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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 it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

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

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

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

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
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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 (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 its 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
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

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

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

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +43% since the first grant, against +15% for those 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%
+15%

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
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

  • 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
  • TW
    THIRD WAY INSTITUTEgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $25k · revenue +45%
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
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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Children's Museum of Manhattan; 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.
04the grantee network

76 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. 76 of the 107 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
14
Early backer (in before they grew)
75/76
Grantees still filing
47/76
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and 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 · HealthNEW YORK STEM CELL FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 · HealthVassar Health Connecticut Inc: $10,000 · HealthTHE CENTER FOR DISCOVERY INC: $10,000 · HealthMINDING YOUR MIND: $7,500 · HealthEAGLES AUTISM CHALLENGE INC: $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 grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's 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 budgetNYU LANGONE HOSPITALS: $30,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUNION SETTLEMENT ASSOCIATION INC: $30,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE KENYON REVIEW: $27,000 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetTHIRD WAY INSTITUTE: $25,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetUNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe New York Public Library Astor Lenox and Tilden Foundations: $23,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE JEWISH MUSEUM: $20,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE EDUCATIONAL ALLIANCE INC: $20,000 over 2y, 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 budgetTHE JOE TORRE SAFE AT HOME FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetJEWISH FEDERATION OF PALM BEACH COUNTY INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNEW YORK STEM CELL FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVassar Health Connecticut Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE YOUNG MEN'S AND YOUNG WOMEN'S HEBREW ASSOCIATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CENTER FOR DISCOVERY INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMUSEUM OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION: $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUSA FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 7.9% of budgetMINDING YOUR MIND: $7,500 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetEAGLES AUTISM CHALLENGE INC: $7,500 over 1y, 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 budgetTHE LORD'S PLACE INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNEW YORK SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL: $5,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ANDREW GOODMAN FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetN Y C MISSION SOCIETY: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAmerican Museum of Natural History: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDANIEL W OFFIT FUND TO FIGHT GLIOBLASTOMA INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetNATIONAL HISPANIC BUSINESS GROUP: $5,000 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetNATIONAL PARKS OF NEW YORK HARBOR CONSERVANCY DBA FEDERAL HALL CONSERVANCY: $5,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetCHELSEA MUSIC FESTIVAL CORPORATION: $2,500 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetHOPE & HEROES CHILDREN'S CANCER FUND: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF MANHATTAN: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGOVERNOR'S CUP CHARITIES: $2,500 over 1y, 0.7% 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.

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.

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

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%1%3%6%10%funder's 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
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.
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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 107 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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The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
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$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home