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Hyman Fund
Its FY2023 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Read this first · the figures below need context
83% of Hyman Fund’s FY2023 grant dollars went to The Greater New Orleans Foundation, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2023 names 14 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2022, the last year Hyman Fund named its own grantees at scale: 21 organizations, $14k. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2023.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| HARVARD GRADUATE SCHOOL OF EDUCATION | $2,000 |
| TOURO INFIRMARY FOUNDATION | $1,500 |
| JEWISH CHILDREN'S REGIONAL SERVICE | $1,400 |
| TULANE UNIVERSITY | $1,000 |
| JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES | $1,000 |
| ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE | $1,000 |
| MEMORIAL SLOAN-KETTERING CANCER CENTER | $1,000 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD | $600 |
| NEW ORLEANS MUSEUM OF ART | $520 |
| ALZHEIMER'S ASSOCIATION | $500 |
| FUND FOR REFUGEE INITIATIVE | $500 |
| ISIDORE NEWMAN SCHOOL | $500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $300 |
| BUREAU OF GOVERNMENTAL RESEARCH | $250 |
| WWNO | $200 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY17–23, $9k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +47% since the first grant, against +37% for the ones you funded once.
44 repeat relationships — 29 still active in FY2022, 15 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2022 (too recent to call). Read against FY2022, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.
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 FY2023, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
PHILLIPS EXETER ACADEMY2× · 2017–2018 · $40k · revenue +65%- TITOURO INFIRMARY FOUNDATION7× · 2017–2023 · $11k · revenue +79%
- JCJEWISH CHILDREN'S REGIONAL SERVICE7× · 2017–2023 · $7k · revenue +13%
Funded once
- YUYALE UNIVERSITYone grant, 2017 · $20k
- YUYALE UNIVERSITYone grant, 2018 · $20k
- UWUNITED WAY OF SOUTHEAST LOUISIANAgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $5k · revenue +35%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.
The climate institute is organized for the purpose of educating the general public and policy makers as to the gravity of potential climate change, exploring the policy implications of the latest scientific findings on climate modelling…
The institute for advanced study (the institute) is one of the world's leading centers for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. see schedule o.
We work towards a future where birds thrive across the americas because audubon is a powerful, diverse, and ever-growing force for conservation. (continued on schedule o).
The mission of the coalition to restore coastal louisiana (crcl) is to unite people in action to achieve a thriving, sustainable louisiana coast for all.
The architectural league of new york supports critically transformative work in the allied fields that shape the built environment. as a vital, independent forum, the league stimulates thinking, debate, and action on today's (continued on…
Project drawdown's mission is to drive meaningful climate action by advancing science-based solutions and strategies. project drawdown's work is focused on three pillars: science - advancing science-based climate solutions and strategies;…
Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.
Ocean conservancy unites science, people, and policy to protect our ocean, today and for generations to come.
Chartered by a unanimous act of congress, the museum is america's national institution for the documentation, study, interpretation, and education of holocaust history and serves as our country's memorial to the victims of the holocaust.…
To engage and catalyze global seafood supply chains in rebuilding depleted fish stocks and reducing the environmental impacts of fishing and fish farming.
To research and develop centrist policy ideas.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is National Council of Jewish Women Incorporated and the most unlike its peers is The National World War Ii Museum Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 63 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 17% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
37 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 37 of the 62 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds THE GREATER NEW ORLEANS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NEW ORLEANS MUSEUM OF ART ↗
- Who funds PHILLIPS EXETER ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER NEW ORLEANS ↗
- Who funds TOURO INFIRMARY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds JEWISH CHILDREN'S REGIONAL SERVICE ↗
- Who funds THE ADMINISTRATORS OF THE TULANE EDUCATIONAL FUND ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF SOUTHEAST LOUISIANA ↗
- Who funds ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE ↗
- Who funds ISIDORE NEWMAN SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds SEMINARS AT STEAMBOAT ↗
- Who funds BUREAU OF GOVERNMENTAL RESEARCH INC ↗
- Who funds SOCIAL ENTREPRENEURS OF NEW ORLEANS ↗
- Who funds ASHOKA ↗
- Who funds RECONCILE NEW ORLEANS INC ↗
- Who funds The Susan G Komen Breast Cancer Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds METROPOLITAN CRIME COMMISSION INC ↗
- Who funds Audubon Nature Institute Inc ↗
- Who funds SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK GREATER NEW ORLEANS AND ACADIANA ↗
- Who funds THE NATIONAL WORLD WAR II MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds PUBLIC AFFAIRS RESEARCH COUNCIL OF ICIC A ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Goldring Family Foundation · The Usdin-Weil Foundation · Louis & Lillian Glazer Family Foundation · Luther and Zita Templeman Foundation · Woldenberg Foundation · Patrick F Taylor Foundation · Baptist Community Ministries · The Steeg Family Foundation · Gustaf Westfeldt McIlhenny Family Founda · Shell USA Company Foundation · The Greater New Orleans Foundation · Kirschman Foundation for Health and Education
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Hyman Fund funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.
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