· Private foundation
Hobsonlucas Family Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k223 grants · $480k
- $10k–50k59 grants · $1.1M
- $50k–250k27 grants · $2.4M
- $250k+27 grants · $53M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| TRUSTEES OF PRINCETON UNIVERSITY | $13,000,000 |
| NEW YORK UNIVERSITY | $10,000,000 |
| SCHWAB CHARITABLE FUND | $8,500,000 |
| SCHWAB CHARITABLE FUND | $7,000,000 |
| NAACP LEGAL DEFENSE & EDUCATIONAL FUND | $2,000,000 |
| NAACP LEGAL DEFENSE & EDUCATIONAL FUND | $2,000,000 |
| ACLU FOUNDATION | $1,000,000 |
| ACLU FOUNDATION | $1,000,000 |
| HAZELDEN BETTY FORD FOUNDATION | $1,000,000 |
| APOLLO THEATER FOUNDATION | $1,000,000 |
| THE FILM FOUNDATION | $650,000 |
| THE FILM FOUNDATION | $621,882 |
| THE FAITH COMMUNITY OF SAINT SABINA | $539,007 |
| THE METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART | $500,000 |
| THE ONE CAMPAIGN | $500,000 |
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 (FY20–24, $3.3M) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 98% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 25% of Hobsonlucas Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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 +23% since the first grant, against +15% for the ones you funded once.
325 repeat relationships — 210 still active in FY2024, 115 since wound down; 54 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, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.6M 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
- NYNew York University4× · 2021–2024 · $50M · revenue +30%
THE BARACK OBAMA FOUNDATION4× · 2020–2024 · $14M · revenue +22%- AFACADEMY FOUNDATION4× · 2020–2023 · $12M · revenue +6%
Funded once
- LLLDF LEGAL DEFENSE FUNDone grant, 2023 · $4.0M
MOTOWN HISTORICAL MUSUEM INCgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $1.0M · revenue +49%- TATHE AMERICAN FILM INSTITUTEgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $1.0M · revenue +33%
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.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.
The Television Academy is dedicated to celebrating excellence, innovation and the advancement of the telecommunications arts and sciences through recognition, education and leadership, while fostering a diverse, inclusive and accessible…
The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.
The mission of the uc davis foundation is to secure, steward and manage private gifts for uc davis.
See schedule okqed serves the people of northern california with a community-supported alternative to commercial media, providing the knowledge needed to make informed decisions; convening community dialogue; bringing the arts to everyone;…
Golden gate university prepares individuals to lead and serve by providing high quality, practice-based educational programs in law, taxation, business and related professions - as a nonprofit institution - in an innovative and challenging…
The organization provides professional investment management services for endowed gifts and financial assets entrusted to the ucsf foundation.
New york school of interior design provides the most innovative, immersive, and transformative interior design education in the world, demonstrating the impact of professionally designed interiors on the health, happiness, and well-being…
Advance science, engineering, and innovation throughout the world for the benefit of all. the world's largest multidisciplinary scientific society and a leading publisher of cutting-edge research through its science family of journals,…
The foundation's mission is to improve the oral health of all californians by supporting the dental profession and its efforts to meet community needs.
California college of the arts educates students to shape culture and society through the practice and critical study of art, architecture, design, and writing. benefitting from its san francisco bay area location, the college prepares…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Access Living of Metropolitan Chicago and the most unlike its peers is National Council of Negro Women Inc. 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.
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 39 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.7% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
446 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. 446 of the 590 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ↗
- Who funds New York University ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST ↗
- Who funds THE BARACK OBAMA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ACADEMY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE FILM FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds AFTER SCHOOL MATTERS INC ↗
- Who funds NAACP LEGAL DEFENSE & EDUC FUND INC ↗
- Who funds HAZELDEN BETTY FORD FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds APOLLO THEATER FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF ↗
- Who funds The ONE Campaign ↗
- Who funds Feeding America ↗
- Who funds Young Eisner Scholars ↗
- Who funds THE HAMLIN SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART ↗
- Who funds Teach for America Inc ↗
- Who funds FIELD MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY ↗
- Who funds SESAME WORKSHOP ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds MARIN GENERAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds The National Film Preserve Ltd ↗
- Who funds THE MAYOR'S FUND FOR LOS ANGELES ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL COLLEGE ADVISING CORPS INC ↗
- Who funds MOTOWN HISTORICAL MUSUEM INC ↗
- Who funds THE AMERICAN FILM INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF CINETECA DI BOLOGNA ↗
- Who funds CHICAGO PUBLIC EDUCATION FUND ↗
- Who funds GIRLS WHO CODE INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA BERKELEY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds National Council of Negro Women 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: Marin Community Foundation · McNabb Foundation · Leonard & Beryl Buck Foundation · Bothin Foundation · Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma · The San Francisco Foundation · Extrafood · The Stanley S Langendorf Foundation · The Morris Stulsaft Foundation · Sonoma County Community Foundation · The William G Irwin Charity Foundation · United Way of the Bay Area
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 Hobsonlucas Family 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.
- Save the Children Federation Inc — 30% of income from government
- American Academy of Arts & Sciences — 3% of income from government
- The Poynter Institute for Media Studies Inc — 1% of income from government
- Norman Rockwell Museum at Stockbridge Inc — 1% of income from government
- Choate Rosemary Hall Foundation Incorporated — 0% 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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