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Pediatric Hydrocephalus Foundation Inc

Organized exclusively for charitable, educational, and scientific purposes, including the making of distributions to organizations that qualify as exempt organizations under section501(c)(3)of the IRC, or the corresponding section of any future federal tax code.

$95k
Granted FY2024still arriving
5
Grants FY2024still arriving
4
States reached
$45k
Largest
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172024.

Health$380kEducation$340kScience & Tech$75kPhilanthropy$10k
02FY2024 · 5 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$10,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$290k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Boston Children's Hospital$45,000
Wayne State University$20,000
New Jersey Institute of Technology$10,000
Virginia Tech$10,000
University of Michigan$10,000
02The need
03

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.

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Your human-services grants (FY23–23, $10k) land where the poverty rate runs at 19%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 13%Johns Hopkins University: $10k → 19%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

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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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

84%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$660k · 10 repeat orgs$125k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +53% since the first grant, against +32% for the ones you funded once.

10 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2024, 7 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

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9

Total granted

$660k
$105k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+53%
+32%

Still filing today

40%
56%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 79% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $20k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
HealthEducationHuman ServicesOther

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

  • CH
    Children's Hospital Corporation
    6× · 2017–2024 · $300k · revenue +69%
  • QU
    QUINNIPIAC UNIVERSITY
    3× · 2018–2020 · $30k · revenue +14%
  • CH
    CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL MEDICAL CENTER
    2× · 2017–2018 · $20k · revenue +53%

Funded once

  • WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY
    one grant, 2022 · $20k · revenue +6%
  • BD
    Bitol Designs LLC co Ashik Mohan
    one grant, 2018 · $15k
  • NO
    NORTHEAST OHIO MEDICAL UNIVERSITY
    one grant, 2022 · $10k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania

The trustees of the university of pennsylvania (the "university") sees itself as having a public service mission. in such regard, the university aims to provide a rich and diverse educational environment for its students; to pioneer…

Education
2
New York University

Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.

Education
3
Case Western Reserve University

Case Western Reserve University is an independent, research-oriented university with broadly based strengths in health, including medicine, nursing and dentistry; in engineering; in the arts and sciences; and in law, management and social…

Education
4
Cornell University

Education, research, medical services and other public services.

Education
5
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education
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Drexel University

Drexel university fulfills its founder's vision of preparing each new generation of students for productive professional and civic lives while also focusing its collective expertise on solving society's greatest problems. drexel is an…

Education
7
Rush University Medical Center

The mission of Rush is to improve the health of the individuals and diverse communities we serve through the integration of outstanding patient care, education, research and community partnerships.

Health
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Seton Hall University

Seton hall university is a catholic institution of higher education

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University of Minnesota Physicians

University of minnesota physicians serves as the integrated group practice for the university of minnesota medical school full-time faculty to provide the highest quality healthcare to patients and their families.university of minnesota…

Health
10
The Johns Hopkins Hospital

For more than 125 years, the mission of the johns hopkins hospital has been to lead the world in the diagnosis and treatment of disease and to train tomorrow's great physicians, nurses and scientists. above all, we aim to provide the…

Health
11
University of Miami

See Form 990, Part I, Line 1, Description of Organization Mission.

Education
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Mass General Brigham Incorporated & Affiliates Group Return

Mass general brigham incorporated is developing an integrated health care delivery system throughout the region that offers patients a continuum of coordinated, high-quality care.

Health

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Children's Hospital Medical Center and the most unlike its peers is Charity Navigator. 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

10 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 10 of the 22 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
10/10
Grantees still filing
9/10
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY — $110,000 · OtherWAYNE STATE UNIVERSITYREGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN — $60,000 · OtherREGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGANRHAEOS — $50,000 · OtherRHAEOSUNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI — $30,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATIGEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY — $20,000 · OtherGEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGYNJ INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY — $20,000 · OtherNJ INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGYBitol Designs LLC co Ashik Mohan — $15,000 · Other+5 more — $50,000 · Other+5 moreChildren's Hospital Corporation — $300,000 · HealthChildren's Hospital CorporationCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL MEDICAL CENTER — $20,000 · HealthCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL MEDICAL CENTER+2 more — $20,000 · Health+2 moreQUINNIPIAC UNIVERSITY — $30,000 · EducationQUINNIPIAC …JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY — $20,000 · EducationJOHNS HOPKI…WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY — $20,000 · EducationWASHINGTON …NORTHEAST OHIO MEDICAL UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION — $10,000 · EducationNORTHEAST O…BROWN UNIVERSITY — $20,000 · Community ImprovementCharity Navigator — $10,000 · Human Services
Other$355,000Health$340,000Education$80,000Community Improvement$20,000Human Services$10,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetChildren's Hospital Corporation — $300,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetQUINNIPIAC UNIVERSITY — $30,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBROWN UNIVERSITY — $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL MEDICAL CENTER — $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY — $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWASHINGTON UNIVERSITY — $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCharity Navigator — $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNORTHEAST OHIO MEDICAL UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION — $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetHYDROCEPHALUS ASSOCIATION — $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budget
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 Children's Hospital Corporation
  • Who funds QUINNIPIAC UNIVERSITY
  • Who funds BROWN UNIVERSITY
  • Who funds CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL MEDICAL CENTER
  • Who funds JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY
  • Who funds WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY
  • Who funds Charity Navigator
  • Who funds THE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA
  • Who funds NORTHEAST OHIO MEDICAL UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION
  • Who funds HYDROCEPHALUS ASSOCIATION

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 set of overlaps that mostly run through you, not between each other.

American Heart Association IncTX13.5× affinity4 shared granteesties to 0 of 0Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: American Heart Association Inc

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 Pediatric Hydrocephalus Foundation Inc 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.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 20%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 10%
  • Johns Hopkins University12% of income from government
  • Children's Hospital Corporation10% of income from government
  • Quinnipiac University0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
typical government reliance, FY2025

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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How do I get to Pediatric Hydrocephalus Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to Pediatric Hydrocephalus Foundation Inc 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 22 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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