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Honeybee 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| JEWISH RECONSTRUCTIONIST CONGREGATION | $3,716 |
| THE HESPERIAN FOUNDATION | $3,600 |
| OASIS OF PEACE | $3,600 |
| SAYTHE STUTTERING ASSOCIATION FOR THE YOUNG (OUR TIME THEATRE COMPANY) | $3,600 |
| NEW ISRAEL FUND | $3,600 |
| CENTER FOR CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS | $2,700 |
| GREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY | $2,500 |
| WILLIAMS COLLEGE | $2,500 |
| TECHNOSERVE | $1,800 |
| SHALVA | $1,800 |
| FREE PRESS | $1,800 |
| AMERICAN JEWISH WORLD SERVICES | $1,800 |
| HEARTLAND ALLIANCE FOR HUMAN NEEDS & HUMAN RIGHTS | $1,800 |
| WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN WCK DC | $1,800 |
| AGAINST MALARIA FOUNDATION | $1,800 |
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 (FY18–25, $18k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 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 +17% since the first grant, against +10% for the ones you funded once.
57 repeat relationships — 24 still active in FY2025, 33 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $144 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
Williams College5× · 2021–2025 · $15k · revenue +33%- HHHESPERIAN HEALTH GUIDES7× · 2018–2025 · $11k · revenue +17%
- SISHALVA INC8× · 2018–2025 · $10k · revenue +99%
Funded once
- AFAMERICAN FRIENDS OF NEVE SHALOMOASIS OF PEACEone grant, 2023 · $2k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2024 · $2k
- NSNORTH SHORE COUNTRY DAY SCHOOLone grant, 2022 · $1k · revenue +7%
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 open markets institute works to help people relearn how to use competition policy to build stronger democracies, more just and equitable societies, more innovative and sustainable economies, and a more secure and peaceful world.
Actionaid is an international network building a just, equitable, and sustainable world in solidarity with communities on the frontlines of poverty and injustice. actionaid usa is the u.s. branch of actionaid international, which works in…
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…
To strenghten people's ability to guarantee their individual and collective right to a healthy environment, via the development, implementation, and effective enforcement of national and international law.
International consortium of investigative journalists, inc.'s (icij) mission is to show people how the world really works through stories that rock the world; forcing positive change.
To drive transformational adaptation to protect communities across the country from higher seas, stronger storms, and more frequent flooding.
To lead and coordinate the global initiative to address and prevent criminalization, violence, and impunity against indigenous peoples towards strengthening their collectives, solidarity, and actions.
A nonprofit scientific research organization that develops vaccines and antibodies for hiv, tuberculosis, and emerging infectious diseases.
Our mission is to build a movement of global citizens whose actions will help achieve our vision of a world without extreme poverty.
Cdp north america, inc. 's ("cdp-na") vision for the future is a thriving economy that works for people and planet in the long term. we focus investors and companies on taking urgent action to build a truly sustainable economy by measuring…
The foreign policy research institute (frpi) is dedicated to producing the highest quality scholarship and nonpartisan policy analysis focused on crucial foreign policy and national security challenges facing the united states. we educate…
The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Waterorg and the most unlike its peers is New York University. 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 39 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) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% 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.
56 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. 56 of the 79 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 CENTER FOR CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS ↗
- Who funds Williams College ↗
- Who funds HESPERIAN HEALTH GUIDES ↗
- Who funds SHALVA INC ↗
- Who funds NEW ISRAEL FUND ↗
- Who funds GREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN JEWISH WORLD SERVICE INC ↗
- Who funds The President and Trustees of Colby College ↗
- Who funds TECHNOSERVE INC ↗
- Who funds Inspiration Corporation ↗
- Who funds Heartland Alliance for Human Needs and Rights ↗
- Who funds The Against Malaria Foundation ↗
- Who funds FREE PRESS ↗
- Who funds HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH INC ↗
- Who funds GIVEDIRECTLY INC ↗
- Who funds LEGAL MOMENTUM ↗
- Who funds CHICAGO FOUNDATION FOR WOMEN ↗
- Who funds BRYN MAWR COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds GLOBAL EXCHANGE ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF NEVE SHALOMWAHAT AL-SALAM INC ↗
- Who funds GREEN AMERICA ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S DEFENSE FUND ↗
- Who funds RESIST INC ↗
- Who funds WILLIAM J BRENNAN CENTER FOR JUSTICE INC ↗
- Who funds OXFAM-AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds THE STUDENT CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds PEOPLE FOR THE AMERICAN WAY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CHICAGO PUBLIC MEDIA INC ↗
- Who funds ACCION INTERNATIONAL ↗
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: John D and Catherine T Macarthur Foundation · Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago · Foundation to Promote Open Society · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · The Ford Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · AbbVie Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Charities Aid Foundation America
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 Honeybee 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.
- Resist Inc — 2% of income from government
- Williams College — 0% of income from government
- Oxfam-America Inc — 0% 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.
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