· Private foundation
The Hedbring 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k3 grants · $9k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $69k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| GREENWICH FREE LIBRARY | $25,000 |
| COMFORT FOODS COMMUNITY | $17,000 |
| GREENWICH LIONS CLUB | $16,100 |
| AGRICULTURAL STEWARDSHIP ASSOCIATION | $10,400 |
| SARATOGA SPRINGS LIONS CLUB | $5,000 |
| HUDSON VALLEY COMMUNITY COLLEGE | $2,000 |
| WORCESTER STATE UNIVERSITY | $2,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY18–18, $10k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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.
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.
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.
16 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2024, 10 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- TWTHE WILLISTON NORTHAMPTON SCHOOL3× · 2018–2020 · $55k · revenue +30%
- SCSKIDMORE COLLEGE2× · 2019–2021 · $50k · revenue +19%
- TWTHE WESLEY FOUNDATION INC3× · 2017–2019 · $20k · revenue +16%
Funded once
- BBBOTTSKILL BAPTIST CHURCHone grant, 2018 · $62k
- HCHUDSON CROSSING PARK INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $40k · revenue +89% · 42% of their budget
- CFCOMFORT FOODone grant, 2019 · $30k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
The purpose of greenridge cemetery association inc is to operate a cemetery located at 17 greenridge place, saratoga springs, ny.
The purpose of the association is to provide for the protection and general welfare of the residents and owners of real property in the northeastern section of greenwich, connecticut, including the preservation of the residential character…
Conserving the beauty, rural character, and natural diversity of the Town of Salem, CT
To promote the preservation, protection, and balanced use of the wallkill valley through acquisition, holding, and management of fee simple title conservation easements.
The Wading River Cemetery Assoc Inc. is a section 501c13 cemetery. As such we provide a reverent place for Wading River residents to bury their loved ones.
Preservation of open space in watertown, ct; maintenance of owned and conserved properties and public education of enviromental issues.
To protect water quality and wildlife habitat in the seven-town Norwalk River Watershed
Conserving the land. connecting the community. greenwich land trust conserves open space, connects our community with the natural world, and inspires the next generation of conservationists. the land trust permanently protects and cares…
The purpose of the "Society" is to collect, preserve, and interpret Wethersfield's past for the education and enjoyment of present and future generations.
The primary mission of the Westchester Land Trust is to conserve, maintain and enhance the natural environment and resources of Westchester County and eastern Putnam County. The Trust acquires interests in land exhibiting important natural…
To maintain a clubhouse and golf grounds to cultivate a social spirit among its members to provide them with lawful recreation to do generally whatever may serve for the advancement, benefit, diversion or pleasure of the members.
The New York State Golf Association's mission is to promote & conserve the traditions of golf throughout NY State.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Wesley Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Salem Volunteer Fire Department. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 28 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 7% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
14 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. 14 of the 52 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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.
- Who funds GREENWICH FREE LIBRARY ↗
- Who funds THE WILLISTON NORTHAMPTON SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds SKIDMORE COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds HUDSON CROSSING PARK INC ↗
- Who funds AGRICULTURAL STEWARDSHIP ASSN INC ↗
- Who funds Historic Salem Courthouse Preservation Assocation Inc ↗
- Who funds THE WESLEY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SARATOGA SPRINGS LIONS CLUB INC ↗
- Who funds SALEM VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT ↗
- Who funds CHALLENGED ATHLETES INC ↗
- Who funds Greenwich Cemetery Association ↗
- Who funds GREENWICH ATHLETIC ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds BATTENKILL CONSERVANCY INC ↗
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.
Open a dossier: The Community Foundation for the Greater Capital Region Inc · Alfred Z Solomon Testamentary Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation
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 Hedbring 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.
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.