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Hohensee Charitable Foundation at a glance

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Hohensee Charitable Foundation

Its FY2018 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$11k
Granted FY2018
13
Grants FY2018
8
States reached
$6k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
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 2018.

Religion$13kEducation$7kFood & Nutrition$2kPublic Benefit$800Youth Development$750Crime & Legal$400Civil Rights$150International$100Other$0
02FY2018 · 13 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$200
Median grant
8
States reached
$164k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MESSIAH LUTHERAN$5,720
LINCOLN LUTHERAN$2,000
FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN FARMERS$1,250
HILLSDALE COLLEGE$1,100
LUTHERAN HOUR MINISTRIES$350
Individual grant recipient$200
NATIONAL RIGHT TO WORK LEGAL DEFENSE FOUNDATION$200
HERITAGE FOUNDATION$150
JUDICIAL WATCH$150
Individual grant recipient$100
YOUNG AMERICAN FOUNDATION$100
BETHANY LUTHERAN CHURCH$100
PRESCOTT AREA NEIGHBORHOOD ASSOCIATON$30
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:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–18) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 96% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%INTERCOLLEGIATE STUDIES: $300 → 10%PRESCOTT AREA NEIGHBORHOOD ASSOCIATON: $30 → 13%CRAB ORCHARD CEMETARY: $100 → 13%GEORGE W BUSH PRESIDENTIAL CENTER: $100 → 14%JUDICIAL WATCH: $150 → 14%BETHANY LUTHERAN CHURCH: $100 → 9%HILLSDALE COLLEGE: $1k → 14%LUTHERAN HOUR MINISTRIES: $550 → 11%FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN FARMERS: $1k → 11%FREEDOM ALLIANCE: $100 → 4%YOUNG AMERICAN FOUNDATION: $650 → 6%INTERCOLLEGIATE STUDIES: $200 → 10%LINCOLN LUTHERAN: $3k → 13%CRAB ORCHARD CEMETARY: $100 → 13%JUDICIAL WATCH: $100 → 14%BETHANY LUTHERAN CHURCH: $100 → 9%HILLSDALE COLLEGE: $250 → 14%LUTHERAN HOUR MINISTRIES: $350 → 11%FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN FARMERS: $250 → 11%YOUNG AMERICAN FOUNDATION: $100 → 6%LINCOLN LUTHERAN: $2k → 13%HERITAGE FOUNDATION: $200 → 14%GUN OWNERS OF AMERICA: $150 → 6%VETERANS OF FOREIN WARS: $50 → 13%HERITAGE FOUNDATION: $150 → 14%AMERICAN LEGION: $50 → 13%LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE: $100 → 14%MESSIAH LUTHERAN: $6k → 13%MESSIAH LUTHERAN: $6k → 13%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

IL
MI
IA
NE
MO
VA
DE
DC
TX
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.

97%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$22k · 11 repeat orgs$580 to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

11
6

Total granted

$22k
$550

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+67%
+89%

Still filing today

45%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2018, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $30 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18
Public BenefitCrime & LegalCivil RightsInternationalEducationOther
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

  • FO
    FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN FARMNERS INTL
    2× · 2017–2018 · $2k · revenue +77%
  • YA
    Young America's Foundation
    2× · 2017–2018 · $750 · revenue +67%
  • THE HERITAGE FOUNDATION
    2× · 2017–2018 · $350 · revenue +63%

Funded once

  • GO
    GUN OWNERS OF AMERICA INCgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $150 · revenue +237%
  • LI
    LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE
    one grant, 2017 · $100
  • FREEDOM ALLIANCEgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $100 · revenue +89%
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
American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research

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…

Social Science
2
Air & Space Forces Association

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…

Education
3
Defense of Freedom Institute for Policy Studies Inc

To provide thoughtful, conservative solutions to the challenges presented by education, workforce, labor and employment issues.

Education
4
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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5
Nra Freedom Action Foundation

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…

Civil Rights
6
Jewelers of America Inc

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.

—
7
American Civil Liberties Union Fund of the District of Columbia

Preservation of civil liberties through litigation and public education.

—
8
President and Fellows of Harvard College

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

Education
9
American Foreign Service Association

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…

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10
National Association of Insurance and Financial Advisors

Empowering financial professionals and consumers through world-class advocacy and education.

—
11
American Gas Association

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…

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12
Freedom Forum Institute Inc

The mission of the freedom forum institute is to champion the five freedoms of the first amendment through education and entertainment.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Heritage Foundation; 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.
04the grantee network

9 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. 9 of the 19 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)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/9
Grantees still filing
7/9
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

MESSIAH LUTHERAN: $11,720 · OtherMESSIAH LUTHERANLINCOLN LUTHERAN: $5,000 · OtherLINCOLN LUTHERANFELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN FARMNERS INTL: $1,500 · OtherFELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN FARMNERS INTLLUTHERAN HOUR MINISTRIES: $900 · OtherYoung America's Foundation: $750 · Other+7 more: $1,130 · Other+7 moreHILLSDALE COLLEGE: $1,350 · EducationTHE GEORGE W BUSH FOUNDATION: $100 · EducationTHE HERITAGE FOUNDATION: $350 · Public BenefitJUDICIAL WATCH INC: $250 · Public BenefitNATIONAL RIGHT TO WORK LEGAL DEFENSE AND EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC: $400 · Crime & LegalGUN OWNERS OF AMERICA INC: $150 · Civil RightsFREEDOM ALLIANCE: $100 · International
Other$21,000Education$1,450Public Benefit$600Crime & Legal$400Civil Rights$150International$100

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetFELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN FARMNERS INTL: $1,500 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetHILLSDALE COLLEGE: $1,350 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetYoung America's Foundation: $750 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE HERITAGE FOUNDATION: $350 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetJUDICIAL WATCH INC: $250 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGUN OWNERS OF AMERICA INC: $150 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFREEDOM ALLIANCE: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE GEORGE W BUSH FOUNDATION: $100 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Hohensee Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Hohensee Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    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 19 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 2018, released 2018. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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