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Hfo 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k2 grants · $8k
- $10k–50k11 grants · $293k
- $50k–250k68 grants · $6.3M
- $250k+9 grants · $2.5M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| LEHIGH UNIVERSITY | $500,000 |
| HOME FOR OUR TROOPS | $251,650 |
| COMMUNITY FOOD BANK OF NJ | $250,000 |
| GLOBAL GIVING | $250,000 |
| LEHIGH UNIVERSITY | $250,000 |
| COMMUNITY FOOD BANK OF NJ | $250,000 |
| HURRICANE MELISSA RELIEF FUND | $250,000 |
| COMMUNITY FOOD BANK OF NJ | $250,000 |
| BABY QUEST FOUNDATION | $250,000 |
| MAKE A WISH FOUNDATION NEW JERSEY | $200,000 |
| YORK STREET PROJECT | $200,000 |
| WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN | $200,000 |
| RAINFOREST TRUST | $200,000 |
| WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN | $200,000 |
| OCEAN CONSERVANCY FOR GLOBAL GHOST GEAR | $200,000 |
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 (FY21–25, $1.0M) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 40% 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 +18% since the first grant, against -13% for the ones you funded once.
41 repeat relationships — 27 still active in FY2025, 14 since wound down; 32 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, 69% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2.8M 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
- CFCommunity Food Bank Of New Jersey Inc6× · 2020–2025 · $1.4M · revenue +26%
WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC5× · 2021–2025 · $1.0M · revenue +167%- LULEHIGH UNIVERSITY2× · 2024–2025 · $850k · revenue +12%
Funded once
- CFCENTER FOR DISASTER RELIEFone grant, 2021 · $100k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2020 · $100k
- LVLEHIGH VALLEY ATHLETIC CLUBone grant, 2024 · $100k · revenue -9%
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.
Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.
To advocate for policy changes by governments and corporations in order to preserve ocean life and return the oceans to their former abundance.
To engage and catalyze global seafood supply chains in rebuilding depleted fish stocks and reducing the environmental impacts of fishing and fish farming.
To bring quality public television programs and resources to communities throughout new jersey and its tri-state neighbors. its content, both on-air and online, aims to reflect the diverse
The purpose of the water research foundation (wrf) is a definitive research organization to advance the science of all things water to better meet the evolving needs of its subscribers and the water sector. to engage exclusively in…
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 union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.
Wri is committed to creating change that improves people's lives and ensures the natural world can thrive. (see schedule o)wri's bold vision requires a formula for success we call "count it. change it. scale it.":- count it: our work is…
Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.
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.
Inspired by the gift of donation from our communities, allosource responsibly provides innovative cellular and tissue allografts to advance patient healing.
To effectively communicate science based information on food safety, nutrition, and health for the public good.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Mercy-Usa for Aid & Developmentinc and the most unlike its peers is Independence Foundation. 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 34 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.
58 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. 58 of the 97 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 Community Food Bank Of New Jersey Inc ↗
- Who funds GLOBALGIVING FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds LEHIGH UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds DIRECT RELIEF ↗
- Who funds MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF NEW JERSEY INC ↗
- Who funds Baby Quest Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN KIDNEY FUND INC ↗
- Who funds SECOND HELPINGS ↗
- Who funds Save The Children Federation Inc ↗
- Who funds INDEPENDENCE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR FAMILY SERVICES ↗
- Who funds YORK STREET PROJECT ↗
- Who funds FISHER HOUSE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds HOMES FOR OUR TROOPS INC ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA ↗
- Who funds RAINFOREST TRUST ↗
- Who funds ALLAIRE COMMUNITY FARM A NJ NONPROFIT CO ↗
- Who funds NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds DOGS FOR LIFE INC ↗
- Who funds WIKIMEDIA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ADULT CONGENITAL HEART ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds CHRISTOPHER REEVE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PUPPIES BEHIND BARS INC ↗
- Who funds THE WATER PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds COUNT BASIE THEATRE INC ↗
- Who funds THE SHARING NETWORK FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SECOND HELPINGS INC ↗
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 Robert Wood Johnson Foundation · Oceanfirst Foundation · Bristol-Myers Squibb Foundation Inc · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Community Foundation of New Jersey · Columbia Bank Foundation · Princeton Area Community Foundation Inc · The Provident Bank Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Investors Foundation Inc · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · Verizon 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 Hfo 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Center for Family Services — 73% of income from government
- Christopher Reeve Foundation — 49% of income from government
- York Street Project — 32% of income from government
- Save the Children Federation Inc — 30% of income from government
- Homefront Inc — 9% of income from government
- HomeWorks Trenton — 6% of income from government
- We Make Autism at Work Inc — 2% of income from government
- Count Basie Theatre Inc — 2% 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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