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Patricia S Hodgson Charitable Foundation at a glance

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Patricia S Hodgson Charitable 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.

$35k
Granted FY2025still arriving
3
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$15k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0189% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Education$295kReligion$98kArts & Culture$85kAnimals$50kFood & Nutrition$50kCrime & Legal$50kHuman Services$45kRecreation & Sports$35kOther$0
02FY2025 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$10,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$1.6M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Nashville Zoo$15,310
Ensworth School$10,000
St George Episcopal Church$10,000
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–24, $45k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 11% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%EDWARD CHARLES FOUNDATION: $5k → 14%Monument Crisis Center: $5k → 9%White Pony Express: $25k → 9%WHITE PONY EXPRESS: $10k → 9%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.
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.

79%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$667k · 14 repeat orgs$176k to everyone else

14 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2025, 11 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

14
18

Total granted

$667k
$176k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+43%
+55%

Still filing today

79%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationHuman ServicesReligionAnimalsRecreation & SportsFood & NutritionOther
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

  • TE
    THE ENSWORTH SCHOOL
    8× · 2017–2025 · $95k · revenue +47%
  • DR
    Diablo Regional Arts Association
    4× · 2019–2024 · $80k · revenue +66%
  • TW
    The Westminster Schools Inc
    3× · 2017–2020 · $60k · revenue +43%

Funded once

  • RG
    Rabun Gap-Nacoochee School
    one grant, 2022 · $50k · revenue -19%
  • I
    Intervarsity
    one grant, 2024 · $21k
  • FB
    FOOD BANK OF CONTRA COSTA AND SOLANOgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue +55%
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
Food Forward Inc

Food forward fights hunger and prevents food waste by rescuing fresh surplus produce, connecting this abundance with people experiencing food insecurity, and inspiring others to do the same.

Food & Nutrition
2
Nashville Food Project Inc

The nashville food project brings people together to grow, cook, and share nourishing food, with the goals of cultivating community and alleviating hunger in our city.

Food & Nutrition
3
North Texas Food Bank

To close the hunger gap in north texas by working through over 500 feeding partners to provide access to nutritious food and address the root causes of hunger.

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4
Vanderbilt University

See Disclosure Above.

Education
5
Food Bank of Central & Eastern Nc Inc

Nourish people. build solutions. empower communities. no one goes hungry.

Food & Nutrition
6
New West Charter School

The mission of new west charter school is to provide an academically rigorous, highly individualized education for 21st century students in grades 6 - 12. in the decades to come, personal success will require increasingly high levels of…

Education
7
Wake Forest University

Wake Forest University, a 501(c)(3) institution of higher education, is dedicated to the pursuit of excellence in the liberal arts and in graduate and professional education. The organization is comprised of seven constituent parts: Wake…

Education
8
Second Harvest of Silicon Valley

To realize our vision of a hunger free community we will provide more food, healthy food and better access to food. we will leverage our own resources and also work with partners in the community.

Food & Nutrition
9
Project Drawdown

Project drawdown's mission is to drive meaningful climate action by advancing science-based solutions and strategies. project drawdown's work is focused on three pillars: science - advancing science-based climate solutions and strategies;…

Education
10
Austin Trinity School

Trinity episcopal school (trinity) is a not-for-profit independent school whose mission is to provide an enriched academic curriculum in a christian environment. trinity is not affiliated with or sponsored by any parish. we will nurture…

Education
11
Cannon School Inc

Provision of quality k12 educational program within a safe, diverse and challenging environment.

Education
12
Atlanta Neighborhood Charter School

The mission of the atlanta neighborhood charter school (ancs) is to use the principles of the coalition of essential schools to: build an empowered and inclusive community of students,parents, and educators; engage the whole…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Monument Crisis Center; the most unlike its peers is Avenue Resource 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

21 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. 21 of the 32 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
20/21
Grantees still filing
17/21
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE ENSWORTH SCHOOL: $95,000 · EducationTHE ENSWORTH SCHOOLThe Westminster Schools Inc: $60,000 · EducationThe Westminster Schools IncCHALLENGE DAY FUND: $60,000 · EducationCHALLENGE DAY FUNDRabun Gap-Nacoochee School: $50,000 · EducationRabun Gap-Nacoochee SchoolTHE UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA FOUNDATION: $30,000 · EducationTHE UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA FOUNDATION+1 more: $5,000 · EducationST GEORGE EPISCOPAL CHURCH: $62,000 · OtherST GEORGE EPISCOPAL CHURCHIndividual grant recipient: $45,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientIndividual grant recipient: $30,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientIntervarsity: $20,500 · OtherIntervarsityIndividual grant recipient: $10,000 · OtherSouthern Poverty Law: $10,000 · OtherWE ARE ONE WORLD FOUNDATION: $10,000 · OtherFRIENDS OF THE WARNER PARKS INC: $35,000 · OtherFRIENDS OF THE WARNER PARKS INCFOOD BANK OF CONTRA COSTA AND SOLANO: $10,300 · Other+8 more: $40,154 · Other+8 moreDiablo Regional Arts Association: $80,000 · Arts & CultureDiablo Reg…NASHVILLE ZOO INC: $40,310 · AnimalsNASHVILLE HUMANE ASSOCIATION AKA NASHVILLE HUMANE SOCIETY: $10,000 · AnimalsTHE VICTOR S JOHNSON III NASHVILLE CHILDREN'S ALLIANCE INC: $50,050 · Crime & LegalWHITE PONY EXPRESS: $35,000 · Human ServicesEDWARD CHARLES FOUNDATION: $5,150 · Human ServicesMONUMENT CRISIS CENTER: $5,000 · Human ServicesMARTHA O'BRYAN CENTER INC: $35,000 · ReligionInterVarsity Christian FellowshipUSA: $10,000 · Religion
Education$300,000Other$272,954Arts & Culture$80,000Animals$50,310Crime & Legal$50,050Human Services$45,150Religion$45,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTHE ENSWORTH SCHOOL: $95,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetDiablo Regional Arts Association: $80,000 over 4y, 2.4% of budgetThe Westminster Schools Inc: $60,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCHALLENGE DAY FUND: $60,000 over 4y, 1.0% of budgetTHE VICTOR S JOHNSON III NASHVILLE CHILDREN'S ALLIANCE INC: $50,050 over 4y, 1.9% of budgetRabun Gap-Nacoochee School: $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNASHVILLE ZOO INC: $40,310 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetMARTHA O'BRYAN CENTER INC: $35,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetWHITE PONY EXPRESS: $35,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE WARNER PARKS INC: $35,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetTHE UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA FOUNDATION: $30,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFOOD BANK OF CONTRA COSTA AND SOLANO: $10,300 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetInterVarsity Christian FellowshipUSA: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNASHVILLE HUMANE ASSOCIATION AKA NASHVILLE HUMANE SOCIETY: $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSAVE MOUNT DIABLO: $5,154 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetEDWARD CHARLES FOUNDATION: $5,150 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHISTLE FARMS INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE CRUCIBLE: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMONUMENT CRISIS CENTER: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetAvenue Resource Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 4.1% of budgetFeeding America: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

Morgan Stanley Global…The Hodgson Charitabl…East Bay Community Fo…American Endowment Fo…The Blackbaud Giving …American Online Givin…The Bank of America C…Vanguard Charitable E…Fidelity Investments …Donor Advised Charita…Amazonsmile Foundation
Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust IncIN15.7× affinity9 shared granteesties to 10 of 10Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Hodgson Charitable Trust · East Bay Community Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · 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 Patricia S Hodgson Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Patricia S Hodgson Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    11report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    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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    How do I get to Patricia S Hodgson Charitable Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Patricia S Hodgson Charitable Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 32 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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