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The Alexander and Marjorie Hover Foundation at a glance

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The Alexander and Marjorie Hover Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$303k
Granted FY2025still arriving
47
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$15k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Education$487kArts & Culture$475kAnimals$289kYouth Development$251kFood & Nutrition$190kHuman Services$97kHealth$93kHousing & Shelter$57kOther$0
02FY2025 · 47 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k40 grants · $218k
  • $10k–50k7 grants · $85k
$6,200
Median grant
3
States reached
$6.9M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
HOPE FULL LIFE CENTER$15,000
COXSACKIE AREA FOOD PANTRY$15,000
SOCIAL & ENVIRONMENTAL ENTREPRENEUR$15,000
WAVE FARMWGXC$10,000
ASHEVILLE AREA HABITAT FOR HUMANITY$10,000
KITES NEST$10,000
ALBANY COUNTY HISTORIC ASSOCIATION$10,000
ANIMALKIND INC$9,600
COLUMBIA COUNTY RECOVERY KITCHEN$9,200
HIGH & MIGHTY THERAPEUTIC RIDING$8,800
FRIENDS OF CLERMONT$8,600
OPERATION UNITE NY$8,500
GERMANTOWN LIBRARY$8,000
COXSACKIE AREA FOOD PANTRY$7,500
COLUMBIA COUNTY RECOVERY KITCHEN$7,500
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 (FY17–25, $89k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 24% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%COLUMBIA COUNTY RECOVERY KITCHEN: $10k → 9%ALBANY DAMIEN CENTER: $8k → 14%ALBANY DAMIEN CENTER: $14k → 14%RED HOOK COMMUNITY CENTER: $7k → 9%RED HOOK COMMUNITY CENTER: $5k → 9%IN FLIGHT: $5k → 11%COLUMBIA COUNTY RECOVERY KITCHEN: $15k → 11%COLUMBIA COUNTY RECOVERY KITCHEN: $9k → 11%COLUMBIA COUNTY RECOVERY KITCHEN: $8k → 11%GREATER HUDSON PROMISE NEIGHBORHOOD: $7k → 11%COLUMBIA COUNTY SANCTUARY MOVEMENT: $2k → 11%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.

87%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.8M · 65 repeat orgs$276k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +33% since the first grant, against +6% for those funded once.

65 repeat relationships: 30 still active in FY2025, 35 since wound down; 14 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

65
37

Total granted

$1.8M
$203k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+33%
+6%

Still filing today

58%
51%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 76% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $72k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureAnimalsEducationHuman ServicesYouth DevelopmentEnvironmentOther
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

  • GL
    GERMANTOWN LIBRARY
    9× · 2017–2025 · $207k · revenue +20%
  • FO
    FRIENDS OF CLERMONT INC
    8× · 2017–2025 · $67k · revenue +265%
  • HM
    High & Mighty Therapeutic Riding
    9× · 2017–2025 · $62k · revenue +129%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2024 · $15k
  • WF
    WGXCWAVE FARM
    one grant, 2017 · $15k
  • GC
    GREENE COUNTY ANIMAL ALLIANCE INC
    one grant, 2024 · $12k
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
Humane Society of Yates County

The humane society of yates county exists to promote the welfare of companion and domestic animals through educational programs and initiatives that reduce pet overpopulation, enrich adoptions, and encourage responsible pet ownership.

Animals
2
Hudson Area Association Library

To enrich the quality of life in the chartered service area by providing educational, recreational, aesthetic, cultural and informational programs, services, and materials to all our citizens regardless of age, gender, race, religion, or…

Education
3
Catskill Public Library

A public library with locations in catskill and palenville, new york providing reference materials and various on-line services.

—
4
Sustainable Hudson Valley Inc

Sustainable hudson valley's mission is to speed up, scale up, jazz up, and leverage progress against climate change, creating communities where people and nature thrive.

Environment
5
Catskill Center for Conservation & Development Inc

The Catskill Center for Conservation and Development, Inc. (the Catskill Center) is a not-for-profit organization under the non-profit laws of the State of New York. The mission of the Catskill Center is to preserve and enrich the…

Environment
6
Hudson River Museum of Westchester

Situated on the banks of the hudson river in yonkers, new york, the hudson river museum's mission is to engage, inspire, and connect diverse communities through the power of the arts, sciences, and history.

Arts & Culture
7
Columbia County Historical Society Inc

The organization operates a historical society and three museums as well as a library for historical research.

Arts & Culture
8
Friends of Hudson River Park Inc

Fundraising, marketing and communication and public policy for the hudson river park.

Recreation & Sports
9
Hudson Opera House Inc

Located in a landmark building that houses new york state's oldest surviving theater, hudson hall at the historic hudson opera house is driven by a civic and social purpose founded in the belief that culture is central to our shared…

Arts & Culture
10
Hudson Valley Humane Society

Enforce NYS laws against animal cruelty and abuse. Promote animal welfare and find homes for abandoned and unwanted pets.

Animals
11
Adirondack Mountain Club Inc

Adk is the only non-profit organization in new york state dedicated to the conservation, preservation, and responsible recreational use of the new york state forest preserve and other parks, wild lands, and waters vital to our members and…

Environment
12
Hudson Valley Animal Rescue and Sanctuary

Hudson valley animal rescue and sanctuary is a facility where local citizens can bring injured. feral, or unwanted animals for rehabilitation or placement. in addition we offer medical services to the animals in our care. we are committed…

Animals
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Hawthorne Valley Association Inc; the most unlike its peers is Ps 21 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

63 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 63 of the 116 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)
19
Early backer (in before they grew)
62/63
Grantees still filing
40/63
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

GERMANTOWN LIBRARY: $206,781 · OtherGERMANTOWN LIBRARYWAVE FARM WGXC: $83,000 · OtherWAVE FARM WGXCOUTER BANKS WILDLIFE SHELTER (OWLS): $64,000 · OtherHUDSON AREA LIBRARY: $48,900 · OtherCLAVERACK FREE LIBRARY: $43,730 · OtherHOPE FULL LIFE CENTER INC: $49,500 · OtherKITE'S NEST INC: $51,000 · Other+64 more: $697,807 · Other+64 moreFRIENDS OF CLERMONT INC: $66,600 · Arts & CultureFRIENDS OF C…COLUMBIA COUNTY YOUTH THEATRE INC: $34,300 · Arts & CultureCOLUMBIA COU…HARMONY PROJECT HUDSON INC: $30,000 · Arts & CultureHARMONY PROJ…Albany County Historical Association: $20,000 · Arts & CultureAlbany Count…WOODSTOCK ARTISTS ASSOCIATION INC: $15,500 · Arts & CultureWOODSTOCK AR…AMERICAN DANCE INSTITUTE: $12,000 · Arts & CultureBEAUFORT ARTS AND MUSIC INC: $11,500 · Arts & CultureCONCERTS IN THE VILLAGE: $11,400 · Arts & CultureCLARION CONCERTS IN COLUMBIA COUNTY: $10,500 · Arts & Culture+7 more: $30,700 · Arts & Culture+7 moreASLANS CATS INC: $49,000 · AnimalsASLANS CATS…ANIMALKIND INC: $43,600 · AnimalsANIMALKIND …CATSKILL ANIMAL SANCTUARY INC: $32,000 · AnimalsCATSKILL AN…EQUINE ADVOCATES INCORPORATED: $25,500 · AnimalsEQUINE ADVO…OUTER BANKS WILDLIFE SHELTER INC: $21,200 · AnimalsOUTER BANKS…Freedom Farm Animal Sanctuary: $16,000 · AnimalsFreedom Far…GREENE COUNTY ANIMAL ALLIANCE INC: $12,000 · AnimalsGREENE COUN…Lucky Orphans Horse Rescue Inc: $10,000 · Animals+1 more: $2,000 · AnimalsOPERATION UNITE NEW YORK INC: $45,500 · Youth DevelopmentPERFECT TEN AFTER SCHOOL INC: $42,700 · Youth DevelopmentWILD EARTH WILDERNESS SCHOOL: $30,500 · Youth DevelopmentFRIENDS OF HUDSON YOUTH INC: $27,900 · Youth Development+1 more: $4,500 · Youth DevelopmentBARD COLLEGE: $43,500 · EducationWELLS COLLEGE: $27,300 · EducationCOLUMBIA COUNTY LIBRARIES ASSOCIATION: $13,100 · EducationKINDERHOOK MEMORIAL LIBRARY: $10,800 · EducationROELIFF JANSEN COMMUNITY LIBRARY: $10,000 · EducationHEERMANCE MEMORIAL LIBRARY: $8,702 · Education+1 more: $3,370 · EducationCOLUMBIA COUNTY RECOVERY KITCHEN INC: $41,700 · Human ServicesTHE ALBANY DAMIEN CENTER INC: $21,500 · Human ServicesTHE RED HOOK COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $12,000 · Human ServicesGREATER HUDSON PROMISE NEIGHBORHOOD INC: $7,000 · Human ServicesIN FLIGHT INC: $5,000 · Human Services+1 more: $2,000 · Human ServicesHigh & Mighty Therapeutic Riding: $62,413 · HealthCREATE INC: $5,000 · Health
Other$1,244,718Arts & Culture$242,500Animals$211,300Youth Development$151,100Education$116,772Human Services$89,200Health$67,413

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 budgetGERMANTOWN LIBRARY: $206,781 over 9y, 21% of budgetFRIENDS OF CLERMONT INC: $66,600 over 8y, 6.1% of budgetHigh & Mighty Therapeutic Riding: $62,413 over 9y, 3.9% of budgetKITE'S NEST INC: $51,000 over 7y, 1.3% of budgetHOPE FULL LIFE CENTER INC: $49,500 over 3y, 11% of budgetASLANS CATS INC: $49,000 over 7y, 9.3% of budgetOPERATION UNITE NEW YORK INC: $45,500 over 5y, 19% of budgetANIMALKIND INC: $43,600 over 5y, 1.7% of budgetBARD COLLEGE: $43,500 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetPERFECT TEN AFTER SCHOOL INC: $42,700 over 4y, 6.0% of budgetCOLUMBIA COUNTY RECOVERY KITCHEN INC: $41,700 over 3y, 2.6% of budgetLIVINGSTON PUMPER COMPANY 1 INC: $34,985 over 3y, 16% of budgetANGEL FOOD EAST INC: $34,500 over 3y, 19% of budgetCOLUMBIA COUNTY YOUTH THEATRE INC: $34,300 over 6y, 11% of budgetHAWTHORNE VALLEY ASSOCIATION INC: $32,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetCATSKILL ANIMAL SANCTUARY INC: $32,000 over 6y, 0.6% of budgetWILD EARTH WILDERNESS SCHOOL: $30,500 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetHARMONY PROJECT HUDSON INC: $30,000 over 5y, 5.1% of budgetFRIENDS OF HUDSON YOUTH INC: $27,900 over 4y, 5.2% of budgetWELLS COLLEGE: $27,300 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetEQUINE ADVOCATES INCORPORATED: $25,500 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetCAMPHILL GHENT INC: $24,232 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetTHE ALBANY DAMIEN CENTER INC: $21,500 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetOUTER BANKS WILDLIFE SHELTER INC: $21,200 over 2y, 13% of budgetAlbany County Historical Association: $20,000 over 2y, 4.2% of budgetFreedom Farm Animal Sanctuary: $16,000 over 3y, 13% of budgetWOODSTOCK ARTISTS ASSOCIATION INC: $15,500 over 5y, 1.2% of budgetCOLUMBIA COUNTY LIBRARIES ASSOCIATION: $13,100 over 2y, 6.5% of budgetAMERICAN DANCE INSTITUTE: $12,000 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetGREENE COUNTY ANIMAL ALLIANCE INC: $12,000 over 1y, 13% of budgetTHE RED HOOK COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $12,000 over 2y, 5.2% of budgetABRAHAM'S BLESSING: $12,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCONCERTS IN THE VILLAGE: $11,400 over 2y, 8.2% of budgetKINDERHOOK MEMORIAL LIBRARY: $10,800 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetCLARION CONCERTS IN COLUMBIA COUNTY: $10,500 over 5y, 4.2% of budgetASHEVILLE AREA HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLucky Orphans Horse Rescue Inc: $10,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetROELIFF JANSEN COMMUNITY LIBRARY: $10,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetHEERMANCE MEMORIAL LIBRARY: $8,702 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetGREATER HUDSON PROMISE NEIGHBORHOOD INC: $7,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTHE CORAL RESTORATION FOUNDATION INC: $6,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetTHE SYLVIA CENTER: $6,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetPS 21 INC: $6,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetCLERMONT FIRE COMPANY NUMBER 1 INC: $5,500 over 1y, 10% of budgetFASNY Museum of Firefighting: $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetCREATE INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetIN FLIGHT INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGREENE COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $4,500 over 1y, 1.4% 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.

  • Who funds GERMANTOWN LIBRARY ↗
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF CLERMONT INC ↗
  • Who funds High & Mighty Therapeutic Riding ↗
  • Who funds KITE'S NEST INC ↗
  • Who funds HOPE FULL LIFE CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds ASLANS CATS INC ↗
  • Who funds OPERATION UNITE NEW YORK INC ↗
  • Who funds ANIMALKIND INC ↗
  • Who funds BARD COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds PERFECT TEN AFTER SCHOOL INC ↗
  • Who funds COLUMBIA COUNTY RECOVERY KITCHEN INC ↗
  • Who funds LIVINGSTON PUMPER COMPANY 1 INC ↗
  • Who funds ANGEL FOOD EAST INC ↗
  • Who funds COLUMBIA COUNTY YOUTH THEATRE INC ↗
  • Who funds HAWTHORNE VALLEY ASSOCIATION INC ↗
  • Who funds CATSKILL ANIMAL SANCTUARY INC ↗
  • Who funds WILD EARTH WILDERNESS SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds HARMONY PROJECT HUDSON INC ↗
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF HUDSON YOUTH INC ↗
  • Who funds WELLS COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds EQUINE ADVOCATES INCORPORATED ↗
  • Who funds CAMPHILL GHENT INC ↗
  • Who funds THE ALBANY DAMIEN CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds OUTER BANKS WILDLIFE SHELTER INC ↗
  • Who funds Albany County Historical Association ↗
  • Who funds Freedom Farm Animal Sanctuary ↗

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.

Bank of Greene County…Hrbt FoundationBerkshire Taconic Com…JM McDonald Foundatio…The Jm Kaplan Fund IncT Backer Fund IncEutopia FoundationThe Ackerman Foundati…The Dyson FoundationRheinstrom Hill Commu…Hudson Valley Foundat…The Sally S and Rober…
Bank of Greene County Charitable FoundationNY71.3× affinity33 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Bank of Greene County Charitable Foundation · Hrbt Foundation · Berkshire Taconic Community Foundation Inc · JM McDonald Foundation Inc · The Jm Kaplan Fund Inc · T Backer Fund Inc · Eutopia Foundation · The Ackerman Foundation Inc · The Dyson Foundation · Rheinstrom Hill Community Foundation · Hudson Valley Foundation for Youth Health · The Sally S and Robert K Phelan Legacy Foundation Inc

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 The Alexander and Marjorie Hover Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Alexander and Marjorie Hover Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%2%6%14%25%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 16%
  • The Coral Restoration Foundation Inc: 16% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
23report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
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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Find your warmest path to The Alexander and Marjorie Hover 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 116 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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