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Hsaf at a glance

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Hsaf

Promote advancements in early education, science, climate and human rights.

$493k
Granted FY2019
7
Grants FY2019
4
States reached
$100k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2019.

Civil Rights$650kPublic Benefit$625kEnvironment$165kCrime & Legal$163kRecreation & Sports$5kHealth$5k
02FY2019 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$62,500
Median grant
4
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
NEW FLORIDA MAJORITY$100,000
COLOR OF CHANGE ORGANIZATION$100,000
INDIVISIBLE PROJECT$75,000
EVERYTOWN FOR GUN SAFETY ACTION FUND$62,500
ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE ACTION FUND$50,000
CALIFORNIA CALLS ACTION FUND$50,000
NRDC ACTION FUND INC$50,000
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 (FY17–19, $150k) 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.

area typical 11%CALIFORNIA CALLS ACTION FUND: $50k → 14%CALIFORNIA CALLS ACTION FUND: $50k → 14%CALIFORNIA CALLS ACTION FUND: $50k → 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.

37%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$603k · 4 repeat orgs$1.0M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +130% since the first grant, against +37% for those funded once.

4 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2019, 1 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2019 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

4
9

Total granted

$603k
$735k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+130%
+37%

Still filing today

100%
56%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2019, 44% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $275k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19
Civil RightsCrime & LegalPublic BenefitHuman ServicesHealthEnvironmentOther
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

  • CO
    COLOR OF CHANGEORG EDUCATION FUND
    2× · 2018–2019 · $200k · revenue +29%
  • CC
    CALIFORNIA CALLS ACTION FUND
    3× · 2017–2019 · $150k · revenue +498% · 26% of their budget
  • TA
    TIDES ADVOCACY
    2× · 2017–2018 · $90k · revenue +130%

Funded once

  • ST
    Save the Children Action Network
    one grant, 2018 · $350k · revenue +7%
  • FF
    Floridians for a Fair Democracy Inc
    one grant, 2017 · $100k · revenue +190%
  • C
    COLOROFCHANGEORGgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $100k · revenue +97%
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
Climate Equity Action Fund

The climate equity action fund (ceaf) works hand-in-hand with community-based partners in critical states across the country to secure and sustain policy wins for climate and clean energy. building on over a decade of trust with leading…

Environment
2
American Flood Coalition Inc

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

Environment
3
One for Democracy Action Fund

One for democracy unlocks resources to build a healthy democracy by fostering meaningful relationships between philanthropists and the democracy leaders of our time.

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4
Issue One

Issue one is the leading crosspartisan political reform organization that educates the public, engages capitol hill, and advocates for solutions to fix our broken political system.

Public Benefit
5
Center for Popular Democracy Inc

The center for popular democracy (cpd) and its affiliates know that everyday people have the power to change the world. we upend business and politics as usual to forge a representative, multiracial government and society where we all…

Public Benefit
6
National Caucus of Environmental Legislators

The national caucus of environmental legislators empowers a nonpartisan network of legislative champions to protect, conserve, and improve the natural and human environment.

Education
7
American Civil Liberties Union Fund of the District of Columbia

Preservation of civil liberties through litigation and public education.

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8
Fair Democracy

Fair democracy works to ensure that the roots of american democracy are healthy with strong voting rights and access, an engaged and informed electorate, an open and accountable government and trusted messengers engaging americans in civil…

Civil Rights
9
California Forward

Ca fwd drives action to identify solutions that can be taken to scale to meet the challenges the state is facing. the organization is driven by the belief that regional solutions across the state will help ensure economic, environmental,…

Public Benefit
10
Pacific Atlantic Action Coalition

The mission of the organization is to educate the general public regarding issues of public policy and to promote and bring about advances in such areas of public policy. the organization promotes public policy change through education,…

Social Science
11
Citizen Action Defense Fund

To sustain, defend and provide the means to preserve the individual constitutional rights of all washingtonians, including freedom of religion, freedom of speech, freedom of assembly, freedom of association, freedom of movement, due…

Crime & Legal
12
American Civil Liberties Union of Delaware Inc

The organization monitors legislation that could impact civil liberties and takes the necessary action to support or oppose such legislation.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Color of Changeorg Education Fund; the most unlike its peers is Floridians for a Fair Democracy 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

14 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. 14 of the 17 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
13/14
Grantees still filing
8/14
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Save the Children Action Network: $350,000 · Civil RightsSave the Children Action NetworkCOLOR OF CHANGEORG EDUCATION FUND: $200,000 · Civil RightsCOLOR OF CHANGEORG EDUCATION FUNDFLORIDA RISING INC: $100,000 · Civil RightsFLORIDA RISING INCINDIVISIBLE PROJECT: $75,000 · Civil RightsINDIVISIBLE PROJECT+1 more: $10,000 · Civil RightsFloridians for a Fair Democracy Inc: $100,000 · OtherFloridians for a Fair Democr…COLOROFCHANGEORG: $100,000 · OtherCOLOROFCHANGEORGTIDES ADVOCACY: $90,000 · OtherTIDES ADVOCACYNRDC ACTION FUND INC: $50,000 · OtherNRDC ACTION FUND INCEMERGE AMERICA: $40,000 · OtherEMERGE AMERICAEMERGE AMERICA: $25,000 · OtherEMERGE AMERICA+1 more: $5,400 · OtherEVERYTOWN FOR GUN SAFETY ACTION FUND INC: $162,500 · Crime & LegalEVERYTOWN F…CALIFORNIA CALLS ACTION FUND: $150,000 · Human ServicesCALIFORNIA…STATE ENGAGEMENT FUND: $100,000 · Public BenefitENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE ACTION FUND: $50,000 · EnvironmentPLANNED PARENTHOOD MAR MONTE INC: $5,000 · Health
Civil Rights$735,000Other$410,400Crime & Legal$162,500Human Services$150,000Public Benefit$100,000Environment$50,000Health$5,000

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

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSave the Children Action Network: $350,000 over 1y, 4.8% of budgetCOLOR OF CHANGEORG EDUCATION FUND: $200,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetEVERYTOWN FOR GUN SAFETY ACTION FUND INC: $162,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCALIFORNIA CALLS ACTION FUND: $150,000 over 3y, 26% of budgetFloridians for a Fair Democracy Inc: $100,000 over 1y, 4.7% of budgetFLORIDA RISING INC: $100,000 over 1y, 5.5% of budgetCOLOROFCHANGEORG: $100,000 over 1y, 3.2% of budgetSTATE ENGAGEMENT FUND: $100,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTIDES ADVOCACY: $90,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetINDIVISIBLE PROJECT: $75,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetNRDC ACTION FUND INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD MAR MONTE INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

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.

Sixteen Thirty FundTides AdvocacyTides FoundationOpen Society Action F…Fund for a Better Fut…The Heising-Simons Ac…
Sixteen Thirty FundDC23.7× affinity9 shared granteesties to 5 of 5Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Sixteen Thirty Fund · Tides Advocacy · Tides Foundation · Open Society Action Fund Inc · Fund for a Better Future Inc · The Heising-Simons Action Fund

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

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no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    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

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    How do I get to Hsaf?

    Find your warmest path to Hsaf 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 17 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2019, released 2019. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2020) is on record and reports no grant expense, so the figures above are from FY2019, the most recent year this funder made grants.

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