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James G Hart Foundation
Its FY2025 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 FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k59 grants · $148k
- $10k–50k8 grants · $140k
- $50k–250k6 grants · $570k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| WOMEN MAKE MOVIES | $225,000 |
| TULANE UNIVERSITY | $100,000 |
| COMMITTEE TO PROTECT JOURNALISTS | $75,000 |
| OLD TOWN SCHOOL OF FOLK MUSIC | $60,000 |
| FRONTLINE JOURNALISM FUND | $60,000 |
| INSTITUTE FOR MUSIC & NEUROLOGIC FUNCTION | $50,000 |
| US CAMPAIGN FOR PALESTINIAN RIGHTS | $25,000 |
| PROJECT ON GOVERNMENT OVERSIGHT | $25,000 |
| INTERNATIONAL RESCUE COMMITTEE | $20,000 |
| WUWM MILWAUKEE PUBLIC RADIO | $17,500 |
| HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH | $15,000 |
| AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL | $15,000 |
| AMERICAN NEAR EAST REFUGEE AID | $12,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| KARTEMQUIN EDUCATIONAL FILMS | $7,500 |
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 (FY20–25, $32k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 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.
73 repeat relationships — 68 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down; 4 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, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k 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
- WMWOMEN MAKE MOVIES INC6× · 2020–2025 · $820k · revenue +82%
- TATHE ADMINISTRATORS OF THE TULANE EDUCATIONAL FUND6× · 2020–2025 · $565k · revenue +44%
- OTOLD TOWN SCHOOL OF FOLK MUSIC5× · 2020–2025 · $235k · revenue +31%
Funded once
- THTHROUGH HER EYES PROJECTone grant, 2020 · $5k
- COCOLLEGE OF DUPAGE FOUNDATIONone grant, 2020 · $3k · revenue +10%
- W9WCHM 943one grant, 2021 · $1k
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 open markets institute works to help people relearn how to use competition policy to build stronger democracies, more just and equitable societies, more innovative and sustainable economies, and a more secure and peaceful world.
Free press action fund fights for your rights to connect and communicate. we fight to save the free and open internet, curb runaway media consolidation, protect press freedom, and promote digital civil rights. we believe that change…
International consortium of investigative journalists, inc.'s (icij) mission is to show people how the world really works through stories that rock the world; forcing positive change.
To research and develop centrist policy ideas.
Building bridges across diverse sectors, and developing innovative technologies and tools for policy makers. a leader in the conflict assessment and early warning field, the fund for peace focuses on the problems of weak and failing…
Wri is committed to creating change that improves people's lives and ensures the natural world can thrive. (see schedule o)wri's bold vision requires a formula for success we call "count it. change it. scale it.":- count it: our work is…
The council on foreign relations (cfr) is an independent, nonpartisan membership organization, think tank, and publisher dedicated to being a resource for its members, government officials, business executives, journalists, educators and…
The foreign policy research institute (frpi) is dedicated to producing the highest quality scholarship and nonpartisan policy analysis focused on crucial foreign policy and national security challenges facing the united states. we educate…
Advance science, engineering, and innovation throughout the world for the benefit of all. the world's largest multidisciplinary scientific society and a leading publisher of cutting-edge research through its science family of journals,…
Wwf's mission is to conserve nature and reduce the most pressing threats to the diversity of life on earth. (continued on schedule o)
National public radio, inc. ("npr") works collaboratively with member public radio station licensees ("member stations") to create a more informed public, one that is challenged and invigorated by a deeper understanding and appreciation of…
The peterson institute for international economics (piie) is an independent nonprofit, nonpartisan research organization dedicated to strengthening prosperity and human welfare in the global economy through expert analysis and practical…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Human Rights Watch Inc and the most unlike its peers is Working Bikes. 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 42 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% 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 10% 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.
67 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. 67 of the 86 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 WOMEN MAKE MOVIES INC ↗
- Who funds THE ADMINISTRATORS OF THE TULANE EDUCATIONAL FUND ↗
- Who funds GS DONOR ADVISED PHILANTHROPY FUND FOR WEALTH MANAGEMENT INC ↗
- Who funds OLD TOWN SCHOOL OF FOLK MUSIC ↗
- Who funds COMMITTEE TO PROTECT JOURNALISTS INC ↗
- Who funds INSTITUTE FOR MUSIC AND NEUROLOGICAL FUNCTION ↗
- Who funds Education For Just Peace in Middle East ↗
- Who funds WISCONSIN PUBLIC RADIO ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds PROJECT ON GOVERNMENT OVERSIGHT INC ↗
- Who funds International Rescue Committee INC ↗
- Who funds HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH INC ↗
- Who funds AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL OF THE USA INC ↗
- Who funds WGBH Educational Foundation ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN NEAR EAST REFUGEE AID ↗
- Who funds KARTEMQUIN EDUCATIONAL FILMS ↗
- Who funds BENNINGTON COLLEGE CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds BROWN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds THE CENTER FOR PUBLIC INTEGRITY ↗
- Who funds WHYY INC ↗
- Who funds Invest for Kids Inc ↗
- Who funds The People's Music School ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds WHEATLAND MUSIC ORGANIZATION INC ↗
- Who funds RESPIRATORY HEALTH ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds ENVIRONMENTAL LAW AND POLICY CENTER OF THE MIDWEST ↗
- Who funds RESIST INC ↗
- Who funds EARTHJUSTICE ↗
- Who funds FUND FOR INVESTIGATIVE JOURNALISM INC ↗
- Who funds WISCONSIN DEMOCRACY CAMPAIGN INC ↗
- Who funds ACTIVE TRANSPORTATION ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds OXFAM-AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS ↗
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: John D and Catherine T Macarthur Foundation · The Chicago Community Trust · Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc · Park Foundation Inc · The Ford Foundation · The Joyce Foundation · Circle of Service Foundation · Tides Foundation · The McKnight Foundation · AbbVie Foundation · Gannett Foundation Inc · Impactassetsinc
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 James G Hart 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.
- Save the Children Federation Inc — 30% of income from government
- Resist Inc — 2% of income from government
- Wgbh Educational Foundation — 1% of income from government
- Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation — 0% of income from government
- Bennington College Corporation — 0% of income from government
- Oxfam-America 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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