· Private foundation
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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| GLOBAL GIVING | $250,000 |
| COMMUNITY FOOD BANK OF NJ | $250,000 |
| COMMUNITY FOOD BANK OF NJ | $250,000 |
| LEHIGH UNIVERSITY | $250,000 |
| COMMUNITY FOOD BANK OF NJ | $250,000 |
| BABY QUEST FOUNDATION | $250,000 |
| HURRICANE MELISSA RELIEF FUND | $250,000 |
| WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN | $200,000 |
| YORK STREET PROJECT | $200,000 |
| SECOND HELPINGS | $200,000 |
| MAKE A WISH FOUNDATION NEW JERSEY | $200,000 |
| WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN | $200,000 |
| RAINFOREST TRUST | $200,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +18% since the first grant, against -32% for those 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
How this is measured
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%
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.
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.
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
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To effectively communicate science based information on food safety, nutrition, and health for the public good.
How this is measured
58 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. 58 of the 97 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 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 YORK STREET PROJECT ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR FAMILY SERVICES ↗
- 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 ↗
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 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Hfo Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Hfo Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- 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
How this is measured
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