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Hopper-Dean Foundation

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.

$6.8M
Granted FY2024still arriving
67
Grants FY2024still arriving
12
States reached
$502k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
0198% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2024.

Education$53MEnvironment$11MInternational$7.1MScience & Tech$4.2MPhilanthropy$3.2MPublic Benefit$2.5MCivil Rights$2.4MCrime & Legal$1.6MOther$0
02FY2024 · 67 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k31 grants · $89k
  • $10k–50k8 grants · $190k
  • $50k–250k15 grants · $1.9M
  • $250k+13 grants · $4.7M
$15,000
Median grant
12
States reached
$44M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CENTER FOR POPULAR DEMOCRACY$501,600
LAST MILE EDUCATION FUND$495,980
UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON$495,980
CLIMATE FINANCE TRACKER (ONE EARTH PHILANTHROPY)$495,980
GEORGIA TECH FOUNDATION INC$495,980
REWRITING THE CODE INC$413,405
RESIST INC$250,800
CENTER FOR REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS$250,800
CENTER FOR WORKING FAMILIES FUND (TIDES FOUNDATION)$250,800
CLIMATE CABINET EDUCATION$250,800
CAMBODIAN CHILDREN'S FUND$250,800
ALLIANCE FOR YOUTH ORGANIZING$250,800
TEAM4TECH FOUNDATION$250,408
THE KNOWLEDGE HOUSE$247,548
STATION 1 LABORATORY INC$246,750
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY21–24, $1.9M) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 89% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%LAST MILE EDUCATION FUND: $507k → 12%LAST MILE EDUCATION FUND: $496k → 12%LAST MILE EDUCATION FUND: $150k → 12%LAST MILE EDUCATION FUND: $60k → 12%A2SV FOUNDATION: $101k → 8%LAST MILE EDUCATION FUND: $9k → 12%A2SV FOUNDATION: $100k → 8%YOUNG WOMEN'S FREEDOM CENTER: $150k → 10%YOUNG WOMEN'S FREEDOM CENTER: $150k → 10%YOUNG WOMEN'S FREEDOM CENTER: $150k → 10%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

WA
IL
NY
MA
OR
SD
IA
PA
NJ
CT
CA
UT
CO
VA
MD
AZ
NC
DC
OK
GA
TX

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

75%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$65M · 60 repeat orgs$22M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +9% since the first grant, against -17% for the ones you funded once.

60 repeat relationships — 29 still active in FY2024, 31 since wound down; 16 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

60
53

Total granted

$65M
$19M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+9%
-17%

Still filing today

87%
51%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 56% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2.9M went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationEnvironmentInternationalScience & TechPhilanthropyCommunity ImprovementOther

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

  • Cornell University
    3× · 2020–2022 · $6.3M · revenue +46%
  • CM
    Carnegie Mellon University
    3× · 2020–2023 · $4.0M · revenue +35%
  • THE HOWARD UNIVERSITY
    3× · 2020–2022 · $4.0M · revenue +40%

Funded once

  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT EL PASO
    one grant, 2021 · $5.0M
  • TP
    THE PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY
    one grant, 2022 · $2.9M
  • W(
    WE (FREE THE CHILDREN)
    one grant, 2019 · $1.5M

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
CarbonPlan

Improving the transparency and scientific integrity of climate solutions through open data and tools.

Environment
2
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
3
Common Future

Common future is a network of pioneering leaders across the u.s. and canada who work deeply within their communities to create alternative approaches to business, philanthropy, and investing. we envision an economy that has transitioned…

Community Improvement
4
Coop Careers Inc

Building a movement of diverse, upwardly mobile college grads overcoming underemployment through digital skills and peer connections.

Education
5
Upturn Inc

Upturn advances equity and justice in the design, governance, and use of technology.

—
6
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
7
Orcid Inc

Orcid provides an identifier for individuals to use with their name as they engage in research, scholarship, and innovation activities. we provide open tools that enable transparent and trustworthy connections between researchers, their…

Education
8
Activate Global Inc

Activate empowers scientists to reinvent the world by bringing their research to market. activate partners with u.s. based funders, research institutions, and other pillars of the hard technology community to help entrepreneurial…

Environment
9
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
10
Internet Society Foundation

At the internet society foundation, we focus on funding initiatives that strengthen the internet in function and reach so that it can effectively serve all people. our work advances the vision of the internet society (isoc): the internet…

International
11
Work on Climate

Supporting industry transformation towards climate-positive and make green careers transitions and driving the adoption of green workforce development practices broadly.

Environment
12
Environment Next Inc

Environment next supports individuals, nonprofits and businesses around the world on solutions to complex climate issues. we provide leadership, outreach and communication support, grants, and investments to empower leaders and their ideas…

Environment

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Girls Who Code Inc and the most unlike its peers is Addiscoder Inc. 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyEnvironmental Conservation …Policy Research and AdvocacyFaith-Based Liberal Arts Co…Women & Girls Leadership De…Lgbtq+ Community SupportCommunity FoundationsCommunity College Foundatio…
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 14 years old; the field is 16. You back the younger end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%9%<5yr14%22%5–10yr19%22%10–20yr16%20%20–35yr13%16%35–55yr16%11%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%3%<5yr14%21%5–10yr19%10%10–20yr16%23%20–35yr13%14%35–55yr16%29%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 9% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
2%2/101
the rest of the field
13%
240,394/1,819,464

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.

04the grantee network

96 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. 96 of the 134 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.

9
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
8
Early backer (in before they grew)
95/96
Grantees still filing
43/96
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT EL PASO — $5,000,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT EL PASOCarnegie Mellon University — $4,000,000 · OtherCarnegie Mellon UniversityGEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY — $3,255,000 · OtherGEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGYUC BERKELEY — $3,000,000 · OtherUC BERKELEYTHE PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY — $2,864,984 · OtherTHE PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITYUNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON — $2,758,700 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTONWE (FREE THE CHILDREN) — $1,500,000 · Other+65 more — $15,290,933 · Other+65 moreCornell University — $6,283,781 · EducationCornell UniversitySTEM NEXT OPPORTUNITY FUND — $4,659,247 · EducationSTEM NEXT OPPORTUNITY FUNDTHE HOWARD UNIVERSITY — $3,990,278 · EducationTHE HOWARD UNIVERSITYUNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON FOUNDATION — $3,333,334 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON FOUNDATIONNORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY — $2,063,306 · EducationNORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITYCASTILLEJA SCHOOL FOUNDATION — $2,000,000 · EducationCASTILLEJA SCHOOL FOUNDATIONGEORGIA TECH FOUNDATION INC — $1,583,864 · EducationMassachusetts Institute of Technology — $1,060,400 · Education+22 more — $5,685,936 · Education+22 moreONE EARTH PHILANTHROPY — $3,544,353 · EnvironmentONE EARTH P…EARTHJUSTICE — $2,000,000 · EnvironmentEARTHJUSTIC…CLIMATE JUSTICE ALLIANCE — $1,290,561 · EnvironmentCLIMATE JUS…Rainforest Action Network — $656,147 · EnvironmentRainforest …GLOBAL GREENGRANTS FUND — $484,864 · Environment350ORG — $450,000 · Environment+6 more — $980,527 · Environment+6 moreONE ACRE FUND — $2,997,306 · InternationalTHOUSAND CURRENTS — $2,535,246 · InternationalGRASSROOTS INTERNATIONAL INC — $713,676 · InternationalASHESI UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION — $454,537 · International+2 more — $150,000 · InternationalLAST MILE EDUCATION FUND — $1,221,608 · Human ServicesYOUNG WOMEN'S FREEDOM CENTER — $450,000 · Human ServicesA2SV FOUNDATION — $201,353 · Human Services+1 more — $25,000 · Human ServicesTIDES FOUNDATION — $700,800 · PhilanthropyOPENCOLLECTIVE FOUNDATION — $400,000 · PhilanthropyCambodian Childrens Fund — $252,531 · PhilanthropyWOMEN DONORS NETWORK — $199,562 · PhilanthropyPOISE FOUNDATION — $100,000 · PhilanthropyFFWD — $97,891 · Philanthropy+2 more — $100,000 · PhilanthropyCENTER FOR POPULAR DEMOCRACY INC — $1,777,145 · Public Benefit+1 more — $50,000 · Public Benefit
Other$37,669,617Education$30,660,146Environment$9,406,452International$6,850,765Human Services$1,897,961Philanthropy$1,850,784Public Benefit$1,827,145

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetCornell University — $6,283,781 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetSTEM NEXT OPPORTUNITY FUND — $4,659,247 over 2y, 34% of budgetCarnegie Mellon University — $4,000,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTHE HOWARD UNIVERSITY — $3,990,278 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetONE EARTH PHILANTHROPY — $3,544,353 over 3y, 39% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON FOUNDATION — $3,333,334 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetONE ACRE FUND — $2,997,306 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetTHOUSAND CURRENTS — $2,535,246 over 3y, 6.3% of budgetNORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY — $2,063,306 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCASTILLEJA SCHOOL FOUNDATION — $2,000,000 over 4y, 1.7% of budgetEARTHJUSTICE — $2,000,000 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetCENTER FOR POPULAR DEMOCRACY INC — $1,777,145 over 3y, 2.5% of budgetGEORGIA TECH FOUNDATION INC — $1,583,864 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetCLIMATE JUSTICE ALLIANCE — $1,290,561 over 3y, 8.2% of budgetLAST MILE EDUCATION FUND — $1,221,608 over 3y, 12% of budgetWOMEN'S FOUNDATION OF CALIFORNIA — $1,193,177 over 3y, 9.3% of budgetMassachusetts Institute of Technology — $1,060,400 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCODEPATHORG — $1,015,326 over 1y, 3.3% of budgetLIFEMOVES — $1,000,001 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetThe Knowledge House Fellowship Inc — $750,686 over 3y, 5.1% of budgetTEAM4TECH FOUNDATION — $743,007 over 2y, 23% of budgetGRASSROOTS INTERNATIONAL INC — $713,676 over 4y, 3.8% of budgetTIDES FOUNDATION — $700,800 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetRainforest Action Network — $656,147 over 4y, 2.1% of budgetDIGITAL HARBOR FOUNDATION — $650,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetNEW YORK CITY FOUNDATION FOR COMPUTER SCIENCE EDUCATION INC D/B/A CSFORALL — $619,778 over 2y, 19% of budgetTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY — $500,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSTREETCODE ACADEMY — $499,780 over 3y, 8.2% of budgetAMEELIO INC — $485,912 over 1y, 7.0% of budgetGLOBAL GREENGRANTS FUND — $484,864 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetASHESI UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION — $454,537 over 3y, 2.6% of budgetYOUNG WOMEN'S FREEDOM CENTER — $450,000 over 3y, 2.7% of budgetWomen's Earth and Climate Action Network — $450,000 over 2y, 22% of budget350ORG — $450,000 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetREWRITING THE CODE INC — $417,532 over 1y, 4.1% of budgetMARCY LAB INC — $410,000 over 3y, 7.4% of budgetOPENCOLLECTIVE FOUNDATION — $400,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetCODEORG — $350,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetCENTER FOR COMMUNITY ACTION AND ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE — $300,000 over 4y, 8.9% of budgetSOCIAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL ENTREPRENEURS (SEE) INC — $300,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetROOT & REBOUND — $300,000 over 2y, 3.5% of budgetCLIMATE CABINET EDUCATION — $254,575 over 1y, 10.0% of budgetRESIST INC — $253,135 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetCambodian Childrens Fund — $252,531 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetALLIANCE FOR YOUTH ORGANIZING — $251,037 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetCENTER FOR CLIMATE INTEGRITY — $250,952 over 2y, 3.3% of budgetTHE CENTER FOR REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS INC — $250,800 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetStation 1 Laboratory Inc — $247,403 over 1y, 99% of budget
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.

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.

Silicon Valley Commun…Tides FoundationThe San Francisco Fou…Rockefeller Philanthr…Marin Community Found…Jewish Community Fede…NEO Philanthropy IncImpactassetsincAmalgamated Charitabl…Philanthropic Venture…The Heising-Simons Fo…Gs Donor Advised Phil…
Silicon Valley Community FoundationCA37.4× affinity33 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Tides Foundation · The San Francisco Foundation · Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors Inc · Marin Community Foundation · Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma · NEO Philanthropy Inc · Impactassetsinc · Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc · Philanthropic Ventures Foundation · The Heising-Simons Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc

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 Hopper-Dean 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 60%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 7%
  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology — 35% of income from government
  • Northeastern University — 7% of income from government
  • Digital Harbor Foundation — 2% of income from government
  • Resist Inc — 2% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
6get no government money at all
18report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 134 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Source object · view filing

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