· Private foundation
Hohensee Charitable Foundation
Its FY2018 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 FY2017–2018.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MESSIAH LUTHERAN | $5,720 |
| LINCOLN LUTHERAN | $2,000 |
| FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN FARMERS | $1,250 |
| HILLSDALE COLLEGE | $1,100 |
| LUTHERAN HOUR MINISTRIES | $350 |
| NATIONAL RIGHT TO WORK LEGAL DEFENSE FOUNDATION | $200 |
| Individual grant recipient | $200 |
| HERITAGE FOUNDATION | $150 |
| JUDICIAL WATCH | $150 |
| YOUNG AMERICAN FOUNDATION | $100 |
| BETHANY LUTHERAN CHURCH | $100 |
| Individual grant recipient | $100 |
| PRESCOTT AREA NEIGHBORHOOD ASSOCIATON | $30 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–18) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 96% of your 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.
11 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2018, 0 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2018 (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 FY2018, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $30 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
- FOFELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN FARMNERS INTL2× · 2017–2018 · $2k · revenue +77%
- YAYoung America's Foundation2× · 2017–2018 · $750 · revenue +67%
THE HERITAGE FOUNDATION2× · 2017–2018 · $350 · revenue +63%
Funded once
- GOGUN OWNERS OF AMERICA INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $150 · revenue +237%
- LILEADERSHIP INSTITUTEone grant, 2017 · $100
FREEDOM ALLIANCEgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $100 · revenue +112%
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 american enterprise institute is a community of scholars and supporters committed to expanding liberty, increasing individual opportunity, and strengthening free enterprise. aei pursues these ideals through independent thinking and the…
The air & space forces association (afa) is a nonprofit, independent, professional military, and aerospace education association. the association's mission is to promote dominant u.s. air and space forces as the foundation of a strong…
To provide thoughtful, conservative solutions to the challenges presented by education, workforce, labor and employment issues.
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.
To educate citizens with respect to: their individual rights as citizens, the importance of the second amendment to the constitution of the united states and their respective rights thereunder, and the role of america's courts in…
Jewelers of america, the most trusted and influential voice of the jewelry industry, empowers and unites its members through expert guidance and advocacy, driving excellence, integrity, and success in an ever-changing marketplace.
Preservation of civil liberties through litigation and public education.
Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.
American foreign service association (afsa) is both the principal advocate for the long-term institutional wellbeing of the professional career foreign service and responsible for safeguarding the interest of afsa members. (continued on…
Empowering financial professionals and consumers through world-class advocacy and education.
American gas association's (the association) mission is to develop and advocate for informed, innovative, and durable policy that fulfills our nation's energy needs, environmental aspirations and economic potential. we are committed to…
The mission of the freedom forum institute is to champion the five freedoms of the first amendment through education and entertainment.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Heritage Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Hillsdale College. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
9 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. 9 of the 19 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 FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN FARMNERS INTL ↗
- Who funds HILLSDALE COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds Young America's Foundation ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL RIGHT TO WORK LEGAL DEFENSE AND EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE HERITAGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds JUDICIAL WATCH INC ↗
- Who funds GUN OWNERS OF AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds FREEDOM ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds THE GEORGE W BUSH FOUNDATION ↗
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Hohensee Charitable 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.
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.