· Private foundation
Michael and Ericka Hynansky Family Foundation
Its FY2024 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
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 85% of MICHAEL AND ERICKA HYNANSKY FAMILY FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k4 grants · $13k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $109k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $72k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ST NICHOLAS UKRAINIAN CATHOLIC CHURCH | $71,500 |
| CHILD INC | $41,500 |
| CHRIST CHURCH CHRISTIANA HUNDRED | $28,500 |
| LEGACY | $15,000 |
| SUBARU SHARE THE LOVE CHARITY | $13,930 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,010 |
| LONGWOOD GARDEN | $5,000 |
| DELAWARE ART MUSEUM | $5,000 |
| AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION | $2,500 |
| TOWER HILL SCHOOL | $600 |
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 (FY17–24, $180k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +75% since the first grant, against +38% for the ones you funded once.
17 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2024, 10 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $25k 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
- CICHILD INC8× · 2017–2024 · $177k · revenue +44%
- AHAmerican Heart Association Inc8× · 2017–2024 · $50k · revenue +33%
- THTOWER HILL SCHOOL ASSOCIATION6× · 2017–2024 · $32k · revenue +75%
Funded once
- TFTHE FLAG FOUNDATIONone grant, 2018 · $25k
- DTDELAWARE TECHNICAL COMMUNITY COLLEGEone grant, 2020 · $25k
- RMRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF GREATER DELAWARE INCgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue +39%
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 museum is an educational corporation formed to ignite a life-long passion for exploring, discovering, and valuing nature and science.
The organization's mission is to collect, preserve, exhibit and interpret the history and technology of delaware and the delmarva peninsula's farm life/culture and to offer public education programs and services related to aspects of the…
The university of delaware is a major research university dedicated to cultivating learning, advancing knowledge, and fostering the exchange of ideas through teaching, research and public service.
To guide, serve and support delaware physicians, promoting the practice and profession of medicine to enhance the health of our communities.
The arc of delaware promotes and protects the human rights of people with intellectual and developmental disabilities, and actively supports full inclusion and participation in the community through advocacy and services to individuals and…
To reduce the devastating long-term effects that child abuse has on children, their families and society through immediate, coordinated, child focused services, education, and advocacy.
To promote and strengthen the bioscience industry in the state of delaware.
To build affordable housing communities that foster well-being for all delawareans in need.
The delaware center for justice, inc. seeks to ensure an effective, efficient, and equitable system of justice in delaware through advocacy, direct services, research and public education.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Child Inc and the most unlike its peers is Longwood Gardens Inc. 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 59 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 24% 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 11% 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.
22 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. 22 of the 46 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 CHILD INC ↗
- Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
- Who funds TOWER HILL SCHOOL ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds THE FLAG FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Unite for HER ↗
- Who funds LEGACY INC ↗
- Who funds RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF GREATER DELAWARE INC ↗
- Who funds THE TATNALL SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds WEST END NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds Brandywine Conservancy & Museum of Art ↗
- Who funds DELAWARE BREAST CANCER COALITION INC ↗
- Who funds DELAWARE ART MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds LONGWOOD GARDENS INC ↗
- Who funds BIRTHRIGHT OF DELAWARE INC ↗
- Who funds THE ANDREW MCDONOUGH B FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BEAU BIDEN FOUNDATION FOR THE PROTECTION OF CHILDREN INC ↗
- Who funds PRESERVATION DELAWARE ↗
- Who funds HOLLY BALL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FIRST STATE BALLET THEATRE INC ↗
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: Delaware Community Foundation Inc · Longwood Foundation Inc · Welfare Foundation Inc · Laffey-McHugh Foundation · Chichester Dupont Foundation Inc · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Chubb Charitable Foundation · Wsfs Cares Foundation · The Anthony & Catherine Fusco Foundation · Incyte Charitable Giving Foundation · The Sykora Family Charitable Foundation · United Way of Delaware
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 Michael and Ericka Hynansky Family 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Child Inc — 71% of income from government
- West End Neighborhood House Inc — 36% of income from government
- Preservation Delaware — 22% of income from government
- Operadelaware Inc — 9% of income from government
- First State Ballet Theatre Inc — 8% of income from government
- Delaware Art Museum Inc — 8% of income from government
- Delaware Breast Cancer Coalition Inc — 7% of income from government
- Tower Hill School Association — 0% of income from government
- The Tatnall School 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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