· Public charity
Hispanic Scholarship Fund
Hsf empowers students and parents with the knowledge and resources to successfully complete a higher education, while providing support services and scholarships to as many exceptional students, hsf scholars and alumni as possible.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 278 grants below total $22,314,149 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $32,453,331 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $10,139,182 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k33 grants · $247k
- $10k–50k146 grants · $3.5M
- $50k–250k78 grants · $7.9M
- $250k+21 grants · $11M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| HOWARD UNIVERSITY | $902,564 |
| THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN | $774,943 |
| PRESIDENT AND FELLOWS OF HARVARD COLLEGE | $720,573 |
| UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA | $720,093 |
| THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA LOS ANGELES | $710,641 |
| THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD UNIVERSITY | $693,565 |
| COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK | $667,921 |
| NEW YORK UNIVERSITY | $602,881 |
| SPELMAN COLLEGE | $574,436 |
| GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY | $453,873 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA IRVINE | $437,314 |
| REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA | $424,459 |
| TRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY | $414,504 |
| NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY | $387,853 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN - ANN ARBOR | $366,636 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 80% of your 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.
211 repeat relationships — 188 still active in FY2025, 23 since wound down; 67 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, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.5M 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
- NYNew York University7× · 2019–2025 · $2.1M · revenue +51%
THE HOWARD UNIVERSITY7× · 2019–2025 · $1.7M · revenue +38%
Northwestern University7× · 2019–2025 · $1.3M · revenue +34%
Funded once
UNITED NEGRO COLLEGE FUND INCgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $21M · revenue +74%- DVDELAWARE VALLEY UNIVERSITYone grant, 2024 · $20k · revenue +5%
- CSCOLORADO STATE UNIVERSITYone grant, 2024 · $19k
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.
Western new england university, a comprehensive private institution with a tradition of excellence in teaching and scholarship and a commitment to service, awards undergraduate, master's, and doctoral degrees in various departments from…
Lewis & clark is a premier private higher education institution offering an exceptional education in an inclusive environment. by fostering critical thinking, innovation, creativity, civic engagement, and leadership, both inside and…
Endicott college offers students a vibrant academic environment that remains true to its founding principle of integrating professional and liberal arts with experiential learning. for more information see schedule o.
As a diverse community of learners, we cultivate integrity, curiosity, connection and resilience.
Dickinson college provides a useful, innovative and interdisciplinary education in the liberal arts and sciences to prepare students to lead rich and fulfilling lives of engaged global citizenship
Enriched by the lasallian catholic heritage, saint mary's university of minnesota awakens, nurtures, and empowers learners to ethical lives of service and leadership.
As a Catholic, Jesuit university our mission is to search for truth, discover shareknowledge, foster personal professional excellence, promote a life of faith and developleadership expressed in service to others. See Schedule O.
The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
At Roger Williams University, students are prepared to be thinkers and doers ready to solve challenging problems with innovative solutions. RWU offers robust offerings of undergraduate, graduate and professional programs across eight…
Hillsdale college is a private liberal arts college with approximately 1,500 students. founded in 1844, the college remains, in the words of its articles of association, "grateful to god for the inestimable blessings resulting from the…
Organization's mission bentley university believes good business can impact more than the bottom line - it can change the world. bentley is a community of future business leaders who will deliver value in the marketplace and lasting…
Biu produces students who excel in the sciences, humanities, law, engineering, business & the arts.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Georgetown University and the most unlike its peers is Amda Inc (American Musical and Dramatic Academy). 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 80 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.
166 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. 166 of the 307 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 UNITED NEGRO COLLEGE FUND INC ↗
- Who funds THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK ↗
- Who funds President and Fellows of Harvard College ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA ↗
- Who funds New York University ↗
- Who funds Yale University ↗
- Who funds THE HOWARD UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Northwestern University ↗
- Who funds BROWN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds DUKE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Spelman College ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA ↗
- Who funds Cornell University ↗
- Who funds University of Chicago ↗
- Who funds JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Emory University ↗
- Who funds William Marsh Rice University ↗
- Who funds The Trustees of Princeton University ↗
- Who funds Davidson College ↗
- Who funds PEPPERDINE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Carnegie Mellon University ↗
- Who funds BAYLOR UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Vanderbilt University ↗
- Who funds Trustees of Dartmouth College ↗
- Who funds The University of Tulsa ↗
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: National Collegiate Athletic Association · Folds of Honor Foundation · American Chemical Society · Tulsa Community Foundation · American Council of Learned Societies · The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York · World Learning Inc · National Writing Project Corporation · Howard Hughes Medical Institute · Association of Public and Land-Grant Universities · Corporation for Public Broadcasting · Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy Inc
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 Hispanic Scholarship Fund 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.
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology — 26% of income from government
- Trustees of Boston University — 12% of income from government
- The Trustees of Princeton University — 12% of income from government
- The Trustees of the Stevens Institute of Technology — 12% of income from government
- Trustees of Tufts College — 11% of income from government
- Johns Hopkins University — 11% of income from government
- Yale University — 9% of income from government
- Worcester Polytechnic Institute — 6% of income from government
- University of Miami — 5% of income from government
- President and Fellows of Harvard College — 5% of income from government
- Northeastern University — 4% of income from government
- The University of Tulsa — 2% of income from government
- Trustees of Boston College — 2% of income from government
- Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University Inc — 2% of income from government
- Nova Southeastern University Inc — 2% of income from government
- University of Portland — 2% of income from government
- Southeastern University Inc — 1% of income from government
- Rider University — 1% of income from government
- Wellesley College — 1% of income from government
- Suffolk University — 1% of income from government
- Mcphs University — 1% of income from government
- President and Fellows of Middlebury College — 0% of income from government
- Rollins College — 0% of income from government
- Champlain College Incorporated — 0% of income from government
- Emerson College — 0% of income from government
- Boston Architectural College — 0% of income from government
- Berklee College of Music 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.