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Hp 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.

$87k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
16
Grants FY2025
13
Organizations funded FY2024
38%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$5,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$20,000
Organizations funded a year
13 to 27
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
4
Total assets, FY2025
$1.1M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 38% of the organizations Hp Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 41% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 59% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $30k 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
EnvironmentArts & CultureHuman ServicesCommunity ImprovementPhilanthropyRecreation & SportsOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving15$87k20%
FY202413$72k38%
FY202318$80k33%
FY202216$87k38%
FY202113$70k15%
FY202019$65k26%
FY201927$71k56%
FY201818$70k39%
92% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Environment$263kRecreation & Sports$94kHuman Services$39kHousing & Shelter$38kAnimals$37kReligion$36kYouth Development$36kEducation$25kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

MI
OR
OH
CA
CO
MD
AZ
TN
DC
FL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 43 grantees
All grantees of Hp Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Leelanau Conservancy$125,00091%
Friends of Herman Park Inc$41,500547%
Inland Seas Education Association$35,00061%
Grand Traverse Regional Land Conservancy$35,00040%
Traverse Area Recreation & Transportation Trails Inc$34,00061%
Northwest Michigan Rural Housing Partnership$25,00033%
Denison University$22,50070%
Purpose Church$15,0003n/a
Leelanau Christian Neighbors Inc$11,80070%
New Community Vision$10,00013%
Fishtown Preservation Society Inc$10,00020%
For Love of Water$10,00011%
Council of Michigan Foundations$9,25060%
Pope Francis Center$8,00060%
Forgotten Harvest Inc$6,00010%
Breckenridge Outdoor Education Center$5,50030%
Detroit Institute for Children$5,5002n/a
Michigan Humane Society$5,00010%
National Association For Children Of Alcoholics$5,00011%
Peninsula Housing$5,00011%
The Rose Church$5,0001n/a
Norte Youth Cycling$5,00020%
Lift Teen Center$4,5002n/a
Skegemog Raptor Center$4,5001n/a
Friendship Community Center Inc$4,4051n/a
Leland Yacht Club Foundation$3,0002n/a
The Fowler Center Inc$3,00020%
Westside Community Church Inc$2,3002n/a
National Center for Family Philanthropy Inc$2,00020%
St Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc$2,00010%
North Manitou Light Keepers Inc$2,00024%
Play Place Autism & Special Needs Center$2,00011%
Ric Gonzalez Memorial Foundation$1,50013%
Oligo Nation$1,0001n/a
Great Lakes Humane Society$1,0001n/a
All Star Camp$1,0001n/a
Recoverypark$1,00010%
Grosse Pointe Foundation for Public Education$1,00010%
Barn Sanctuary$1,00010%
St Paul Parish Grosse Pointe Farms$1,0001n/a
Special Kids Inc$1,00012%
Grosse Pointe Rotary Foundation$50011%
Glen Arbor Arts Center$20010%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 32 recipients with no EIN on record ($193k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Hp Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 31 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetLeelanau Conservancy: $125,000 over 9y, 1.3% of budgetFriends of Herman Park Inc: $41,500 over 5y, 47% of budgetInland Seas Education Association: $35,000 over 6y, 0.8% of budgetGrand Traverse Regional Land Conservancy: $35,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetTraverse Area Recreation & Transportation Trails Inc: $34,000 over 6y, 0.7% of budgetNorthwest Michigan Rural Housing Partnership: $25,000 over 3y, 3.0% of budgetDenison University: $22,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetLeelanau Christian Neighbors Inc: $11,800 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetNew Community Vision: $10,000 over 1y, 3.4% of budgetFishtown Preservation Society Inc: $10,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetFor Love of Water: $10,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetCouncil of Michigan Foundations: $9,250 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetPope Francis Center: $8,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetForgotten Harvest Inc: $6,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBreckenridge Outdoor Education Center: $5,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetMichigan Humane Society: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNational Association For Children Of Alcoholics: $5,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetPeninsula Housing: $5,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetNorte Youth Cycling: $5,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetThe Fowler Center Inc: $3,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetNational Center for Family Philanthropy Inc: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSt Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNorth Manitou Light Keepers Inc: $2,000 over 2y, 3.7% of budgetPlay Place Autism & Special Needs Center: $2,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetRic Gonzalez Memorial Foundation: $1,500 over 1y, 3.3% of budgetRecoverypark: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGrosse Pointe Foundation for Public Education: $1,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetBarn Sanctuary: $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSpecial Kids Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetGrosse Pointe Rotary Foundation: $500 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetGlen Arbor Arts Center: $200 over 1y, 0.1% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 31.

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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.

Grand Traverse Regional Community FoundationMI30.2× affinity12 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Grand Traverse Regional Community Foundation · Oleson Foundation · Rotary Charities of Traverse City · The Art and Mary Schmuckal Family Foundation · Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan · Jim and Diana Huckle Family Foundation · Green Brick Foundation Inc · Leelanau Township Community Foundation · Les & Ann Biederman Foundation Inc · The Carls Foundation · Harry a and Margaret D Towsley Foundation · Consumers Energy 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.

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About Hp Foundation

How much does Hp Foundation give?
Hp Foundation reported 16 grants totaling $87,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 13 and 27 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does Hp Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Environment (38%), Recreation & Sports (14%), Human Services (6%).
Who are Hp Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Leelanau Conservancy ($125k), Friends of Herman Park Inc ($42k), Inland Seas Education Association ($35k).
Does Hp Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 38% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Hp 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.
Which funders back the same organizations as Hp Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Grand Traverse Regional Community Foundation, Oleson Foundation, Rotary Charities of Traverse City.
Where is Hp Foundation based?
Hp Foundation is based in MI.

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 78 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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