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Hj Promise 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k2 grants · $10k
- $10k–50k11 grants · $160k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| NATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION | $30,000 |
| HEIFER INTERNATIONAL | $20,000 |
| SHORELINE SOUP KITCHEN AND PANTRY | $20,000 |
| LIFT-UP | $15,000 |
| CHALLENGE ASPEN | $15,000 |
| THE FOOD GROUP | $10,000 |
| UKRAINIAN RELIEF MISSION | $10,000 |
| SAFE FUTURES | $10,000 |
| CT CANCER FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| ASPEN WILDFIRE FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| TOYS FOR TOTS FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| SECOND HARVEST HEARTLAND | $5,000 |
| COLORADO COLLEGE | $5,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY23–24, $40k) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +37% since the first grant, against +8% for the ones you funded once.
10 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2024, 1 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 76% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $40k 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
- TSTHE SHORELINE SOUP KITCHENS & PANTRIES INC6× · 2017–2024 · $205k · revenue +50%
- NPNATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION2× · 2023–2024 · $70k · revenue +82%
- CCCONNECTICUT CANCER FOUNDATION INC3× · 2020–2024 · $50k · revenue +37%
Funded once
- CFCROSBY FUND FOR HAITIAN EDUC INCone grant, 2021 · $15k · revenue +8%
- CFCONNECTICUT FOODSHARE INCgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $15k · revenue +97%
- LYLYME YOUTH SERVICESone grant, 2020 · $10k
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.
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We connect people, ideas, and nonprofits to make good happen. our vision is that all of jeffco is thriving.
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The nantucket conservation foundation owns, protects, and stewards over 9,000 acres of land and coastal shoreline, conserves nantucket's rare and significant natural resources, and engages in impactful ecological research to inform…
Provide opportunities for all to thrive by offering free food resources to communities.
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Conservation legacy engages future leaders who protect, restore, and enhance our nation's lands through community-based service.in 2024, conservation legacy engaged 2,524 participants who completed over 1.5 million service hours on public…
Foodshare is leading an informed, coordinated response to hunger as part of the overall community effort to alleviate poverty in hartford and tolland counties.
To research and develop healthy climate solutions comprising global food security, ecosystem regeneration and carbon balance in seas and soils.
To drive transformational adaptation to protect communities across the country from higher seas, stronger storms, and more frequent flooding.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Connecticut Foodshare Inc and the most unlike its peers is Challenge Aspen. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
16 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. 16 of the 23 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
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 THE SHORELINE SOUP KITCHENS & PANTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CONNECTICUT CANCER FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CHALLENGE ASPEN ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATION FOR THE CAROLINAS ↗
- Who funds THE COLORADO COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds CROSBY FUND FOR HAITIAN EDUC INC ↗
- Who funds CONNECTICUT FOODSHARE INC ↗
- Who funds ASPEN VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT INC ↗
- Who funds SECOND HARVEST HEARTLAND ↗
- Who funds FOOD GROUP MINNESOTA INC THE ↗
- Who funds Safe Futures Inc ↗
- Who funds Aspen Wildfire Foundation ↗
- Who funds THE SUNSHINE KIDS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PROTECT OUR WINTERS ↗
- Who funds AVALONIA LAND CONSERVANCY INC ↗
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: Kitchings Family Foundation · The Community Foundation of Eastern Connecticut Inc · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation
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 Hj Promise Foundation 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.
- Avalonia Land Conservancy Inc — 21% of income from government
- Safe Futures Inc — 15% of income from government
- Connecticut Foodshare Inc — 5% 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.
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