ↗
- Who funds SECUREFUTURES FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL FOUNDATION FOR ADVANCEMENT IN THE ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds CIA OFFICERS MEMORIAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE BE KIND PEOPLE PROJECT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MMAC COMMUNITY SUPPORT FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds INSTITUTE OF CONTEMPORARY ART MIAMI INC ↗
- Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
- Who funds HIGH JUMP ↗
- Who funds PHOENIX ART MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds COMPETITIVE ENTERPRISE INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds MILWAUKEE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE ART FUND ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF GREATER MILWAUKEE INC ↗
- Who funds THE PHOENIX THEATRE COMPANY AND SUBSIDIARY ↗
- Who funds WINGS PROGRAM INC ↗
- Who funds HILLEL FOUNDATION UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF COVENT GARDEN THE ROYAL BALLET INC ↗
- Who funds PAWS CHICAGO ↗
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: The David Herro Charitable Foundation · Herbert H Kohl Charities Inc · Curt and Sue Culver Family Foundation Inc · Milwaukee Jewish Federation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Greater Milwaukee Foundation Inc · Baird Foundation Inc · Jewish Communal Fund · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · The Ford Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program
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 HF Foundation Inc 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.
- National Foundation for Advancement in the Arts Inc — 0% of income from government
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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