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Hycliff Foundation

Its FY2019 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$104k
Granted FY2019
13
Grants FY2019
13
Organizations funded FY2019
38%
First-time grantees FY2019
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Median grant, FY2019
$100
Largest grant, FY2019
$99,433
Organizations funded a year
13 to 31
FY2017 to FY2019
States reached, FY2019
5
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2019, 38% of the organizations Hycliff Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 96% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2019, 4% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $100k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19
HealthArts & CultureEducationOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY201913$104k38%
FY201820$15k25%
FY201731$15kn/a
95% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Philanthropy$100kReligion$15kHealth$6kEducation$4kCrime & Legal$3kArts & Culture$3kPublic Benefit$2kHuman Services$550Other$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

NY
MA
NJ
CT
CA
MO
DE
DC
FL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2019, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Congregation Emanu-El of the City of New York$14,7003n/a
The Innocence Project Inc$3,00030%
Pan-Massachusetts Challenge Inc$3,00030%
Vassar College$2,75020%
Multiplying Good Inc$2,00020%
San Francisco Free Clinic$1,00020%
Williams College$75020%
American Folk Art Museum$30030%
The New York Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children$30030%
Barnes Jewish Hospital$2501n/a
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Plus 14 recipients with no EIN on record ($104k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Hycliff Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetThe Innocence Project Inc: $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPan-Massachusetts Challenge Inc: $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetVassar College: $2,750 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMultiplying Good Inc: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSan Francisco Free Clinic: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWilliams College: $750 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Folk Art Museum: $300 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetThe New York Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children: $300 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetN y C Mission Society: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMontefiore Medical Center: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGreenwich Emergency Medical Service Inc: $250 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetScan-Harbor Inc: $200 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUnited Way of Greenwich Inc: $200 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe United States Holocaust Memorial Museum: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGrand Street Settlement Inc: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJbi International Inc: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHerbert H Lehman College Foundation Inc: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHope & Heroes Children's Cancer Fund: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetInterschool Orchestras of New York Inc: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetProject Sunshine Inc: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Childrens Storefront: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBlythedale Children's Hospital: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTrustees of the Lawrenceville School: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 23.

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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.

Jewish Communal FundNY16.1× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Jewish Communal Fund · The Heller Foundation Inc · The Donna and Marvin Schwartz Foundation · Robin Hood Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · The Hyde and Watson Foundation · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation America

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.

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How do I get to Hycliff Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Hycliff 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.

About Hycliff Foundation

How much does Hycliff Foundation give?
Hycliff Foundation reported 13 grants totaling $104,233 in its FY2019 IRS filing. It funded between 13 and 31 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2019.
What does Hycliff Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2019, its largest causes are Philanthropy (74%), Religion (11%), Health (4%).
Who are Hycliff Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2019: Congregation Emanu-El of the City of New York ($15k), The Innocence Project Inc ($3k), Pan-Massachusetts Challenge Inc ($3k).
Does Hycliff Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2019, 38% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Hycliff 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 Hycliff Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Jewish Communal Fund, The Heller Foundation Inc, The Donna and Marvin Schwartz Foundation.
Where is Hycliff Foundation based?
Hycliff Foundation is based in NY.

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 41 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 2019, released 2019. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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