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Hidden Pond Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$5k
Granted FY2024still arriving
1
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$5k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0194% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Religion$147kEducation$5kYouth Development$5kPhilanthropy$3kHealth$2kHuman Services$2kHousing & Shelter$2kInternational$2kOther$0
02FY2024 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$5,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$57k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CHURCH OF CHRIST THE KING$5,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY21–21, $1k) land where the poverty rate runs at 4%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%CORNERSTONE FAMILY PROGRAMS: $1k → 4%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

NY
NJ
CA
VA
MD
NC
DC
AL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

57%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$26k · 5 repeat orgs$20k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +64% since the first grant, against +11% for those funded once.

5 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

5
19

Total granted

$26k
$20k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+64%
+11%

Still filing today

60%
68%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’20’21’22’23’24
PhilanthropyEducationYouth DevelopmentHealthCivil RightsFood & NutritionOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • TS
    TRI-COUNTY SCHOLARSHIP FUND
    2× · 2020–2023 · $1k · revenue +107%
  • BH
    BIRTH HAVEN INC
    2× · 2021–2022 · $1k · revenue +64%
  • MACCULLOCH HALL HISTORICAL MUSEUM
    2× · 2020–2022 · $200 · revenue +26%

Funded once

  • TB
    THE BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF NEWARK INC
    one grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue +18%
  • DM
    DIOCESAN MINISTRIES APPEAL
    one grant, 2023 · $3k
  • AC
    ASSUMPTION COLLEGE FOR SISTERS
    one grant, 2023 · $3k · revenue -5%
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.

04Its field

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.

1
William Paterson University of New Jersey Foundation Inc

The mission of the william paterson university of new jersey foundation, inc. is dedicated to secure philanthropic funding through the identification and pursuit of private gifts, grants, and endowments. the foundation will be the steward…

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2
New Jersey Public Charter Schools Association a Nj Non Profit Corporation

To advance educational choice for new jersey's children through quality public charter schools.

Education
3
Npr Foundation

The npr foundation ("foundation") is organized and operated exclusively for the benefit of its sole supported organization, national public radio, inc. ("npr inc."). the foundation supports npr inc. through various activities such as…

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4
Corporation for New Jersey Local Media

We build strong communities through journalism and civic engagement.

Public Benefit
5
Public Media Nj Inc

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

Arts & Culture
6
Morristown-Beard School

Morristown beard school is an educational college preparatory school in grades 6 to 12 located in morristown, new jersey.

Education
7
Independent Colleges and Universities of New Jersey a Nj Nonprofit Corporation

The mission of the independent colleges and universities of new jersey, a new jersey non-profit corporation is to advance the interests of new jersey's independent, non-profit, public mission institutions of higher education by promoting…

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8
The Trustees of Princeton University

Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…

Education
9
Northeast College of Health Sciences

Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.

Education
10
National Committee for Quality Assurance

Our mission: to improve the quality of health care.our vision: better health care. better choices. better health.

Health
11
County College of Morris Foundation

The mission of the foundation is to raise and manage philanthropic gifts for the benefit of the college, its students and the community.

Education
12
New Jersey Policy Perspective

New Jersey Policy Perspective (NJPP) is a nonpartisan think tank that drives policy change to advance economic, social, and racial justice through evidence-based, independent research, analysis, and strategic communications.

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Cornerstone Family Programs; the most unlike its peers is Assumption College for Sisters. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

17 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. 17 of the 25 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
17/17
Grantees still filing
11/17
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CHURCH OF CHRIST THE KING: $22,400 · OtherCHURCH OF CHRIST THE KINGDIOCESAN MINISTRIES APPEAL: $2,500 · OtherDIOCESAN MINISTRIES APPEALAMERICAN FRIENDS OF SHALVA: $1,500 · OtherPAN MASS CHALLENGE: $1,250 · OtherBIRTH HAVEN INC: $1,100 · Other+9 more: $3,300 · Other+9 moreTHE BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF NEWARK INC: $5,000 · Youth DevelopmentTHE BOYS & GIRLS …ASSUMPTION COLLEGE FOR SISTERS: $2,500 · Youth DevelopmentASSUMPTION COLLEG…COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF NEW JERSEY: $2,500 · PhilanthropyCOMMUNITY F…ST BALDRICK'S FOUNDATION INC: $1,000 · PhilanthropyST BALDRICK…PARTNERSHIP FOR INNER CITY EDUCATION DBA PARTNERSHIP SCHOOLS: $1,000 · PhilanthropyPARTNERSHIP…THE PHILANTHROPY ROUNDTABLE: $500 · PhilanthropyTHE PHILANT…TRI-COUNTY SCHOLARSHIP FUND: $1,250 · EducationMATTHEW C SELLITTO FOUNDATION INC: $250 · EducationCORNERSTONE FAMILY PROGRAMS: $1,000 · Human ServicesTHE RAPTOR TRUST: $1,000 · AnimalsEQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE: $500 · Civil Rights
Other$32,050Youth Development$7,500Philanthropy$5,000Education$1,500Human Services$1,000Animals$1,000Civil Rights$500

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTHE BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF NEWARK INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF NEW JERSEY: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetASSUMPTION COLLEGE FOR SISTERS: $2,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTRI-COUNTY SCHOLARSHIP FUND: $1,250 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBIRTH HAVEN INC: $1,100 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetCORNERSTONE FAMILY PROGRAMS: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetST BALDRICK'S FOUNDATION INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE RAPTOR TRUST: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPARTNERSHIP FOR INNER CITY EDUCATION DBA PARTNERSHIP SCHOOLS: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE PHILANTHROPY ROUNDTABLE: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNOURISHNJ INC: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSON'S RESEARCH: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMATTHEW C SELLITTO FOUNDATION INC: $250 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetTHE V FOUNDATION: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMACCULLOCH HALL HISTORICAL MUSEUM: $200 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHOMAS JEFFERSON FOUNDATION INC: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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.

Healey Family Foundat…Wicks Chapin IncCommunity Foundation …The Bank of America C…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …
Healey Family FoundationNJ15.7× affinity5 shared granteesties to 6 of 6Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Healey Family Foundation · Wicks Chapin Inc · Community Foundation of New Jersey · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Hidden Pond Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Hidden Pond Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 50%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%8%15%22%30%share of the org’s income from government →median 27%
  • Nourishnj Inc: 27% of income from government
  • Cornerstone Family Programs: 3% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
5get no government money at all
5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–30%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
05Through Plinth

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How do I get to Hidden Pond Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Hidden Pond Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 25 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports $122k of grant expense with no grantee named in the published copy. A private foundation itemizes every grant it makes, so a return carrying none has filed its list as an attachment that the public copy does not include. The figures above are therefore from FY2024, the most recent year this funder’s grantee list reached the public record.

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