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Hitz Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$5.9M
Granted FY2024still arriving
6
Grants FY2024still arriving
5
States reached
$3.6M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Arts & Culture$19MScience & Tech$4.1MInternational$1.6MEducation$1.5MEnvironment$215kHealth$25kYouth Development$25k
02FY2024 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $50k–250k2 grants · $150k
  • $250k+4 grants · $5.8M
$730,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$79M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
OREGON SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL$3,600,000
GLOBAL DIGITAL HERITAGE$1,208,000
PACUNAM$730,000
MAASAI WILDERNESS CONSERVATION FUND$250,000
ROOSEVELT INSTITUTE$100,000
ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION$50,000
02The need
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Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

US giving: 87% of grant dollars ($23M). The need read here covers only this US portion; the 13% that went abroad ($3.5M) is mapped below.

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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 89% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%LESLEY UNIVERSITY: $50k → 8%PACUNAM: $900k → 17%THE NUEVA SCHOOL: $250k → 7%GLOBAL DIGITAL HERITAGE: $873k → 8%GLOBAL HERITAGE FUND: $65k → 10%SUNY NEW PALTZ FOUNDATION: $65k → 16%ROOSEVELT INSTITUTE: $100k → 17%GLOBAL DIGITAL HERITAGE: $1.2M → 11%GLOBAL DIGITAL HERITAGE: $790k → 12%ALABAMA SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL: $20k → 18%WAKA RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $185k → 11%WAKA RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $96k → 21%OREGON SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL: $3.6M → 13%INIAN ISLANDS INSTITUTE: $215k → 18%DEEP SPRINGS COLLEGE: $202k → 15%LESLEY UNIVERSITY: $50k → 8%PACUNAM: $730k → 17%THE NUEVA SCHOOL: $125k → 7%GLOBAL DIGITAL HERITAGE: $850k → 8%SUNY NEW PALTZ FOUNDATION: $25k → 16%ROOSEVELT INSTITUTE: $100k → 17%GLOBAL DIGITAL HERITAGE: $886k → 11%GLOBAL DIGITAL HERITAGE: $790k → 12%WAKA RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $150k → 11%OREGON SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL: $2.0M → 13%THE ARETE PROJECT: $25k → 18%PACUNAM: $730k → 17%THE NUEVA SCHOOL: $125k → 7%STANFORD UNIVERSITY: $125k → 8%WORLD MONUMENTS FUND: $65k → 17%GLOBAL DIGITAL HERITAGE: $790k → 12%WAKA RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $150k → 11%OREGON SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL: $2.0M → 13%PACUNAM: $613k → 17%STANFORD UNIVERSITY: $125k → 8%FRACTURED ATLAS: $2.0M → 13%PACUNAM: $430k → 17%OREGON SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL: $1.0M → 13%PACUNAM: $100k → 17%PLAY ON: $900k → 13%OREGON SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL: $705k → 13%FRACTURED ATLAS: $70k → 13%FRACTURED ATLAS: $20k → 13%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

AK
NY
MA
OR
NV
CA
MO
AZ
DC
AL
FL

Beyond the US: 13% of all-years giving ($3.5M)

1 country, by the recipient’s country on the filing.

grant dollars sentlessmore
Guatemala$3.5M · 6 grants
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. International giving is mapped by the recipient’s country from the same 990 filings; comparable need data isn’t available at that grain.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

94%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$24M · 12 repeat orgs$1.5M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +26% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.

12 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2024, 6 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

12
8

Total granted

$24M
$1.5M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+26%
0%

Still filing today

67%
75%

New vs renewed · share of each year

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

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureEducationInternationalHealthSocial ScienceOther
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

  • GD
    Global Digital Heritage Inc
    5× · 2019–2024 · $4.5M · revenue +26% · 95% of their budget
  • MW
    MAASAI WILDERNESS CONSERVATION FUND
    8× · 2017–2024 · $1.6M · revenue +57% · 36% of their budget
  • NS
    NUEVA SCHOOL
    3× · 2018–2020 · $500k · revenue +17%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2020 · $900k
  • TI
    TIDELINES INSTITUTEgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $215k · revenue +34%
  • DS
    DEEP SPRINGS CORPORATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $202k · revenue +119%
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
Institute for Advanced Study - Louis Bamberger & Mrs Felix Fuld Foundation

The institute for advanced study (the institute) is one of the world's leading centers for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. see schedule o.

Science & Tech
2
American Museum of Natural History

The museum's mission statement is: "to discover, interpret, and disseminate - through scientific research and education - knowledge about human cultures, the natural world, and the universe."

Arts & Culture
3
New York University

Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.

Education
4
William Marsh Rice University

As a leading research university with a distinctive commitment to undergraduate education, Rice University aspires to path breaking research, unsurpassed teaching, and contributions to the betterment of our world. It seeks to fulfill this…

Education
5
The Central European University

Ceu is committed to promoting the values of open society and self-reflective critical thinking. it aims at excellence in the mastery of established knowledge, courage to pursue the creation of new knowledge in the humanities, the social…

International
6
World Learning Inc

Creating a more sustainable, peaceful, and just world through education, development, and exchange since 1932. as both an accredited academic institution and an international ngo, world learning, inc. offers the best of theory and practice…

International
7
Wake Forest University

Wake Forest University, a 501(c)(3) institution of higher education, is dedicated to the pursuit of excellence in the liberal arts and in graduate and professional education. The organization is comprised of seven constituent parts: Wake…

Education
8
The Nature Institute
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9
Trustees of Dartmouth College

Dartmouth College educates the most promising students and prepares them for a lifetime of learning and of responsible leadership, through a faculty dedicated to teaching and the creation of knowledge.

Education
10
Western New England University

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…

Education
11
Nalanda 20

Improve excellence and access in higher education. Current focus is on India. Thus, Nalanda 2.0's current focus is to make India's higher education system world-class by building a world-class multidisciplinary research university,…

Education
12
Berggruen Institute
Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Roosevelt Institute; the most unlike its peers is Waka Research Foundation. 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, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 17 of the 21 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
15/17
Grantees still filing
10/17
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

OREGON SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL ASSOCIATION INC: $9,310,000 · Arts & CultureOREGON SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL ASSOCIATION INCGlobal Digital Heritage Inc: $4,464,000 · Arts & CultureGlobal Digital Heritage Inc+2 more: $85,000 · Arts & CulturePACUNAM: $3,503,000 · OtherPACUNAMFRACTURED ATLAS: $2,090,000 · OtherFRACTURED ATLASGLOBAL DIGITAL HERITAGE: $1,723,000 · OtherGLOBAL DIGITAL HERITAGEIndividual grant recipient: $900,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientWAKA RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $581,000 · OtherWAKA RESEARCH FOUNDATION+4 more: $417,000 · OtherMAASAI WILDERNESS CONSERVATION FUND: $1,650,000 · InternationalNUEVA SCHOOL: $500,000 · EducationTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $250,000 · EducationTIDELINES INSTITUTE: $215,000 · EducationTHE ROOSEVELT INSTITUTE: $200,000 · EducationARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION FOR A NEW AMERICAN UNIVERSITY: $200,000 · EducationGLOBAL HERITAGE FUND: $65,000 · Social ScienceBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $25,000 · Health
Arts & Culture$13,859,000Other$9,214,000International$1,650,000Education$1,365,000Social Science$65,000Health$25,000

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

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetOREGON SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL ASSOCIATION INC: $9,310,000 over 5y, 11% of budgetGlobal Digital Heritage Inc: $4,464,000 over 5y, 95% of budgetMAASAI WILDERNESS CONSERVATION FUND: $1,650,000 over 8y, 36% of budgetNUEVA SCHOOL: $500,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $250,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTIDELINES INSTITUTE: $215,000 over 1y, 23% of budgetDEEP SPRINGS CORPORATION: $202,000 over 1y, 9.8% of budgetTHE ROOSEVELT INSTITUTE: $200,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION FOR A NEW AMERICAN UNIVERSITY: $200,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetLESLEY UNIVERSITY: $100,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSUNY NEW PALTZ FOUNDATION INC: $90,000 over 2y, 2.0% of budgetGLOBAL HERITAGE FUND: $65,000 over 1y, 4.3% of budgetWORLD MONUMENTS FUND INC: $65,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetALABAMA SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL: $20,000 over 1y, 0.2% 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.

Morgan Stanley Global…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust IncIN9.8× affinity5 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 Hitz Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Hitz Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%8%15%22%30%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • Lesley University: 1% of income from government
  • Oregon Shakespeare Festival Association Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
1report 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

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to Hitz Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Hitz 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 21 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.

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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
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The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home