· Private foundation
The Eric D & Steven D Hovde Foundation
Its FY2024 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 FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k7 grants · $17k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $133k
- $50k–250k6 grants · $454k
- $250k+1 grant · $931k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MANY HOPES | $930,944 |
| HOGAR DE NINOS ALALAY | $115,000 |
| POTHAWIRA INTERNATIONAL | $100,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $84,308 |
| ASOCIACION NUEVO AMANECER JUNTOS | $54,232 |
| HOPE FOR LIFE | $50,000 |
| THORN | $50,000 |
| NATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY | $32,921 |
| BETHEL HORIZONS FOUNDATION INC | $25,000 |
| AKOLA ACADEMY | $25,000 |
| SHELTER FROM THE STORM MINISTRIES | $25,000 |
| CLEAN LAKES ALLIANCE | $15,000 |
| THE ROAD HOME OF DANE COUNTY | $10,000 |
| BELOVED ASHVILLE | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $4,000 |
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 US giving — 68% of grant dollars ($4.8M). The need read here covers only this US portion; the 32% that went abroad ($2.2M) is mapped below.
Your human-services grants (FY20–24, $200k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 88% 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
Beyond the US — 32% of all-years giving ($2.2M)
5 countries, by the recipient’s country on the filing.
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. International giving is mapped by the recipient’s country from the same 990 filings; comparable need data isn’t available at that grain.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 6% of The Eric D & Steven D Hovde Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +26% since the first grant, against +2% for the ones you funded once.
17 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2024, 6 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $180k 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
- MHMANY HOPES INC5× · 2020–2024 · $3.3M · revenue +422% · 33% of their budget
- PIPOTHAWIRA INTERNATIONAL5× · 2020–2024 · $218k · revenue +446%
- TTHORN4× · 2020–2024 · $150k · revenue +26%
Funded once
- SASalvation Armyone grant, 2023 · $150k
- AMAsociacion Ministerio Diaconal Paz y Esperanzaone grant, 2020 · $129k
- OCONE CITY SCHOOLS FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2023 · $50k · revenue +2%
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 madison professional police officers association represents law enforcement professionals who serve the city of madison, wisconsin, as either police officers, detectives, investigators, or sergeants.
Our mission is to seed a new model of public education that ensures young children are on track to succeed in a college or career preparatory program from birth through high school graduation.
Madison street medicine is on a mission to develop programming and services to fill gaps in access to healthcare and housing in the madison area. we envision a community where individuals experiencing housing insecurity have equitable…
Chariots for hope shares the hope of christ by loving kenyan children through christian discipleship and long-term physical, emotional, and educational care and provision. the vision of chariots for hope is to create a transformed future…
Empowering families and individuals experiencing homelessness to build a future filled with dignity, opportunity, and lasting solutions.
Teaching whole child using thematic curriculum, conflict resolution,self esteem, non-violent solutions to problems. bringing community sogether socially, serving nutritious meals.
The mission of lad lake, inc. is to guide the growth of at-risk youth so that they reach their potential and live responsibly.
To provide water and sanitation to the people of malawi.
We are compelled by god's word to provide security, education and the hope of jesus to children in south africa so they can thrive personally and impact their future families, communities and the kingdom of god.
We conduct impartial public policy research and analysis to drive informed debate and effective decision-making in the state of wisconsin.
To provide support, advocacy, education, and crisis services to an increasing population of adult victims. to develop, maintain, and expand cooperative relationships with other community entities. to foster victim accessibilty to all…
To share christ's love as we serve the spiritual, physical, intellectual and emotional needs of people entrusted to our care and others whose lives we touch.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Playing Field Inc and the most unlike its peers is Hope for Life. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
21 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. 21 of the 36 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 MANY HOPES INC ↗
- Who funds HOPE FOR LIFE ↗
- Who funds POTHAWIRA INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds THORN ↗
- Who funds THE RIVER FOOD PANTRY INC ↗
- Who funds EXTENDED HANDS PANTRY INC ↗
- Who funds ONE CITY SCHOOLS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds LEGADO DE ESPERANZA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CLEAN LAKES ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds SHELTER FROM THE STORM MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds THE ROAD HOME DANE COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds THE PLAYING FIELD INC ↗
- Who funds AKOLA ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds HORIZON HIGH SCHOOL OF MADISON INC ↗
- Who funds BELOVED ASHEVILLE ↗
- Who funds A CHILD'S PLACE OF CHARLOTTE INC ↗
- Who funds MADISON READING PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds LOCAL 311 CHARITIES INC ↗
- Who funds JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF WISCONSIN INC ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR COMMUNITY STEWARDSHIP ↗
- Who funds BADGER BOYS STATE INCORPORATED ↗
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: Madison Community Foundation · Veridian Foundation Inc · The Evjue Foundation Inc · Madison Gas and Electric Foundation Inc · United Way of Dane County Inc · The Roots and Wings Foundation Inc · Green Bay Packers Foundation · Alliant Energy Foundation Inc · Endres Manufacturing Foundation Inc · Trustage Foundation Inc · Schlecht Family Foundation Inc · Salzwedel Family Fund Ltd
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 Eric D & Steven D Hovde 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.
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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