· Private foundation
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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
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 (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 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.
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
How this is measured
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 +50%
Funded once
- THTHROUGH HER EYES PROJECTone grant, 2020 · $5k
- COCOLLEGE OF DUPAGE FOUNDATIONone grant, 2020 · $3k · revenue +10%
- W9WCHM 943one grant, 2021 · $1k
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.
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…
How this is measured
67 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2026, 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.
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 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 ↗
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: 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization James G Hart Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from James G Hart Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- 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
How this is measured
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