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Jonathan and Kora Hinton Foundation Inc at a glance

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Jonathan and Kora Hinton Foundation Inc

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.

$375k
Granted FY2025still arriving
12
Grants FY2025still arriving
8
States reached
$200k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead

Read this first · the figures below need context

53% of Jonathan and Kora Hinton Foundation Inc’s FY2025 grant dollars went to Massachusetts Institute Of Technology, not to grantees.

Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2025 names 7 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it.

Organizations named directly on the return

6
’23
5
’24
7
’25

Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.

01What it funds
0194% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2023 to 2025.

Education$780kHealth$56kYouth Development$32kRecreation & Sports$19kHuman Services$15kFood & Nutrition$5kCivil Rights$5kOther$0
02FY2025 · 12 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k7 grants · $32k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $23k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $320k
$7,221
Median grant
8
States reached
$4.8M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY$200,000
FORSYTH COUNTY SCHOOLS$70,000
DENMARK HIGH SCHOOL$50,000
HAYMAKERS FOR HOPE INC$13,389
CHRISTMAS 4 KIDS$10,000
YOUTH EDUCATION ALLIANCE$7,221
GIO FOUNDATION INC$5,000
ROOTED IN ACTION INC$5,000
BACKPACK BUDDIES OF METRO ATLANTA$5,000
CHILDRENS CANCER THERAPY$5,000
FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES$4,000
Individual grant recipient$500
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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY23–24, $14k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%COURAGE FOR LIFE: $3k → 8%COURAGE FOR LIFE: $1k → 8%INFO FOR FAMILIES INC: $10k → 8%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

MA
OR
MO
VA
TN
NC
SC
GA
FL
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 grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

73%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$376k · 4 repeat orgs$138k to everyone else

4 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2025, 1 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

4
11

Total granted

$376k
$93k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

-21%
0%

Still filing today

25%
36%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 74% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $45k went to new ones.

50%100%’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’23’24’25
HealthYouth DevelopmentHuman ServicesEducationPhilanthropyOther
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

  • FC
    FORSYTH COUNTY BOARD OF EDUCATION
    3× · 2023–2025 · $294k
  • DH
    DENMARK HIGH SCHOOL
    3× · 2023–2025 · $58k
  • C4
    CHRISTMAS 4 KIDS
    2× · 2024–2025 · $20k

Funded once

  • HO
    HARBOR OF HOPE INC
    one grant, 2023 · $30k · 47% of their budget
  • TT
    THE TOUCHDOWN CLUB OF ATHENS INC
    one grant, 2024 · $12k · revenue -56%
  • PP
    PARKWAY PRESBYTERIAN PRESCHOOL
    one grant, 2023 · $11k
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.

1
Chase the Victory Corporation

Our mission is to strengthen the support of families grieving the loss of a child, fighting childhood cancer, and inspire hope and kindness.

Human Services
2
Targeting Resistance in Cancer Cooperative
Health
3
Wipe Out Kids' Cancer Inc

Wipe out kids cancer offers comfort and hope to kids with cancer through support programs serving the entire family and funds innovative research leading to new discoveries and treatments in the fight against pediatric cancer. "support and…

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4
Food Allergy Science Initiative Inc

To accelerate the development of breakthrough discoveries that will transform the lives of people living with food allergies.

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5
We Beat Cancer
Philanthropy
6
Houston Energy & Luxury Brand Golf Chari

To raise funds for cancer research

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7
Blood Cancer United Inc

Our mission is to cure leukemia, lymphoma, hodgkin's disease and myeloma, and improve the quality of life of patients and their families.

Health
8
The Keaton F Coker Foundation Inc

Our mission is to come alongside families in an effort to make memories that transcend time. we seek to encourage and strengthen families with school-aged children where a parent or child has cancer. our focus is to battle fear by infusing…

Human Services
9
Cancer Can't Inc
Philanthropy
10
Freedom Path Counseling Inc

Christian counseling sevices from a biblical perspective

Religion
11
Imagine a Cure Cancer Treatment
Health
12
Eagle International Ministries Inc

Eagle International Ministries was formed to share the message of God through teaching via videos, newsletters and meetings. We speak at churches and events and author books that strengthen Christians in their faith and attract…

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Gio Foundation Inc; the most unlike its peers is Rooted in Action Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

12 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. 12 of the 24 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
11/12
Grantees still filing
3/12
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

FORSYTH COUNTY BOARD OF EDUCATION: $294,000 · OtherFORSYTH COUNTY BOARD OF EDUCATIONDENMARK HIGH SCHOOL: $58,000 · OtherDENMARK HIGH SCHOOLCHRISTMAS 4 KIDS: $20,000 · Other+10 more: $52,721 · Other+10 moreMassachusetts Institute of Technology: $400,000 · EducationMassachusetts Institute of Technology+1 more: $12,000 · EducationHARBOR OF HOPE INC: $30,000 · HealthHAYMAKERS FOR HOPE INC: $13,389 · Health+1 more: $500 · HealthGIO FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 · Youth DevelopmentBACKPACK BUDDIES OF METRO ATLANTA INC: $5,000 · Youth DevelopmentFELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES: $4,000 · Youth DevelopmentINFO FOR FAMILIES INC: $10,000 · Human ServicesCOURAGE FOR LIFE INCORPORATED: $3,500 · Human ServicesROOTED IN ACTION INC: $5,000 · Philanthropy
Other$424,721Education$412,000Health$43,889Youth Development$14,000Human Services$13,500Philanthropy$5,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetMassachusetts Institute of Technology: $400,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetHARBOR OF HOPE INC: $30,000 over 1y, 47% of budgetHAYMAKERS FOR HOPE INC: $13,389 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTHE TOUCHDOWN CLUB OF ATHENS INC: $12,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetINFO FOR FAMILIES INC: $10,000 over 1y, 3.7% of budgetGIO FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetChildrens Cancer Therapy Development Institute: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetBACKPACK BUDDIES OF METRO ATLANTA INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetFELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES: $4,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOURAGE FOR LIFE INCORPORATED: $3,500 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetCure VCP Disease Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

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.

American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
American Online Giving Foundation IncDE6.1× affinity6 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 Jonathan and Kora Hinton Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Jonathan and Kora Hinton Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2025
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%3%13%28%50%funder's share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →median 26%
  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology: 26% of income from government
  • Childrens Cancer Therapy Development Institute: 13% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
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 24 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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