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The Austin & Gabriela Hearst 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k1 grant · $5k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $195k
- $50k–250k16 grants · $1.6M
- $250k+3 grants · $1.1M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| PIONEER WORKS | $560,000 |
| CENTER FOR CONSCIOUSNESS MEDICINE | $317,000 |
| AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION | $250,000 |
| THE METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART | $225,000 |
| PANORAMA GLOBAL | $173,000 |
| COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY | $150,000 |
| BRAINFUTURES | $125,000 |
| THE 1440 FOUNDATION SARATOGA | $120,000 |
| FRIENDS OF THE MUSEE DES ARTS | $110,000 |
| HOPEWELL FUND | $100,000 |
| PSYCHEDELIC SCIENCE FUNDERS | $100,000 |
| APOLLO PACT INC | $99,999 |
| THE FRIENDS OF MCGILL ADVISORS INC | $66,666 |
| AMAZON FRONTLINES | $50,000 |
| FIRESIDE PROJECT | $50,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $128k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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.
22 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2025, 14 since wound down; 16 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 59% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.1M 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
- PGPANORAMA GLOBAL3× · 2022–2025 · $465k · revenue +50%
- MMMETROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART3× · 2017–2025 · $435k · revenue +58%
- APApollo Pact Inc2× · 2023–2025 · $150k · revenue +54% · 49% of their budget
Funded once
- UAUSC ANNENBERG SCHOOLone grant, 2017 · $150k
- HHHEROIC HEARTS PROJECT INCgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $125k · revenue +77%
- WHWHITE HOUSE HISTORICAL ASSOCIATIONgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $105k · revenue +116%
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.
Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…
Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.
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.
New york school of interior design provides the most innovative, immersive, and transformative interior design education in the world, demonstrating the impact of professionally designed interiors on the health, happiness, and well-being…
Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.
The organization provides professional investment management services for endowed gifts and financial assets entrusted to the ucsf foundation.
The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
The foreign policy research institute (frpi) is dedicated to producing the highest quality scholarship and nonpartisan policy analysis focused on crucial foreign policy and national security challenges facing the united states. we educate…
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Advance science, engineering, and innovation throughout the world for the benefit of all. the world's largest multidisciplinary scientific society and a leading publisher of cutting-edge research through its science family of journals,…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Leadership Now Project and the most unlike its peers is Rebecoming 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 26 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 8% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 10% 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.
56 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. 56 of the 85 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.
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- Who funds OUR CHILDREN'S TRUST ↗
- Who funds PANORAMA GLOBAL ↗
- Who funds METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART ↗
- Who funds CHARITIES AID FOUNDATION AMERICA ↗
- Who funds FAIR DEMOCRACY ↗
- Who funds BROWN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds BLUE SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds HOPEWELL FUND ↗
- Who funds THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK ↗
- Who funds SOCIAL GOOD FUND INC ↗
- Who funds Apollo Pact Inc ↗
- Who funds Save The Children Federation Inc ↗
- Who funds HEROIC HEARTS PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds BRAINFUTURES INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds WHITE HOUSE HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds UTAH FILM CENTER ↗
- Who funds REBECOMING INC ↗
- Who funds MOUNT SINAI HEALTH SYSTEM INC ↗
- Who funds Fireside Project Inc ↗
- Who funds INQUIRING SYSTEMS INC ↗
- Who funds JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY ↗
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- Who funds The New School ↗
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: The Joe & Sandy Samberg Foundation Inc · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Simon Family Philanthropic Foundation Inc · Impactassetsinc · Jewish Communal Fund · The San Diego Foundation · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · The San Francisco Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Tides Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust 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 The Austin & Gabriela Hearst 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Save the Children Federation Inc — 30% of income from government
- Johns Hopkins University — 12% 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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