· Private foundation
The H Hovnanian Family Foundation Inc
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 52% of THE H HOVNANIAN FAMILY FOUNDATION INC’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k17 grants · $73k
- $10k–50k43 grants · $947k
- $50k–250k6 grants · $608k
- $250k+7 grants · $8.5M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| VILLANOVA UNIVERSITY | $2,010,000 |
| COMMUNITY MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION | $2,000,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,111,700 |
| ARMENIA SME FUND | $1,074,552 |
| OCEAN COUNTY VOTECH SCHOOL | $1,071,000 |
| HOVNANIAN SCHOOL | $1,000,000 |
| REPAT ARMENIA FOUNDATION | $259,050 |
| FRIENDS OF BOTANICAL GARDENS | $229,789 |
| ACS IC OUR LADY OF ARMENIA CONVENT | $125,000 |
| ARMAND HAMMER UNITED WORLD | $100,000 |
| ICARE FOUNDATION | $53,000 |
| SHORE CLUBHOUSE | $50,000 |
| MERK OF NEW JERSEY INC | $50,000 |
| BERD COMMUNITY OF TAVUSH | $48,336 |
| BAZOOMQ FOUNDATION | $44,000 |
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 — 80% of grant dollars ($28M). The need read here covers only this US portion; the 20% that went abroad ($7.2M) is mapped below.
Your human-services grants (FY21–24, $163k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 69% 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 — 20% of all-years giving ($7.2M)
2 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.
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.
71 repeat relationships — 35 still active in FY2024, 36 since wound down; 38 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, 79% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2.1M 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
- VUVILLANOVA UNIVERSITY4× · 2021–2024 · $6.0M · revenue +29%
- HSHOVNANIAN SCHOOL INC4× · 2021–2024 · $4.0M · revenue +10% · 30% of their budget
- TRThe Rumson Country Day School3× · 2021–2023 · $630k · revenue +36%
Funded once
- HMHACKENSACK MERIDIAN HEALTHone grant, 2021 · $1.0M
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2023 · $286k
- UOUniversity of Michigangraduatedone grant, 2021 · $250k · revenue +96% · 77% of their budget
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.
To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.
See schedule omonmouth university is a comprehensive institution of higher education committed to excellence and integrity in teaching, scholarship and service. through its offerings in liberal arts, sciences, and professional programs,…
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…
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
A medical school dedicated to excellence in the tripartite academic medical missions of education, scientific research, and clinical care.
The mission of the independent colleges and universities of new jersey, a new jersey non-profit corporation is to advance the interests of new jersey's independent, non-profit, public mission institutions of higher education by promoting…
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.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
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…
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…
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Arc of New Jersey Inc and the most unlike its peers is Seasons of Giving. 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 36 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 6% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 12% 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.
85 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. 85 of the 224 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 VILLANOVA UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds HOVNANIAN SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds INSTITUTE OF INTERNATIONAL EDUCATION INC ↗
- Who funds The Rumson Country Day School ↗
- Who funds OCEAN COUNTY COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds The Peddie School ↗
- Who funds University of Michigan ↗
- Who funds OCEAN COUNTY YMCA INC ↗
- Who funds EVN NEWS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BROWN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds ARMENIAN WOUNDED HEROES FUND INC ↗
- Who funds Homes For All Inc ↗
- Who funds ALZHEIMERS CARE ARMENIA ↗
- Who funds PARENTS OF AUTISTIC CHILDREN POAC AUTISM SERVICES ↗
- Who funds THE NIGHTINGALE-BAMFORD SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds THE PHILOS PROJECT 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: Oceanfirst Foundation · New Jersey Natural Gas Company Charity Inc · Manasquan Bank Charitable Foundation Inc · The Jay and Linda Grunin Foundation D/B/A Grunin Foundation · Community Foundation of New Jersey · Wintrode Family Foundation Inc · The Citta Foundation Inc · The Buckelew Family Foundation · The Ansell Grimm & Aaron Foundation Inc · The Provident Bank Foundation · The Lazard Charitable Foundation · Investors 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 H Hovnanian Family Foundation Inc 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.
- Ocean's Harbor House Inc — 75% of income from government
- 180 Turning Lives Around — 61% of income from government
- Trustees of Tufts College — 13% of income from government
- Trustees of Boston University — 12% of income from government
- The Trustees of the Stevens Institute of Technology — 12% of income from government
- Shore Clubhouse Inc — 7% of income from government
- Hope Sheds Light Inc — 7% of income from government
- Rider University — 1% of income from government
- Seton Hall University — 1% of income from government
- Hovnanian School Inc — 0% of income from government
- Ocean County Ymca Inc — 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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