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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.

$170k
Granted FY2024still arriving
13
Grants FY2024still arriving
7
States reached
$30k
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.

Food & Nutrition$243kHealth$90kEnvironment$74kInternational$65kPublic Safety & Disaster$53kHuman Services$50kPhilanthropy$25kYouth Development$20kOther$0
02FY2024 · 13 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k2 grants · $10k
  • $10k–50k11 grants · $160k
$10,000
Median grant
7
States reached
$1.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
NATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION$30,000
HEIFER INTERNATIONAL$20,000
SHORELINE SOUP KITCHEN AND PANTRY$20,000
CHALLENGE ASPEN$15,000
LIFT-UP$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
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.

show:

Its 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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%SAFE FUTURES: $10k → 9%CHALLENGE ASPEN: $15k → 6%CHALLENGE ASPEN: $15k → 6%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

MN
MA
CT
CO
VA
AR
NC
DC
TX
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.

81%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$495k · 10 repeat orgs$114k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +23% since the first grant, against +8% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

10
8

Total granted

$495k
$74k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+23%
+8%

Still filing today

70%
63%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 76% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $40k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’20’21’22’23’24
Food & NutritionHuman ServicesEnvironmentPublic Safety & DisasterHealthEducationOther
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
    THE SHORELINE SOUP KITCHENS & PANTRIES INC
    6× · 2017–2024 · $205k · revenue +50%
  • NP
    NATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION
    2× · 2023–2024 · $70k · revenue +15%
  • CC
    CONNECTICUT CANCER FOUNDATION INC
    3× · 2020–2024 · $50k · revenue +37%

Funded once

  • CF
    CONNECTICUT FOODSHARE INCgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $15k · revenue +97%
  • CF
    CROSBY FUND FOR HAITIAN EDUC INC
    one grant, 2021 · $15k · revenue +8%
  • BR
    BASALT & RURAL FIRE PROTECTION DISTRICT
    one grant, 2018 · $10k
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
Connecticut Farmland Trust Inc

Protect Connecticuts farmland for agricultural use by purchasing and accepting donations of agricultural conservation easements

Food & Nutrition
2
The Vermont Community Foundation

The vermont community foundation helps to build philanthropic resources to sustain healthy and vital vermont communities. the foundation connects and mobilizes people through giving to multiply the impact of philanthropy.

Philanthropy
3
The Minnesota Camp Fire Foundation

Ensure camp fire minnesota's strong future. with nature as the catalyst, camp fire minnesota energizes youth to discover their spark so their futures glow brighter.

Youth Development
4
Colorado Gives Foundation

We connect people, ideas, and nonprofits to make good happen. our vision is that all of jeffco is thriving.

Philanthropy
5
Food & Water Watch

Food & water watch conducts extensive research and public education to ensure the food and water we consume is safe, accessible and sustainably produced. so we can all enjoy and trust in what we eat and drink, we help people take charge of…

Food & Nutrition
6
Nantucket Conservation Foundation Inc

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…

Environment
7
Colorado Food Cluster Inc

Provide opportunities for all to thrive by offering free food resources to communities.

Food & Nutrition
8
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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9
Conservation Legacy

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…

Youth Development
10
Foodshare Inc

Foodshare is leading an informed, coordinated response to hunger as part of the overall community effort to alleviate poverty in hartford and tolland counties.

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11
Climate Foundation

To research and develop healthy climate solutions comprising global food security, ecosystem regeneration and carbon balance in seas and soils.

Science & Tech
12
American Flood Coalition Inc

To drive transformational adaptation to protect communities across the country from higher seas, stronger storms, and more frequent flooding.

Environment
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Connecticut Foodshare Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

16 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. 16 of the 23 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)
16/16
Grantees still filing
14/16
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

NATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION: $70,000 · OtherNATIONAL PARK FOUNDATIONCONNECTICUT CANCER FOUNDATION INC: $50,000 · OtherCONNECTICUT CANCER FOUNDATION INCLIFT-UP: $40,000 · OtherLIFT-UPHEIFER INTERNATIONAL: $40,000 · OtherHEIFER INTERNATIONALTOYS FOR TOTS FOUNDATION: $20,000 · OtherTOYS FOR TOTS FOUNDATIONCONNECTICUT FOODSHARE INC: $15,000 · OtherBASALT & RURAL FIRE PROTECTION DISTRICT: $10,000 · OtherLYME YOUTH SERVICES: $10,000 · OtherASPEN FIRE PROTECTION DISTRICT: $10,000 · OtherUKRAINIAN RELIEF MISSION: $10,000 · OtherTHE SUNSHINE KIDS FOUNDATION: $10,000 · Other+2 more: $4,000 · OtherTHE SHORELINE SOUP KITCHENS & PANTRIES INC: $205,098 · Food & NutritionTHE SHORELINE SOUP KITCHENS & PANTRIES I…SECOND HARVEST HEARTLAND: $12,500 · Food & NutritionSECOND HARVEST HEARTLANDFOOD GROUP MINNESOTA INC THE: $10,000 · Food & NutritionCHALLENGE ASPEN: $30,000 · Human ServicesSafe Futures Inc: $10,000 · Human ServicesFOUNDATION FOR THE CAROLINAS: $25,000 · PhilanthropyASPEN VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT INC: $12,500 · Public Safety & DisasterAspen Wildfire Foundation: $10,000 · Public Safety & DisasterTHE COLORADO COLLEGE: $15,000 · EducationCROSBY FUND FOR HAITIAN EDUC INC: $15,000 · International
Other$289,000Food & Nutrition$227,598Human Services$40,000Philanthropy$25,000Public Safety & Disaster$22,500Education$15,000International$15,000

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 SHORELINE SOUP KITCHENS & PANTRIES INC: $205,098 over 6y, 3.5% of budgetNATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION: $70,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCONNECTICUT CANCER FOUNDATION INC: $50,000 over 3y, 1.9% of budgetCHALLENGE ASPEN: $30,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR THE CAROLINAS: $25,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE COLORADO COLLEGE: $15,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCONNECTICUT FOODSHARE INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCROSBY FUND FOR HAITIAN EDUC INC: $15,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetASPEN VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT INC: $12,500 over 2y, 20% of budgetSECOND HARVEST HEARTLAND: $12,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSafe Futures Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTHE SUNSHINE KIDS FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetFOOD GROUP MINNESOTA INC THE: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAspen Wildfire Foundation: $10,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetPROTECT OUR WINTERS: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAVALONIA LAND CONSERVANCY INC: $1,500 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

Kitchings Family Foun…The Community Foundat…The Pfizer Foundation…The Bank of America C…American Online Givin…Fidelity Investments …Donor Advised Charita…Amazonsmile Foundation
Kitchings Family FoundationFL13.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 7 of 7Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from government →median 15%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get 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 · 0–60%
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 Hj Promise Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Hj Promise 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 23 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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