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Hodgman Family Foundation at a glance

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Hodgman Family Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$236k
Granted FY2025still arriving
5
Grants FY2025still arriving
5
States reached
$120k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0194% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Philanthropy$1.0MEducation$574kEnvironment$434kInternational$193kArts & Culture$133kRecreation & Sports$63kCivil Rights$50kHealth$31kOther$0
02FY2025 · 5 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k3 grants · $60k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $176k
$30,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$271k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ADAM J LEWIS ACADEMY$120,000
CROOKED TRAILS$55,561
GLOBAL PEARLS$30,000
HIMALAYAN CHILDREN'S CHARITIES$20,000
DENISON UNIVERSITY$10,000
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 (FY19–19, $5k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $5k → 14%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

NH
WA
ID
MI
NY
MA
SD
OH
CT
CA
UT
VA
NM
DC
GA
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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

90%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.6M · 18 repeat orgs$177k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +58% since the first grant, against +40% for those funded once.

18 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2025, 13 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

18
37

Total granted

$1.6M
$177k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+58%
+40%

Still filing today

78%
59%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationEnvironmentArts & CultureHealthInternationalPublic BenefitOther
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

  • AJ
    ADAM J LEWIS ACADEMY INC
    7× · 2019–2025 · $450k · revenue +166%
  • CT
    CROOKED TRAILS
    7× · 2019–2025 · $307k · revenue +13% · 70% of their budget
  • GP
    GLOBAL PEARLS INC
    6× · 2020–2025 · $178k · revenue +19%

Funded once

  • SI
    SCC-PINERIDGE INDIAN RESERVATION
    one grant, 2021 · $30k
  • PH
    People's Health Clicnicgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $20k · revenue +166%
  • UF
    UTAH FILM CENTERgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $20k · revenue +105%
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.

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The Trustees of Princeton University

Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…

Education
2
University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education
3
Augustana College

Rooted in the liberal arts & sciences & lutheran expression of the christian faith, & is committed to offering a challenging education that develops qualities of mind, spirit, & body necessary for a rewarding life of leadership & service…

Education
4
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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5
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
6
Wilson College

Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.

Education
7
President and Fellows of Harvard College

Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.

Education
8
Trustees of Dartmouth College

Dartmouth College educates the most promising students and prepares them for a lifetime of learning and of responsible leadership, through a faculty dedicated to teaching and the creation of knowledge.

Education
9
Trustees of Tufts College

Education and Research

Education
10
Harvard Conservation Trust

To preserve the unique character and natural resources of harvard.

Environment
11
The Peak School

The peak school seeks to ignite a passion for learning, to develop students of diverse talents and backgrounds who think critically and act with integrity, and to graduate compassionate, confident, capable students who will embrace their…

Education
12
President and Trustees of Bates College

Bates is a college of the liberal arts and sciences, and is a coeducational, nonsectarian, residential college with special commitments to academic rigor, and to assuring in all of its efforts the dignity of each individual, and access to…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Heritage Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Mountain Town Stages. 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

40 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. 40 of the 58 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)
9
Early backer (in before they grew)
39/40
Grantees still filing
33/40
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC: $854,843 · PhilanthropyDONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INCHIMALAYAN CHILDREN'S CHARITIES: $150,987 · PhilanthropyHIMALAYAN CHILDREN'S CHARITIESADAM J LEWIS ACADEMY INC: $450,400 · EducationADAM J LEWIS ACADEMY INCDENISON UNIVERSITY: $97,155 · EducationDENISON UNIVERSITY+7 more: $20,000 · EducationGLOBAL PEARLS INC: $177,750 · OtherGLOBAL PEARLS IN…SOUTHPORT CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH: $31,000 · OtherSOUTHPORT CONGRE…SCC-PINERIDGE INDIAN RESERVATION: $30,000 · OtherSCC-PINERIDGE IN…AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION OF UTAH: $20,000 · OtherLAND TOGETHER DBA INSIGHT GARDEN PROGRAM: $19,500 · Other+26 more: $103,000 · Other+26 moreCROOKED TRAILS: $307,443 · InternationalCROOKED TRAIL…+1 more: $5,000 · InternationalSummit Land Conservancy: $120,648 · EnvironmentMOUNTAIN TRAILS FOUNDATION: $50,000 · Environment+3 more: $10,500 · EnvironmentKimball Art Center: $65,648 · Arts & CultureMountain Town Stages: $25,000 · Arts & CultureUTAH FILM CENTER: $20,000 · Arts & CultureCommunity Wireless of Park City: $6,000 · Arts & CulturePark City Performances: $5,000 · Arts & CulturePeople's Health Clicnic: $20,000 · HealthPLANNED PARENTHOOD ASSOCIATION OF UTAH: $10,000 · HealthJEWISH HOME FOR THE ELDERLY OF FAIRFIELD COUNTY INC: $1,500 · Health+1 more: $1,000 · Health
Philanthropy$1,005,830Education$567,555Other$381,250International$312,443Environment$181,148Arts & Culture$121,648Health$32,500

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: $854,843 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetADAM J LEWIS ACADEMY INC: $450,400 over 7y, 2.0% of budgetCROOKED TRAILS: $307,443 over 7y, 70% of budgetGLOBAL PEARLS INC: $177,750 over 6y, 2.8% of budgetHIMALAYAN CHILDREN'S CHARITIES: $150,987 over 7y, 7.4% of budgetSummit Land Conservancy: $120,648 over 3y, 2.5% of budgetDENISON UNIVERSITY: $97,155 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetKimball Art Center: $65,648 over 3y, 2.2% of budgetMOUNTAIN TRAILS FOUNDATION: $50,000 over 2y, 2.5% of budgetMountain Town Stages: $25,000 over 2y, 2.9% of budgetPeople's Health Clicnic: $20,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetUTAH FILM CENTER: $20,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetAMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION OF UTAH: $20,000 over 3y, 7.8% of budgetLAND TOGETHER DBA INSIGHT GARDEN PROGRAM: $19,500 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD ASSOCIATION OF UTAH: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCommunity Wireless of Park City: $6,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPark City Performances: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL AUDUBON SOCIETY INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE HERITAGE FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWilliams College: $4,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHILLSDALE COLLEGE: $4,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE WORTHY & FRAN JOHNSON SCHOLARSHIP TRUST: $4,000 over 1y, 4.8% of budgetCONNECTICUT YANKEE COUNCIL INC BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA: $4,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLeadership Institute: $4,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF NEW BEGINNINGS FAMILY ACADEMY INC: $3,000 over 1y, 7.4% of budgetCATO INSTITUTE: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE HOTCHKISS SCHOOL: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF UTAH AVALANCHE FORE CAST CENTER INC: $2,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetPHILLIPS EXETER ACADEMY: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH HOME FOR THE ELDERLY OF FAIRFIELD COUNTY INC: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Frick Collection: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSUMMIT COMMUNITY GARDENS AND EATS: $1,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetCITIZENS AGAINST GOVERNMENT WASTE: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE DC CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTETON REGIONAL LAND TRUST INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPark City Education Foundation: $500 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.

Ssir Cares IncSad Foundation IncMightycause Charitabl…Park City Community F…Promontory FoundationBloomer Family Founda…The Jacquelyn & Grego…F Cubed FoundationGeorge S and Dolores …Gs Donor Advised Phil…The Frank L Ciminelli…Jeffrey & Leslie Fisc…
Ssir Cares IncUT26.2× affinity10 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Ssir Cares Inc · Sad Foundation Inc · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · Park City Community Foundation · Promontory Foundation · Bloomer Family Foundation · The Jacquelyn & Gregory Zehner Foundation · F Cubed Foundation · George S and Dolores Dore Eccles Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · The Frank L Ciminelli Family Foundation · Jeffrey & Leslie Fischer Family Fdn

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 50%5%19%42%75%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Jewish Home for the Elderly of Fairfield County Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Williams College: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
5get no government money at all
11report 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 Hodgman Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Hodgman 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 58 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
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The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home