· Private foundation
The Hack Foundation Inc
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 $10k39 grants · $103k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $97k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Individual grant recipient | $25,000 |
| HILTON HEAD SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA | $22,000 |
| CRU CAMPUS MINISTRY | $15,000 |
| LITERACY & LEARNING CENTER LITERACY COUNCIL OF HIGHLAND | $15,000 |
| POLISH AMERICAN CONGRESS | $10,000 |
| COASTAL DISCOVERY MUSEUM | $10,000 |
| COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA | $7,500 |
| ASHEVILLE BUNCOMBE COMMUNITY CHRISTIAN MINISTRY (ABCCM) | $7,500 |
| NC DISASTER RELIEF FUND | $7,500 |
| BOUNTY AND SOUL | $7,500 |
| FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH | $6,000 |
| LITERACY COUNCIL OF HIGHLAND | $6,000 |
| MARTIN LIPSCOMB PERFORMING ARTS CTR | $5,000 |
| BLUE RIDGE FREE DENTAL CL | $5,000 |
| HIGHLANDS BOLIVAN MISSION | $5,000 |
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 human-services grants (FY20–24, $9k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% 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
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.
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.
43 repeat relationships — 24 still active in FY2024, 19 since wound down; 20 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, 58% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $81k 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
- HHHILTON HEAD SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC5× · 2020–2024 · $60k · revenue +26%
- HCHERITAGE CLASSIC FOUNDATION3× · 2020–2023 · $37k · revenue +212%
- LCLiteracy Council of Highlands Inc4× · 2020–2024 · $34k · revenue +61%
Funded once
- HCHIGHLANDS COMMUNITY FUNDCOMMUNITY FUND OF WESTERN INCone grant, 2023 · $5k
- VIVOLUNTEERS IN MEDICINE HHIone grant, 2020 · $5k
- HPHIGHLANDS PLAYHOUSEone grant, 2020 · $3k
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.
Provide community healthcare services to the citizens in the low country of south carolina.
The organization provides health care to individuals regardless of their ability to pay. this is a direct fulfillment of their tax exempt purpose.
The mission of hospice & community care is to give hope, comfort, and compassion to those that need it most. hospice & community care is a nonprofit healthcare organization providing hospice and palliative care to residents of york,…
Carolina Family Health Centers, Inc. provides accessible and affordable health care with excellence...where patients come FIRST
The Community Foundation's mission is strengthening community by connecting people, resources, and needs.
The mission of the bladen county hospital foundation is to serve the community by building awareness and philanthropic support for bladen county hospital as it provides compassionate, quality healthcare for all its patients.
Conway hospital community services provides outpatient health care services to horry county and the surrounding community in conjunction with conway hospital, inc., a non-profit acute care hospital system.
Enhancing the quality of life for all south carolinians, achieving global competiteveness and ultimately increasing prosperity for sc citizens.
The conway hospital foundation is a not-for-profit corporation established in 1988 as a charitable organization to provide support to conway hospital in its effort to fullfill its mission and goals. (see schedule o) description of…
Inspiring philanthropy and strengthening our region through innovative community initiatives and quality services to donors and constituents.
Greenville college d/b/a greenville university empowers students for lives of character and service through a transforming christ-centered education in the liberal arts, sciences, and professional studies.
Tandem health sc is a comprehensive primary healthcare practice dedicated to building a healthy community and improving the health, well-being, and quality of life of each person served.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Community Foundation of Western North Carolina Inc and the most unlike its peers is Here for a Reason. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 31 years old; the field is 11. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 30% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 19% 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.
40 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. 40 of the 84 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 HILTON HEAD SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC ↗
- Who funds COASTAL DISCOVERY MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds HERITAGE CLASSIC FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Literacy Council of Highlands Inc ↗
- Who funds EMERALD CITY ROTARY CLUB FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CAMBRIDGE ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY CARE CLINIC OF HIGHLANDS-CASHIERS INC ↗
- Who funds HIGHLANDS BOLIVIAN MISSION INC ↗
- Who funds The Westminster Schools Inc ↗
- Who funds SELF REGIONAL HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GREENWOOD GENETIC CENTER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Polish American Congress Inc-MI Div ↗
- Who funds ARTS CENTER OF COASTAL CAROLINA ↗
- Who funds Bounty & Soul ↗
- Who funds THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA INC ↗
- Who funds Agnes Scott College ↗
- Who funds THE UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY CARE CLINIC INC ↗
- Who funds HILTON HEAD ISLAND DEEP WELL PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds Hilton Head Dance Theatre ↗
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: Community Foundation of the Lowcountry · Heritage Classic Foundation · Coastal Community Foundation of South Carolina Inc · The Bargain Box · The Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta Inc · The Thorpe Family Foundation Inc · Wexford Foundation · Palmetto Electric Trust · The Church Mouse Thrift Shop Inc · Davis Family Foundation Inc · The Marshall Miller Foundation · The Berkeley Hall Charitable Foundation
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 Hack 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 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.