Illinois · Private foundation
The Hbb Foundation
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.
- $1.1M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 22
- Grants FY2024
- 25
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 40%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $25,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $225,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 25 to 38
- FY2019 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 9
- Total assets, FY2024
- $15M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 40% of the organizations The Hbb Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 13% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $99k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 21 | $1.1M | 38% |
| FY2023 | 25 | $734k | 40% |
| FY2022 | 29 | $758k | 45% |
| FY2021 | 32 | $870k | 50% |
| FY2020 | 27 | $630k | 48% |
| FY2019 | 38 | $585k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2019 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Grabhorn Institute | $625,000 | 4 | 24% |
| Denver Public Library Friends Foundation | $510,000 | 6 | 6% |
| Fresh Start New Beginning | $395,000 | 5 | 97% |
| Chattahoochee Riverkeeper Inc | $205,000 | 6 | 2% |
| Greenlight Fund Inc | $150,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Graland Country Day School | $141,000 | 4 | 0% |
| The Taft School Corporation | $140,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Greenhouse Scholars | $135,000 | 3 | 2% |
| Denison University | $125,000 | 2 | 0% |
| International Rescue Committee INC | $115,000 | 4 | 0% |
Show all 71 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 27 recipients with no EIN on record ($642k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
The Hbb Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 65 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
Tap a dot to name the grantee.
How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: Colorado Gives Foundation · The Denver Foundation · Temple Hoyne Buell Foundation · Rose Community Foundation · Gates Family Foundation · The Colorado Health Foundation · Mile High United Way Inc · Daniels Fund · The Hampshire Foundation · Misty Meadows Foundation · Caring for Colorado Foundation · Boettcher Foundation
How this is measured
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About The Hbb Foundation
- How much does The Hbb Foundation give?
- The Hbb Foundation reported 22 grants totaling $1,057,500 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 25 and 38 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2023.
- What does The Hbb Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (37%), Arts & Culture (20%), Crime & Legal (9%).
- Who are The Hbb Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2019 to FY2024: Grabhorn Institute ($625k), Denver Public Library Friends Foundation ($510k), Fresh Start New Beginning ($395k).
- Does The Hbb Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 40% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Hbb Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Hbb Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Colorado Gives Foundation, The Denver Foundation, Temple Hoyne Buell Foundation.
- Where is The Hbb Foundation based?
- The Hbb Foundation is based in IL.
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