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The Hearst Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$17M
Granted FY2024still arriving
111
Grants FY2024still arriving
29
States reached
$500k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
0199% classified

What you funded, over time

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

Arts & Culture$34MEducation$17MHealth$17MFood & Nutrition$6.1MHuman Services$6.0MHousing & Shelter$4.3MYouth Development$2.9MCrime & Legal$2.2MOther$0
02FY2024 · 111 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $50k–250k102 grants · $14M
  • $250k+9 grants · $2.9M
$150,000
Median grant
29
States reached
$430M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Children's Museum of Manhattan$500,000
Save the Children Federation$500,000
New Museum$350,000
Center for Disability Services Inc$300,000
Hunter College Foundation$250,000
National Park Foundation$250,000
NY Pubic Library$250,000
Crohns & Colitis Foundation$250,000
The Carnegie Hall Corporation$250,000
University of Houston$200,000
New York Foundation for the Arts Inc$200,000
Family Gateway$200,000
Oklahoma State University$200,000
New York City Center$200,000
White Plains Hospital Medical Center$200,000
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 (FY20–24, $6.1M) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 89% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%Vista Del Mar Child and Family Services: $75k → 14%Hot Bread Kitchen: $125k → 17%Four Oaks Family and Children's Services: $100k → 9%Starfish Family Services Inc: $100k → 21%Oasis Institute: $100k → 11%The Center for Family Justice: $125k → 9%CHRIS 180: $75k → 14%Covenant House Alaska: $100k → 10%Mississippi Low-Income Child Care Initiative: $75k → 19%Spectrum Youth & Family Services: $100k → 10%Lutheran Family Services: $150k → 12%Dream Foundation: $150k → 14%Family Service League: $75k → 7%Sojourner Family Peace Center: $100k → 17%Youth Villages: $150k → 17%Community Options: $75k → 11%Northern Virginia Family Service: $75k → 6%Kingsley House: $75k → 23%Knox County Homeless Coalition: $125k → 11%First Place for Youth: $200k → 10%ACCESS: $100k → 21%Bridges from School to Work: $100k → 8%YMCA of Greater Louisville: $100k → 15%Institute on Aging: $150k → 10%Warren Village: $150k → 12%Pine Street Inn: $150k → 16%Friends of the Underline: $100k → 15%Covenant House New Orleans: $175k → 23%People's Emergency Center: $75k → 22%Miami Lighthouse for the Blind & Visually Impaired Inc: $75k → 15%Loaves & Fishes Inc: $100k → 10%Covenant House New Orleans: $100k → 23%Family Independence Initiative: $100k → 10%Way to Grow: $125k → 11%Asian American Civic Association: $100k → 16%Way to Grow: $125k → 11%The Young Center for Immigrant Children's Rights: $100k → 14%Family Rescue: $100k → 14%Community Servings: $150k → 16%Community Servings: $100k → 16%Exceptional Minds: $200k → 14%Exceptional Minds: $150k → 14%Lenox Hill Neighborhood House: $150k → 17%Hetrick-Martin Institute Inc: $125k → 17%Room to Grow: $125k → 17%YMCA of Greater New York: $100k → 17%Henry Street Settlement: $100k → 17%Girls Who Code: $100k → 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

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OR
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CA
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CO
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DE
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NC
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HI
OK
LA
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AL
GA
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.

25%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$25M · 71 repeat orgs$76M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +38% since the first grant, against +14% for the ones you funded once.

71 repeat relationships — 44 still active in FY2024, 27 since wound down; 67 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

71
509

Total granted

$25M
$66M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+38%
+14%

Still filing today

93%
84%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 44% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $9.4M went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureEducationHealthHuman ServicesHousing & ShelterFood & NutritionOther

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

  • TN
    The New York Public Library Astor Lenox and Tilden Foundations
    2× · 2020–2022 · $1.0M · revenue +55%
  • UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH
    2× · 2020–2021 · $1.0M · revenue +26%
  • TC
    THE CARNEGIE HALL CORPORATION
    4× · 2020–2024 · $900k · revenue +51%

Funded once

  • LC
    LINCOLN CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS INC
    one grant, 2020 · $2.0M · revenue +13%
  • CO
    CORPORATION OF THE FINE ARTS MUSEUMSgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $750k · revenue +35%
  • CA
    CALIFORNIA ACADEMY OF SCIENCESgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $750k · revenue +35%

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
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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2
Columbia College Chicago

The organization's mission is to educate students for creative occupations in diverse fields of arts and media.

Education
3
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
4
Manhattanville University

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

Education
5
New York School of Interior Design

New york school of interior design provides the most innovative, immersive, and transformative interior design education in the world, demonstrating the impact of professionally designed interiors on the health, happiness, and well-being…

Education
6
Point Park University

Provides innovative education in a dynamic urban setting. dedicated to academic excellence and community engagement,we prepare students of diverse backgrounds with the knowledge, skill,and experience to lead meaningful lives as informed…

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7
United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

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8
Albright College

As a diverse community of learners, we cultivate integrity, curiosity, connection and resilience.

Education
9
Furman University

The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.

Education
10
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
11
Manhattan University

Manhattan university is an independent catholic instituion of higher learning that embraces qualified men and women of all faiths, cultures, and traditions. the mission of manhattan university is to provide a contemporary, person-centered…

Education
12
Stony Brook Surgical Associates University Faculty Practice Corporation

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

Health

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is National Guild for Community Arts Education Inc and the most unlike its peers is Modern States Education Alliance Inc. 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 backsteadyHealth Access Advocacy and …Cancer Support ServicesPolicy Research and AdvocacyEnvironmental Conservation …Local History MuseumsFaith-Based Liberal Arts Co…Youth Development ServicesSenior Support ServicesCommunity College Foundatio…Elementary Literacy TutoringAddiction Recovery ServicesDance Arts OrganizationsAffordable Housing Developm…Independent K-12 SchoolsDevelopmental Disabilities …Child Abuse Advocacy Servic…Women & Girls Leadership De…Youth Sports ProgramsJewish Community Organizati…Equine Therapy ProgramsLocal Food System Organizat…Lgbtq+ Community SupportImmigrant Worker SupportMilitary Veterans SupportYouth Development CentersDomestic Violence ServicesOrchestra and Ensemble Perf…Public Library OperationsCommunity Arts CentersFood Banks and PantriesCommunity Foundations
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 44 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%0%<5yr14%2%5–10yr19%12%10–20yr16%22%20–35yr13%29%35–55yr16%35%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%0%<5yr14%2%5–10yr19%9%10–20yr16%18%20–35yr13%29%35–55yr16%42%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.2% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.2%1/562
the rest of the field
13%
240,395/1,819,003

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

556 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. 556 of the 651 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)
31
Early backer (in before they grew)
554/556
Grantees still filing
364/556
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

LINCOLN CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS INC — $2,000,000 · Arts & CultureLINCOLN CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS INCTHE CARNEGIE HALL CORPORATION — $900,000 · Arts & Culture+62 more — $19,870,000 · Arts & Culture+62 moreIndividual grant recipient — $1,200,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient+72 more — $16,850,000 · Other+72 moreThe New York Public Library Astor Lenox and Tilden Foundations — $1,000,000 · EducationThe New York …UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH — $1,000,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF…THE HUNTER COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC — $750,000 · EducationTHE HUNTER CO…NEW WORLD SYMPHONY INC — $450,000 · EducationNEW WORLD SYM…ALICE LLOYD COLLEGE — $350,000 · EducationJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY — $300,000 · EducationVILLANOVA UNIVERSITY — $250,000 · EducationHUDSON LINK FOR HIGHER EDUCATION IN PRISON INC — $250,000 · Education+16 more — $2,575,000 · Education+16 moreFOOD & FRIENDS INC — $525,000 · HealthFOOD & FR…CROHN'S & COLITIS FOUNDATION INC — $375,000 · HealthCROHN'S &…NAMI National — $300,000 · HealthNAMI Nati…White Plains Hospital Medical Center — $300,000 · HealthWhite Pla…CENTER FOR DISABILITY SERVICESINC — $300,000 · HealthCENTER FO…CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF ORANGE COUNTY — $250,000 · HealthTHE J DAVID GLADSTONE INSTITUTES — $250,000 · HealthFred Hutchinson Cancer Center — $250,000 · HealthCHILDREN'S HEALTH COUNCIL INC — $250,000 · HealthBETANCES HEALTH CENTER — $225,000 · HealthCONQUER CANCER FOUNDATION OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY OF CLINICAL ONCOLOGY — $200,000 · HealthVassar Brothers Hospital Foundation — $200,000 · HealthMercy Medical Angels — $200,000 · HealthOklahoma Medical Research Foundation — $200,000 · HealthLUPUS RESEARCH ALLIANCE INC — $200,000 · HealthTHE HUNTSVILLE HOSPITAL FOUNDATIONINC — $200,000 · HealthUniversity of Maryland Medical System Corporation — $175,000 · Health+4 more — $600,000 · Health+4 moreEXCEPTIONAL MINDS — $350,000 · Human ServicesCOVENANT HOUSE NEW ORLEANS — $275,000 · Human ServicesWAY TO GROW — $250,000 · Human ServicesCOMMUNITY SERVINGS INC — $250,000 · Human ServicesFIRST PLACE FOR YOUTH — $200,000 · Human ServicesTHE HETRICK-MARTIN INSTITUTE INC — $200,000 · Human ServicesDALMATIAN DREAMS DBA DREAM FOUNDATION — $150,000 · Human ServicesLENOX HILL NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE INC — $150,000 · Human ServicesSPECTRUM YOUTH AND FAMILY SERVICES INC — $150,000 · Human ServicesHaven for Hope of Bexar County — $700,000 · Housing & ShelterFAMILY GATEWAY INC — $250,000 · Housing & ShelterNew Hope Housing Inc — $200,000 · Housing & ShelterM F PLACE INC — $200,000 · Housing & ShelterSOUTHEAST ALASKA INDEPENDENT LIVING — $150,000 · Housing & ShelterHARVESTERS - THE COMMUNITY FOOD NETWORK — $450,000 · Food & NutritionFood Bank of Northern Nevada Inc — $250,000 · Food & NutritionREFED INC — $250,000 · Food & NutritionMISSISSIPPI FOOD NETWORK INC — $175,000 · Food & Nutrition
Arts & Culture$22,770,000Other$18,050,000Education$6,925,000Health$5,000,000Human Services$1,975,000Housing & Shelter$1,500,000Food & Nutrition$1,125,000

Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.

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

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetLINCOLN CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS INC — $2,000,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetThe New York Public Library Astor Lenox and Tilden Foundations — $1,000,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH — $1,000,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CARNEGIE HALL CORPORATION — $900,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetCORPORATION OF THE FINE ARTS MUSEUMS — $750,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetTHE HUNTER COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC — $750,000 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetCHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF MANHATTAN — $750,000 over 2y, 3.9% of budgetCALIFORNIA ACADEMY OF SCIENCES — $750,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetHaven for Hope of Bexar County — $700,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetNew Museum of Contemporary Art — $600,000 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetTHEATRE FORWARD INC — $550,000 over 2y, 20% of budgetFOOD & FRIENDS INC — $525,000 over 2y, 2.8% of budgetSAN FRANCISCO BALLET ASSOCIATION — $500,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetSAN ANTONIO FOOD BANK — $500,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSEATTLE ART MUSEUM — $500,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetCALIFORNIA SCIENCE CENTER FOUNDATION — $500,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetSEATTLE OPERA — $500,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetBROOKLYN ACADEMY OF MUSIC INC — $500,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetLOS ANGELES COUNTY MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY FOUNDATION — $500,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetWHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART — $500,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetTHE BROOKLYN INSTITUTE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES — $500,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetDENVER ART MUSEUM — $500,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetNORTON MUSEUM OF ART INC — $500,000 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetTHE STUDIO MUSEUM IN HARLEM — $500,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetAmerican Museum of Natural History — $500,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTHE PHILHARMONIC SYMPHONY SOCIETY OF NY INC — $500,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetSave The Children Federation Inc — $500,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLOS ANGELES PHILHARMONIC ASSOCIATION — $450,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetNEW WORLD SYMPHONY INC — $450,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetNATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION — $450,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetHARVESTERS - THE COMMUNITY FOOD NETWORK — $450,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetSACRAMENTO FOOD BANK & FAMILY SERVICES — $400,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetTHE NEW 42ND STREET INC — $400,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetTHE JOFFREY BALLET — $400,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetCROHN'S & COLITIS FOUNDATION INC — $375,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetALICE LLOYD COLLEGE — $350,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetEXCEPTIONAL MINDS — $350,000 over 2y, 4.8% of budgetGREATER BOSTON FOOD BANK INC — $350,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetNEW YORK FOUNDATION FOR THE ARTS INC — $325,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetAUTRY MUSEUM OF THE AMERICAN WEST — $300,000 over 2y, 2.0% of budgetKITCHENS FOR GOOD — $300,000 over 2y, 3.9% of budgetNAMI National — $300,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetWhite Plains Hospital Medical Center — $300,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY — $300,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCENTER FOR DISABILITY SERVICESINC — $300,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetOPERA CAROLINA — $300,000 over 1y, 17% of budgetCOVENANT HOUSE NEW ORLEANS — $275,000 over 2y, 2.5% of budgetELAINE KAUFMAN CULTURAL CENTER LUCY MOSES SCHOOL FOR MUSIC AND DANCE — $275,000 over 2y, 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.

The Shubert Foundatio…Booth Ferris Foundati…The Andrew W Mellon F…The Hyde and Watson F…Pinkerton FoundationThe Harry and Jeanett…The New York Communit…Robin Hood FoundationTd Charitable Foundat…Altman FoundationThe Bloomberg Family …The Pierre & Tana Mat…
The Shubert Foundation IncNY50.2× affinity31 shared granteesties to 9 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Shubert Foundation Inc · Booth Ferris Foundation Xxxxx4008 · The Andrew W Mellon Foundation · The Hyde and Watson Foundation · Pinkerton Foundation · The Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation Inc · The New York Community Trust · Robin Hood Foundation · Td Charitable Foundation · Altman Foundation · The Bloomberg Family Foundation Inc · The Pierre & Tana Matisse 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 Hearst 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 · 30%5%19%42%75%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 11%
  • Mab Community Services Inc — 69% of income from government
  • Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation — 31% of income from government
  • Save the Children Federation Inc — 30% of income from government
  • Greater Boston Food Bank Inc — 22% of income from government
  • New Jersey Symphony Orchestra — 21% of income from government
  • Liberty Science Center — 14% of income from government
  • Icivics Inc — 13% of income from government
  • Johns Hopkins University — 12% of income from government
  • Community Servings Inc — 12% of income from government
  • Pine Street Inn Inc — 11% of income from government
  • Baltimore Symphony Orchestra Inc — 11% of income from government
  • Connecticut Foodshare Inc — 5% of income from government
  • University of Maryland Baltimore Foundation Inc — 3% of income from government
  • Center for Hope Inc — 1% of income from government
  • Boston Youth Symphony Orchestras Inc — 1% of income from government
  • Community Music Center of Boston Inc — 1% of income from government
  • Boston Symphony Orchestra Inc — 0% of income from government
  • New World Symphony Inc — 0% of income from government
  • University of Maryland Medical System Corporation — 0% of income from government
  • Oregon Ballet Theatre — 0% of income from government
  • Museum of Fine Arts — 0% of income from government
  • Pequot Library Association — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
62report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely 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 Hearst Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Hearst 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 651 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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