How much does Hrd-C Foundation give?

Hrd-C Foundation reported 24 grants totaling $981,159 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 11 and 23 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.

What does Hrd-C Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (41%), Education (32%), Recreation & Sports (8%).

Who are Hrd-C Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Interlochen Center for the Arts ($1.0M), The Seven Hills School ($523k), Springer School and Center ($460k).

Does Hrd-C Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 5% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does Hrd-C 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 Hrd-C Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Connecticut Community Foundation, Seherr-Thoss Charitable Trust, Louise Taft Semple Foundation.

Where is Hrd-C Foundation based?

Hrd-C Foundation is based in FL.

Hrd-C Foundation

Hrd-C Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

Hrd-C 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.

$981k

Granted FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$167k

Largest

01What it funds

0197% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Arts & Culture$2.0MEducation$1.6MRecreation & Sports$367kAnimals$245kEnvironment$226kHuman Services$125kHealth$98kPhilanthropy$61kOther$0

02FY2025 · 24 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k5 grants · $30k
$10k–50k12 grants · $228k
$50k–250k7 grants · $723k

$21,351

Median grant

States reached

$24M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
SPRINGER SCHOOL & CENTER	$167,097
THE SEVEN HILLS SCHOOL	$158,595
NCH HEALTHCARE SYSTEMS INC	$98,497
FORMAN SCHOOL	$82,241
CENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY	$76,705
CINCINNATI PUBLIC RADIO INC (DBA WGUC WVXU WMUB)	$73,004
RUMSEY HALL SCHOOL	$67,216
LITCHFIELD HISTORICAL SOCIETY	$31,631
Individual grant recipient	$30,840
WOMEN HELPING WOMEN	$25,146
NATIONAL AUDUBON SOCIETY	$25,028
LITCHFIELD LAND TRUST	$21,351
CINCINNATI SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA	$20,279
ST MICHAEL'S FOOD PANTRY	$15,816
SPRINGER SCHOOL & CENTER	$15,000

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 (FY17–25, $65k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-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.

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.

72%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$3.5M · 26 repeat orgs$1.4M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +52% since the first grant, against -45% for those funded once.

26 repeat relationships: 18 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$3.5M

$1.1M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+52%

-45%

Still filing today

69%

67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 77% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $229k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

EnvironmentArts & CultureEducationRecreation & SportsHuman ServicesScience & TechOther

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

TS
THE SEVEN HILLS SCHOOL
9× · 2017–2025 · $523k · revenue +51%
SPRINGER SCHOOL AND CENTER
6× · 2020–2025 · $460k · revenue +97%
FS
FORMAN SCHOOL INC
9× · 2017–2025 · $389k · revenue +19%

Funded once

IC
INTERLOCHEN CENTER FOR THE ARTS
one grant, 2024 · $1.0M · revenue -48%
MH
MUSIC HALL REVITALIZATION COMPANY INC
one grant, 2017 · $20k · revenue -100%
UW
UNITED WAY
one grant, 2021 · $20k

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.

Wilton Land Conservation Trust

Protecting, enhancing and conserving open spaces encompassing meadows, woodlands, wetlands, and waterways in the town of wilton ct.

Environment

Heckscher Museum

Museum has a mission to create opportunties for everyone to experience art that broadens understanding of the past, fosters community connections to the present, and creates diverse possbilities for the future.

Arts & Culture

Connecticut Farmland Trust Inc

Protect Connecticuts farmland for agricultural use by purchasing and accepting donations of agricultural conservation easements

Food & Nutrition

The Land Trust for Tennessee Inc

To conserve the unique character of tennessee's natural and historic landscapes and sites for future generations.

Environment

Institute for Conservation Leadership

To support healthy communities and a healthy earth, the institute for conservation leadership strengthens leaders, organizations, coalitions and networks.

Community Improvement

Delaware Museum of Nature and Science Inc

The museum is an educational corporation formed to ignite a life-long passion for exploring, discovering, and valuing nature and science.

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Native Plant Trust Inc

The organization's mission is to conserve and promote new england's native plants to ensure healthy, biologically diverse landscapes.

Environment

Land Conservancy of Ridgefield Inc

The Land Conservancy of Ridgefield, Inc. ("the Land Conservancy"), founded in 1967, preserves and protects, for the general benefit of the public, Ridgefield, Connecticut's natural resources including land and water resources, the plant…

Environment

Westchester Land Trust Inc

The primary mission of the Westchester Land Trust is to conserve, maintain and enhance the natural environment and resources of Westchester County and eastern Putnam County. The Trust acquires interests in land exhibiting important natural…

Environment

Lake Champlain Land Trust Inc

The mission of the lake champlain land trust is to save the scenic beauty, natural communities, and recreational amenities of lake champlain by permanently preserving significant islands, shoreline areas, and natural communities in the…

Environment

Eastern National

Eastern national promotes the public's understanding and support of america's national parks and other public trust partners by providing quality educational experiences, products and services.

Recreation & Sports

Land Conservancy of West Michigan

Our mission is conserving West Michigans ecologically critical land. We protect land by creating public nature preserves, providing support to communities and local governments in creating natural areas, and helping private landowners…

Environment

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Seven Hills School; the most unlike its peers is Ripley Inc. 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

27 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. 27 of the 40 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)

27/27

Grantees still filing

19/27

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Arts & Culture$1,738,186Other$1,293,511Education$1,160,447Recreation & Sports$367,386Environment$164,493Health$98,497Human Services$65,000

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 loosely connected circle, clustered around a few shared anchors.

The Connecticut Community FoundationCT17.6× affinity6 shared granteesties to 6 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Connecticut Community Foundation · Seherr-Thoss Charitable Trust · Louise Taft Semple Foundation · Carol Ann and Ralph V Haile Jr Foundation · The Greater Cincinnati Foundation · Denise Shea Malcolm Family Foundation · Bokom Foundation Inc · The James J and Joan a Gardner Family Foundation · Marge & Charles J Schott Foundation · Northwest Community Bank Foundation Inc · Johnson Charitable Gift Fund · The New York Community Trust

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

2024

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

8get no government money at all

7report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%

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

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The endowment market

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The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

where grant money is based, and what stays home