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Hymowitz Family Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k39 grants · $147k
- $10k–50k29 grants · $470k
- $50k–250k7 grants · $595k
- $250k+1 grant · $790k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING | $790,000 |
| STRUGGLE TO SAVE ETHIOPIAN JEWRY INC | $150,000 |
| POMEROY RECREATION AND REHABILITATION CENTER | $127,500 |
| ISRAAID US INC | $100,000 |
| CONGREGATION EMANU-EL | $67,500 |
| NEXT GENERATION SCHOLARS INC | $50,000 |
| AMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM | $50,000 |
| SELLE VALLEY CARDEN SCHOOL INC | $50,000 |
| ALUMNI ASSOCIATION OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN | $30,000 |
| RENEW DEMOCRACY INITIATIVE INC | $30,000 |
| FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES | $25,000 |
| JEWISH FAMILY & CHILDRENS SERVICES | $25,000 |
| CONGREGATION EMANU-EL | $25,000 |
| INTERNATIONAL DOCUMENTARY ASSOCIATION | $25,000 |
| SAN FRANCISCO ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY | $25,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $713k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 89% 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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 16% of Hymowitz Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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 +48% since the first grant, against +23% for the ones you funded once.
85 repeat relationships — 62 still active in FY2024, 23 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $60k 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
- PRPomeroy Recreation and Rehabilitation Center6× · 2018–2024 · $437k · revenue +14%
ALUMNI ASSOCIATION OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN8× · 2017–2024 · $435k · revenue +17%- STSTRUGGLE TO SAVE ETHIOPIAN JEWRYINC4× · 2021–2024 · $426k · revenue +77%
Funded once
- ROREGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN College ofone grant, 2022 · $250k
- AEARRAY EDUCATION INCgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $50k · revenue +97%
- NONASHVILLE OPERA ASSOCIATIONone grant, 2022 · $20k · revenue -1%
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.
The jewish agency binds jews across ideologies and civilizations together in a worldwide jewish family with israel at its center. it provides the global framework for aliyah, ensures global jewish safety, strengthens jewish identity and…
The foundation operates exclusively for charitable, educational or religious purposes by conducting or supporting activities for the benefit of, or to carry out the purposes of the jewish community federation of san francisco, the…
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.
Jewish federation of san diego county is dedicated to building a vibrant, caring, connected, and enduring jewish community.
The organization provides professional investment management services for endowed gifts and financial assets entrusted to the ucsf foundation.
The principal function of uia is to administer and supervise the funds allocated for philanthropic purposes related to immigration and absorption of humanitarian migrants to israel and jewish identity programs in israel and the former…
Minneapolis jewish federation is a nonprofit organization that promotes a culture of philanthropy, leverages resources to meet local and global jewish needs, and facilitates community planning to ensure a thriving and secure future.
Based on jewish values, the jewish federation of greater los angeles convenes and leads the community and leverages its resources to assure the continuity of the jewish people, support a secure state of israel, care for jews in need here…
The shalom hartman institute (shi) is a leading research and educational center serving israel and world jewry. we work to enrich the moral and spiritual life of israel and the jewish people, deepen the commitment to pluralism and israel's…
Support the hebrew univ. of jerusalem, israel's foremost center of higher edu. & research.
San Diego Jewish Academy empowers each student to learn for life, guided by Jewish values and rooted in strength of community.
The mission of the Jewish War Veterans of the USA National Memorial, Inc., doing business as the National Museum of American Jewish Military History, is to preserve, interpret, and share the history of Jewish Americans who have served in…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma and the most unlike its peers is Eastman Memorial Foundation. 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 34 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
138 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. 138 of the 165 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 DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ↗
- Who funds Pomeroy Recreation and Rehabilitation Center ↗
- Who funds ALUMNI ASSOCIATION OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN ↗
- Who funds STRUGGLE TO SAVE ETHIOPIAN JEWRYINC ↗
- Who funds ISRAAID US GLOBAL HUMANITARIAN ASSISTANCE INC ↗
- Who funds TREATMENT ADVOCACY CENTER ↗
- Who funds Jewish Commmunity High School of the Bay ↗
- Who funds SAN FRANCISCO FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds SWARTHMORE COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds Next Generation Scholars Inc ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF NASHVILLE ↗
- Who funds JEWISH RELIEF AGENCY ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S SERVICES ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES ↗
- Who funds SANDPOINT RESOURCE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL DOCUMENTARY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SELLE VALLEY CARDEN SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds ARRAY EDUCATION INC ↗
- Who funds PANHANDLE SPECIAL NEEDS INC ↗
- Who funds The Renew Democracy Initiative Inc ↗
- Who funds Bonner General Hospital Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE ↗
- Who funds KINDERHAVEN INC ↗
- Who funds HIAS INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Kaniksu Land Trust Inc ↗
- Who funds MYRIAD USA INC ↗
- Who funds SAN FRANCISCO GENERAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF RADNOR LAKE ↗
- Who funds OUR MILITARY KIDS INC ↗
- Who funds SAN FRANCISCO ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds COMMITTEE FOR ACCURACY IN MIDDLE EAST REPORTING IN AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds JEWISH COMMUNITY FEDERATION OF SAN FRANCISCO THE PENINSULA MARIN & SONOMA ↗
- Who funds CROHN'S & COLITIS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds NASHVILLE OPERA ASSOCIATION ↗
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: Marin Community Foundation · Equinox Foundation Inc · Innovia Foundation · Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma · The Carl Gellert and Celia Berta Gellert Foundation · Koret Foundation · McNabb Foundation · Idaho Community Foundation Inc · Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc · The San Francisco Foundation · The Justin and Michelle Hughes Foundation · Olympic Club Foundation
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 Hymowitz Family Foundation 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.
- Hias Inc — 88% of income from government
- Americares Foundation Inc — 0% of income from government
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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