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The Edward E Hood Jr Foundation at a glance

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The Edward E Hood Jr 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.

$2.7M
Granted FY2025still arriving
2
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$1.4M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.

Philanthropy$2.7MEducation$90kHealth$69kReligion$58kHuman Services$54kAnimals$44kEnvironment$30kPublic Safety & Disaster$20kOther$0
02FY2025 · 2 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$1,355,873
Median grant
2
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE BEZZEG FAMILY FOUNDATION$1,355,873
O'BRIEN WATKINS FAMILY FNDTDONOR ADVISED FUND AT RAYMOND JAMES CHARITABLE$1,355,873
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 (FY21–24, $32k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROKECT INC: $5k → 14%HOSPICE OF RUTHERFORD COUNTY INC: $3k → 16%HOSPICE OF RUTHERFORD COUNTY INC: $3k → 16%HOSPICE OF RUTHERFORD COUNTY INC: $2k → 16%HOSPICE OF RUTHERFORD COUNTY INC: $2k → 16%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $7k → 14%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $5k → 14%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $3k → 14%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $2k → 14%DARIEN COMMUNITY YMCA INC: $500 → 9%DARIEN COMMUNITY YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION INC (YMCA): $500 → 9%DARIEN COMMUNITY YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION INC (YMCA): $500 → 9%DARIEN COMMUNITY YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION INC (YMCA): $500 → 9%AT HOME IN DARIEN INC: $250 → 9%AT HOME IN DARIEN INC: $200 → 9%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.

Which US states its grants reach

MT
NY
MA
PA
CT
CA
KY
VA
MD
TN
NC
SC
DC
GA
TX
FL
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.

13%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$397k · 63 repeat orgs$2.7M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +23% since the first grant, against +10% for those funded once.

63 repeat relationships: 0 still active in FY2025, 63 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

63
19

Total granted

$397k
$20k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+23%
+10%

Still filing today

83%
68%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2.7M went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24’25
HealthEducationAnimalsHuman ServicesEnvironmentPhilanthropyOther
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

  • TB
    THERMAL BELT OUTREACH MINISTRY INC
    4× · 2021–2024 · $40k · revenue +26%
  • TU
    THE UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA FOUNDATION
    4× · 2021–2024 · $32k · revenue +46%
  • LC
    LEES-MCRAE COLLEGE INC
    3× · 2022–2024 · $30k · revenue +27%

Funded once

  • WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC
    one grant, 2023 · $5k · revenue +24%
  • SA
    SPARTANBURG ANIMAL WELFARE LEAGUE
    one grant, 2022 · $3k
  • SH
    SPARTANBURG HUMANE SOCIETY INC
    one grant, 2021 · $3k · revenue -24%
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.

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The Adirondack Council Inc

The adirondack council ensures the ecological integrity (clean water and air, wildlife habitat, etc.), wild character (solitude, scenic beauty, etc.), and vibrant communities of new york's six-million-acre adirondack park. the adirondack…

Environment
2
Dutchess Land Conservancy Inc

Dutchess land conservancy (dlc) is dedicated to preserving the scenic, agricultural and environmental resources of dutchess county, new york, and the surrounding area. dlc, as a private non-profit land conservation organization, carries…

Environment
3
Connecticut Humane Society

The connecticut humane society is the leading resource in the state for companion animal welfare, enriching the lives of families and communities through adoption services, medical care, education, and prevention of cruelty.

Animals
4
New Canaan Land Conservation Trust Inc

The mission of the new canaan land trust is to foster a connection between the new canaan community and its natural resources through the conservation and sustainable stewardship of our open space.

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5
Connecticut Aeronautical Historical Association Inc

The new england air museum's mission is to preserve and present the story of aviation and aerospace, with an emphasis on new england's role, and the genius and inspiration that made it possible. the museum also seeks to inspire young…

Arts & Culture
6
Wildlands Trust Inc

The wildlands trust works throughout southeastern massachusetts to conserve and permanently protect native habitats, farmland, and lands of high ecologic and scenic value that serve to keep our communities healthy and our residents…

Environment
7
University of New Haven

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…

Education
8
Eastern National

Eastern national promotes the public's understanding and support of america's national parks and other public trust partners by providing quality educational experiences, products and services.

Recreation & Sports
9
Northern Neck Land Conservancy

Northern neck land conservancy's mission is to preserve the rural heritage of the northern neck and essex county by conserving their lands, water, economies and culture for future generations. the land conservancy assists landowners who…

Environment
10
Bridgton Hospital

To provide exceptional healthcare services in a safe and trustfulenvironment through the expertise, commitment, and compassion ofour family of caregivers.

Health
11
Dana-Farber Cancer Care Network Inc

The mission of Dana-Farber Cancer Care Network (DFCCN) is to promote and support, directly or indirectly, the interests and purposes of Dana-Farber Cancer Institute (DFCI).

Health
12
Native Plant Trust Inc

The organization's mission is to conserve and promote new england's native plants to ensure healthy, biologically diverse landscapes.

Environment
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Heritage Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Bezzeg Family Foundation. 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

67 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. 67 of the 85 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
11
Early backer (in before they grew)
67/67
Grantees still filing
42/67
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

O'BRIEN WATKINS FAMILY FNDTDONOR ADVISED FUND AT RAYMOND JAMES CHARITABLE: $1,355,873 · OtherO'BRIEN WATKINS FAMILY FNDTDONOR ADVISED FUND AT RAYMO…+44 more: $159,950 · Other+44 moreBEZZEG FAMILY FOUNDATION: $1,355,873 · PhilanthropyBEZZEG FAMILY FOUNDATION+4 more: $17,000 · PhilanthropyTHE UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA FOUNDATION: $32,000 · EducationLEES-MCRAE COLLEGE INC: $30,000 · EducationSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION: $11,000 · EducationSKIDMORE COLLEGE: $9,000 · Education+5 more: $3,450 · EducationTHERMAL BELT OUTREACH MINISTRY INC: $40,000 · Food & NutritionTHE SHORELINE SOUP KITCHENS & PANTRIES INC: $3,000 · Food & Nutrition+2 more: $2,500 · Food & NutritionAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $14,000 · HealthTHE FOUNDATION FIGHTING BLINDNESS INC: $13,500 · HealthBREAST CANCER ALLIANCE INC: $3,700 · HealthCANCER RESEARCH INSTITUTE INC: $3,000 · HealthLOBULAR BREAST CANCER ALLIANCE INC: $3,000 · HealthRICHARD J CARON FOUNDATION: $2,500 · HealthLIBERATION PROGRAMS INC: $1,500 · Health+3 more: $1,500 · HealthWILDLIFE CONSERVATION NETWORK INC: $20,000 · AnimalsAVERY COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY INC: $9,000 · AnimalsHumane World for Animals Inc: $1,750 · AnimalsTHE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS: $1,700 · AnimalsWAGGLE FOUNDATION INC: $1,500 · Animals+2 more: $2,000 · AnimalsAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $16,500 · Human ServicesCarolina Foothills Foundation: $8,500 · Human ServicesWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $5,000 · Human ServicesDARIEN COMMUNITY YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION INC: $2,000 · Human Services+1 more: $450 · Human Services
Other$1,515,823Philanthropy$1,372,873Education$85,450Food & Nutrition$45,500Health$42,700Animals$35,950Human Services$32,450

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 budgetTHERMAL BELT OUTREACH MINISTRY INC: $40,000 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetTHE UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA FOUNDATION: $32,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetLEES-MCRAE COLLEGE INC: $30,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetWILDLIFE CONSERVATION NETWORK INC: $20,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $16,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetThe High Country Charitable Foundation: $14,500 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $14,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE FOUNDATION FIGHTING BLINDNESS INC: $13,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION: $11,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetAVERY COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY INC: $9,000 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetSKIDMORE COLLEGE: $9,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCarolina Foothills Foundation: $8,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetFoothills Equestrian Nature Center Inc: $7,500 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetUPSTATE FOREVER: $7,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetTHE HERITAGE FOUNDATION: $5,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetConserving Carolina: $5,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSTEPS TO HOPE INC: $4,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetESSEX LAND TRUST INC: $4,500 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetNATIONAL EATING DISORDERS ASSOCIATION: $4,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetSt Luke's Foundation Inc: $4,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetBREAST CANCER ALLIANCE INC: $3,700 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetLYME ART ASSOCIATION INC: $3,500 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetFLORENCE GRISWOLD MUSEUM INC: $3,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CONNECTICUT RIVER FOUNDATION AT STEAMBOAT DOCK INC: $3,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetA BETTER CHANCE IN DARIEN INC: $3,000 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetLAND TRUST OF DARIEN INC: $3,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetCANCER RESEARCH INSTITUTE INC: $3,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetLOBULAR BREAST CANCER ALLIANCE INC: $3,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetTHE SHORELINE SOUP KITCHENS & PANTRIES INC: $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetRICHARD J CARON FOUNDATION: $2,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSPARTANBURG HUMANE SOCIETY INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetESSEX COMMUNITY FUND INC: $2,000 over 4y, 2.0% of budgetDARIEN COMMUNITY YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION INC: $2,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetHIGH HOPES THERAPEUTIC RIDING INC: $2,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetESSEX FIRE ENGINE CO NO1: $2,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetIVORYTON PLAYHOUSE FOUNDATION INC: $2,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetESSEX HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $2,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetHumane World for Animals Inc: $1,750 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS: $1,700 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetWAGGLE FOUNDATION INC: $1,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTHE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA INC: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $1,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetESSEX FOUNDATION INC: $1,500 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetESSEX LIBRARY ASSOCIATION INC: $1,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetMOBILE MEALS OF SPARTANBURG COUNTY INC: $1,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLIBERATION PROGRAMS INC: $1,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSOUTHERN ENVIRONMENTAL LAW CENTER: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% 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.

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.

Kitchings Family Foun…Fairfield County's Co…522 Foundation IncThe Rogers Family Fou…The Joanne E Masin Fo…The Meredith and Whit…Alexandra FoundationThe Goodnow FundThe Wiggins Foundatio…The Pfizer Foundation…Parkinson Family Foun…Riley Family Foundati…
Kitchings Family FoundationFL26× affinity10 shared granteesties to 5 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Kitchings Family Foundation · Fairfield County's Community Foundation Inc · 522 Foundation Inc · The Rogers Family Foundation · The Joanne E Masin Foundation · The Meredith and Whitney George Family Foundation Inc · Alexandra Foundation · The Goodnow Fund · The Wiggins Foundation Inc · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Parkinson Family Foundation Inc · Riley Family 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Edward E Hood Jr Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Edward E Hood Jr Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 180%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 2%
  • Pacific House Inc: 46% of income from government
  • Liberation Programs Inc: 24% of income from government
  • The Community Fund of Darien: 9% of income from government
  • Florence Griswold Museum Inc: 2% of income from government
  • Lyme Art Association Inc: 1% of income from government
  • High Hopes Therapeutic Riding Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Wounded Warrior Project Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
18get no government money at all
15report 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 Edward E Hood Jr 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 85 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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