· Private foundation
If Hummingbird Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FRIEND OF MUSIQUE & VIN AU CLOS VOUGEOT INC | $8,731 |
| R&S KAYNE FOUNDATION | $7,500 |
| MSK | $5,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,500 |
| CORNELL HILLEL | $5,000 |
| MARTHA'S VINEYARD BANK CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC | $5,000 |
| THE KAMEN BRAIN TUMOR FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| MOUNT SINAI HEALTH SYSTEM | $5,000 |
| HEADSTRONG | $3,000 |
| HEAD OF THE CHARLES REGATTA INC | $3,000 |
| CHARLES RIVER WATERSHED ASSOCIATION INC | $2,500 |
| JEWISH FEDERATION OF PALM BEACH COUNTY INC | $2,500 |
| SAIL MARTHA'S VINEYARD | $2,350 |
| WATER SPORTS CENTER | $1,780 |
| KRAVIS CENTER | $1,500 |
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 (FY17–25, $73k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 89% 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 +31% since the first grant, against +13% for those funded once.
142 repeat relationships: 20 still active in FY2025, 122 since wound down; 19 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 50% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $39k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- NYNEW YORK CITY BALLET INC5× · 2017–2021 · $137k · revenue +21%
- THThe Hospital for Special Surgery Fund Inc4× · 2017–2020 · $110k · revenue +102%
- MYMV YOUTH INC5× · 2017–2021 · $105k · revenue +20%
Funded once
- WCWEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGEone grant, 2018 · $200k
- NYNEW YORK STEM CELL FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2017 · $65k · revenue -32%
- WOWords of War Benefitone grant, 2017 · $33k
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.
To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.
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.
The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.
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…
The mission of the organization is to foster the development of creative individuals as writers and artists and to promote public appreciation of excellence in the literary and graphic arts by publishing a magazine containing fiction,…
New york school of interior design provides the most innovative, immersive, and transformative interior design education in the world, demonstrating the impact of professionally designed interiors on the health, happiness, and well-being…
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
The baruch college fund is an organization engaged in generating, encouraging and promoting the educational welfare of the students of the bernard m. baruch college of the city university of new york.
The governors island corporation, doing business as the trust for governors island, is the 501(c)(3) not-for-profit organization created by the city of new york and charged with the planning, redevelopment and ongoing operations of 150…
Fordham university, the jesuit university of new york, is committed to the discovery of wisdom and the transmission of learning, through research and through education of the highest quality. for more information, see schedule o.
Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…
The manhattan institute is a community of scholars, journalists, activists, and civic leaders dedicated to advancing opportunity, individual liberty, and the rule of law in america and its great cities.
How this is measured
203 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. 203 of the 363 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
Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 ROW NEW YORK INC ↗
- Who funds NEW YORK CITY BALLET INC ↗
- Who funds The Hospital for Special Surgery Fund Inc ↗
- Who funds MV YOUTH INC ↗
- Who funds FACING HISTORY & OURSELVES INC ↗
- Who funds NEW YORK STEM CELL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE KAMEN BRAIN TUMOR FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BILL HILLARY & CHELSEA CLINTON FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MOUNT SINAI HEALTH SYSTEM INC ↗
- Who funds LINCOLN CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds BLUE ENGINE INC ↗
- Who funds VITAL VOICES GLOBAL PARTNERSHIP INC ↗
- Who funds CITY YEAR INC ↗
- Who funds COUNCIL ON FOREIGN RELATIONS INC ↗
- Who funds THE PHILANTHROPY WORKSHOP INC DBA FORWARD GLOBAL ↗
- Who funds THE COMMON GOOD FORUM INC ↗
- Who funds UBUNTU PATHWAYS INC ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL REFUGEE ASSISTANCE PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds SHERIFF'S MEADOW FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE LOWER EAST SIDE GIRLS CLUB OF NEW YORK INC ↗
- Who funds Cornell University ↗
- Who funds MANHATTAN THEATRE CLUB INC ↗
- Who funds THE CHILDREN'S HEARING INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds Teachers College Columbia University ↗
- Who funds LIONSHARE EDUCATIONAL ORGANIZATION INC ↗
- Who funds SHARE OUR STRENGTH ↗
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: The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · Martha's Vineyard Bank Charitable Foundation Inc · The Peter and Elizabeth C Tower Foundation · Jewish Communal Fund · The New York Community Trust · Boston Foundation Inc · Martha's Vineyard Community Foundation Inc · Gretchen V & Samuel M Feldman Private Foundation Inc · Gund Geoffrey Fdn · South Mountain Company Foundation · Tower Family Fund Inc · American Express Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization If Hummingbird Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from If Hummingbird Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
- Martha's Vineyard Community Foundation Inc: 34% of income from government
- The Yard Inc: 28% of income from government
- City Year Inc: 11% of income from government
- Brandeis University: 9% of income from government
- Charles River Watershed Association Inc: 8% of income from government
- Boys & Girls Club of Greenwich: 7% of income from government
- Hospice of Martha's Vineyard Inc Dba Hospice and Palliative Care of Martha's: 5% of income from government
- Sassafras Earth Education Inc: 3% of income from government
- Martha's Vineyard Community Services Inc: 3% of income from government
- Sheriff's Meadow Foundation: 2% of income from government
- Community Rowing Inc: 2% of income from government
- Martha's Vineyard Playhouse Inc: 2% of income from government
- Martha's Vineyard Film Society Inc: 2% of income from government
- Island Housing Trust Corporation: 1% of income from government
- The Clarke School for the Deaf Clarke Schools for Hearing and Speech: 1% of income from government
- Sail Martha's Vineyard Inc: 1% of income from government
- Friends of Mvyradio Inc: 1% of income from government
- Island Grown Initiative Ltd: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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