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Hummingbird Foundation Inc at a glance

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Hummingbird Foundation Inc

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.

$1.4M
Granted FY2025still arriving
7
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$300k
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 2025.

Food & Nutrition$3.6MArts & Culture$2.4MYouth Development$1.1MHealth$605kCommunity Improvement$500kInternational$472kEducation$250k
02FY2025 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $50k–250k3 grants · $371k
  • $250k+4 grants · $1.1M
$250,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$16M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
LUCY OUTREACH$300,000
HOPEWORKS$250,000
UNIVERSITY CITY DISTRICT$250,000
12 PLUS$250,000
CATHEDRAL SOUP KITCHEN$150,000
PHILADELPHIA MURAL ARTS ADVOCATES$121,277
METROPOLITAN AREA NEIGHBORHOOD NUTRITION ALLIANCE$100,000
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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $2.5M) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 67% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%AMERICA'S GROW-A-ROW: $175k → 4%AMERICA'S GROW-A-ROW: $150k → 4%AMERICA'S GROW-A-ROW: $150k → 4%CATHEDRAL SOUP KITCHEN: $290k → 12%AMERICA'S GROW-A ROW: $150k → 4%CATHEDRAL SOUP KITCHEN: $250k → 12%AMERICA'S GROW-A-ROW: $150k → 4%CATHEDRAL SOUP KITCHEN: $185k → 12%AMERICA'S GROW-A ROW: $25k → 4%CATHEDRAL SOUP KITCHEN: $185k → 12%AMERICA'S GROW-A ROW: $25k → 4%CATHEDRAL SOUP KITCHEN: $185k → 12%CATHEDRAL SOUP KITCHEN: $150k → 12%CATHEDRAL SOUP KITCHEN: $147k → 12%CATHEDRAL SOUP KITCHEN: $145k → 12%CATHEDRAL SOUP KITCHEN: $135k → 12%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.
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Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 5% of Hummingbird Foundation Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

Hummingbird Foundation Inclessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 5.3% directed abroad (not shown)
How this is measured
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

97%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$8.6M · 11 repeat orgs$302k to everyone else

11 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

11
1

Total granted

$8.6M
$52k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+35%
+97%

Still filing today

91%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $250k 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
Food & NutritionHuman ServicesEducationArts & CultureInternationalPhilanthropyOther
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

  • PHILADELPHIA MURAL ARTS ADVOCATES INC
    8× · 2017–2025 · $2.4M · revenue +62%
  • TC
    THE CATHEDRAL SOUP KITCHEN INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $1.7M · revenue +111%
  • Americas Grow-A-Row
    7× · 2018–2024 · $825k · revenue +209%

Funded once

  • CF
    Community Food Bank Of New Jersey Incgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $52k · 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
Philadelphia Works Inc

Philadelphia works, inc. develops and manages smart workforce solutions that respond to business needs and increases economic opportunity for all philadelphia residents.

Employment
2
Central Pennsylvania Food Bank

Our mission is to solve hunger in central pennsylvania by ensuring that everyone struggling with hunger has access to enough wholesome food every day. we will achieve this bold goal with the help of our generous donors, volunteers and…

Food & Nutrition
3
United Way of Greater Philadelphia and Southern New Jersey

United way's mission is to end intergenerational poverty in our region by harnessing, leveraging and strategically investing the collective power of donors, advocates and volunteers, to help individuals and families break the cycle of…

Philanthropy
4
Montco Anti-Hunger Network

By leading coordinated action, montco anti-hunger network strengthens the food security safety net system in montgomery county, pa, working to end hunger in montgomery county.

Food & Nutrition
5
Partners in Food Solutions

Improve the food value chain in developing countries by mobilizing corporate volunteers to share knowledge and expertise with small and growing food processors.

International
6
The Pennsylvania Horticultural Society

Founded in 1827, the pennsylvania horticultural society (phs) uses horticulture to advance the health and well-being of the greater philadelphia region. (continued in sch o)phs's work focuses on four impact priorities: creating healthy…

Environment
7
Philadelphia Industrial Development Corporation

Pidc plans and implements economic development initiatives (see schedule o) which enhance the competitive environment, generate jobs and produce higher tax ratables throughout philadelphia.

Community Improvement
8
Greater Philadelphia Tourism Marketing Corporation

Visit philadelphia is our name and our mission. as the region's official tourism marketing agency, we build greater philadelphia's image, drive visitation and boost the economy.

Community Improvement
9
United Food Bank

United Food Bank unites communities to alleviate hunger.

Food & Nutrition
10
Pidc Development Management Corporation

Pidc dmc administers and coordinates various development projects for the city and other not-for-profit entities.

Community Improvement
11
The Foodbank of Monmouth and Ocean Counties Inc D/B/a Fulfill

Fulfill accelerates food security throughout monmouth & ocean counties by leading a collaborative movement that connects people to food and related resources while also addressing systemic barriers to self-sufficiency and well-being.

Human Services
12
Food Forward Inc

Food forward fights hunger and prevents food waste by rescuing fresh surplus produce, connecting this abundance with people experiencing food insecurity, and inspiring others to do the same.

Food & Nutrition
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Philabundance; the most unlike its peers is Grant Foundation Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network

12 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. 12 of the 13 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
12/12
Grantees still filing
8/12
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE CATHEDRAL SOUP KITCHEN INC: $1,672,700 · Human ServicesTHE CATHEDRAL SOUP KITCHEN INCAmericas Grow-A-Row: $825,000 · Human ServicesAmericas Grow-A-RowPHILADELPHIA MURAL ARTS ADVOCATES INC: $2,371,303 · Arts & CulturePHILADELPHIA MURAL ARTS ADVOCA…METROPOLITAN AREA NEIGHBORHOOD NUTRITION ALLIANCE: $542,000 · Food & NutritionMETROPOLITAN …Philabundance: $509,474 · Food & NutritionPhilabundanceCommunity Food Bank Of New Jersey Inc: $51,750 · Food & NutritionHOPEWORKS 'N CAMDEN INC: $550,000 · EducationHOPEWORKS …12 PLUS: $250,000 · Education12 PLUSLUCY OUTREACH A NJ NONPROFIT CORPORATION: $600,000 · Youth DevelopmentUNIVERSITY CITY DISTRICT: $500,000 · Community ImprovementGRANT FOUNDATION INC: $471,750 · InternationalTHE INTREPID FALLEN HEROES FUND: $315,000 · OtherARTHRITIS FOUNDATION: $290,000 · Other
Human Services$2,497,700Arts & Culture$2,371,303Food & Nutrition$1,103,224Education$800,000Youth Development$600,000Community Improvement$500,000International$471,750Other$605,000

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 budgetPHILADELPHIA MURAL ARTS ADVOCATES INC: $2,371,303 over 8y, 4.4% of budgetTHE CATHEDRAL SOUP KITCHEN INC: $1,672,700 over 9y, 8.3% of budgetAmericas Grow-A-Row: $825,000 over 7y, 7.1% of budgetLUCY OUTREACH A NJ NONPROFIT CORPORATION: $600,000 over 2y, 22% of budgetHOPEWORKS 'N CAMDEN INC: $550,000 over 2y, 3.6% of budgetMETROPOLITAN AREA NEIGHBORHOOD NUTRITION ALLIANCE: $542,000 over 4y, 2.6% of budgetPhilabundance: $509,474 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetUNIVERSITY CITY DISTRICT: $500,000 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetGRANT FOUNDATION INC: $471,750 over 3y, 5.1% of budgetTHE INTREPID FALLEN HEROES FUND: $315,000 over 3y, 1.7% of budget12 PLUS: $250,000 over 1y, 10% of budgetCommunity Food Bank Of New Jersey Inc: $51,750 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.

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.

The Philadelphia Foun…Mildred R Davis Char …Domenica Foundation I…Subaru of America Fou…Connelly FoundationColumbia Bank Foundat…Td Charitable Foundat…Community Foundation …Jpmorgan Chase Founda…Charities Aid Foundat…National Philanthropi…The Blackbaud Giving …
The Philadelphia FoundationPA15.4× affinity5 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Philadelphia Foundation · Mildred R Davis Char Fdn · Domenica Foundation Inc · Subaru of America Foundation Inc · Connelly Foundation · Columbia Bank Foundation · Td Charitable Foundation · Community Foundation of New Jersey · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation America · National Philanthropic Trust · The Blackbaud Giving 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 Hummingbird Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Hummingbird Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%2%6%14%25%funder's share of their income ↑0%6%13%19%25%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    2get 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 · 0–25%
    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 Hummingbird Foundation Inc?

    Find your warmest path to Hummingbird Foundation Inc 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 13 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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