How much does Honeybee Foundation give?

Honeybee Foundation reported 29 grants totaling $46,570 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 25 and 47 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.

What does Honeybee Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2025, its largest causes are International (22%), Civil Rights (13%), Education (12%).

Who are Honeybee Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2018 to FY2025: Center for Constitutional Rights ($17k), Jewish Reconstructionist Congregation ($16k), Williams College ($15k).

Does Honeybee Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 24% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does Honeybee Foundation accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

Where is Honeybee Foundation based?

Honeybee Foundation is based in IL.

Honeybee Foundation

Honeybee Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

Honeybee Foundation

Q: Which funders back the same organizations as Honeybee Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include John D and Catherine T Macarthur Foundation, Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago, Foundation to Promote Open Society.

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.

$47k

Granted FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$4k

Largest

01What it funds

0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.

International$58kCivil Rights$35kEducation$30kHealth$28kReligion$24kEnvironment$22kFood & Nutrition$16kHuman Services$16kOther$0

02FY2025 · 29 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$1,800

Median grant

States reached

$1.1M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
JEWISH RECONSTRUCTIONIST CONGREGATION	$3,716
OASIS OF PEACE	$3,600
NEW ISRAEL FUND	$3,600
SAYTHE STUTTERING ASSOCIATION FOR THE YOUNG (OUR TIME THEATRE COMPANY)	$3,600
THE HESPERIAN FOUNDATION	$3,600
CENTER FOR CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS	$2,700
GREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY	$2,500
WILLIAMS COLLEGE	$2,500
SHALVA	$1,800
AMERICAN JEWISH WORLD SERVICES	$1,800
AGAINST MALARIA FOUNDATION	$1,800
HEARTLAND ALLIANCE FOR HUMAN NEEDS & HUMAN RIGHTS	$1,800
FREE PRESS	$1,800
TECHNOSERVE	$1,800
WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN WCK DC	$1,800

02The need

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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

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.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$228k · 57 repeat orgs$10k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +17% since the first grant, against +10% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$228k

$10k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+17%

+10%

Still filing today

74%

47%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $144 went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

InternationalCivil RightsHuman ServicesEnvironmentEducationArts & 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

Williams College
5× · 2021–2025 · $15k · revenue +33%
HH
HESPERIAN HEALTH GUIDES
7× · 2018–2025 · $11k · revenue +17%
SI
SHALVA INC
8× · 2018–2025 · $10k · revenue +62%

Funded once

AF
AMERICAN FRIENDS OF NEVE SHALOMOASIS OF PEACE
one grant, 2023 · $2k
IG
Individual grant recipient
one grant, 2024 · $2k
NS
NORTH SHORE COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL
one grant, 2022 · $1k · revenue +7%

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.

Open Markets Institute

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.

Education

Actionaid Usa

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…

Social Science

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

Asociacion Interamericana Para La Defensa Del Ambiente

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.

Crime & Legal

International Consortium of Investigative Journalists Inc

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.

International

American Flood Coalition Inc

To drive transformational adaptation to protect communities across the country from higher seas, stronger storms, and more frequent flooding.

Environment

Indigenous Peoples Rights Inc

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.

Human Services

International Aids Vaccine Initiative Inc

A nonprofit scientific research organization that develops vaccines and antibodies for hiv, tuberculosis, and emerging infectious diseases.

International

Global Poverty Project Inc

Our mission is to build a movement of global citizens whose actions will help achieve our vision of a world without extreme poverty.

Social Science

Cdp North America Inc

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…

Environment

Foreign Policy Research Institute

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…

International

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

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Waterorg; 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.

04the grantee network

56 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

55/56

Grantees still filing

38/56

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$109,730International$55,216Education$28,800Human Services$23,731Civil Rights$22,920Food & Nutrition$11,210Arts & Culture$8,810

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

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.

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.

John D and Catherine T Macarthur FoundationIL16.7× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Honeybee Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Honeybee Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

13report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%

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.

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The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

The endowment market

who holds foundation money, and what just moved

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

where grant money is based, and what stays home