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Hypertext 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.

$34k
Granted FY2024still arriving
13
Grants FY2024still arriving
7
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2023 to 2024.

Arts & Culture$35kEducation$30kAnimals$5kScience & Tech$5kPhilanthropy$2kCrime & Legal$1kInternational$1k
02FY2024 · 13 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k12 grants · $24k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
$2,000
Median grant
7
States reached
$974k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Minnesota Boys Choir$10,000
Wikimedia$5,000
Internet Archive$4,000
School for Poetic Computation$2,000
Philanthropy Roundtable$2,000
Flatbush$2,000
Project Gutenberg$2,000
Miss Soundation Care Farm$2,000
Rhizome$1,000
Art from the Inside$1,000
Individual grant recipient$1,000
Womens Prision Book Project$1,000
Childrens Center of Antelope Valley$820
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY24–24, $4k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%Internet Archive: $4k → 10%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

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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 field
04the grantee network

7 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. 7 of the 17 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)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
7/7
Grantees still filing
5/7
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Wikimedia Foundation: $20,000 · OtherWikimedia FoundationIndividual grant recipient: $15,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientWikimedia: $5,000 · OtherWikimediaIndividual grant recipient: $5,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientMiss Soundation Care Farm: $2,000 · OtherSchool for Poetic Computation: $2,000 · OtherProject Gutenberg: $2,000 · OtherFlatbush: $2,000 · Other+2 more: $1,820 · OtherMINNESOTA BOYCHOIR: $10,000 · Arts & CultureMINNESOTA BOYCHOI…ART FROM THE INSIDE: $1,000 · Arts & CultureART FROM THE INSI…RHIZOME COMMUNICATIONS INC co NEW MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART: $1,000 · Arts & CultureRHIZOME COMMUNICA…FLATBUSH CATS INC: $5,000 · AnimalsInternet Archive: $4,000 · Human ServicesTHE PHILANTHROPY ROUNDTABLE: $2,000 · PhilanthropyWOMENS PRISON BOOK PROJECT: $1,000 · Crime & Legal
Other$54,820Arts & Culture$12,000Animals$5,000Human Services$4,000Philanthropy$2,000Crime & Legal$1,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetMINNESOTA BOYCHOIR: $10,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetFLATBUSH CATS INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetInternet Archive: $4,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE PHILANTHROPY ROUNDTABLE: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetART FROM THE INSIDE: $1,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetRHIZOME COMMUNICATIONS INC co NEW MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWOMENS PRISON BOOK PROJECT: $1,000 over 1y, 0.9% 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.

  • Who funds MINNESOTA BOYCHOIR ↗
  • Who funds FLATBUSH CATS INC ↗
  • Who funds Internet Archive ↗
  • Who funds THE PHILANTHROPY ROUNDTABLE ↗
  • Who funds ART FROM THE INSIDE ↗
  • Who funds RHIZOME COMMUNICATIONS INC co NEW MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART ↗
  • Who funds WOMENS PRISON BOOK PROJECT ↗

How much its grantees rely on government

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    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.

    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 17 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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