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Hycliff Foundation at a glance

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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
5
States reached
$99k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0195% 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
02FY2019 · 13 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2019

  • Under $10k12 grants · $5k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $99k
$100
Median grant
5
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE HYCLIFF FUND$99,433
THE INNOCENCE PROJECT$1,000
CONGREGATION EMANU-EL OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK$1,000
PAN MASS CHALLENGE$1,000
VASSAR COLLEGE$1,000
AMERICAN FOLK ART MUSEUM$100
GLENVILLE VOLUNTEER FIRE CO INC$100
HERBERT H LEHMAN COLLEGE FOUNDATION$100
EL EDUCATION (IN HONOR OF LEE KLINGENSTEIN)$100
ANNIE'S SAKE INC$100
HOPE AND HEROES$100
THE NEW YORK SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO CHILDREN$100
US HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL MUSEUM$100
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 (FY17–19, $3k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, 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%NEW YORK CITY MISSION SOCIETY IN MEMORY OF JOHN A COLEMAN: $250 → 17%GRAND STREET SETTLEMENT: $100 → 17%THE INNOCENCE PROJECT: $1k → 17%THE INNOCENCE PROJECT: $1k → 17%THE INNOCENCE PROJECT: $1k → 17%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
NJ
CT
CA
MO
DE
DC
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.

23%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$32k · 18 repeat orgs$103k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +49% since the first grant, against +32% for those funded once.

18 repeat relationships: 8 still active in FY2019, 10 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2019 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

18
18

Total granted

$32k
$3k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+49%
+32%

Still filing today

61%
44%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2019, 4% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $100k 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
HealthEducationHuman ServicesArts & CulturePhilanthropyCrime & LegalOther
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

  • TI
    THE INNOCENCE PROJECT INC
    3× · 2017–2019 · $3k · revenue +135%
  • PAN-MASSACHUSETTS CHALLENGE INC
    3× · 2017–2019 · $3k · revenue +49%
  • VC
    VASSAR COLLEGE
    2× · 2017–2019 · $3k · revenue +19%

Funded once

  • TR
    THE ROYAL MARSDEN CANCER CHARITY
    one grant, 2018 · $500
  • BJ
    BARNES JEWISH HOSPITAL
    one grant, 2017 · $250
  • NY
    N Y C MISSION SOCIETYgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $250 · revenue +46%
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
Stony Brook Childrens Services University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
2
Stony Brook Internists University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
3
Stony Brook Surgical Associates University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
4
Neurology Associates of Stony Brook University Faculty Practice Corp

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
5
Stony Brook Ophthalmology University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
6
Stony Brook Urology University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
7
University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education
8
University Associates in Obstetrics and Gynecology University Faculty Pract ice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
9
Manhattanville University

To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.

Education
10
Metropolitan Jewish Health System Inc

Mjhs health system is a charitable not-for-profit established to support the activities of affiliated organizations. mjhs is built on the core values of compassion, dignity and respect, first established by the four brooklyn ladies in…

Health
11
Northeast College of Health Sciences

Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.

Education
12
Stony Brook Orthopedic Associates University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Blythedale Children's Hospital; the most unlike its peers is Glenville Volunteer Fire Co 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

24 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. 24 of the 41 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)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
22/24
Grantees still filing
18/24
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE HYCLIFF FUND: $99,433 · OtherTHE HYCLIFF FUNDCONGREGATION EMANU-EL OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $14,700 · OtherCONGREGATION EMANU-EL OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK+24 more: $12,420 · Other+24 moreTHE INNOCENCE PROJECT INC: $3,000 · Human ServicesN Y C MISSION SOCIETY: $250 · Human Services+1 more: $100 · Human ServicesMULTIPLYING GOOD INC: $2,000 · PhilanthropyWilliams College: $750 · EducationHERBERT H LEHMAN COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $100 · EducationTRUSTEES OF THE LAWRENCEVILLE SCHOOL: $100 · EducationMONTEFIORE MEDICAL CENTER: $250 · HealthJBI INTERNATIONAL INC: $100 · HealthHOPE & HEROES CHILDREN'S CANCER FUND: $100 · HealthPROJECT SUNSHINE INC: $100 · HealthBLYTHEDALE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL: $100 · HealthAMERICAN FOLK ART MUSEUM: $300 · Arts & CultureThe United States Holocaust Memorial Museum: $100 · Arts & CultureTHE NEW YORK SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO CHILDREN: $300 · Crime & Legal
Other$126,553Human Services$3,350Philanthropy$2,000Education$950Health$650Arts & Culture$400Crime & Legal$300

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 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
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.

Jewish Communal FundThe Heller Foundation…The Donna and Marvin …Robin Hood FoundationGs Donor Advised Phil…The Hyde and Watson F…The Goldman Sachs Cha…National Philanthropi…Vanguard Charitable E…Jpmorgan Chase Founda…American Endowment Fo…Charities Aid Foundat…
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Hycliff Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Hycliff Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Pan-Massachusetts Challenge Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Williams College: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%
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 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.

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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