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Hmc Designing Futures 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.

$126k
Granted FY2024still arriving
23
Grants FY2024still arriving
5
States reached
$25k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
0197% classified

What you funded, over time

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

Education$451kFood & Nutrition$157kYouth Development$77kHousing & Shelter$75kEnvironment$75kArts & Culture$66kInternational$53kPhilanthropy$42kOther$0
02FY2024 · 23 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k20 grants · $81k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $45k
$5,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$1.7M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF GREATER SAC$25,000
ACE MENTORING PROGRAM$10,000
ONE TREE PLANTED$10,000
BRIGHT PROSPECT$5,500
GARDEN SCHOOL FOUNDATION$5,000
THE FRIENDS OF CHABOT COLLEGE$5,000
HUERTA DEL VALLE$5,000
EAST LOS ANGELES COLLEGE$5,000
DIY GIRLS$5,000
LEAP ARTS IN EDUCATION$5,000
Individual grant recipient$5,000
ARCHITECTURE FOR COMMUNITIES LOS ANGELES$5,000
Individual grant recipient$5,000
Individual grant recipient$5,000
ARQUITINA$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 (FY19–21, $39k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 92% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%JOURNEYMAN INTERNATIONAL: $10k → 11%SUNNYVALE COMMUNITY SERVICES: $3k → 8%SACRAMENTO CHILDREN'S HOME: $5k → 12%HOPE THROUGH HOUSING: $5k → 14%SACRAMENTO CHILDREN'S HOME: $5k → 12%WAYFINDER FAMILY SERVICES: $3k → 14%MIDNIGHT MISSION: $5k → 14%MIDNIGHT MISSION: $4k → 14%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
WA
MT
IL
MI
NY
OR
IA
IN
CT
CA
CO
VA
MD
AZ
NC
DC
HI
AL
TX

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.

64%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$673k · 52 repeat orgs$383k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +35% since the first grant, against +7% for the ones you funded once.

52 repeat relationships — 16 still active in FY2024, 36 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

52
109

Total granted

$673k
$339k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+35%
+7%

Still filing today

69%
45%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 65% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $45k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationEnvironmentFood & NutritionInternationalHuman ServicesCivil RightsOther

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

  • BP
    BRIGHT PROSPECT
    5× · 2019–2024 · $26k · revenue +7%
  • TF
    THE FRIENDS OF CHABOT COLLEGE
    5× · 2019–2024 · $25k · revenue +386%
  • FA
    FEEDING AMERICA RIVERSIDE SAN BERNARDINO COUNTIES
    2× · 2020–2021 · $20k · revenue +82%

Funded once

  • KM
    KELI MAY FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2018 · $15k
  • NAACP LEGAL DEFENSE & EDUC FUND INC
    one grant, 2020 · $11k · revenue -54%
  • TE
    THE ECOLOGY CENTER-ENCINITAS
    one grant, 2018 · $10k

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
Food Forward Inc

Food forward fights hunger and prevents food waste by rescuing fresh surplus produce, connecting this abundance with people experiencing food insecurity, and inspiring others to do the same.

Food & Nutrition
2
The Union of Concerned Scientists Inc

The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.

International
3
California Forward

Ca fwd drives action to identify solutions that can be taken to scale to meet the challenges the state is facing. the organization is driven by the belief that regional solutions across the state will help ensure economic, environmental,…

Public Benefit
4
California Association of Food Banks

California association of food banks (cafb) is a non-profit public benefit corporation located in oakland, california. together with its 41-member foodbanks, cafb is the largest charitable hunger-relief and anti-hunger leader in the state.…

Food & Nutrition
5
Foundation for California Community Colleges

The foundation's mission is to benefit, support, and enhance the missions of the california community college system.

Education
6
Association of California School Administrators

The association serves its members by creating resources that enable california school administrators to develop and apply creative leadership and management skills and in turn, improve the educational process for all students.

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7
The San Diego Foundation

The san diego foundation inspires enduring philanthropy and enables community solutions to improve the quality of life in our region.

Philanthropy
8
Extrafood

Food Rescue - The Organization rescues excess fresh food from Bay Area businesses, schools and non-profits and immediately delivers the food to safety net partners - such as senior housing centers, after-school programs, and homeless…

Food & Nutrition
9
Friends of the Earth

Friends of the earth strives for a more healthy and just world by defendng the environment and human health while advancing social and economic justice by conducting research and education, transforming the economy so it protects the…

Environment
10
Uc Santa Barbara Foundation

The uc santa barbara foundation actively works to further the goals of the university of california, santa barbara. the foundation seeks to maintain and nurture the university's quality and distinction. on behalf of the campus, the…

Education
11
Sustainable Conservation

Sustainable Conservation advances the collaborative stewardship of Californias land, air, and water for the benefit of nature and people. For over three decades, Sustainable Conservation has built coalitions of people with different…

Environment
12
Central California Food Bank

Ccfb is dedicated to ending hunger, working with over 200 partner agencies to provide food to those experiencing hunger. our mission: transforming lives together, in the passionate pursuit to end hunger in central ca - one meal, one…

Food & Nutrition

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is California Community Foundation and the most unlike its peers is The Noma Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 34 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number24%0%<5yr15%6%5–10yr20%23%10–20yr17%22%20–35yr11%23%35–55yr13%26%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value24%0%<5yr15%6%5–10yr20%30%10–20yr17%19%20–35yr11%24%35–55yr13%22%55yr+

The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
1%1/98
the rest of the field
14%
26,002/186,880

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

94 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. 94 of the 173 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
15
Early backer (in before they grew)
93/94
Grantees still filing
61/94
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

ACE MENTORING PROGRAM — $40,000 · OtherACE MENTORING PROGRAMMT SAC FOUNDATION — $28,500 · OtherHABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF GREATER SAC — $25,000 · Other+110 more — $559,344 · Other+110 moreBRIGHT PROSPECT — $25,750 · EducationBRIGHT PROSPECTTHE FRIENDS OF CHABOT COLLEGE — $25,000 · EducationTHE FRIENDS OF …DIABLO VALLEY COLLEGE FOUNDATION — $20,000 · EducationDIABLO VALLEY C…Palomar College Foundation — $20,000 · EducationPalomar College…ARQUITINA CORP ARQUITINA — $10,000 · EducationARQUITINA CORP …CALIFORNIA BAPTIST UNIVERSITY — $10,000 · EducationCALIFORNIA BAPT…WOODBURY UNIVERSITY — $10,000 · EducationWOODBURY UNIVER…GREAT PUBLIC SCHOOLS NOW — $7,500 · EducationSIMI VALLEY EDUCATION FOUNDATION — $5,440 · Education+9 more — $12,150 · Education+9 moreFEEDING AMERICA RIVERSIDE SAN BERNARDINO COUNTIES — $20,453 · Food & NutritionFEEDING A…FEEDING SAN DIEGO — $20,000 · Food & NutritionFEEDING S…HUERTA DEL VALLE — $15,000 · Food & NutritionHUERTA DE…JACOBS & CUSHMAN SAN DIEGO FOOD BANK — $10,000 · Food & NutritionJACOBS & …SECOND HARVEST OF SILICON VALLEY — $8,000 · Food & NutritionSECOND HA…FOOD BANK OF CONTRA COSTA AND SOLANO — $7,500 · Food & NutritionFOOD BANK…ST MARY'S FOOD BANK ALLIANCE — $5,000 · Food & NutritionST MARY'S…FOOD LITERACY CENTER — $5,000 · Food & NutritionFOOD LITE…+1 more — $100 · Food & NutritionFriends of Adanu Inc — $10,665 · InternationalGIRLS GARAGE — $10,000 · InternationalSchools for Children of the World — $10,000 · InternationalMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC — $7,925 · InternationalUNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF — $6,000 · InternationalSave The Children Federation Inc — $5,640 · InternationalWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC — $5,458 · InternationalBRIDGES TO PROSPERITY INC — $2,500 · InternationalCALIFORNIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $17,500 · PhilanthropyONE TREE PLANTED INC — $15,000 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY CALIFORNIA CAPITAL REGION — $10,000 · PhilanthropyINLAND EMPIRE UNITED WAY — $5,000 · PhilanthropyHAWAII COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $4,666 · Philanthropy+2 more — $179 · PhilanthropyECOLOGY CENTER — $15,000 · EnvironmentRANCHO SANTA ANA BOTANIC GARDEN — $10,000 · EnvironmentSOUTHERN CALIFORNIA MOUNTAINS FOUNDATION — $6,000 · EnvironmentPando Populus Inc — $5,000 · Environment+7 more — $3,520 · EnvironmentSACRAMENTO CHILDREN'S HOME — $10,000 · Human ServicesJOURNEYMAN INTERNATIONAL — $10,000 · Human ServicesTHE MIDNIGHT MISSION — $8,750 · Human ServicesHOPE THROUGH HOUSING FOUNDATION — $5,000 · Human ServicesSUNNYVALE COMMUNITY SERVICES — $3,000 · Human ServicesWayfinder Family Services — $2,500 · Human Services+1 more — $250 · Human Services
Other$652,844Education$145,840Food & Nutrition$91,053International$58,188Philanthropy$52,345Environment$39,520Human Services$39,500

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 budgetBRIGHT PROSPECT — $25,750 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetTHE FRIENDS OF CHABOT COLLEGE — $25,000 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetFEEDING AMERICA RIVERSIDE SAN BERNARDINO COUNTIES — $20,453 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGARDEN SCHOOL FOUNDATION INC — $20,050 over 5y, 1.8% of budgetEL CAMINO COMMUNITY COLLEGE District Foundation — $20,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetFEEDING SAN DIEGO — $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLEAP ARTS IN EDUCATION FKA LEAP IMAGINATION IN LEARNING — $20,000 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetDIABLO VALLEY COLLEGE FOUNDATION — $20,000 over 4y, 1.1% of budgetPalomar College Foundation — $20,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetCALIFORNIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $17,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF METRO LOS ANGELES — $16,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetONE TREE PLANTED INC — $15,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGARDENWORKSFORKIDS INC — $15,000 over 3y, 5.4% of budgetHUERTA DEL VALLE — $15,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetECOLOGY CENTER — $15,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetARCHITECTURE FOR COMMUNITIES LOS ANGELES — $11,000 over 3y, 7.1% of budgetNAACP LEGAL DEFENSE & EDUC FUND INC — $10,708 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFriends of Adanu Inc — $10,665 over 2y, 9.5% of budgetARQUITINA CORP ARQUITINA — $10,000 over 2y, 8.3% of budgetLA-MAS INC — $10,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetSACRAMENTO FOOD BANK & FAMILY SERVICES — $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetRANCHO SANTA ANA BOTANIC GARDEN — $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetGIRLS GARAGE — $10,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetJACOBS & CUSHMAN SAN DIEGO FOOD BANK — $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSchools for Children of the World — $10,000 over 1y, 5.0% of budgetCALIFORNIA BAPTIST UNIVERSITY — $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSAN FRANCISCO FOOD BANK — $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSACRAMENTO CHILDREN'S HOME — $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetDIY GIRLS — $10,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetWOODBURY UNIVERSITY — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED WAY CALIFORNIA CAPITAL REGION — $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMUNITY SERVICES UNLIMITED INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetJOURNEYMAN INTERNATIONAL — $10,000 over 1y, 5.7% of budgetLOS ANGELES REGIONAL FOOD BANK — $8,950 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MIDNIGHT MISSION — $8,750 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSECOND HARVEST OF SILICON VALLEY — $8,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLIFEMOVES — $8,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC — $7,925 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFOOD BANK OF CONTRA COSTA AND SOLANO — $7,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGREAT PUBLIC SCHOOLS NOW — $7,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFREE THE NEED — $6,000 over 2y, 11% of budgetUNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF — $6,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSOUTHERN CALIFORNIA MOUNTAINS FOUNDATION — $6,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSave The Children Federation Inc — $5,640 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC — $5,458 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSIMI VALLEY EDUCATION FOUNDATION — $5,440 over 1y, 9.7% of budgetST MARY'S FOOD BANK ALLIANCE — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHOPE THROUGH HOUSING FOUNDATION — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

Kaiser Foundation Hos…Weingart FoundationCalifornia Community …The California Endowm…The Annenberg Foundat…The California Wellne…Liberty Hill Foundati…East Bay Community Fo…PatagoniaorgThe San Francisco Fou…The James Irvine Foun…The Ralph M Parsons F…
Kaiser Foundation HospitalsCA33.5× affinity18 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Kaiser Foundation Hospitals · Weingart Foundation · California Community Foundation · The California Endowment · The Annenberg Foundation · The California Wellness Foundation · Liberty Hill Foundation · East Bay Community Foundation · Patagoniaorg · The San Francisco Foundation · The James Irvine Foundation · The Ralph M Parsons 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 Hmc Designing Futures 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%1%4%8%15%your share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →median 30%
  • Save the Children Federation Inc — 30% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
33report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
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 173 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Source object · view filing

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