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Hoselton Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$325k
Granted FY2025still arriving
8
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$100k
Largest
01What it funds
0191% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$1.1MHuman Services$317kReligion$145kInternational$90kYouth Development$27kHealth$27kOther$0
02FY2025 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k1 grant · $5k
  • $10k–50k5 grants · $145k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $175k
$40,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$6.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
PATRICK HENRY COLLEGE$100,000
WORLD OF LIFE FELLOWSHIP$75,000
CHARLES G FINNEY CORPORATE HIGH SCHOOL$40,000
PAACS$40,000
HERITAGE CHRISTIAN SERVICES$40,000
ROBERTS WESLEYAN COLLEGE$15,000
THE MARGARET HOME$10,000
YOUNG LIFE-GREATER NORTHEAST REGIONAL$5,000
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $280k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%HERITAGE CHRISTIAN SERVICES: $50k → 14%HERITAGE CHRISTIAN SERVICES: $48k → 14%HERITAGE CHRISTIAN SERVICES: $48k → 14%HERITAGE CHRISTIAN SERVICES: $40k → 14%HERITAGE CHRISTIAN SERVICES: $24k → 14%HERITAGE CHRISTIAN SERVICES: $20k → 14%HERITAGE CHRISTIAN SERVICES: $19k → 14%HERITAGE CHRISTIAN SERVICES: $16k → 14%HERITAGE CHRISTIAN SERVICES: $16k → 14%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.
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.

99%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.9M · 12 repeat orgs$18k to everyone else

12 repeat relationships: 8 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

12
3

Total granted

$1.9M
$18k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+45%
+120%

Still filing today

58%
33%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationHuman ServicesInternationalHealthReligionHousing & ShelterOther
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

  • PH
    PATRICK HENRY COLLEGE
    9× · 2017–2025 · $759k · revenue +34%
  • HERITAGE CHRISTIAN SERVICES INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $280k · revenue +101%
  • UW
    Ugandan Water Project
    8× · 2017–2024 · $90k · revenue +276%

Funded once

  • IA
    INSTITUTIONAL ADVANCEMENT HILLSDALE COLLEGE
    one grant, 2022 · $15k
  • His Branches Incgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $2k · revenue +120%
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2017 · $1k
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
Rochester Christian University

Educationthe mission of rochester christian university is to prepare students for professional and personal success as they serve in gods world

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2
Regent University

Regent University serves as a center of Christian thought and action to provide excellent education through a Biblical perspective and global context equipping Christian leaders to change the world.

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3
Northeastern Seminary

Northeastern seminary strives to be a vibrant source for christian theological formation whose students are formed in a biblical vision of gracious christianity and impact wholeness to the world in an expansive array of vocations and…

Education
4
William Jessup University

In partnership with the church, the purpose of william jessup university is to educate transformational leaders for the glory of god.

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5
United Memorial Medical Center

United memorial medical center is the only acute care hospital in genesee county, with 131 licensed acute care beds that provide the necessary healthcare services to a regional population of approximately 138,000 residents and operates the…

Health
6
Pwf Ministries
Religion
7
The Unity Hospital of Rochester

See schedule oto make a positive difference in the lives and health status of individuals in the city of rochester, ny and western monroe county. we will educate our community, our providers, and future health care professionals in order…

Health
8
Rakham International Missions Inc

We desire to make disciples and to equip people with practical and biblical tools to help improve their situation and that of those in their churches and communities. We believe in the unity of the body of Christ and to see the will of God…

International
9
Birthmother Bridge Ministries
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10
North America Bible Institute

North America Bible Institute (NABI) is an evangelical graduate school, made up of students who are diverse in both ethnicity and ministry aims -- but united in great love for Jesus and his gospel. As a graduate school, NABI offers them…

Education
11
Wake Forest University

Wake Forest University, a 501(c)(3) institution of higher education, is dedicated to the pursuit of excellence in the liberal arts and in graduate and professional education. The organization is comprised of seven constituent parts: Wake…

Education
12
Rosebud House of Prayer
Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Roberts Wesleyan University; the most unlike its peers is Ugandan Water Project. 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

8 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. 8 of the 15 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)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/8
Grantees still filing
7/8
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

PATRICK HENRY COLLEGE: $758,500 · EducationPATRICK HENRY COLLEGEROBERTS WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY: $87,000 · EducationROBERTS WESLEYAN UNIVERSITYCHARLES G FINNEY CORPORATE HIGH SCHOOL: $244,500 · OtherCHARLES G FINNEY CORPORATE HI…PAACS: $190,500 · OtherPAACSYOUNG LIFE-GREATER NORTHEAST REGIONAL: $18,000 · Other+5 more: $40,500 · Other+5 moreHERITAGE CHRISTIAN SERVICES INC: $279,500 · Human ServicesHERITAGE CHRISTI…WORD OF LIFE FELLOWSHIP INC: $145,000 · ReligionUgandan Water Project: $89,500 · InternationalTHE MARGARET HOME INC: $37,000 · Housing & ShelterANGELS OF MERCY INC: $11,000 · Health
Education$845,500Other$493,500Human Services$279,500Religion$145,000International$89,500Housing & Shelter$37,000Health$11,000

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 budgetPATRICK HENRY COLLEGE: $758,500 over 9y, 1.1% of budgetHERITAGE CHRISTIAN SERVICES INC: $279,500 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetWORD OF LIFE FELLOWSHIP INC: $145,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetUgandan Water Project: $89,500 over 8y, 4.2% of budgetROBERTS WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY: $87,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MARGARET HOME INC: $37,000 over 3y, 4.1% of budgetANGELS OF MERCY INC: $11,000 over 4y, 2.8% of budgetHis Branches Inc: $1,500 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

  • Who funds PATRICK HENRY COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds HERITAGE CHRISTIAN SERVICES INC ↗
  • Who funds WORD OF LIFE FELLOWSHIP INC ↗
  • Who funds Ugandan Water Project ↗
  • Who funds ROBERTS WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds THE MARGARET HOME INC ↗
  • Who funds ANGELS OF MERCY INC ↗
  • Who funds His Branches Inc ↗

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.

Greater Rochester Health FoundationNY13.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 7 of 7Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Greater Rochester Health Foundation · Max and Marian Farash Charitable Foundation · Rochester Area Community Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 Hoselton Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Hoselton 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%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
    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.
    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Hoselton Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Hoselton Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 15 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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