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The H Hovnanian Family Foundation Inc

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$10M
Granted FY2024still arriving
73
Grants FY2024still arriving
6
States reached
$2.0M
Largest
01What it funds
0186% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2024.

Education$13MHealth$8.9MCommunity Improvement$2.8MInternational$2.1MReligion$576kHuman Services$393kArts & Culture$361kEnvironment$274kOther$0
02FY2024 · 73 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k17 grants · $73k
  • $10k–50k43 grants · $947k
  • $50k–250k6 grants · $608k
  • $250k+7 grants · $8.5M
$20,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$212M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
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.

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.

show:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%FULFILL: $20k → 6%ALLAIRE COMMUNITY FARM: $10k → 6%TOMS RIVER FIELD OF DREAMS INC: $15k → 11%OCEAN'S HARBOR HOUSE: $10k → 11%OCEANS HARBOR HOUSE: $1k → 11%OCEAN'S HARBOR HOUSE: $1k → 11%180 TURNING LIVES AROUND INC: $10k → 6%180 TURNING LIVES AROUND INC: $5k → 6%180 TURNING LIVES AROUND: $5k → 6%PARENTS OF AUSTISTIC CHILDREN OF OCEAN COUNTY INC: $85k → 11%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

VT
NH
MT
MN
IL
MI
NY
MA
IA
PA
NJ
RI
CA
VA
NM
TN
NC
SC
OK

Beyond the US: 20% of all-years giving ($7.2M)

2 countries, by the recipient’s country on the filing.

grant dollars sentlessmore
Armenia$4.4M · 115 grants
Luxembourg$2.8M · 4 grants
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. International giving is mapped by the recipient’s country from the same 990 filings; comparable need data isn’t available at that grain.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

82%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$28M · 71 repeat orgs$6.4M to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

71
113

Total granted

$28M
$4.3M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+19%
+21%

Still filing today

46%
33%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 79% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2.1M went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24
EducationHealthHuman ServicesArts & CultureAnimalsPhilanthropyOther
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

  • VU
    VILLANOVA UNIVERSITY
    4× · 2021–2024 · $6.0M · revenue +29%
  • HS
    HOVNANIAN SCHOOL INC
    4× · 2021–2024 · $4.0M · revenue +10% · 30% of their budget
  • TR
    The Rumson Country Day School
    3× · 2021–2023 · $630k · revenue +36%

Funded once

  • HM
    HACKENSACK MERIDIAN HEALTH
    one grant, 2021 · $1.0M
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2023 · $286k
  • UO
    University of Michigangraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $250k · revenue +96% · 77% of their budget
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
Manhattanville University

To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.

Education
2
Monmouth University Inc

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,…

Education
3
The Trustees of Princeton University

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…

Education
4
Neurology Associates of Stony Brook University Faculty Practice Corp

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
5
Hackensack Meridian School of Medicine

A medical school dedicated to excellence in the tripartite academic medical missions of education, scientific research, and clinical care.

Education
6
Independent Colleges and Universities of New Jersey a Nj Nonprofit Corporation

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…

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7
Fordham University

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.

Education
8
Stony Brook Ophthalmology University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
9
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
10
Western New England University

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…

Education
11
Stony Brook Orthopedic Associates University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
12
Stony Brook Urology University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Arc of New Jersey Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

85 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. 85 of the 224 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)
84/85
Grantees still filing
53/85
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Individual grant recipient: $4,186,700 · OtherIndividual grant recipientARMENIA SME FUND: $2,823,443 · OtherARMENIA SME FUNDHACKENSACK MERIDIAN HEALTH FOUNDATION: $2,033,320 · OtherHACKENSACK MERIDIAN HEALTH FOUNDATIONOCEAN COUNTY VOTECH SCHOOL: $1,071,000 · OtherOCEAN COUNTY VOTECH SCHOOLREPAT ARMENIA FOUNDATION: $1,031,399 · OtherREPAT ARMENIA FOUNDATIONHACKENSACK MERIDIAN HEALTH: $1,000,000 · OtherHACKENSACK MERIDIAN HEALTHRIVERVIEW MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION CO HACKENSACK MERIDIAN HEALTH INC: $760,000 · OtherThe Rumson Country Day School: $630,000 · Other+147 more: $5,091,371 · Other+147 moreVILLANOVA UNIVERSITY: $6,040,000 · EducationVILLANOVA UNIVERSITYHOVNANIAN SCHOOL INC: $4,000,000 · EducationHOVNANIAN SCHOOL INCOCEAN COUNTY COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $528,032 · EducationThe Peddie School: $400,000 · Education+14 more: $265,732 · EducationCOMMUNITY MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION: $4,000,000 · HealthCOMMUNITY MED…+9 more: $287,895 · Health+9 moreINSTITUTE OF INTERNATIONAL EDUCATION INC: $653,599 · InternationalARMENIAN WOUNDED HEROES FUND INC: $100,000 · International+2 more: $15,000 · InternationalEVN NEWS FOUNDATION: $132,500 · Arts & CultureTHE PHILOS PROJECT INC: $70,000 · Arts & CultureTHE SANDY HOOK FOUNDATION INC: $9,760 · Arts & CultureNVAK INC: $7,500 · Arts & Culture+1 more: $4,000 · Arts & CulturePARENTS OF AUTISTIC CHILDREN POAC AUTISM SERVICES: $85,000 · Human Services180 TURNING LIVES AROUND: $20,000 · Human ServicesTHE FOODBANK OF MONMOUTH AND OCEAN COUNTIES INC D/B/A FULFILL: $20,000 · Human ServicesTOMS RIVER FIELD OF DREAMS: $15,000 · Human ServicesOCEAN'S HARBOR HOUSE INC: $12,500 · Human ServicesALLAIRE COMMUNITY FARM A NJ NONPROFIT CO: $10,000 · Human ServicesBROWN UNIVERSITY: $115,000 · Community Improvement+1 more: $2,000 · Community Improvement
Other$18,627,233Education$11,233,764Health$4,287,895International$768,599Arts & Culture$223,760Human Services$162,500Community Improvement$117,000

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

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 budgetVILLANOVA UNIVERSITY: $6,040,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetCOMMUNITY MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION: $4,000,000 over 3y, 67% of budgetHOVNANIAN SCHOOL INC: $4,000,000 over 4y, 30% of budgetINSTITUTE OF INTERNATIONAL EDUCATION INC: $653,599 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetThe Rumson Country Day School: $630,000 over 3y, 1.8% of budgetOCEAN COUNTY COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $528,032 over 3y, 9.4% of budgetThe Peddie School: $400,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetUniversity of Michigan: $250,000 over 1y, 77% of budgetOCEAN COUNTY YMCA INC: $185,000 over 1y, 4.1% of budgetEVN NEWS FOUNDATION: $132,500 over 2y, 34% of budgetBROWN UNIVERSITY: $115,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetHomes For All Inc: $100,000 over 1y, 4.5% of budgetARMENIAN WOUNDED HEROES FUND INC: $100,000 over 1y, 4.4% of budgetALZHEIMERS CARE ARMENIA: $99,095 over 2y, 21% of budgetPARENTS OF AUTISTIC CHILDREN POAC AUTISM SERVICES: $85,000 over 1y, 14% of budgetTHE NIGHTINGALE-BAMFORD SCHOOL: $80,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTHE PHILOS PROJECT INC: $70,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetSAN JOSE STATE UNIVERSITY RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $51,546 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHARBORING HEARTS HOUSING FOUNDATION INC: $50,000 over 2y, 2.9% of budgetSHORE CLUBHOUSE INC: $50,000 over 1y, 7.4% of budgetTUFENKIAN FOUNDATION INC: $45,000 over 2y, 3.2% of budgetTHE ARMENIAN EYECARE PROJECT: $40,300 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetCENTER FOR TRUTH AND JUSTICE: $40,000 over 2y, 5.3% of budgetMONMOUTH MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION INC: $30,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION: $30,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTrustees of Tufts College: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ANIMAL MEDICAL CENTER: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPHILLIPS EXETER ACADEMY: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget180 TURNING LIVES AROUND: $20,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTHE FOODBANK OF MONMOUTH AND OCEAN COUNTIES INC D/B/A FULFILL: $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetRIDGEWAY VOLUNTEER FIRE COMPANY: $20,000 over 1y, 7.5% of budgetJOAN DANCY AND P A L S INC: $20,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetNORTHERN OCEAN HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC: $16,250 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetTOMS RIVER FIELD OF DREAMS: $15,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF THE STEVENS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY: $12,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCITY OF SMILE - USA INC: $12,500 over 1y, 6.3% of budgetOCEAN'S HARBOR HOUSE INC: $12,500 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetCARMEL CONNECTION FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 over 1y, 4.4% of budgetALLAIRE COMMUNITY FARM A NJ NONPROFIT CO: $10,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetSETON HALL UNIVERSITY: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGUILD OF CREATIVE ART: $10,000 over 1y, 8.5% of budgetMARTY'S PLACE SENIOR DOG SANCTUARY: $10,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetRIDER UNIVERSITY: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNO LIMITS CAFE: $10,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetAfrican Dream Academy Foundation Incorporated: $10,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetFOLDS OF HONOR FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ARC OCEAN COUNTY CHAPTER INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE SANDY HOOK FOUNDATION INC: $9,760 over 2y, 1.7% 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.

  • Who funds VILLANOVA UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds COMMUNITY MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds HOVNANIAN SCHOOL INC ↗
  • 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 Homes For All Inc ↗
  • Who funds ARMENIAN WOUNDED HEROES FUND 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 ↗

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.

Oceanfirst FoundationNJ52.9× affinity25 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 H Hovnanian Family Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The H Hovnanian Family Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 260%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 7%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
26get no government money at all
18report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
2rely 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 H Hovnanian Family Foundation Inc 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 224 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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