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The Hinman 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.

$928k
Granted FY2025still arriving
34
Grants FY2025still arriving
9
States reached
$105k
Largest
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

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

Human Services$1.2MEducation$1.1MHealth$1.1MHousing & Shelter$981kArts & Culture$603kReligion$487kPublic Safety & Disaster$245kYouth Development$55kOther$0
02FY2025 · 34 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k8 grants · $33k
  • $10k–50k20 grants · $370k
  • $50k–250k6 grants · $525k
$20,000
Median grant
9
States reached
$12M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
LIBERTY YOUTH RANCH$105,000
ARTS BONITA$100,000
TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION$100,000
COVENANT HOUSE$100,000
UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION$70,000
HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF LEEHENDRY$50,000
CAFE OF LIFE$45,000
AMERICAN RED CROSS$30,000
ST JUDE CHILDRENS RESEARCH HOSPITAL$30,000
NATL ALL FOR THE MENTALLY ILL$25,000
TRIVIUM LIFE SERVICES$25,000
CHURCH OF THE PRESENTATION$20,000
FAMILY Y OF BURLINGTON CAMDEN$20,000
NORTHERN VALLEY REGIONAL HIGH SCHOO$20,000
ST MATTHEWS HOUSE-NAPLES$20,000
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 (FY17–25, $745k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 89% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%GREATER PHILADELPHIA YMCA: $20k → 7%GOLDEN PAWS ASSISTANCE DOGS: $15k → 10%GREATER PHILADELPHIA YMCA: $20k → 7%GOLDEN PAWS ASSISTANCE DOGS: $15k → 10%GREATER PHILADELPHIA YMCA: $20k → 7%GOLDEN PAWS ASSISTANCE DOGS: $10k → 10%GREATER PHILADELPHIA YMCA: $15k → 7%GOLDEN PAWS ASSISTANCE DOGS: $10k → 10%GREATER PHILADELPHIA YMCA: $5k → 7%COVENANT HOUSE: $100k → 17%GOLDEN PAWS ASSISTANCE DOGS: $10k → 10%COVENANT HOUSE: $80k → 17%GOLDEN PAWS ASSISTANCE DOGS: $10k → 10%COVENANT HOUSE: $75k → 17%PAWS ASSISTANCE DOGS INC: $10k → 10%COVENANT HOUSE: $75k → 17%COVENANT HOUSE: $75k → 17%COVENANT HOUSE: $60k → 17%COVENANT HOUSE: $45k → 17%COVENANT HOUSE: $25k → 17%HOPE HEALTHCARE SERVICES: $5k → 11%COVENANT HOUSE: $11k → 17%HOPE HEALTHCARE SERVICES: $5k → 11%HOPE HEALTHCARE SERVICES: $5k → 11%HOPE HEALTHCARE SERVICES: $5k → 11%HOPE HEALTHCARE SERVICES: $5k → 11%HOPE HEALTHCARE SERVICES: $5k → 11%HOPE HEALTHCARE SERVICES: $5k → 11%BERGEN FAMILY CENTER: $2k → 7%NEW HORIZON'S OF SOUTHWEST FLORIDA: $2k → 11%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

VT
ID
MN
NY
MA
IA
PA
NJ
CA
VA
TN
GA
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.

97%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$5.7M · 52 repeat orgs$205k to everyone else

52 repeat relationships — 28 still active in FY2025, 24 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

52
15

Total granted

$5.7M
$125k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+44%
+72%

Still filing today

42%
40%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $80k 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
Human ServicesPhilanthropyHealthEducationArts & CultureHousing & ShelterOther

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

  • LY
    LIBERTY YOUTH RANCH INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $715k · revenue +146%
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION
    9× · 2017–2025 · $610k · revenue +105%
  • CH
    COVENANT HOUSE
    9× · 2017–2025 · $546k · revenue +34%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2021 · $20k
  • CM
    CLARA MARTIN CENTER - MERRY MEADOW FUND
    one grant, 2017 · $20k
  • NA
    NATIONAL ALLIANCE FOR THE MENTALL I
    one grant, 2024 · $20k

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
The Hospice of the Florida Suncoast Inc

Suncoast hospice's mission is to be the center to improve life for those touched by advanced illness, death, dying, grief, bereavement and other end-of-life issues.

Human Services
2
St Camillus Residential Health Care Facility

St. camillus is a residential healthcare facility dedicated to caring for life through a broad range of healthcare services. the organization operates a 284 bed skilled nursing facility which includes a 20 bed unit dedicated to traumatic…

3
Children's Hospital Corporation

Provider of pediatric healthcare, education, research & community service

Health
4
Shield of Faith Missions

Sof is called to empower warriors to find purpose, be resilient, and live well. we develop and provide customized treatment plans for veterans through our national network of partners.

Religion
5
Johns Hopkins All Children's Hospital Inc

Mission: johns hopkins all children's hospital (all children's), a member of johns hopkins medicine, strives to provide the highest quality care to improve the health of our entire community through innovation, collaboration, service…

Health
6
Holy Cross Hospital Inc

We, holy cross hospital and trinity health, serve together in the spirit of the gospel as a compassionate and transforming healing presence within our communities. holy cross hospital is a member of trinity health.

Health
7
The Hospice Foundation of the Florida Suncoast Inc

The mission of suncoast hospice foundation is to advance the understanding, participation, and support of the mission and programs of suncoast hospice and its affilated organizations, honoring the community's sacred trust through sound…

8
The Lieber Institute Inc

The mission of the institute is to translate basic genetic and molecular mechanisms of schizophrenia and related developmental brain disorders into clinical advances that change the lives of affected individuals. it is catalyzing a new…

Health
9
St Joseph's Hospital of Tampa Foundation Inc

St. joseph's hospitals foundation secures, manages and stewards philanthropic support to benefit the health care mission of st. joseph's hospital, st. joseph's women's hospital, st. joseph's children's hospital of tampa, st. joseph's…

Health
10
University of Florida Health Corporation

UF Health's mission is to promote health through outstanding and high-quality patient care, innovative and rigorous education in the health professions and biomedical sciences, and high-impact research across the spectrum of basic,…

11
Central Maine Healthcare Corporation

To provide exceptional healthcare services in a safe and trustful environment through the expertise, committment, and compassion of our family of caregivers.

Health
12
The Hospice Institute of the Florida Suncoast Inc

Suncoast hospice institute is now inactive.

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Virtua Health Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Lee & Bob Peterson Foundation Inc Dba Sunshine From Darkness. 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 backsteadyVeteran Support ServicesCommunity Health CentersChild and Family ServicesAnimal Rescue and AdoptionCancer Support OrganizationsHospice Care ServicesEducation Equity LeadershipYmca Community CentersAffordable Housing Developm…Substance Abuse TreatmentPublic University Foundatio…Community Arts Organizations
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 43 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%0%<5yr14%3%5–10yr19%10%10–20yr16%23%20–35yr13%33%35–55yr16%30%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%0%<5yr14%1%5–10yr19%3%10–20yr16%27%20–35yr13%26%35–55yr16%44%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 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/36
the rest of the field
13%
240,396/1,819,529

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

31 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. 31 of the 74 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)
8
Early backer (in before they grew)
30/31
Grantees still filing
22/31
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

CHURCH OF THE PRESENTATION — $248,000 · OtherCHURCH OF THE PRESENTATIONARTS BONITA — $175,000 · OtherARTS BONITAST LEO CATHOLIC CHURCH — $140,000 · OtherST LEO CATHOLIC CHURCHGOLISANO CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL — $95,000 · OtherST MATTHEWS HOUSE-NAPLES — $90,000 · OtherHABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF LEEHENDRY — $85,000 · OtherST JOHN NEUMANN CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOOL INC — $80,000 · OtherNORTHERN VALLEY REGIONAL HIGH SCHOO — $80,000 · OtherTHE SALVATION ARMY FT MYERS AREA — $78,000 · OtherNORTHERN VALLEY REGIONAL HIGH SCHOOL — $70,000 · OtherHABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF LEEHENDRY C — $70,000 · OtherCARE PLUS FOUNDATION INC — $140,000 · OtherCARE PLUS FOUNDATION INC+40 more — $732,000 · Other+40 moreLIBERTY YOUTH RANCH INC — $715,000 · Human ServicesLIBERTY YOUTH RANCH INCCOVENANT HOUSE — $546,000 · Human ServicesCOVENANT HOUSEAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches — $225,000 · Human ServicesAmerican National Red Cross & It…Golden PAWS Assistance Dogs Inc — $80,000 · Human ServicesGreater Philadelphia Young Men's Christian Association — $80,000 · Human Services+3 more — $39,000 · Human ServicesUNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION — $610,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF MIN…STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION — $280,000 · EducationSTEPHEN SILLER TU…CENTER FOR THE ARTS OF BONITA SPRINGS INC — $420,000 · Arts & Culture+1 more — $5,000 · Arts & CultureST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC — $130,000 · HealthTHE VALLEY HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC — $120,000 · HealthEAGLE RANCH INC — $45,000 · Health+1 more — $2,500 · HealthCAFE OF LIFE INC — $205,000 · Housing & ShelterHabitat for Humanity for Lee and Hendry Counties Inc — $55,000 · Housing & ShelterGARY SINISE FOUNDATION — $145,000 · PhilanthropyTHE IMMOKALEE FOUNDATION INC — $65,000 · PhilanthropyLEE & BOB PETERSON FOUNDATION INC DBA SUNSHINE FROM DARKNESS — $20,000 · Philanthropy+1 more — $1,000 · Philanthropy
Other$2,083,000Human Services$1,685,000Education$890,000Arts & Culture$425,000Health$297,500Housing & Shelter$260,000Philanthropy$231,000

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 budgetLIBERTY YOUTH RANCH INC — $715,000 over 9y, 7.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION — $610,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetCOVENANT HOUSE — $546,000 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetCENTER FOR THE ARTS OF BONITA SPRINGS INC — $420,000 over 7y, 4.1% of budgetSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION — $280,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches — $225,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetCAFE OF LIFE INC — $205,000 over 9y, 4.1% of budgetGARY SINISE FOUNDATION — $145,000 over 9y, 0.2% of budgetCARE PLUS FOUNDATION INC — $140,000 over 9y, 5.8% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC — $130,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetTHE VALLEY HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC — $120,000 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetGolden PAWS Assistance Dogs Inc — $80,000 over 7y, 0.8% of budgetGreater Philadelphia Young Men's Christian Association — $80,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHE IMMOKALEE FOUNDATION INC — $65,000 over 9y, 0.3% of budgetCLARA MARTIN CENTER INC — $60,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetTWO STATE YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION INC — $55,000 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetHabitat for Humanity for Lee and Hendry Counties Inc — $55,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetNATIONAL ALLIANCE FOR RESEARCH ON SCHIZOPHRENIA AND DEPRESSION — $45,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetEAGLE RANCH INC — $45,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetHOPE HOSPICE AND COMMUNITY SERVICES INC — $35,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetLEE & BOB PETERSON FOUNDATION INC DBA SUNSHINE FROM DARKNESS — $20,000 over 2y, 2.7% of budgetCOASTAL BEHAVIORAL HEALTHCARE INC — $15,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetSALUSCARE INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE EMMANUEL CANCER FOUNDATION INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetLeadership Institute — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPERKINS CENTER FOR THE ARTS — $5,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetWARRIORS HOMES OF COLLIER INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetVIRTUA HEALTH FOUNDATION INC — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNEW HORIZONS OF SOUTHWEST FLORIDA INC — $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBERGEN FAMILY CENTER — $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMATTHEW LARSON FOUNDATION FOR PEDIATRIC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% 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 LIBERTY YOUTH RANCH INC
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION
  • Who funds COVENANT HOUSE
  • Who funds CENTER FOR THE ARTS OF BONITA SPRINGS INC
  • Who funds STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION
  • Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches
  • Who funds CAFE OF LIFE INC
  • Who funds GARY SINISE FOUNDATION
  • Who funds CARE PLUS FOUNDATION INC
  • Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC
  • Who funds THE VALLEY HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC
  • Who funds Golden PAWS Assistance Dogs Inc
  • Who funds Greater Philadelphia Young Men's Christian Association
  • Who funds THE IMMOKALEE FOUNDATION INC
  • Who funds CLARA MARTIN CENTER INC
  • Who funds TWO STATE YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION INC
  • Who funds Habitat for Humanity for Lee and Hendry Counties Inc
  • Who funds NATIONAL ALLIANCE FOR RESEARCH ON SCHIZOPHRENIA AND DEPRESSION
  • Who funds EAGLE RANCH INC
  • Who funds HOPE HOSPICE AND COMMUNITY SERVICES 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.

Southwest Florida Community Foundation IncFL19.7× affinity7 shared granteesties to 10 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Southwest Florida Community Foundation Inc · Collier Community Foundation Inc · Community Foundation of New Jersey · The United Way of Lee County Inc · The Richard M Schulze Family Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Cape Coral Community Foundation · The Gulati Family Foundation · Columbia Bank Foundation · Mutual of America Foundation · Td Charitable 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 Hinman 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 130%1%3%6%10%your share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 24%
  • Bergen Family Center25% of income from government
  • Perkins Center for the Arts24% of income from government
  • Clara Martin Center Inc12% of income from government
  • Saluscare Inc0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
13get no government money at all
6report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
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 Hinman Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Hinman 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 74 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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