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The Hancock Foundation

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.

$315k
Granted FY2025still arriving
3
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$300k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
0198% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.

Education$983kArts & Culture$370kHealth$183kPhilanthropy$120kHuman Services$59kInternational$51kHousing & Shelter$38kCivil Rights$36kOther$0
02FY2025 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k1 grant · $5k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
  • $250k+1 grant · $300k
$10,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$620k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
NEW YORK UNIVERSITY$300,000
JAZZ AT LINCOLN CENTER INC$10,000
MUSEUM OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION$5,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–23, $85k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%QUEENS COMMUNITY HOUSE: $10k → 13%QUEENS COMMUNITY HOUSE: $8k → 13%QUEENS COMMUNITY HOUSE: $5k → 13%QUEENS COMMUNITY HOUSE: $5k → 13%QUEENS COMMUNITY HOUSE: $5k → 13%JOE TORRE SAFE AT HOME FOUNDATION: $10k → 17%NEW YORK CITY MISSION SOCIETY: $5k → 17%JOHN JAY COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $1k → 17%EXPANDED SCHOOLS: $5k → 17%EXPANDED SCHOOLS: $1k → 17%UNION SETTLEMENT: $10k → 17%UNION SETTLEMENT: $10k → 17%UNION SETTLEMENT: $10k → 17%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

ME
IL
MI
NY
MA
OH
PA
CT
CA
AZ
TN
NC
DC
TX
FL

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

72%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.4M · 30 repeat orgs$527k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +43% since the first grant, against +7% for the ones you funded once.

30 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2025, 27 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

30
75

Total granted

$1.4M
$527k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+43%
+7%

Still filing today

87%
63%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureHealthEducationHuman ServicesInternationalRecreation & SportsOther

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

  • NY
    New York University
    3× · 2018–2025 · $341k · revenue +59%
  • NY
    NEW YORK CITY CENTER INC
    5× · 2017–2023 · $98k · revenue +16%
  • JA
    JAZZ AT LINCOLN CENTER INC
    5× · 2017–2025 · $81k · revenue +18%

Funded once

  • GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY
    one grant, 2022 · $200k · revenue +16%
  • NS
    NYU SCHOOL OF MEDICINE
    one grant, 2017 · $34k
  • UJ
    UNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC
    one grant, 2022 · $25k · revenue +19%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
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
2
New York Genome Center Inc

Operate a state-of-the-art, world-class genomic research center that creates and uses advanced genomics to understand the genetic basis of disease. for more information, see schedule o.

Health
3
New York Botanical Garden

The new york botanical garden is a museum of plants and a scientific research center devoted to the study of plants and their uses. it is the garden's mission to improve public understanding of the natural world, horticulture, and the…

Environment
4
Manhattanville University

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

Education
5
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
6
Institute for Advanced Study - Louis Bamberger & Mrs Felix Fuld Foundation

The institute for advanced study (the institute) is one of the world's leading centers for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. see schedule o.

Science & Tech
7
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
8
The Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences

The mission of the brooklyn institute of arts and sciences, d/b/a brooklyn museum (the "museum") is to bring people together through art and experiences that inspire celebration, compassion, courage, and the will to act. (see schedule o).

Arts & Culture
9
Stony Brook Internists University Faculty Practice Corporation

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

Health
10
Museum of the City of New York

The museum of the city of new york fosters understanding of the distinctive nature of urban life in the world's most influential metropolis. it engages visitors by celebrating, documenting, and interpreting the city's past, present, and…

Arts & Culture
11
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
12
The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Chartered by a unanimous act of congress, the museum is america's national institution for the documentation, study, interpretation, and education of holocaust history and serves as our country's memorial to the victims of the holocaust.…

Arts & Culture

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Children's Museum of Manhattan and the most unlike its peers is After Word Music Ministry. 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyFaith-Based Liberal Arts Co…Community FoundationsPolicy Research and AdvocacyHealth Access Advocacy and …Domestic Violence ServicesFaith-Based Social ServicesCancer Support ServicesLocal History MuseumsOrchestra and Ensemble Perf…Volunteer Fire & Ems Servic…Environmental Conservation …Public Library OperationsJewish Community Organizati…Community Arts Centers
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 39 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number19%1%<5yr14%4%5–10yr20%13%10–20yr19%22%20–35yr13%27%35–55yr16%33%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value19%0%<5yr14%1%5–10yr20%6%10–20yr19%12%20–35yr13%45%35–55yr16%36%55yr+

The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 10% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/79
the rest of the field
10%
11,858/120,681

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.

04the grantee network

76 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. 76 of the 107 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
14
Early backer (in before they grew)
75/76
Grantees still filing
47/76
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

KENYON COLLEGE — $380,000 · EducationKENYON COLLEGENew York University — $341,000 · EducationNew York UniversityGEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY — $200,000 · EducationGEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY+4 more — $47,500 · EducationNEW YORK CITY CENTER INC — $97,500 · Arts & CultureNEW YORK CITY CENT…JAZZ AT LINCOLN CENTER INC — $80,500 · Arts & CultureJAZZ AT LINCOLN CE…APOLLO THEATER FOUNDATION INC — $50,000 · Arts & CultureAPOLLO THEATER FOU…THE KENYON REVIEW — $27,000 · Arts & CultureTHE KENYON REVIEWTHE JEWISH MUSEUM — $20,000 · Arts & CultureTHE JEWISH MUSEUMTHE BARNES FOUNDATION — $11,250 · Arts & Culture+14 more — $33,635 · Arts & Culture+14 moreKENYON FUND — $52,656 · OtherKENYON FUNDNYU SCHOOL OF MEDICINE — $34,000 · OtherNYU SCHOOL OF MEDICI…CENTER FOR INDEPENDENT DOCUMENTARIES — $25,000 · OtherCENTER FOR INDEPENDE…THE EDUCATIONAL ALLIANCE INC — $20,000 · OtherTHE EDUCATIONAL ALLI…CUNY CHANCELLOR'S EMERGENCY FUND — $16,000 · OtherTHIRD WAY INSTITUTE — $25,000 · OtherTHIRD WAY INSTITUTEVERA INSTITUTE OF JUSTICE INC — $15,000 · Other+48 more — $155,335 · Other+48 moreUNITED HOSPITAL FUND OF NEW YORK — $37,500 · HealthNYU LANGONE HOSPITALS — $30,000 · HealthTHE CENTER FOR DISCOVERY INC — $10,000 · HealthVassar Health Connecticut Inc — $10,000 · HealthNEW YORK STEM CELL FOUNDATION INC — $10,000 · HealthEAGLES AUTISM CHALLENGE INC — $7,500 · HealthMINDING YOUR MIND — $7,500 · HealthDANIEL W OFFIT FUND TO FIGHT GLIOBLASTOMA INC — $5,000 · Health+3 more — $3,750 · HealthQUEENS COMMUNITY HOUSE — $32,500 · Human ServicesUNION SETTLEMENT ASSOCIATION INC — $30,000 · Human ServicesTHE JOE TORRE SAFE AT HOME FOUNDATION — $10,000 · Human ServicesEXPANDED SCHOOLS INC — $6,000 · Human ServicesN Y C MISSION SOCIETY — $5,000 · Human Services+2 more — $1,500 · Human ServicesISRAEL POLICY FORUM INC — $44,819 · InternationalBIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION — $5,000 · International+2 more — $1,250 · InternationalUNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC — $25,000 · PhilanthropyJEWISH FEDERATION OF PALM BEACH COUNTY INC — $10,000 · PhilanthropyGOVERNOR'S CUP CHARITIES — $2,500 · Philanthropy
Education$968,500Arts & Culture$319,885Other$342,991Health$121,250Human Services$85,000International$51,069Philanthropy$37,500

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetKENYON COLLEGE — $380,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetNew York University — $341,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetGEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY — $200,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNEW YORK CITY CENTER INC — $97,500 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetJAZZ AT LINCOLN CENTER INC — $80,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetAPOLLO THEATER FOUNDATION INC — $50,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetISRAEL POLICY FORUM INC — $44,819 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetUNITED HOSPITAL FUND OF NEW YORK — $37,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetQUEENS COMMUNITY HOUSE — $32,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetUNION SETTLEMENT ASSOCIATION INC — $30,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetNYU LANGONE HOSPITALS — $30,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE KENYON REVIEW — $27,000 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetUNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHIRD WAY INSTITUTE — $25,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetThe New York Public Library Astor Lenox and Tilden Foundations — $23,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE EDUCATIONAL ALLIANCE INC — $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE JEWISH MUSEUM — $20,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetVERA INSTITUTE OF JUSTICE INC — $15,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BARUCH COLLEGE FUND — $12,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTHE BARNES FOUNDATION — $11,250 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE JOE TORRE SAFE AT HOME FOUNDATION — $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetAMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CENTER FOR DISCOVERY INC — $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetVassar Health Connecticut Inc — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNEW YORK STEM CELL FOUNDATION INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH FEDERATION OF PALM BEACH COUNTY INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMUSEUM OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION — $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetUSA FOUNDATION — $10,000 over 1y, 7.9% of budgetTHE YOUNG MEN'S AND YOUNG WOMEN'S HEBREW ASSOCIATION — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEAGLES AUTISM CHALLENGE INC — $7,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetMINDING YOUR MIND — $7,500 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetEXPANDED SCHOOLS INC — $6,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CENTER FOR JEWISH HISTORY INC — $5,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetFRIENDS OF HUDSON RIVER PARK INC — $5,250 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetN Y C MISSION SOCIETY — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNATIONAL PARKS OF NEW YORK HARBOR CONSERVANCY DBA FEDERAL HALL CONSERVANCY — $5,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetNATIONAL HISPANIC BUSINESS GROUP — $5,000 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetTHE ANDREW GOODMAN FOUNDATION INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetBIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDANIEL W OFFIT FUND TO FIGHT GLIOBLASTOMA INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetTHE LORD'S PLACE INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNEW YORK SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL — $5,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Museum of Natural History — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF MANHATTAN — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHOPE & HEROES CHILDREN'S CANCER FUND — $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGOVERNOR'S CUP CHARITIES — $2,500 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetCHELSEA MUSIC FESTIVAL CORPORATION — $2,500 over 1y, 1.4% of budget
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.

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.

Jewish Communal FundThe Hyde and Watson F…The Goldman Sachs Cha…Pinkerton FoundationMay and Samuel Rudin …The New York Communit…Robin Hood FoundationThe Ford FoundationBooth Ferris Foundati…Carnegie Corporation …The Warburg Pincus Fo…The Howard Gilman Fou…
Jewish Communal FundNY26.5× affinity18 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Jewish Communal Fund · The Hyde and Watson Foundation · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · Pinkerton Foundation · May and Samuel Rudin Family Foundation Inc · The New York Community Trust · Robin Hood Foundation · The Ford Foundation · Booth Ferris Foundation Xxxxx4008 · Carnegie Corporation of New York · The Warburg Pincus Foundation · The Howard Gilman 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 Hancock 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%1%3%6%10%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 12%
  • The Lord's Place Inc — 12% of income from government
  • Civic Life Project Inc — 7% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
20report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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.

05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to The Hancock Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Hancock Foundation 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 107 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Source object · view filing

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The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
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