How much does John M Hopwood Irr give?

John M Hopwood Irr reported 66 grants totaling $1,146,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 45 and 58 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.

What does John M Hopwood Irr fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Environment (33%), Health (18%), Education (14%).

Who are John M Hopwood Irr's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Environmental Defense Fund Incorporated ($1.4M), Colby-Sawyer College ($925k), National Wildlife Federation ($868k).

Does John M Hopwood Irr fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 16% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does John M Hopwood Irr accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.

Which funders back the same organizations as John M Hopwood Irr?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Maine Community Foundation Inc, Indian River Community Foundation Inc, Elmina B Sewall Foundation.

Where is John M Hopwood Irr based?

John M Hopwood Irr is based in PA.

John M Hopwood Irr

John M Hopwood Irr at a glance

· Private foundation

John M Hopwood Irr

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$1.1M

Granted FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$171k

Largest

01What it funds

0197% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Environment$4.0MHealth$2.2MEducation$1.7MAnimals$1.0MYouth Development$816kArts & Culture$517kHuman Services$483kScience & Tech$400kOther$0

02FY2025 · 66 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k31 grants · $152k
$10k–50k29 grants · $502k
$50k–250k6 grants · $492k

$10,000

Median grant

States reached

$18M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INC	$171,000
NATIONAL WILDLIFE FEDERATION	$87,500
STRAWBERY BANKE MUSEUM	$68,500
SUSAN L CURTIS FOUNDATION	$60,000
GIFFORD YOUTH ACTIVITIES CENTER INC	$55,000
BIGELOW LABORATORY FOR OCEAN SCIENCES	$50,000
NEW ENGLAND GRASSROOTS ENVIRONMENT	$40,000
COASTAL MOUNTAINS LAND TRUST	$30,000
ISLAND INSTITUTE	$30,000
WELLNESS IN THE SCHOOLS INC	$30,000
SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION OF INDIAN	$25,000
CONCORD HOSPITAL TRUST	$20,000
THE WOODLANDS FOUNDATION INC	$20,000
FRIENDS OF BAXTER STATE PARK	$20,000
SOUTHERN APPALACHIAN HIGHLANDS	$20,000

02The need

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 (FY17–25, $163k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 74% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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

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.

Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 5% of John M Hopwood Irr’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

John M Hopwood Irrlessmore of its giving

Placed by recipient address

How this is measured

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 funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.

03Its grantees

repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

90%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$11M · 82 repeat orgs$1.2M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +36% since the first grant, against +12% for those funded once.

82 repeat relationships: 45 still active in FY2025, 37 since wound down; 19 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$11M

$959k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+36%

+12%

Still filing today

72%

63%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $229k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

EnvironmentHealthEducationArts & CultureHuman ServicesAnimalsOther

How this is measured

First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED
9× · 2017–2025 · $1.4M · revenue +202%
NW
NATIONAL WILDLIFE FEDERATION
9× · 2017–2025 · $868k · revenue +72%
BL
Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences
8× · 2017–2025 · $400k · revenue +106%

Funded once

FO
FRIENDS OF MAINE SEABIRD ISLANDS
one grant, 2018 · $75k
CC
CITIZENS COAL COUNCIL
one grant, 2018 · $50k · revenue -13% · 28% of their budget
RE
RENEWABLE ENERGY WILDLIFE INSTITUTEgraduated
one grant, 2017 · $50k · revenue +190%

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.

04Its field

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.

Midcoast Conservancy

The mission of Midcoast Conservancy is to protect vital lands and waters on a scale that matters and to inspire wonder and action on behalf of all species and the Earth.

Environment

Kennebunk Land Trust

Kennebunk Land Trust's mission is to permanently conserve and steward land to benefit natural and human communities.

Environment

Islesboro Islands Trust

The mission of Islesboro Islands Trust is to enhance the quality of residents' lives through the preservation of open space, educate all residents as to the value of the island's natural ecosystems, and act as an environmental advocate on…

Philanthropy

Land Conservancy of West Michigan

Our mission is conserving West Michigans ecologically critical land. We protect land by creating public nature preserves, providing support to communities and local governments in creating natural areas, and helping private landowners…

Environment

Wildcoast

The mission of wildcoast is to conserve coastal and marine ecosystems and address climate change through natural solutions. our staff is dedicated to conserving threatened and endangered coastlines and wildlife in california and mexico.…

Environment

Somerset Woods Trustees

To conserve lands with significant ecological or cultural resources and manage them in a sustainable way for public benefit.

Environment

The Great Pond Foundation Inc

Our mission is to cultivate the resilience of our coastal pond ecosystems through science, collaboration, and education.

Environment

30 Mile River Watershed Association

The mission of the 30 Mile River Watershed Association (30 Mile) is to work as a community for clean and healthy lakes, ponds and streams in our watershed. Since 2008, 30 Mile has led efforts to protect these waters from the growing…

Environment

Native Plant Trust Inc

The organization's mission is to conserve and promote new england's native plants to ensure healthy, biologically diverse landscapes.

Environment

Maine Farmland Trust

Maine Farmland Trust protects farmland, supports farmers, and advances the future of farming.

Food & Nutrition

Mount Desert Land and Garden Preserve

The mission of the mount desert land & garden preserve is to conserve and share the beauty of our historic lands and gardens.

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Maine Center for Coastal Fisheries

Secure a sustainable future for fisheries and fishing communities in Eastern Maine and beyond.

Science & Tech

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Suncoast Mental Health Center Inc; the most unlike its peers is American Diabetes Association. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

05the grantee network

114 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. 114 of the 156 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

112/114

Grantees still filing

75/114

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$4,228,480Environment$2,990,000Education$1,796,000Health$1,138,000Animals$931,500Human Services$522,217Arts & Culture$503,975

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.

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 loosely connected circle, clustered around a few shared anchors.

Maine Community Foundation IncME49.7× affinity31 shared granteesties to 8 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Maine Community Foundation Inc · Indian River Community Foundation Inc · Elmina B Sewall Foundation · Davis Conservation Foundation · Onion Foundation · The John's Island Foundation Inc · John's Island Community Service League Inc · Bangor Savings Bank Foundation · Quimby Family Foundation · Simmons Foundation - PerkinsThompson · Stephen & Tabitha King Foundation Inc · United Way of Indian River County Inc

How this is measured

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

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

2024

’20’21’22’23’24’25

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

16get no government money at all

26report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

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.

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