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The Hack Foundation Inc

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$331k
Granted FY2025still arriving
37
Grants FY2025still arriving
5
States reached
$120k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0196% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Arts & Culture$162kReligion$143kEducation$102kHealth$91kAnimals$60kPhilanthropy$50kRecreation & Sports$37kInternational$17kOther$0
02FY2025 · 37 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k29 grants · $62k
  • $10k–50k6 grants · $93k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $176k
$2,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$2.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ZOO ATLANTA$120,000
LITERACY & LEARNING CENTER LITERACY COUNCIL OF HIGHLAND$56,000
HILTON HEAD SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA (HHSO)$25,000
GREENWOOD PATHWAY HOUSE$15,000
COASTAL DISCOVERY MUSEUM$15,000
CRU CAMPUS MINISTRY$15,000
FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH HILTON HEAD ISLAND$13,000
MARTIN LIPSCOMB PERFORMING ARTS CTR$10,000
WESTMINSTER SCHOOLS$8,000
BLUE RIDGE FREE DENTAL CL$5,000
COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA (CFWNC)$5,000
EMERALD CITY ROTARY FOUNDATION$5,000
ALZHEIMER'S ASSOCIATION$5,000
HIGHLAND UNITED METHODIST CHURCH$3,500
GREATER GREENWOOD UNITED MINISTRIES$3,000
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.

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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%MATTHEW 2540: $2k → 17%SECOND HELPINGS: $2k → 10%COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF ATLANTA: $1k → 13%THE CHILDREN'S CENTER: $1k → 10%THE CHILDREN'S CENTER: $500 → 10%THE CHILDREN'S CENTER: $500 → 10%HIGHLANDS COMMUNITY CHILD DEVELOPME: $1k → 12%HIGHLANDS COMMUNITY CHILD DEVELOPME: $1k → 12%PROGRAMS FOR EXCEPTIONAL PEOPLE: $100 → 10%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

MN
MI
PA
TN
NC
SC
GA
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.

89%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$974k · 53 repeat orgs$121k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +26% since the first grant, against +7% for those funded once.

53 repeat relationships: 28 still active in FY2025, 25 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

53
29

Total granted

$974k
$67k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+26%
+7%

Still filing today

49%
34%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $54k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureHuman ServicesPhilanthropyEducationHealthReligionOther
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

  • HH
    HILTON HEAD SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC
    5× · 2020–2024 · $60k · revenue +26%
  • HC
    HERITAGE CLASSIC FOUNDATION
    3× · 2020–2023 · $37k · revenue +212%
  • LC
    Literacy Council of Highlands Inc
    4× · 2020–2024 · $34k · revenue +61%

Funded once

  • PA
    Polish American Congress Inc-MI Div
    one grant, 2024 · $10k
  • AB
    ASHEVILLE BUNCOMBE COMMUNITY CHRISTIAN MINISTRY
    one grant, 2024 · $8k
  • BS
    Bounty & Soul
    one grant, 2024 · $8k · revenue 0%
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
Beaufort-Jasper-Hampton Comprehensive Health Services Inc

Provide community healthcare services to the citizens in the low country of south carolina.

Health
2
Health Care Partners of South Carolina Inc

The organization provides health care to individuals regardless of their ability to pay. this is a direct fulfillment of their tax exempt purpose.

Health
3
Carolina Community Care Inc

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,…

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4
Carolina Family Health Centers Inc

Carolina Family Health Centers, Inc. provides accessible and affordable health care with excellence...where patients come FIRST

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5
Conway Hospital Community Services

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.

Health
6
Foothills Community Health Care Inc

To provide affordable primary and preventative healthcare services to uninsured as well as fully insured citizens of pickens county south carolina and surrounding areas.

Health
7
Community Foundation of the Lowcountry

The Community Foundation's mission is strengthening community by connecting people, resources, and needs.

Philanthropy
8
Sc Chamber of Commerce

Enhancing the quality of life for all south carolinians, achieving global competiteveness and ultimately increasing prosperity for sc citizens.

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9
Greenwood Genetic Center Inc

The greenwood genetic center is a nonprofit institute centered on clinical genetic services, diagnostic laboratory testing, educational programs and resources, and research. with a focus on compassionate patient care and innovative…

Health
10
Foundation for the Carolinas

Inspiring philanthropy and strengthening our region through innovative community initiatives and quality services to donors and constituents.

Philanthropy
11
The Bladen County Hospital Foundation

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.

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12
South Carolina Community Capital Alliance

Our mission is to facilitate the investment of capital in south carolina in order to improve the quality of life for all her citizens by providing responsible and affordable financial products and services that are a major catalyst for…

Community Improvement
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Community Foundation of Western North Carolina Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

42 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. 42 of the 92 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)
12
Early backer (in before they grew)
40/42
Grantees still filing
27/42
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ZOO ATLANTA: $180,000 · OtherZOO ATLANTALITERACY & LEARNING CENTER LITERACY COUNCIL OF HIGHLAND: $71,000 · OtherLITERACY & LEARNING CENTER LITERACY COUNCIL OF HIGHLANDCAMPUS CRUSADE FOR CHRIST: $60,000 · OtherCAMPUS CRUSADE FOR CHRISTIndividual grant recipient: $55,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientMARTIN LIPSCOMB PERFORMING ARTS CTR: $45,000 · OtherMARTIN LIPSCOMB PERFORMING ARTS CTRBLUE RIDGE FREE DENTAL CL: $30,000 · OtherCRU CAMPUS MINISTRY: $30,000 · OtherFIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH: $26,500 · OtherHILTON HEAD SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA (HHSO): $25,000 · Other+57 more: $211,700 · Other+57 moreHILTON HEAD SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC: $59,750 · Arts & CultureHILTON HEAD S…COASTAL DISCOVERY MUSEUM: $55,000 · Arts & CultureCOASTAL DISCO…ARTS CENTER OF COASTAL CAROLINA: $10,750 · Arts & CultureARTS CENTER O…+3 more: $9,000 · Arts & Culture+3 moreLiteracy Council of Highlands Inc: $33,500 · EducationLiteracy C…COMMUNITY CARE CLINIC OF HIGHLANDS-CASHIERS INC: $23,000 · EducationCOMMUNITY …CAMBRIDGE ACADEMY INC: $22,500 · EducationCAMBRIDGE …The Westminster Schools Inc: $20,000 · EducationThe Westmi…THE UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 · EducationHERITAGE CLASSIC FOUNDATION: $37,000 · PhilanthropyHERITAGE …EMERALD CITY ROTARY CLUB FOUNDATION: $30,000 · PhilanthropyEMERALD C…GREENWOOD GENETIC CENTER FOUNDATION: $12,000 · PhilanthropyGREENWOOD…THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA INC: $7,500 · PhilanthropyTHE COMMU…+2 more: $2,380 · PhilanthropyHIGHLANDS BOLIVIAN MISSION INC: $17,000 · InternationalGREENWOOD PATHWAY HOUSE INC: $15,000 · Housing & ShelterHILTON HEAD REGIONAL HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC: $1,000 · Housing & ShelterMATTHEW 2540 INC: $2,000 · Human ServicesHighlands Community Child Development Center: $2,000 · Human ServicesTHE CHILDREN'S CENTER INC: $2,000 · Human ServicesSECOND HELPINGS: $1,500 · Human ServicesCommunities in Schools of Atlanta Inc: $1,000 · Human Services+1 more: $100 · Human Services
Other$734,200Arts & Culture$134,500Education$104,000Philanthropy$88,880International$17,000Housing & Shelter$16,000Human Services$8,600

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 budgetHILTON HEAD SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC: $59,750 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetCOASTAL DISCOVERY MUSEUM: $55,000 over 4y, 1.1% of budgetHERITAGE CLASSIC FOUNDATION: $37,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetLiteracy Council of Highlands Inc: $33,500 over 4y, 2.2% of budgetEMERALD CITY ROTARY CLUB FOUNDATION: $30,000 over 6y, 8.1% of budgetCOMMUNITY CARE CLINIC OF HIGHLANDS-CASHIERS INC: $23,000 over 5y, 2.8% of budgetCAMBRIDGE ACADEMY INC: $22,500 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetThe Westminster Schools Inc: $20,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetHIGHLANDS BOLIVIAN MISSION INC: $17,000 over 4y, 5.8% of budgetGREENWOOD PATHWAY HOUSE INC: $15,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetSELF REGIONAL HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION: $13,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetGREENWOOD GENETIC CENTER FOUNDATION: $12,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetARTS CENTER OF COASTAL CAROLINA: $10,750 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetAgnes Scott College: $9,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA INC: $7,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBounty & Soul: $7,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMUNITY CARE CLINIC INC: $4,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetHilton Head Dance Theatre: $4,000 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetHILTON HEAD ISLAND DEEP WELL PROJECT INC: $3,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetGREENWOOD COMMUNITY THEATRE INC: $3,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetHighlands Cashiers Health Foundation Inc: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMATTHEW 2540 INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetMATTHEW2540: $2,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetTHE MUSEUM - GREENWOOD SC: $2,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetHighlands Community Child Development Center: $2,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE CHILDREN'S CENTER INC: $2,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetHighlands Biological Foundation Inc: $2,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSECOND HELPINGS: $1,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetPhilanthropy Southeast Inc: $1,380 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA BUSINESS PARTNERSHIP FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHOPEFUL HORIZONS: $1,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetHILTON HEAD REGIONAL HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCommunities in Schools of Atlanta Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED WAY OF THE LOWCOUNTRY: $750 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLEAN ENSEMBLE THEATER: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMIRASOL HEALTH INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMAYO CLINIC: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPROGRAMS FOR EXCEPTIONAL PEOPLE: $100 over 1y, 0.0% 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 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 COMMUNITY CARE CLINIC OF HIGHLANDS-CASHIERS INC ↗
  • Who funds CAMBRIDGE ACADEMY INC ↗
  • Who funds The Westminster Schools Inc ↗
  • Who funds HIGHLANDS BOLIVIAN MISSION INC ↗
  • Who funds GREENWOOD PATHWAY HOUSE INC ↗
  • Who funds SELF REGIONAL HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds GREENWOOD GENETIC CENTER FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds ARTS CENTER OF COASTAL CAROLINA ↗
  • Who funds Polish American Congress Inc-MI Div ↗
  • Who funds Agnes Scott College ↗
  • Who funds THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA INC ↗
  • Who funds Bounty & Soul ↗
  • Who funds THE UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE FOUNDATION 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.

Community Foundation …Heritage Classic Foun…Coastal Community Fou…The Bargain BoxThe Community Foundat…The Thorpe Family Fou…Wexford FoundationPalmetto Electric Tru…The Church Mouse Thri…Davis Family Foundati…The Marshall Miller F…The Berkeley Hall Cha…
Community Foundation of the LowcountrySC32× affinity13 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    17report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
    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.

    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 92 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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