· Private foundation
Hoghton Family Charitable Trust
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 29 grants below total $112,276 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $137,576 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $25,300 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k24 grants · $61k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $51k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Holy Family Ministries | $11,000 |
| UNICEF | $10,453 |
| Planned Parenthood | $10,000 |
| Brown University | $10,000 |
| Openlands | $10,000 |
| Holy Trinity Lutheran Church | $6,500 |
| Gloria Dei Lutheran Church | $6,000 |
| Greater Chicago Food Depository | $5,000 |
| Concussion Alliance | $5,000 |
| Serge | $4,900 |
| St. Marcus School | $4,000 |
| Native American Heritage Association | $3,000 |
| Notre Dame Law School | $3,000 |
| First Nations Development Institute | $3,000 |
| St. Olaf College | $3,000 |
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 (FY17–21, $850) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% 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.
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 +68% since the first grant, against +32% for the ones you funded once.
74 repeat relationships — 21 still active in FY2024, 53 since wound down; 5 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, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $18k 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
- ELENVIRONMENTAL LAW AND POLICY CENTER OF THE MIDWEST6× · 2017–2023 · $91k · revenue +72%
- HFHOLY FAMILY MINISTRIES6× · 2017–2024 · $71k · revenue +69%
- OOPENLANDS6× · 2017–2024 · $46k · revenue +166%
Funded once
- OOutreachlndone grant, 2023 · $12k
- CLCOVENANT LIVING OF NORTHBROOK BENEVOLENT FUNDone grant, 2020 · $2k
- PCPALESTINE CHILDREN'S RELIEF FUNDgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $2k · revenue +32%
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.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Action Against Hunger - Usa and the most unlike its peers is Max McGraw Wildlife Foundation. 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 38 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 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% 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.
64 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. 64 of the 128 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
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 ENVIRONMENTAL LAW AND POLICY CENTER OF THE MIDWEST ↗
- Who funds BROWN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds HOLY FAMILY MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds OPENLANDS ↗
- Who funds GREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY ↗
- Who funds LUTHERAN WORLD RELIEF INC ↗
- Who funds THE RIDGES SANCTUARY INC ↗
- Who funds University of Notre Dame du Lac ↗
- Who funds CHILDFUND INTERNATIONAL USA ↗
- Who funds Native American Heritage Association ↗
- Who funds MAP International Inc ↗
- Who funds ST OLAF COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds DOOR COUNTY LAND TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds LUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICES OF ILLINOIS ↗
- Who funds SERGE GLOBAL INC ↗
- Who funds THE CENTER FOR LAW AND CULTURE ↗
- Who funds CARLETON COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds THE WETLANDS INITIATIVE ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF NACHUSA GRASSLANDS ↗
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: AbbVie Foundation · The Chicago Community Trust · Community Foundation of the Fox River Valley · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Baxter International Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · T Rowe Price Program for Charitable Giving Inc · Texas Instruments Foundation · Ge Aerospace Foundation · Arthur J Gallagher Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc
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 Hoghton Family Charitable Trust 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.
- World Relief Corp of National Association of Evangelicals — 67% of income from government
- Lutheran World Relief Inc — 47% 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.