· Private foundation
The Dave Hokin 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 FY2019–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k21 grants · $46k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $30k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CENTER ON HALSTED | $10,000 |
| GREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY | $10,000 |
| CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| SHAKESPEARE ON THE SOUND | $9,000 |
| NORTHFIELD MOUNT HERMON SCHOOL | $5,000 |
| FRACTURED ATLAS | $5,000 |
| OPEN DOORS | $4,000 |
| NEW CANAAN COUNTRY SCHOOL | $3,000 |
| WESTPORT PUBLIC LIBRARY | $2,500 |
| DARIEN LIBRARY | $2,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,500 |
| FAMILY CENTERS | $2,500 |
| NEW YORK PUBLIC RADIO | $1,200 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,000 |
| TETON REGIONAL LAND TRUST | $1,000 |
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 (FY25–25, $10k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 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.
14 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down; 14 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, 54% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $34k 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
NORTHFIELD MOUNT HERMON SCHOOL3× · 2019–2025 · $26k · revenue +40%
GREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY3× · 2020–2025 · $21k · revenue +17%- PTPERSON TO PERSON INC5× · 2019–2025 · $13k · revenue +28%
Funded once
- TBTHE BITTER END FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2020 · $200k · revenue -69%
- MOMUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ARTone grant, 2019 · $15k · revenue +12%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2019 · $15k
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.
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 mission of rhode island school of design, through its college and museum,is to educate its students and the public in the creation and (see schedule o)appreciation of works of art and design, to discover and transmit knowledge and to…
Darrow school is dedicated to serving students with diverse backgrounds and abilities, building on each student's talents and interests to inspire enduring confidence for success in college and life. this mission is accomplished through…
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.
Fordham university, the jesuit university of new york, is committed to the discovery of wisdom and the transmission of learning, through research and through education of the highest quality. for more information, see schedule o.
The organization's mission is to educate students for creative occupations in diverse fields of arts and media.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.
Western new england university, a comprehensive private institution with a tradition of excellence in teaching and scholarship and a commitment to service, awards undergraduate, master's, and doctoral degrees in various departments from…
Dickinson college provides a useful, innovative and interdisciplinary education in the liberal arts and sciences to prepare students to lead rich and fulfilling lives of engaged global citizenship
Provides innovative education in a dynamic urban setting. dedicated to academic excellence and community engagement,we prepare students of diverse backgrounds with the knowledge, skill,and experience to lead meaningful lives as informed…
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…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The New Canaan Country School Incorporated and the most unlike its peers is International Rescue Committee 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 48 years old; the field is 21. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% 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.
41 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. 41 of the 52 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.
- Who funds THE BITTER END FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds NORTHFIELD MOUNT HERMON SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds SHAKESPEARE ON THE SOUND INC ↗
- Who funds GREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY ↗
- Who funds MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART ↗
- Who funds PERSON TO PERSON INC ↗
- Who funds PUTNEY SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds Lyric Opera of Chicago ↗
- Who funds Center on Halsted ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE TETON RIVER INC ↗
- Who funds NEW YORK CITY BALLET INC ↗
- Who funds FRACTURED ATLAS INC ↗
- Who funds ROWAYTON CIVIC ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE OPEN DOOR SHELTER INC ↗
- Who funds CHOATE ROSEMARY HALL FOUNDATION INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds THE UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE NEW CANAAN COUNTRY SCHOOL INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds DARIEN LIBRARY INC ↗
- Who funds International Rescue Committee INC ↗
- Who funds FAMILY CENTERS INC ↗
- Who funds SAFE & SOUND ↗
- Who funds University of Chicago ↗
- Who funds DOWNTOWN DRIGGS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds WESTPORT COUNTRY PLAYHOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds BROWN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds NEW YORK PUBLIC RADIO ↗
- Who funds DARIEN NATURE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds TRIANGLE COMMUNITY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds TETON REGIONAL LAND TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds Sylvia Earle AllianceMission Blue ↗
- Who funds CAPE ELEUTHERA FOUNDATION INC ↗
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: Neil & Sandra Defeo Family Foundati · Ibm International Foundation · Fairfield County's Community Foundation Inc · Patagoniaorg · Baird Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation 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 Dave Hokin 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Family Centers Inc — 20% of income from government
- The Open Door Shelter Inc — 14% of income from government
- Planned Parenthood of Southern New England Inc — 10% of income from government
- Connecticut Foodshare Inc — 5% of income from government
- Triangle Community Center Inc — 5% of income from government
- Person to Person Inc — 5% of income from government
- Westport Country Playhouse Inc — 2% of income from government
- Wesleyan University — 1% of income from government
- Darien Nature Center Inc — 0% of income from government
- Choate Rosemary Hall Foundation Incorporated — 0% 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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