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Hoghton Family Charitable Trust at a glance

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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.

$138k
Granted FY2024still arriving
29
Grants FY2024still arriving
14
States reached
$11k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Education$314kEnvironment$236kReligion$168kInternational$126kFood & Nutrition$35kHuman Services$30kHealth$26kHousing & Shelter$14kOther$0
02FY2024 · 29 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 29 grants below total $112,276, the rows itemized in this filing. The $137,576 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $25,300 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k24 grants · $61k
  • $10k–50k5 grants · $51k
$3,000
Median grant
14
States reached
$3.7M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
Concussion Alliance$5,000
Greater Chicago Food Depository$5,000
Serge$4,900
St. Marcus School$4,000
Notre Dame Law School$3,000
Native American Heritage Association$3,000
Brown University Annual Fund$3,000
First Nations Development Institute$3,000
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 (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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%Table Ministries Inc: $500 → 13%Girls Who Code: $250 → 17%Center for Independent Futures: $100 → 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

WA
MN
IL
WI
MI
NY
MA
IN
OH
PA
NJ
RI
CA
UT
CO
VA
MD
DE
NM
AR
NC
DC
LA
MS
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.

94%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$808k · 74 repeat orgs$47k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +68% since the first grant, against +32% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

74
45

Total granted

$808k
$29k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+68%
+32%

Still filing today

59%
27%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $18k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’20’21’22’23’24
EducationEnvironmentInternationalAnimalsHealthArts & CultureOther
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

  • EL
    ENVIRONMENTAL LAW AND POLICY CENTER OF THE MIDWEST
    6× · 2017–2023 · $91k · revenue +72%
  • HF
    HOLY FAMILY MINISTRIES
    6× · 2017–2024 · $71k · revenue +69%
  • O
    OPENLANDS
    6× · 2017–2024 · $46k · revenue +166%

Funded once

  • O
    Outreachlnd
    one grant, 2023 · $12k
  • CL
    COVENANT LIVING OF NORTHBROOK BENEVOLENT FUND
    one grant, 2020 · $2k
  • PC
    PALESTINE CHILDREN'S RELIEF FUNDgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $2k · revenue +32%
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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World Resources Institute

Wri is committed to creating change that improves people's lives and ensures the natural world can thrive. (see schedule o)wri's bold vision requires a formula for success we call "count it. change it. scale it.":- count it: our work is…

International
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
The Water Research Foundation

The purpose of the water research foundation (wrf) is a definitive research organization to advance the science of all things water to better meet the evolving needs of its subscribers and the water sector. to engage exclusively in…

Environment
4
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
5
Central Indiana Corporate Partnership Inc

Central indiana corporate partnership (cicp) is an alliance of indiana's business and research university leaders coming together to foster long-term prosperity for the region. cicp's mission is to transform the economy of indiana in order…

Community Improvement
6
Center for International Environmental Law Inc

To investigate, research, write, publish, present conferences and teach with respect to global, regional, transboundary, and comparative environmental issues and to make the findings from such activities available to the general public; to…

International
7
American Water Works Association

To promote public health, safety, and welfare through the improvement of the quality and quantity of drinking water and the development and furtherance of understanding of the problems relating thereto.

Public Benefit
8
Fielding Graduate University

We provide exemplary interdisciplinary programs for a community of scholar-practitioners within a distributed learning model grounded in student-driven inquiry and leading to enhanced knowledge.

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9
Furman University

The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.

Education
10
National Opinion Research Center

See schedule onorc at the university of chicago conducts research and data science on critical societal issues to guide decision-making and the development of programs and public policy. our experts identify relationships and trends, and…

Social Science
11
Boston Architectural College

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

—
12
The Common Application Inc

The common application is a not-for-profit membership organization of over 1,100 colleges and universities across the globe committed to access, equity, and integrity in the college admission process. every year, over 1.5 million students…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Action Against Hunger - Usa; 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.
04the grantee network

64 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. 64 of the 128 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
12
Early backer (in before they grew)
63/64
Grantees still filing
56/64
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ST MARCUS LUTHERAN CHURCH: $62,025 · OtherST MARCUS LUTHERAN CHURCHREDEEMER LUTHERAN CHURCH: $51,975 · OtherREDEEMER LUTHERAN CHURCHTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $46,550 · OtherTHE NATURE CONSERVANCYOPENLANDS: $45,850 · OtherOPENLANDSHoly Trinity Lutheran Church: $37,600 · OtherHoly Trinity Lutheran ChurchFULBRIGHT ASSOCIATION: $34,525 · OtherFULBRIGHT ASSOCIATIONSHEPHERD OF THE BAY LUTHERAN CHURCH: $32,800 · OtherSHEPHERD OF THE BAY LUTHERAN CHURCHGloria Dei Lutheran Church: $21,220 · Other+85 more: $231,721 · Other+85 moreENVIRONMENTAL LAW AND POLICY CENTER OF THE MIDWEST: $90,500 · EnvironmentENVIRONMENTAL…DOOR COUNTY LAND TRUST INC: $9,600 · EnvironmentDOOR COUNTY L…THE WETLANDS INITIATIVE: $6,500 · EnvironmentTHE WETLANDS …FRIENDS OF NACHUSA GRASSLANDS: $5,000 · Environment+4 more: $4,184 · EnvironmentHOLY FAMILY MINISTRIES: $71,000 · EducationHOLY FAMILY M…University of Notre Dame du Lac: $13,500 · EducationUniversity of…ST OLAF COLLEGE: $9,750 · EducationST OLAF COLLE…CARLETON COLLEGE: $6,500 · EducationCARLETON COLL…University of Chicago: $4,500 · Education+6 more: $9,900 · Education+6 moreBROWN UNIVERSITY: $76,300 · Community ImprovementLUTHERAN WORLD RELIEF INC: $25,280 · InternationalCHILDFUND INTERNATIONAL USA: $12,729 · InternationalMAP International Inc: $10,000 · InternationalMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $9,750 · InternationalFEED MY STARVING CHILDREN INC: $3,000 · InternationalWORLD VISION INC: $2,950 · International+3 more: $3,175 · InternationalGREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY: $30,400 · Food & Nutrition+1 more: $500 · Food & NutritionTHE RIDGES SANCTUARY INC: $20,500 · AnimalsSasha Farm Inc: $2,750 · AnimalsSAVING GRACE ANIMALS FOR ADOPTION: $1,683 · Animals+1 more: $750 · Animals
Other$564,266Environment$115,784Education$115,150Community Improvement$76,300International$66,884Food & Nutrition$30,900Animals$25,683

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 budgetENVIRONMENTAL LAW AND POLICY CENTER OF THE MIDWEST: $90,500 over 6y, 0.7% of budgetBROWN UNIVERSITY: $76,300 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetHOLY FAMILY MINISTRIES: $71,000 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $46,550 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetOPENLANDS: $45,850 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetGREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY: $30,400 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetLUTHERAN WORLD RELIEF INC: $25,280 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHE RIDGES SANCTUARY INC: $20,500 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetUniversity of Notre Dame du Lac: $13,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetCHILDFUND INTERNATIONAL USA: $12,729 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetMAP International Inc: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNative American Heritage Association: $10,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetST OLAF COLLEGE: $9,750 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $9,750 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetDOOR COUNTY LAND TRUST INC: $9,600 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetLUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICES OF ILLINOIS: $9,100 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSERGE GLOBAL INC: $7,350 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CENTER FOR LAW AND CULTURE: $7,200 over 4y, 3.8% of budgetCARLETON COLLEGE: $6,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE WETLANDS INITIATIVE: $6,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE CHICAGO RIVER: $5,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetFRIENDS OF NACHUSA GRASSLANDS: $5,000 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetCONCUSSION ALLIANCE: $5,000 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetFIRST NATIONS DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE: $5,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Chicago: $4,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CLEAR FUND: $3,750 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetWIKIMEDIA FOUNDATION INC: $3,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetFEED MY STARVING CHILDREN INC: $3,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetWORLD VISION INC: $2,950 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSasha Farm Inc: $2,750 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetTHE ARCHAEOLOGICAL CONSERVANCY: $2,250 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetEvangelical Environmental Network: $2,100 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetCASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC: $1,984 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHREE FIRES COUNCIL INC BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA #127: $1,750 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetWATERKEEPER ALLIANCE INC: $1,750 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPALESTINE CHILDREN'S RELIEF FUND: $1,750 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSAVING GRACE ANIMALS FOR ADOPTION: $1,683 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCALVIN UNIVERSITY: $1,650 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetHARVARD MAGAZINE INC: $1,400 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BREAST CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC: $1,250 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetALZHEIMER'S FOUNDATION OF AMERICA INC: $1,125 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGETTYSBURG COLLEGE: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCAMBRIDGE HEALTH ALLIANCE FOUNDATION INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWINDOW TO THE WORLD COMMUNICATIONS INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMax McGraw Wildlife Foundation: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCornell University: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWORLD RELIEF CORP OF NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF EVANGELICALS: $800 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.

  • 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 MAP International Inc ↗
  • Who funds Native American Heritage Association ↗
  • 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 THE CHICAGO RIVER ↗

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.

AbbVie FoundationThe Chicago Community…Community Foundation …Vanguard Charitable E…Baxter International …National Philanthropi…The Pfizer Foundation…T Rowe Price Program …Texas Instruments Fou…Ge Aerospace Foundati…Arthur J Gallagher Fo…Gs Donor Advised Phil…
AbbVie FoundationIL13.8× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 67%
  • World Relief Corp of National Association of Evangelicals: 67% of income from government
  • Lutheran World Relief Inc: 47% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
9report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely 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.

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 128 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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