Wisconsin · 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.
- $3.5M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 27
- Grants FY2025
- 20
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 30%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $50,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $750,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 1 to 21
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 9
- Total assets, FY2025
- $23M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 30% of the organizations HF Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 10% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $456k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 27 | $3.5M | 44% |
| FY2024 | 20 | $4.5M | 30% |
| FY2023 | 18 | $6.7M | 22% |
| FY2022 | 21 | $2.1M | 67% |
| FY2021 | 15 | $1.0M | 87% |
| FY2020 | 2 | $300k | 100% |
| FY2019 | 3 | $1.5M | 100% |
| FY2018 | 1 | $200k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2018 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Milwaukee Repertory Theater Inc | $5,675,000 | 3 | 7% |
| Twyla Tharp Dance Foundation Inc | $1,650,000 | 5 | 88% |
| Miami City Ballet Inc | $1,500,000 | 2 | 4% |
| Big Shoulders Fund | $1,300,000 | 3 | 1% |
| Bard College | $1,200,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Keystone Church | $1,000,000 | 5 | n/a |
| St Marcus Lutheran Church | $950,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Aim Higher Foundation | $625,000 | 4 | 8% |
| Manhattan Institute for Policy Research Inc | $450,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Navy Seal Foundation Inc | $425,000 | 4 | 1% |
Show all 47 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 8 recipients with no EIN on record ($450k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
HF Foundation Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 39 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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.
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
How this is measured
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About HF Foundation Inc
- How much does HF Foundation Inc give?
- HF Foundation Inc reported 27 grants totaling $3,492,500 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 21 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does HF Foundation Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (55%), Education (26%), Religion (5%).
- Who are HF Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2018 to FY2025: Milwaukee Repertory Theater Inc ($5.7M), Twyla Tharp Dance Foundation Inc ($1.6M), Miami City Ballet Inc ($1.5M).
- Does HF Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 30% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does HF Foundation Inc accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as HF Foundation Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The David Herro Charitable Foundation, Herbert H Kohl Charities Inc, Curt and Sue Culver Family Foundation Inc.
- Where is HF Foundation Inc based?
- HF Foundation Inc is based in WI.
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