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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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2023.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| 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 |
| MEMORIAL SLOAN-KETTERING CANCER CENTER | $1,000 |
| JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES | $1,000 |
| ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE | $1,000 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD | $600 |
| NEW ORLEANS MUSEUM OF ART | $520 |
| ALZHEIMER'S ASSOCIATION | $500 |
| ISIDORE NEWMAN SCHOOL | $500 |
| FUND FOR REFUGEE INITIATIVE | $500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $300 |
| BUREAU OF GOVERNMENTAL RESEARCH | $250 |
| SUSAN G KOMEN FOUNDATION | $200 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +48% since the first grant, against +37% for those 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
How this is measured
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, 2018 · $20k
- YUYALE UNIVERSITYone grant, 2017 · $20k
- UWUNITED WAY OF SOUTHEAST LOUISIANAgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $5k · revenue +35%
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.
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…
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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.
How this is measured
37 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. 37 of the 62 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.
- 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 ↗
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: 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Hyman Fund funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Hyman Fund. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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