· Private foundation
Hussman 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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- $10k–50k1 grant · $34k
- $250k+2 grants · $720k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Partners Asia | $411,226 |
| Carter Center | $309,015 |
| Light House Inc | $33,700 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY21–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 43% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 28% of Hussman Foundation Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
6 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 59% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $309k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- PAPartners Asia5× · 2021–2025 · $1.4M · revenue 0%
- HOHOSPICE OF THE CHESAPEAKE INC2× · 2022–2023 · $430k · revenue +31%
- CPCARTERS PLAINS FOUNDATION INC2× · 2022–2023 · $388k · revenue -43% · 86% of their budget
Funded once
- HIHussman Institute for Autism Incone grant, 2021 · $1.9M · revenue -79% · 81% of their budget
- UOUniversity of Marylandone grant, 2021 · $27k
- CVCURE VIOLENCE GLOBALone grant, 2021 · $25k · revenue +6%
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.
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.
To provide cost-effective residential, social, intellectual, physical and vocational services to individuals with autism in group homes and in home support.
Heal Ukraine Trauma (HUT) is the first initiative of Heal Traumas International, Inc., a mental health non-profit founded in 2022. Our mission is to help Ukrainians heal from the trauma of war so they can live fulfilling, productive lives.
Center for Survivors of Torture provides culturally competent services that foster hope, health, and healing.
Hospital for Special Care is a 236-Bed Rehabilitation and Chronic Disease hospital, serving patients in these primary areas: Inpatient and Outpatient Rehabilitation.
Samaritan House is committed to fostering personal safety, growth, and self-sufficiency in adults and their children through freedom from domestic violence, sexual assault, and human trafficking and removing their risks of homelessness.
The Center brings together diverse interests from the agricultural, forestry, and environmental communities for the purpose of retaining Maryland's working landscapes and the industries they support while protecting and improving the…
Sheltering arms institute (sai) was created as a collaboration by sheltering arms hospital and vcu health to reinvent rehabilitation for life beyond limits.as a national leader in rehabilitation medicine, sai delivers personalized care in…
Housing unlimited, inc. is a non-profit dedicated to providing affordable, permanent housing opportunities and independent living for adults in mental health recovery.
Operate nonprofit which trains and employs adults with autism and related developmental differences
Partners in care, inc is dedicated to helping older adults live independently in their own homes and remain actively engaged in their communities.
How this is measured
8 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. 8 of the 11 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
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 tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: 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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Hussman Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Hussman Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
- Autism Society of Maryland Inc: 67% of income from government
How this is measured
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