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Hitchcock Margaret M Fdn

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.

$404k
Granted FY2021
102
Grants FY2021
21
States reached
$46k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
0193% classified

What you funded, over time

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

Arts & Culture$117kHealth$97kInternational$73kEducation$49kEnvironment$48kPhilanthropy$41kYouth Development$21kRecreation & Sports$10kOther$0
02FY2021 · 102 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2021

  • Under $10k93 grants · $188k
  • $10k–50k9 grants · $216k
$1,250
Median grant
21
States reached
$5.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Individual grant recipient$46,333
NEW YORK HOSPITAL$35,000
NATIONAL GALLERY OF ART$30,000
Tanzanian Children's Fund$27,000
Lyford Cay Foundation Inc$20,000
BANTHOONGPRAO SCHOOL$17,500
PITTSBURGH MUSKOKA FOUNDATION$16,000
GREEN EARTH FOUNDATION$14,500
H pital Albert Schweitzer Haiti$10,000
THE GRANT FOUNDATION$9,000
HITCHCOCK FOUNDATION$7,000
BE PRESENT NOW INC$6,000
METROPOLITAN OPERA ASSOCIATION$5,000
THE EAST HAMPTON HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION$5,000
Mary and Alexander Laughlin Childrens Ce$5,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY20–21, $39k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 18% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%Tanzanian Children's Fund: $27k → 8%TANZANIAN CHILDRENS FUND: $5k → 8%CARIDAD CENTER: $2k → 11%CARIDAD CENTER: $1k → 11%HOSPICE FOUNDATION OF PALM BEACH COUNTY: $2k → 11%HOSPICE FOUNDATION OF PALM BEACH COUNTY: $2k → 11%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

VT
NH
MI
NY
MA
WY
SD
OH
PA
CT
CA
CO
KY
VA
MD
AZ
NM
KS
NC
SC
DC
HI
GA
TX
FL

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

51%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$286k · 45 repeat orgs$275k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +38% since the first grant, against +34% for the ones you funded once.

45 repeat relationships — 45 still active in FY2021, 0 since wound down; 53 grantees were first funded in FY2021 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

45
38

Total granted

$286k
$45k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+38%
+34%

Still filing today

73%
66%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2021, 43% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $230k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21
Arts & CultureInternationalEducationHealthEnvironmentHuman ServicesOther

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

  • TP
    THE PITTSBURGHMUSKOKA FOUNDATION
    2× · 2020–2021 · $17k · revenue +23%
  • UP
    UNITED PLANT SAVERS
    2× · 2020–2021 · $16k · revenue +440%
  • AF
    ARIZONA FRIENDS OF TIBET
    2× · 2020–2021 · $11k · revenue +2% · 32% of their budget

Funded once

  • AT
    ALLEY THEATREgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $13k · revenue +118%
  • HG
    Houston Grand Opera Association Incgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $5k · revenue +42%
  • UZ
    UPAYA ZEN CENTER INC
    one grant, 2020 · $2k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Museum of Modern Art

The Museum of Modern Art is a private, non-profit institution chartered by the State of New York Department of Education in 1929 to foster public awareness of modern and contemporary art. (Continued in Schedule O)

Arts & Culture
2
The Pierpont Morgan Library

The Morgan Library & Museum celebrates and shares the history and process of human creativity from antiquity to the present day through the preservation, study, and interpretation of a dynamic and growing collection.

Education
3
New York Botanical Garden

The new york botanical garden is a museum of plants and a scientific research center devoted to the study of plants and their uses. it is the garden's mission to improve public understanding of the natural world, horticulture, and the…

Environment
4
The Frick Collection

The Frick Collection (the "Collection") operates an internationally recognized art museum and library program for the inspiration and enjoyment of the public and for the advancement of the study of fine arts and kindred subjects.

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5
Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden Inc

We harness the power of plants for humankind and share the joy and beauty of tropical gardening with everyone. fairchild tropical botanic garden is a museum of tropical plants within a world famous, 83-acre designed landscape. it was…

Environment
6
Foundation for Art and Preservation in Embassies

The Foundation for Art and Preservation in Embassies (FAPE) is dedicated to enhancing the United States' image abroad through American Art. Founded as a public-private, non-partisan partnership in 1986, FAPE works with the U.S. Department…

Arts & Culture
7
The Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences

The mission of the brooklyn institute of arts and sciences, d/b/a brooklyn museum (the "museum") is to bring people together through art and experiences that inspire celebration, compassion, courage, and the will to act. (see schedule o).

Arts & Culture
8
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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9
Armand Hammer Museum of Art and Cultural Center Inc

The hammer museum at ucla believes in the promise of art and ideas to illuminate our lives and build a more just world.

Arts & Culture
10
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
11
World Monuments Fund Inc

Wmf is the leading independent organization devoted to safeguarding the world's most treasured places to enrich people's lives and build mutual understanding across cultures and communities. the organization is headquartered in new york…

Arts & Culture
12
Conservation International Foundation

Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.

Environment

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is University of Arizona Foundation and the most unlike its peers is The Hanley Foundation Co Sue Hanley. 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyCommunity FoundationsChristian Missionary Organi…Community College Foundatio…Youth Development CentersYouth Sports ProgramsHealth Access Advocacy and …Jewish Community Organizati…Policy Research and AdvocacySchool District FoundationsAnimal Rescue and ShelterUnited Way AffiliatesChild Abuse Advocacy Servic…Local History MuseumsOrchestra and Ensemble Perf…Environmental Conservation …Community Arts Centers
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 36 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number18%2%<5yr13%1%5–10yr19%14%10–20yr17%31%20–35yr15%28%35–55yr17%25%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value18%4%<5yr13%1%5–10yr19%6%10–20yr17%29%20–35yr15%24%35–55yr17%36%55yr+

The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 4% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 9% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/98
the rest of the field
9%
7,129/78,064

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.

04the grantee network

93 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. 93 of the 136 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
21
Early backer (in before they grew)
91/93
Grantees still filing
70/93
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Individual grant recipient — $58,333 · OtherIndividual grant recipientNEW YORK HOSPITAL — $35,000 · OtherNEW YORK HOSPITALBANTHOONGPRAO SCHOOL — $17,500 · OtherBANTHOONGPRAO SCHOOLTHE PITTSBURGHMUSKOKA FOUNDATION — $17,000 · OtherTHE PITTSBURGHMUSKOKA FOUNDATIONCAPOEIRA ARTS FOUNDATION INC — $14,000 · OtherBE PRESENT NOW INC — $12,000 · OtherH pital Albert Schweitzer Haiti — $10,000 · OtherLYFORD CAY FOUNDATION INC — $20,000 · OtherLYFORD CAY FOUNDATION INC+65 more — $100,850 · Other+65 moreNational Gallery of Art — $30,000 · Arts & CultureNational Gallery of…ALLEY THEATRE — $13,333 · Arts & CultureALLEY THEATREMetropolitan Opera Association Inc — $10,000 · Arts & CultureMetropolitan Opera …FRACTURED ATLAS INC — $10,000 · Arts & CultureFRACTURED ATLAS INCTIBET HOUSE US INC — $5,000 · Arts & CultureHouston Grand Opera Association Inc — $5,000 · Arts & Culture+16 more — $24,400 · Arts & Culture+16 moreHitchcock Foundation — $12,000 · HealthEAST HAMPTON HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION — $10,000 · HealthMARY & ALEXANDER LAUGHLIN CHILDREN'S CENTER — $10,000 · HealthLenox Hill Hospital — $5,000 · HealthRehabilitation Center for Children and Adults Inc — $2,000 · Health+4 more — $3,750 · HealthTHE TANZANIAN CHILDRENS FUND INC — $32,000 · Human ServicesHOSPICE FOUNDATION OF PALM BEACH COUNTY — $4,000 · Human ServicesCaridad Center Inc — $3,000 · Human Services+1 more — $500 · Human ServicesARIZONA FRIENDS OF TIBET — $11,400 · InternationalGRANT FOUNDATION INC — $9,000 · InternationalTHE LYFORD CAY CLUB CHARITABLE TRUST INC — $5,000 · InternationalSISTER CITIES ESSEX HAITI INC — $2,800 · InternationalMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC — $2,000 · InternationalTHE AMERICAN HOSPITAL OF PARIS FOUNDATION — $2,000 · InternationalHELEN KELLER INTERNATIONAL — $2,000 · InternationalCROSBY FUND FOR HAITIAN EDUC INC — $2,000 · International+3 more — $1,200 · InternationalGREEN EARTH FOUNDATION — $15,000 · EducationUniversity of Arizona Foundation — $5,000 · EducationMALA'AI — $3,000 · EducationWAIMEA COUNTRY SCHOOL — $2,000 · EducationGlades Academy Foundation Inc — $2,000 · Education+5 more — $4,100 · EducationUNITED PLANT SAVERS — $16,000 · EnvironmentDUTCHESS LAND CONSERVANCY INC — $4,000 · EnvironmentTHE CONSERVATION FUND A NONPROFIT CORPORATION — $3,000 · EnvironmentHermann Park Conservancy — $2,000 · EnvironmentTUCSON BOTANICAL GARDENS — $1,000 · Environment+2 more — $1,000 · Environment
Other$284,683Arts & Culture$97,733Health$42,750Human Services$39,500International$37,400Education$31,100Environment$27,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetTHE TANZANIAN CHILDRENS FUND INC — $32,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetNational Gallery of Art — $30,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLYFORD CAY FOUNDATION INC — $20,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTHE PITTSBURGHMUSKOKA FOUNDATION — $17,000 over 2y, 23% of budgetUNITED PLANT SAVERS — $16,000 over 2y, 3.3% of budgetCAPOEIRA ARTS FOUNDATION INC — $14,000 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetALLEY THEATRE — $13,333 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHitchcock Foundation — $12,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetARIZONA FRIENDS OF TIBET — $11,400 over 2y, 32% of budgetEAST HAMPTON HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION — $10,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetMARY & ALEXANDER LAUGHLIN CHILDREN'S CENTER — $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetMetropolitan Opera Association Inc — $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFRACTURED ATLAS INC — $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGRANT FOUNDATION INC — $9,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTIBET HOUSE US INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHouston Grand Opera Association Inc — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLenox Hill Hospital — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE LYFORD CAY CLUB CHARITABLE TRUST INC — $5,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetUniversity of Arizona Foundation — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHOSPICE FOUNDATION OF PALM BEACH COUNTY — $4,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetDUTCHESS LAND CONSERVANCY INC — $4,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE CONSERVATION FUND A NONPROFIT CORPORATION — $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Preservation Foundation of Palm Beach Inc — $3,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCaridad Center Inc — $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNational Museum of Polo & Hall of Fame — $3,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetTHE CHILDRENS STOREFRONT — $3,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetNORTON MUSEUM OF ART INC — $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMALA'AI — $3,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetNORTHERN JAGUAR PROJECT — $3,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetSISTER CITIES ESSEX HAITI INC — $2,800 over 2y, 2.2% of budgetAudit USA — $2,500 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetA LEG TO STAND ON INC — $2,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetASPHALT GREEN INC — $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWAIMEA COUNTRY SCHOOL — $2,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetTHE ERIC CARLE MUSEUM OF PICTURE BOOK ART INC — $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC — $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTown of Palm Beach United Way Inc — $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCarnegie Mellon University — $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRAYMOND F KRAVIS CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS INC — $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE AMERICAN HOSPITAL OF PARIS FOUNDATION — $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetRehabilitation Center for Children and Adults Inc — $2,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetHELEN KELLER INTERNATIONAL — $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHermann Park Conservancy — $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE HANLEY FOUNDATION CO SUE HANLEY — $2,000 over 2y, 5.1% of budgetMETROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART — $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL FOUNDATION FOR FACIAL RECONSTRUCTION INC — $2,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCROSBY FUND FOR HAITIAN EDUC INC — $2,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetCENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY INC — $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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.

Hitchcock Bowart Date…Community Foundation …The Bessemer Giving F…The New York Communit…George L Ohrstrom Fou…Frances Gilmore Scaif…The Shana Alexander C…The Daniel and Estrel…The Pamela Howard Fam…The Brown Foundation …Collier Community Fou…Hillman Family Founda…
Hitchcock Bowart Daterra FoundationDE39× affinity16 shared granteesties to 8 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Hitchcock Bowart Daterra Foundation · Community Foundation for Southern Arizona · The Bessemer Giving Fund · The New York Community Trust · George L Ohrstrom Foundation · Frances Gilmore Scaife Private Foundation · The Shana Alexander Charitable Foundation · The Daniel and Estrellita Brodsky Family Foundation · The Pamela Howard Family Foundation Inc · The Brown Foundation Inc · Collier Community Foundation Inc · Hillman Family Foundations

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 Hitchcock Margaret M Fdn 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.

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 140%3%10%23%40%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 4%
  • Jerusalem Peacebuilders Inc — 5% of income from government
  • The Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art Inc — 4% of income from government
  • Caridad Center Inc — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
14get no government money at all
25report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 136 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2021, released 2021. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports $290k 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 FY2021, the most recent year this funder’s grantee list reached the public record.

Source object · view filing

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The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home
State money flows
the interactive map of money crossing state lines