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The Hewitt Family 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.

$91k
Granted FY2025still arriving
19
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$18k
Largest
01What you fund
0197% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172025.

Arts & Culture$162kReligion$161kEducation$155kHuman Services$81kHealth$33kFood & Nutrition$32kHousing & Shelter$31kPublic Benefit$22kOther$0
02FY2025 · 19 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k17 grants · $57k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $34k
$4,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$1.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
NATIONAL INFANTRY MUSEUM$17,500
ST PAUL UNITED METHODIST CHURCH$16,000
CHERYL HEWITT EDUCATION SCHOLARSHIP$5,000
WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION$5,000
Wynnton Neighborhood Network Inc$5,000
Individual grant recipient$4,000
ROGER HEWITT EDUC SCHOLARSHIP$4,000
Ronald McDonald House of West GA$4,000
Truth Spring$4,000
AMERICAN RED CROSS$4,000
Warrior Outreach$3,000
BROOKSTONE SCHOOL$3,000
The Wynn House$3,000
The Food Mill Inc$3,000
House of Heros$3,000
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:

Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 19%. 5% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 19%NATIONAL INFANTRY MUSEUM: $18k → 18%AVERY UNITED METHODIST CH: $10k → 19%ROGER HEWITT EDUC SCHOLARSHIP: $4k → 19%CHERYL HEWITT EDUCATION SCHOLARSHIP: $5k → 6%NATIONAL INFANTRY MUSEUM: $18k → 18%AVERY UNITED METHODIST CH: $7k → 19%ROGER HEWITT EDUC SCHOLARSHIP: $4k → 19%CHERYL HEWITT EDUCATION SCHOLARSHIP: $5k → 6%NATIONAL INFANTRY MUSEUM: $18k → 18%HELEN HEWITT EDUC SCHOLARSHIP: $5k → 19%ROGER HEWITT EDUC SCHOLARSHIP: $4k → 19%CHERYL HEWITT EDUCATION SCHOLARSHIP: $5k → 6%NATIONAL INFANTRY MUSEUM: $18k → 18%HELEN HEWITT EDUC SCHOLARSHIP: $4k → 19%ROGER HEWITT EDUC SCHOLARSHIP: $4k → 19%CHERYL HEWITT EDUCATION SCHOLARSHIP: $4k → 6%NATIONAL INFANTRY MUSEUM: $18k → 18%HELEN HEWITT EDUC SCHOLARSHIP: $4k → 19%ROGER HEWITT EDUC SCHOLARSHIP: $4k → 19%CHERYL HEWITT EDUCATION SCHOLARSHIP: $4k → 6%NATIONAL INFANTRY MUSEUM: $13k → 18%HELEN HEWITT EDUC SCHOLARSHIP: $4k → 19%ROGER HEWITT EDUC SCHOLARSHIP: $4k → 19%CHERYL HEWITT EDUCATION SCHOLARSHIP: $4k → 6%NATIONAL INFANTRY MUSEUM: $13k → 18%HELEN HEWITT EDUC SCHOLARSHIP: $4k → 19%ROGER HEWITT EDUC SCHOLARSHIP: $4k → 19%CHERYL HEWITT EDUCATION SCHOLARSHIP: $4k → 6%NATIONAL INFANTRY MUSEUM: $13k → 18%HELEN HEWITT EDUC SCHOLARSHIP: $4k → 19%ROGER HEWITT EDUC SCHOLARSHIP: $4k → 19%NATIONAL INFANTRY MUSEUM: $13k → 18%ST PAUL UNITED METHODIST CHURCH: $16k → 18%ST PAUL UNITED METHODIST CHURCH: $16k → 18%ST PAUL UNITED METHODIST CHURCH: $16k → 18%ST PAUL UNITED METHODIST CHURCH: $16k → 18%ST PAUL UNITED METHODIST CHURCH: $16k → 18%ST PAUL UNITED METHODIST CHURCH: $16k → 18%ST PAUL UNITED METHODIST CHURCH: $16k → 18%ST PAUL UNITED METHODIST CHURCH: $16k → 18%ST PAUL UNITED METHODIST CHURCH: $16k → 18%Wynnton Neighborhood Network Inc: $5k → 18%Wynnton Neighborhood Network Inc: $5k → 18%Wynnton Neighborhood Network Inc: $5k → 18%Wynnton Neighborhood Network Inc: $4k → 18%FEEDING THE VALLEY: $5k → 18%FEEDING THE VALLEY: $5k → 18%FEEDING THE VALLEY: $5k → 18%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.

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.

100%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$709k · 27 repeat orgs$0 to everyone else

27 repeat relationships — 19 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

27
0

Total granted

$709k
$0

Still filing today

44%
0%

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
EducationArts & CultureFood & NutritionHousing & ShelterPublic BenefitPhilanthropyOther

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

  • BS
    BROOKSTONE SCHOOL INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $27k · revenue +27%
  • FT
    Feeding the Valley Inc
    8× · 2017–2024 · $27k · revenue +836%
  • WN
    WYNNTON NEIGHBORHOOD NETWORK INC
    6× · 2020–2025 · $23k · revenue +11%

Funded once

    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
    Washington County Food Bank Inc

    Food distribution to needy individuals and families.

    Food & Nutrition
    2
    Virgin Valley Family Services Inc

    Provide services for families in need in the mesquite, nv area.

    Human Services
    3
    Valley Restart Shelter Inc

    Valley Restart Shelter's mission is to support families, seniors, widows, children, and veterans on their path to permanent housing, and lasting stability-empowering them with hope and a renewed sense of pride.

    Housing & Shelter
    4
    Volunteer Food & Resource Center

    Operate a Community Food Bank where businesses, service groups, and individuals donate food and distribute to families in need.

    Food & Nutrition
    5
    West Texas Food Bank

    The WTFB exists to collect, purchase, and distribute food to feed the hungry in 19 counties in West Texas in partnership with volunteers and community organizations and to educate these partners and the public at large about the real face…

    6
    Foothills Food Bank

    Provide food and financial assistance to the local community.

    7
    Illinois Valley Food Pantry

    Providing food to needy families in the illinois valley area.

    Food & Nutrition
    8
    Food Bank of West Central Texas

    To procure and distribute nutritional food to qualified agencies that feed the hungry of West Central Texas.

    Food & Nutrition
    9
    West Virginia Homes Inc

    Provide housing to low-income families.

    10
    Feeding Southwest Virginia

    To provide food and other related products primarily to member agencies for distribution to those in need, and also for direct distribution.

    Food & Nutrition
    11
    The Lord's Pantry of Shinnston

    Provide food to needy individuals & families - food is puchased from several sources, donated from serveral sources. costs include renting u-haul trucks to picking up truck loads of food from the mountaineer food bank. we also provide…

    12
    Foothills Food Bank

    The Foothills Food Bank works to ensure access to quality, nutritious food to community members in need, and deliver services with respect and dignity.

    For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Truth Spring Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Wynn House Inc. 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

    12 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 12 of the 27 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.

    0
    Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
    3
    Early backer (in before they grew)
    12/12
    Grantees still filing
    8/12
    Grew since you first funded

    Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

    ST PAUL UNITED METHODIST CHURCH — $144,000 · OtherST PAUL UNITED METHODIST CHURCHNATIONAL INFANTRY MUSEUM — $137,500 · OtherNATIONAL INFANTRY MUSEUMROGER HEWITT EDUC SCHOLARSHIP — $32,000 · OtherROGER HEWITT EDUC SCHOLARSHIPCHERYL HEWITT EDUCATION SCHOLARSHIP — $31,000 · OtherCHERYL HEWITT EDUCATION SCHOLARSHIPRonald McDonald House of West GA — $31,000 · OtherRonald McDonald House of West GAUMW FOUNDATION — $27,000 · OtherHELEN HEWITT EDUC SCHOLARSHIP — $25,000 · Other+13 more — $138,500 · Other+13 moreBROOKSTONE SCHOOL INC — $27,000 · EducationWEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC — $13,000 · EducationFeeding the Valley Inc — $27,000 · Food & NutritionWYNNTON NEIGHBORHOOD NETWORK INC — $23,000 · PhilanthropyWARRIOR OUTREACH INC — $22,000 · Public BenefitVALLEY RESCUE MISSION — $16,000 · Housing & ShelterTRUTH SPRING INC — $15,000 · Community Improvement
    Other$566,000Education$40,000Food & Nutrition$27,000Philanthropy$23,000Public Benefit$22,000Housing & Shelter$16,000Community Improvement$15,000

    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 budgetBROOKSTONE SCHOOL INC — $27,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetFeeding the Valley Inc — $27,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetWYNNTON NEIGHBORHOOD NETWORK INC — $23,000 over 6y, 3.0% of budgetWARRIOR OUTREACH INC — $22,000 over 8y, 5.9% of budgetVALLEY RESCUE MISSION — $16,000 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetTHE WYNN HOUSE INC — $16,000 over 6y, 0.7% of budgetTRUTH SPRING INC — $15,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetWEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC — $13,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetHouse of Heroes Chattahoochee — $13,000 over 6y, 1.2% of budgetRIVERCENTER INC — $5,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetFABArts Inc — $3,000 over 2y, 0.4% 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.

    • Who funds BROOKSTONE SCHOOL INC
    • Who funds Feeding the Valley Inc
    • Who funds WYNNTON NEIGHBORHOOD NETWORK INC
    • Who funds WARRIOR OUTREACH INC
    • Who funds VALLEY RESCUE MISSION
    • Who funds THE WYNN HOUSE INC
    • Who funds TRUTH SPRING INC
    • Who funds WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC
    • Who funds House of Heroes Chattahoochee
    • Who funds RIVERCENTER INC
    • Who funds THE FOOD MILL
    • Who funds FABArts 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.

    Community Foundation of the Chattahoochee Valley IncGA26.1× affinity10 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

    Open a dossier: Community Foundation of the Chattahoochee Valley Inc · Beloco Foundation Inc · Lockwood Partners Foundation Inc · John P and Dorothy S Illges Foundation Inc · The Jordan Foundation Inc · Bradley-Turner Foundation Inc · Swift Illges Foundation Inc · George and Ann Swift Family Foundation Inc · Elizabeth Fry and Dupont Kirven Foundation Inc · Gb & Ca Saunders Foundation Inc · The Cms Foundation Inc · Mildred Miller Fort 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 Hewitt Family 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
    202122232425
    no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government
      no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
      0get no government money at all
      3report 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, FY2025

      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 Hewitt Family Foundation?

      Find your warmest path to The Hewitt Family 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 27 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.

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