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The Edward W Hazen Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$100
Granted FY2025still arriving
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Grants FY2025still arriving
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States reached
$100
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
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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.

Civil Rights$2.3MYouth Development$2.2MCommunity Improvement$1.6MHuman Services$1.3MPublic Benefit$1.2MCrime & Legal$955kEducation$409kEnvironment$387kOther$0
02FY2025 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$100
Median grant
1
States reached
$253k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
BEND THE ARC$100
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, $955k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 43% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 11%BLACK ORGANIZING PROJECT: $75k → 10%TODEC LEGAL CENTER PERRIS: $125k → 11%MAKE THE ROAD STATES: $75k → 20%FREEDOM INC: $15k → 10%ASIAN AMERICANS ADVANCING JUSTICE ATLANTA: $5k → 9%TODEC LEGAL CENTER PERRIS: $75k → 11%FREEDOM INC: $15k → 10%BLACK ORGANIZING PROJECT: $50k → 10%TODEC LEGAL CENTER PERRIS: $75k → 11%MAKE THE ROAD STATES: $50k → 20%FREEDOM INC: $15k → 10%BLACK ORGANIZING PROJECT: $50k → 10%TODEC LEGAL CENTER PERRIS: $10k → 11%BLACK ORGANIZING PROJECT: $25k → 10%BLACK ORGANIZING PROJECT: $10k → 10%INNERCITY STRUGGLE: $100k → 14%INNERCITY STRUGGLE: $75k → 14%INNERCITY STRUGGLE: $75k → 14%INNERCITY STRUGGLE: $10k → 14%INNERCITY STRUGGLE: $10k → 14%NEW YORK STATE YOUTH LEADERSHIP COUNCIL: $10k → 17%NEW YORK STATE YOUTH LEADERSHIP COUNCIL: $5k → 17%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

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PA
NJ
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RI
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AZ
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AR
TN
DC
LA
MS
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GA
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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.

88%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$9.9M · 63 repeat orgs$1.4M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +4% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.

63 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2025, 62 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

63
43

Total granted

$9.9M
$1.4M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+4%
0%

Still filing today

92%
40%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
Community ImprovementYouth DevelopmentCivil RightsHuman ServicesEducationPhilanthropyOther
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

  • AP
    ARKANSAS PUBLIC POLICY PANEL INC
    3× · 2022–2024 · $385k · revenue +140% · 29% of their budget
  • KO
    Kenwood Oakland Community Organization
    3× · 2021–2023 · $375k · revenue +65%
  • AB
    A BETTER WAY FOUNDATION ABWF INC
    3× · 2022–2024 · $330k · revenue +159%

Funded once

  • NS
    NEW SETTLEMENT APARTMENTS
    one grant, 2023 · $200k
  • CHINESE PROGRESSIVE ASSOCIATION
    one grant, 2023 · $160k · revenue -2%
  • NS
    NEW SETTLEMENT APARTMENTS PAC
    one grant, 2022 · $100k
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
Jobs with Justice San Francisco

A long-term, strategic alliance of labor, community, faith-based, and student organizations working together to build greater economic power for workers and community members through employee rights at work and access to good jobs,…

Employment
2
Chicago United for Equity

Connecting and amplifying the power of individuals to build a just, equitable, and inclusive city.

Civil Rights
3
Youth Activism Project

The Youth Activism Project teaches teens movement-building skills to make policy impact at all levels of government. We envision a world in which youth activism is the norm, not the exception. We know that even though many young people are…

Youth Development
4
Justice Funders

Serve as a partner, educator, and guide for philanthropy in reimagining practices that advance a thriving and just world.

—
5
New Progressive Network

Next up amplifies the voice of diverse youth to achieve a more just oregon

Civil Rights
6
Fund for Justice

Fund for Justice is a nationally connected social impact research and advocacy organization that works to achieve fundamental, systemic reform by addressing policies and practicies that prevent individuals from reaching their full…

Crime & Legal
7
Girls for Gender Equity Inc

Girls for gender equity (gge) works intergenerationally, through a black feminist lens, to achieve gender and racial justice by centering the leadership of black girls and gender-expansive young people of color to reshape culture and…

Crime & Legal
8
Colorofchangeorg

Colorofchange.org works to strengthen the voice of black americans and increase the level of accountability and responsiveness of elected officials to underrepresented black constituencies using the internet as a lobbying and…

—
9
Communities Rise

Communities Rise fosters movements to build power in communities impacted by systemic oppression. To create an equitable system, we pursue cross-sector collaboration, and provide capacity building and legal services for community…

Crime & Legal
10
Pennsylvania United

PA United organizes and builds power across Western PA to create

Civil Rights
11
Forward Together

Forward Together is a national reproductive justice organization that centers people, families, and communities who experience reproductive oppression. They prioritize queer, trans, Black, Indigenous, and other peoples of color and utilize…

Health
12
Youth Represent Inc

Youth represent uses legal services, policy advocacy, peer education, and other tools to build power and opportunity for black, latine, and other youth of color who the criminal legal system and other systems of oppression harm the most.…

Crime & Legal
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Grantmakers for Education; the most unlike its peers is Destination Innovation 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

81 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 81 of the 111 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)
80/81
Grantees still filing
40/81
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

BEND THE ARC: $250,100 · OtherBEND THE ARCMano A Mano: $245,000 · OtherMano A ManoCALIFORNIA YOUTH CONNECTION: $245,000 · OtherCALIFORNIA YOUTH CONNECTIONPADRES UNIDOS INC: $245,000 · OtherPADRES UNIDOS INCNEW SETTLEMENT APARTMENTS: $200,000 · OtherHIGHLANDER RESEARCH & EDUCATION CENTER INC: $385,000 · OtherHIGHLANDER RESEARCH & EDUCATION CENTER INCARKANSAS PUBLIC POLICY PANEL INC: $385,000 · OtherARKANSAS PUBLIC POLICY PANEL INCA BETTER WAY FOUNDATION ABWF INC: $330,000 · OtherA BETTER WAY FOUNDATION ABWF INCCHINESE PROGRESSIVE ASSOCIATION: $160,000 · OtherPHILADELPHIA STUDENT UNION: $340,000 · OtherPHILADELPHIA STUDENT UNIONMAINE INITIATIVESINC: $235,000 · OtherACTION IN MONTGOMERY INC: $210,000 · Other+50 more: $1,273,860 · Other+50 moreKHMER GIRLS IN ACTION: $335,000 · Youth DevelopmentKHMER GIRLS IN ACT…YOUTH UNITED FOR CHANGE: $325,000 · Youth DevelopmentYOUTH UNITED FOR C…YOUTH JUSTICE COALITION INC: $285,000 · Youth DevelopmentYOUTH JUSTICE COAL…PROVIDENCE YOUTH STUDENT MOVEMENT: $280,000 · Youth DevelopmentPROVIDENCE YOUTH S…Youth United for Community Action: $270,000 · Youth DevelopmentYouth United for C…KIDS RETHINK NEW ORLEANS SCHOOLS: $145,000 · Youth DevelopmentKIDS RETHINK NEW O…Youth Rise Texas Inc: $135,000 · Youth DevelopmentYouth Rise Texas I…School of Unity and Liberation: $75,000 · Youth Development+2 more: $17,500 · Youth DevelopmentKenwood Oakland Community Organization: $375,000 · Community ImprovementKenwood Oakland …POWER CALIFORNIA: $245,500 · Community ImprovementPOWER CALIFORNIADESTINATION INNOVATION INC: $185,000 · Community ImprovementDESTINATION INNO…Logan Square Neighborhood Association: $185,000 · Community ImprovementLogan Square Nei…COMMUNITIES UNITED: $175,000 · Community ImprovementCOMMUNITIES UNIT…COMMUNITY PARTNERS: $162,500 · Community ImprovementCOMMUNITY PARTNE…MOVEMENT STRATEGY CENTER: $120,000 · Community ImprovementMOVEMENT STRATEG…Northwest Bronx Community and Clergy Coalition Inc: $75,000 · Community ImprovementCOMMON COUNSEL FOUNDATION: $75,000 · Community Improvement+3 more: $61,250 · Community ImprovementTodec Legal Center Perris: $285,000 · Human ServicesTodec Leg…INNERCITY STRUGGLE: $270,000 · Human ServicesINNERCITY…The Black Organizing Project Inc: $210,000 · Human ServicesThe Black…Make The Road States Inc: $125,000 · Human ServicesMake The …FREEDOM INC: $45,000 · Human Services+3 more: $22,000 · Human ServicesNOLLIE JENKINS FAMILY CENTER INCORPORATED: $375,000 · EducationCOMMUNITY ASSET DEVELOPMENT RE-DEFINING EDUCATION: $255,000 · EducationGENTE ORGANIZADA: $245,000 · Education+3 more: $43,600 · EducationUNITED WE DREAM NETWORK INC: $465,000 · Civil RightsGenders & Sexualities Alliance Network DBA GSA Network: $200,000 · Civil RightsJOLT INITIATIVE: $100,000 · Civil RightsALLIANCE FOR YOUTH ORGANIZING: $85,000 · Civil RightsCommittee Against Anti-Asian Violence Inc: $30,000 · Civil Rights+4 more: $11,500 · Civil RightsPUBLIC POLICY AND EDUCATION FUND OF NEW YORK INC: $260,000 · Public BenefitPoder in Action: $235,000 · Public BenefitCENTER FOR CIVIC POLICY: $226,000 · Public BenefitNEO Philanthropy Inc: $100,000 · Public Benefit
Other$4,503,960Youth Development$1,867,500Community Improvement$1,659,250Human Services$957,000Education$918,600Civil Rights$891,500Public Benefit$821,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetUNITED WE DREAM NETWORK INC: $465,000 over 3y, 2.3% of budgetHIGHLANDER RESEARCH & EDUCATION CENTER INC: $385,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetARKANSAS PUBLIC POLICY PANEL INC: $385,000 over 3y, 29% of budgetKenwood Oakland Community Organization: $375,000 over 3y, 4.9% of budgetNOLLIE JENKINS FAMILY CENTER INCORPORATED: $375,000 over 3y, 36% of budgetPHILADELPHIA STUDENT UNION: $340,000 over 3y, 14% of budgetKHMER GIRLS IN ACTION: $335,000 over 4y, 5.3% of budgetA BETTER WAY FOUNDATION ABWF INC: $330,000 over 3y, 7.6% of budgetYOUTH UNITED FOR CHANGE: $325,000 over 3y, 19% of budgetTodec Legal Center Perris: $285,000 over 4y, 1.5% of budgetYOUTH JUSTICE COALITION INC: $285,000 over 4y, 7.2% of budgetPROVIDENCE YOUTH STUDENT MOVEMENT: $280,000 over 3y, 17% of budgetINNERCITY STRUGGLE: $270,000 over 4y, 1.8% of budgetYouth United for Community Action: $270,000 over 3y, 17% of budgetPUBLIC POLICY AND EDUCATION FUND OF NEW YORK INC: $260,000 over 3y, 2.8% of budgetCOMMUNITY ASSET DEVELOPMENT RE-DEFINING EDUCATION: $255,000 over 4y, 14% of budgetPOWER CALIFORNIA: $245,500 over 4y, 2.3% of budgetGENTE ORGANIZADA: $245,000 over 4y, 8.3% of budgetMano A Mano: $245,000 over 4y, 6.3% of budgetPADRES UNIDOS INC: $245,000 over 4y, 6.9% of budgetMAINE INITIATIVESINC: $235,000 over 3y, 5.6% of budgetPoder in Action: $235,000 over 4y, 4.7% of budgetCENTER FOR CIVIC POLICY: $226,000 over 3y, 2.3% of budgetACTION IN MONTGOMERY INC: $210,000 over 3y, 8.9% of budgetThe Black Organizing Project Inc: $210,000 over 4y, 3.2% of budgetGenders & Sexualities Alliance Network DBA GSA Network: $200,000 over 3y, 1.9% of budgetDESTINATION INNOVATION INC: $185,000 over 4y, 13% of budgetLogan Square Neighborhood Association: $185,000 over 4y, 1.2% of budgetCOMMUNITIES UNITED: $175,000 over 3y, 2.7% of budgetCOMMUNITY PARTNERS: $162,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCHINESE PROGRESSIVE ASSOCIATION: $160,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetKIDS RETHINK NEW ORLEANS SCHOOLS: $145,000 over 2y, 5.5% of budgetYouth Rise Texas Inc: $135,000 over 3y, 4.9% of budgetMake The Road States Inc: $125,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetMOVEMENT STRATEGY CENTER: $120,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetJOLT INITIATIVE: $100,000 over 3y, 1.8% of budgetNational Economic and Social Rights Initiative: $100,000 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetNEO Philanthropy Inc: $100,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetALLIANCE FOR YOUTH ORGANIZING: $85,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetSchool of Unity and Liberation: $75,000 over 3y, 12% of budgetNorthwest Bronx Community and Clergy Coalition Inc: $75,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetCOMMON COUNSEL FOUNDATION: $75,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetARKANSAS COMMUNITY INSTITUTE: $50,000 over 2y, 6.2% of budgetCLINTON HILL COMMUNITY ACTION INC: $50,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetALLIANCE FOR A JUST SOCIETY: $50,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetFREEDOM INC: $45,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetTHE CRENULATED COMPANY LTD: $35,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCommittee Against Anti-Asian Violence Inc: $30,000 over 2y, 0.9% 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.

New Venture FundAmalgamated Charitabl…The Schott Foundation…NEO Philanthropy IncThe Ford FoundationTides FoundationProteus Fund IncMarguerite Casey Foun…Novo FoundationThe San Francisco Fou…Surdna Foundation IncBorealis Philanthropy
New Venture FundDC55.9× affinity33 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: New Venture Fund · Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc · The Schott Foundation for Public Education · NEO Philanthropy Inc · The Ford Foundation · Tides Foundation · Proteus Fund Inc · Marguerite Casey Foundation · Novo Foundation · The San Francisco Foundation · Surdna Foundation Inc · Borealis Philanthropy

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 W Hazen Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Edward W Hazen Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 40%3%10%23%40%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 6%
  • Clinton Hill Community Action Inc: 6% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
4get no government money at all
20report 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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How do I get to The Edward W Hazen Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Edward W Hazen 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 111 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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