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Huffington Family 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.

$401k
Granted FY2024still arriving
7
Grants FY2024still arriving
5
States reached
$225k
Largest
01What it funds
0176% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Religion$460kEducation$400kHealth$200kArts & Culture$35kSocial Science$25kInternational$15kEnvironment$10kOther$0
02FY2024 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k1 grant · $1k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $75k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $325k
$25,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$24M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
HELLENIC COLLEGE HOLY CROSS$225,000
CATHEDRAL OF ST JOHN THE DIVINE$100,000
FOOD ALLERGY FUND$25,000
Individual grant recipient$25,000
TASK FORCE FOR GLOBAL HEALTH INC$15,000
AMERICAN FRIENDS OF LACMUS$10,000
Individual grant recipient$1,108
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 (FY24–24, $15k) 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%TASK FORCE FOR GLOBAL HEALTH INC: $15k → 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.

Which US states its grants reach

NY
MA
CT
CA
VA
DC
GA
FL
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.

16%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$187k · 3 repeat orgs$985k to everyone else

3 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2024, 2 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

3
8

Total granted

$187k
$585k

Still filing today

0%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $400k went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24
HealthHuman ServicesSocial ScienceInternationalEducationReligionOther
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

  • MS
    MOUNT SINAI MEDICAL CENTER
    4× · 2020–2023 · $125k
  • GO
    GREEK ORTHODOX ARCHDIOCESE OF AMERICA
    2× · 2021–2022 · $60k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    5× · 2020–2024 · $2k

Funded once

  • FO
    FRIENDS OF ST NICHOLAS
    one grant, 2021 · $200k
  • MC
    MERTON COLLEGE CHARITABLE CORPORATION
    one grant, 2023 · $100k · revenue +6%
  • LM
    LOYOLA MARYMOUNT UNIVERSITY
    one grant, 2023 · $75k · revenue +14%
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
Icahn School of Medicine At Mount Sinai

The school commits to dramatically advancing the art and science of medical care through an atmosphere of intense collaborative learning, social concern, and scholarly inquiry.

Education
2
Mount Saint Mary's University

Mount saint mary's university, is a california nonprofit public benefits corporation founded by the sisters of st. joseph of carondelet (provincialate), a religious community of the roman catholic church. the university was founded in 1925…

Education
3
Mount Sinai Hospital Medical Center

As a member of sinai health system, mount sinai hospital medical center's mission is to improve the health of the individuals and communities it serves by providing comprehensive medical, surgical, pediatric, psychiatric, and intensive…

Health
4
Mount Sinai Medical Center Foundation

To raise funds to support mount sinai medical center of florida, inc., a not-for-profit acute care teaching and research facility, so that it may provide high quality health care to our diverse community enhanced through teaching,…

Health
5
The Mt Sinai Health Care Foundation

Health grant maker and supporting organization to the jewish federation of cleveland (the federation).

Health
6
Mount Sinai Medical Center of

To provide high quality health care to our diverse community enhanced through teaching, research, charity care and financial responsibility.

Health
7
Mount Aloysius College

To provide quality higher education programs which meet the individual needs of students.

Education
8
Mount St Joseph University

Mount st. joseph university is a catholic academic community grounded in the spiritual values and vision of its founders, the sisters of charity. the university educates its students through interdisciplinary liberal arts and professional…

Education
9
Molloy University

Molloy is an independent catholic university rooted in the dominican tradition of study.

Education
10
Tufts Medical Center Physicians

The tufts medical center physicians organization, inc. coordinates the administrative and billing activities for the group practices in their mission of providing quality health care services to patients of tufts medical center, inc. and…

Health
11
Siemer Institute

The siemer institute will enhance educational opportunities for school-aged children by preventing family homelessness and reducing school instability.

Philanthropy
12
St John Fisher University

St. john fisher is a collaborative community dedicated to teaching and learning in a personalized educational environment. st. john fisher is guided by its catholic heritage, as expressed in the motto of its founders, the basilian fathers:…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Salzburg Global Seminar Inc; the most unlike its peers is Loyola Marymount University. 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

6 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. 6 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)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
6/6
Grantees still filing
4/6
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

HELLENIC COLLEGE INC: $225,000 · OtherHELLENIC COLLEGE INCFRIENDS OF ST NICHOLAS: $200,000 · OtherFRIENDS OF ST NICHOLASMOUNT SINAI MEDICAL CENTER: $125,000 · OtherMOUNT SINAI MEDICAL CENTERCATHEDRAL CHURCH OF ST JOHN THE DIVINE: $100,000 · OtherCATHEDRAL CHURCH OF ST JOHN THE DIVINEST SOPIA GREEK ORTHODOX ARCHDIOCESE: $75,000 · OtherST SOPIA GREEK ORTHODOX ARCHDIOCESEGREEK ORTHODOX ARCHDIOCESE OF AMERICA: $60,000 · OtherGREEK ORTHODOX ARCHDIOCESE OF AMERICAHOSPITAL FOR SPECIAL SURGERY: $50,000 · OtherHOSPITAL FOR SPECIAL SURGERYFLORENCE ACADEMY OF ART: $35,000 · Other+3 more: $37,369 · OtherMERTON COLLEGE CHARITABLE CORPORATION: $100,000 · InternationalMERTON CO…LOYOLA MARYMOUNT UNIVERSITY: $75,000 · EducationFOOD ALLERGY FUND: $25,000 · HealthSALZBURG GLOBAL SEMINAR INC: $25,000 · Social ScienceTHE GRACE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION: $25,000 · ReligionTHE TASK FORCE FOR GLOBAL HEALTH INC: $15,000 · Human Services
Other$907,369International$100,000Education$75,000Health$25,000Social Science$25,000Religion$25,000Human Services$15,000

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 budgetMERTON COLLEGE CHARITABLE CORPORATION: $100,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetLOYOLA MARYMOUNT UNIVERSITY: $75,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFOOD ALLERGY FUND: $25,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetSALZBURG GLOBAL SEMINAR INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTHE GRACE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION: $25,000 over 1y, 99% of budgetTHE TASK FORCE FOR GLOBAL HEALTH INC: $15,000 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.

  • Who funds MERTON COLLEGE CHARITABLE CORPORATION ↗
  • Who funds LOYOLA MARYMOUNT UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds FOOD ALLERGY FUND ↗
  • Who funds SALZBURG GLOBAL SEMINAR INC ↗
  • Who funds THE GRACE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds THE TASK FORCE FOR GLOBAL HEALTH 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.

National Philanthropic TrustPA11.6× affinity7 shared granteesties to 5 of 5Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving 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 Huffington Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Huffington Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    2get no government money at all
    0rely on government for over half their income
    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 Huffington Family Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Huffington Family 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 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-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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