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Ralph W Hooper Foundation Inc

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.

$110k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
3
Grants FY2024
2
Organizations funded FY2023
0%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$30,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$75,000
Organizations funded a year
2 to 10
FY2018 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
3
Total assets, FY2024
$972k
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 0% of the organizations Ralph W Hooper Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

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

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

’19’20’21’22’23
HealthOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving3$110k67%
FY20232$81k0%
FY20223$81k33%
FY20212$80k0%
FY20205$295k20%
FY20194$120k0%
FY201810$320kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.

Housing & Shelter$360kEducation$286kHuman Services$185kHealth$140kPublic Safety & Disaster$60kArts & Culture$25kYouth Development$25kRecreation & Sports$5k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2018 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Plus 4 recipients with no EIN on record ($276k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Ralph W Hooper Foundation Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 9 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetDeep Roots Inc: $360,000 over 7y, 7.5% of budgetUS Naval Academy Foundation Inc: $100,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetMarine Corps Heritage Foundation: $100,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $60,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetThe Bryn Mawr Hospital Foundation: $50,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetCecilton Lions Charities Inc: $35,000 over 2y, 49% of budgetPositive Vibe Foundation: $30,000 over 1y, 20% of budgetCradle of Liberty Council 525 Boy Scouts of America: $25,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetEagles Autism Challenge Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 9.

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 Impact Funding Trust IncIN10.5× affinity4 shared granteesties to 1 of 1Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust 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.

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About Ralph W Hooper Foundation Inc

How much does Ralph W Hooper Foundation Inc give?
Ralph W Hooper Foundation Inc reported 3 grants totaling $110,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 10 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2023.
What does Ralph W Hooper Foundation Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2024, its largest causes are Housing & Shelter (33%), Education (26%), Human Services (17%).
Who are Ralph W Hooper Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2018 to FY2024: Deep Roots Inc ($360k), US Naval Academy Foundation Inc ($100k), Marine Corps Heritage Foundation ($100k).
Does Ralph W Hooper Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Ralph W Hooper Foundation Inc accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as Ralph W Hooper Foundation Inc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc, Amazonsmile Foundation.
Where is Ralph W Hooper Foundation Inc based?
Ralph W Hooper Foundation Inc is based in PA.

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 14 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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