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Hobsonlucas Family Foundation at a glance

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Hobsonlucas Family Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$57M
Granted FY2024still arriving
336
Grants FY2024still arriving
23
States reached
$13M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Education$121MPhilanthropy$72MArts & Culture$40MPublic Benefit$15MCivil Rights$12MHealth$8.5MYouth Development$6.5MInternational$6.0MOther$0
02FY2024 · 336 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k223 grants · $480k
  • $10k–50k59 grants · $1.1M
  • $50k–250k27 grants · $2.4M
  • $250k+27 grants · $53M
$5,000
Median grant
23
States reached
$1.2B
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
APOLLO THEATER FOUNDATION$1,000,000
ACLU FOUNDATION$1,000,000
ACLU FOUNDATION$1,000,000
HAZELDEN BETTY FORD FOUNDATION$1,000,000
THE FILM FOUNDATION$650,000
THE FILM FOUNDATION$621,882
THE FAITH COMMUNITY OF SAINT SABINA$539,007
AFTER SCHOOL MATTERS$500,000
THE METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART$500,000
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.

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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%WINGS FOR KIDS: $25k → 12%NATIONAL DIAPER BANK NETWORK: $25k → 12%FIRST GENERATION INVESTORS: $25k → 10%WINGS FOR KIDS: $5k → 12%NATIONAL DIAPER BANK NETWORK: $15k → 12%NATIONAL DIAPER BANK NETWORK: $10k → 12%SAN RAFAEL SANTA COP: $5k → 8%NATIONAL URBAN LEAGUE: $10k → 17%MOTION PICTURE & TELEVISION FUND: $50k → 14%TORY BURCH FOUNDATION INC: $25k → 17%TORY BURCH FOUNDATION INC: $20k → 17%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $300k → 14%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $50k → 10%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $50k → 10%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $50k → 10%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $250k → 14%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $50k → 10%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $25k → 10%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $20k → 10%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $100k → 14%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $50k → 14%THE LIGHTHOUSE FOR THE BLIND: $10k → 10%YOUNG EISNER SCHOLARS: $1.0M → 14%YOUNG EISNER SCHOLARSYES: $200k → 14%YOUNG EISNER SCHOLARS: $100k → 14%YOUNG EISNER SCHOLARS: $100k → 14%NATIONAL URBAN LEAGUE INC: $10k → 17%GIRLS WHO CODE: $100k → 17%GIRLS WHO CODE: $75k → 17%WHISTLESTOP: $10k → 8%VIVALON: $10k → 8%UCAN: $25k → 14%NORTH BEACH CITIZENS: $20k → 10%NORTH BEACH CITIZENS: $10k → 10%NORTH BEACH CITIZENS: $10k → 10%NORTH BEACH CITIZENS: $10k → 10%NORTH BEACH CITIZENS: $10k → 10%NORTH BEACH CITIZENS: $10k → 10%NORTH BEACH CITIZENS: $10k → 10%NORTH BEACH CITIZENS: $10k → 10%NORTH BEACH CITIZENS: $10k → 10%HARLEM CHILDREN'S ZONE: $25k → 17%HARLEM CHILDREN'S ZONE: $25k → 17%HARLEM CHILDREN'S ZONE: $25k → 17%HARLEM CHILDREN'S ZONE: $25k → 17%HARLEM CHILDREN'S ZONE: $25k → 17%HARLEM CHILDREN'S ZONE: $10k → 17%GIRLS WHO CODE: $150k → 17%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

VT
NH
WA
ID
MN
IL
MI
NY
MA
OR
NV
OH
PA
NJ
CT
CA
CO
VA
MD
AZ
NM
NC
SC
DC
LA
AL
GA
TX
FL
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.
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Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 25% of Hobsonlucas Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

Hobsonlucas Family Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 14% directed abroad (not shown)
How this is measured
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 funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

92%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$186M · 325 repeat orgs$17M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +22% since the first grant, against +15% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

325
192

Total granted

$186M
$15M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+22%
+15%

Still filing today

81%
63%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.6M went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureEducationHealthHuman ServicesInternationalYouth DevelopmentOther
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

  • NY
    New York University
    4× · 2021–2024 · $50M · revenue +30%
  • THE BARACK OBAMA FOUNDATION
    4× · 2020–2024 · $14M · revenue +22%
  • AF
    ACADEMY FOUNDATION
    4× · 2020–2023 · $12M · revenue +6%

Funded once

  • LL
    LDF LEGAL DEFENSE FUND
    one grant, 2023 · $4.0M
  • TA
    THE AMERICAN FILM INSTITUTEgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $1.0M · revenue +33%
  • MOTOWN HISTORICAL MUSUEM INCgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $1.0M · revenue +117%
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
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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2
United States Naval Institute

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.

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3
Academy of Television Arts and Sciences

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…

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4
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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.

Education
5
The Uc Davis Foundation

The mission of the uc davis foundation is to secure, steward and manage private gifts for uc davis.

Education
6
Kqed Inc

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;…

Arts & Culture
7
Golden Gate University

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…

Education
8
Ucsf Foundation Investment Company

The organization provides professional investment management services for endowed gifts and financial assets entrusted to the ucsf foundation.

Education
9
New York School of Interior Design

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…

Education
10
American Association for the Advancement of Science

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,…

Science & Tech
11
California Dental Association Foundation

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.

Science & Tech
12
California College of the Arts

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…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Access Living of Metropolitan Chicago; 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.
05the grantee network

446 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. 446 of the 590 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)
58
Early backer (in before they grew)
440/446
Grantees still filing
293/446
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

New York University: $50,000,000 · EducationNew York UniversityUNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: $21,221,641 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNI…AFTER SCHOOL MATTERS INC: $5,944,323 · EducationAFTER SCHOOL MATTERS INC+26 more: $6,578,500 · Education+26 moreDONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC: $55,375,000 · PhilanthropyDONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIV…NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST: $15,000,000 · PhilanthropyNATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST+10 more: $2,551,000 · PhilanthropyTRUSTEES OF PRINCETON UNIVERSITY: $39,975,000 · OtherTRUSTEES OF PRINCETON UNIV…THE FILM FOUNDATION: $4,100,000 · OtherTHE FILM FOUNDATIONLDF LEGAL DEFENSE FUND: $4,000,000 · OtherLDF LEGAL DEFENSE FUND+85 more: $19,880,019 · Other+85 moreTHE BARACK OBAMA FOUNDATION: $14,405,000 · Arts & CultureTHE BARACK OBAMA …ACADEMY FOUNDATION: $12,000,000 · Arts & CultureACADEMY FOUNDATIO…THE FILM FOUNDATION INC: $6,500,000 · Arts & CultureTHE FILM FOUNDATI…APOLLO THEATER FOUNDATION INC: $4,125,000 · Arts & CultureAPOLLO THEATER FO…+32 more: $8,591,000 · Arts & Culture+32 moreNAACP LEGAL DEFENSE & EDUC FUND INC: $5,250,000 · Civil RightsAMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC: $4,000,000 · Civil RightsCHILDREN'S DEFENSE FUND: $450,000 · Civil RightsNational Domestic Workers Alliance Inc: $355,000 · Civil Rights+4 more: $487,500 · Civil RightsHAZELDEN BETTY FORD FOUNDATION: $5,010,000 · HealthMARIN GENERAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $1,032,500 · HealthNORTHWELL HEALTH FOUNDATION: $451,000 · HealthAmerican Heart Association Inc: $269,000 · Health+12 more: $1,013,500 · HealthUNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF: $2,000,000 · InternationalMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $1,050,000 · InternationalFRIENDS OF CINETECA DI BOLOGNA: $793,101 · InternationalNational Council of Negro Women Inc: $525,000 · InternationalWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $350,000 · InternationalVITAL VOICES GLOBAL PARTNERSHIP INC: $250,000 · International+5 more: $422,000 · International
Education$83,744,464Philanthropy$72,926,000Other$67,955,019Arts & Culture$45,621,000Civil Rights$10,542,500Health$7,776,000International$5,390,101

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

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 budgetDONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC: $55,375,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetNew York University: $50,000,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: $21,221,641 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetNATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST: $15,000,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTHE BARACK OBAMA FOUNDATION: $14,405,000 over 4y, 3.0% of budgetACADEMY FOUNDATION: $12,000,000 over 4y, 4.2% of budgetTHE FILM FOUNDATION INC: $6,500,000 over 3y, 96% of budgetAFTER SCHOOL MATTERS INC: $5,944,323 over 5y, 9.8% of budgetNAACP LEGAL DEFENSE & EDUC FUND INC: $5,250,000 over 2y, 5.3% of budgetHAZELDEN BETTY FORD FOUNDATION: $5,010,000 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetAPOLLO THEATER FOUNDATION INC: $4,125,000 over 5y, 6.9% of budgetAMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC: $4,000,000 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetUNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF: $2,000,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetThe ONE Campaign: $2,000,000 over 4y, 2.7% of budgetFeeding America: $1,850,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetYoung Eisner Scholars: $1,400,000 over 2y, 21% of budgetTeach for America Inc: $1,250,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetTHE HAMLIN SCHOOL: $1,250,000 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetMETROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART: $1,250,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSESAME WORKSHOP: $1,100,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetFIELD MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY: $1,100,000 over 5y, 1.8% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $1,050,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetMARIN GENERAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $1,032,500 over 4y, 15% of budgetThe National Film Preserve Ltd: $1,008,000 over 5y, 11% of budgetTHE AMERICAN FILM INSTITUTE: $1,000,000 over 1y, 3.3% of budgetNATIONAL COLLEGE ADVISING CORPS INC: $1,000,000 over 3y, 2.1% of budgetTHE MAYOR'S FUND FOR LOS ANGELES: $1,000,000 over 2y, 4.8% of budgetMOTOWN HISTORICAL MUSUEM INC: $1,000,000 over 1y, 16% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $945,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCHICAGO PUBLIC EDUCATION FUND: $750,000 over 3y, 6.9% of budgetGIRLS WHO CODE INC: $625,000 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA BERKELEY FOUNDATION: $530,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetNational Council of Negro Women Inc: $525,000 over 2y, 10% of budgetTHE HOWARD UNIVERSITY: $500,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTIDES FOUNDATION: $500,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNORTHWELL HEALTH FOUNDATION: $451,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetCHILDREN'S DEFENSE FUND: $450,000 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION: $400,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNational Domestic Workers Alliance Inc: $355,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $350,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSTART EARLY: $300,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED WAY OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO INC: $300,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetJOURNEY TO LEAD INC: $300,000 over 2y, 7.9% of budgetEVERYTOWN FOR GUN SAFETY SUPPORT FUND INC: $300,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetSHEDD AQUARIUM SOCIETY: $280,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetSMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION: $270,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $269,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetChildren's Hospital Los Angeles: $250,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

Marin Community Found…McNabb FoundationLeonard & Beryl Buck …Bothin FoundationJewish Community Fede…The San Francisco Fou…ExtrafoodThe Stanley S Langend…The Morris Stulsaft F…Sonoma County Communi…The William G Irwin C…United Way of the Bay…
Marin Community FoundationCA77.2× affinity79 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 50%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
5get no government money at all
47report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
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 Hobsonlucas Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Hobsonlucas Family 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 590 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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