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The Hodges Charitable Foundation at a glance

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The Hodges Charitable 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.

$85k
Granted FY2025still arriving
11
Grants FY2025still arriving
8
States reached
$18k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Arts & Culture$293kEducation$103kEnvironment$79kInternational$57kHealth$20kCommunity Improvement$10kRecreation & Sports$8kFood & Nutrition$2kOther$0
02FY2025 · 11 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k6 grants · $21k
  • $10k–50k5 grants · $64k
$7,500
Median grant
8
States reached
$1.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
DENVER ARCHITECTURAL FOUNDATION$17,500
SAVE THE CHILDREN$15,250
WOODWELL CLIMATE RESEARCH$10,625
HUNTINGTON THEATRE COMPANY$10,625
UNC COLLEGE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES$10,000
MYOTONIC DYSTROPHY FOUNDATION$7,500
STEEP ROCK ASSOCIATION$5,000
WOMEN FOR AFGHAN WOMEN$3,750
ALL FOR LUNCH$2,000
TAOS LAND TRUST$1,750
WASHINGTON GUNNERY AND HOCKEY$1,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY19–22, $33k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%SANDY SPRINGS MISSION: $14k → 13%SANDY SPRINGS MISSION: $10k → 13%SANDY SPRINGS MISSION: $5k → 13%SANDY SPRINGS MISSION: $4k → 13%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

NY
MA
CT
CA
CO
MD
NM
NC
GA
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

86%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$491k · 25 repeat orgs$78k to everyone else

25 repeat relationships: 7 still active in FY2025, 18 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

25
14

Total granted

$491k
$62k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+42%
+47%

Still filing today

80%
57%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $17k 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
Arts & CultureEnvironmentEducationInternationalHealthPhilanthropyOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • HUNTINGTON THEATRE CO INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $71k · revenue +139%
  • Save The Children Federation Inc
    4× · 2021–2025 · $53k · revenue +1%
  • DY
    DENVER YOUNG ARTISTS ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION
    6× · 2018–2023 · $35k · revenue +38%

Funded once

  • AA
    ARTS AND SCIENCES FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2024 · $10k
  • SB
    ST BOTOLPH CLUB FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $9k · revenue +121%
  • PREPARATORY FOUNDATION INCgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $6k · revenue +47%
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. 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
Wheaton College

Wheaton college provides a transformative liberal arts education, combining theory and practice, for intellectually curious students within a collaborative and vibrant extended community and network that values and strives to create an…

Education
3
American Repertory Theatre Co Inc

Seeks to expand the boundaries of theater, producing, performing and presenting works of literary, experimental and educational value. provide a home for outstanding artists, a training ground for young artists (including an extensive…

Arts & Culture
4
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education
5
The American Theatre Guild

The american theatre guild is dedicated to providing the experience of live theatre to foster passion, inspire creativity and empower youth within our communities.

Arts & Culture
6
San Diego Opera Association

Mission: the mission of san diego opera is to deliver exceptional performances and exciting, accessible programs to diverse audiences, focusing on community partnerships, and the transformative and expressive power of the human voice. as…

Arts & Culture
7
En Garde Arts Inc

To produce bold theatre experiences that reach across artistic, physical and social boundries. We aim to increase empathy and open-mindedness by illuminating nuanced perspectives and unspoken truths behind the salient issues of our time.…

Arts & Culture
8
American Association for the Advancement of Science

Advance science, engineering, and innovation throughout the world for the benefit of all. the world's largest multidisciplinary scientific society and a leading publisher of cutting-edge research through its science family of journals,…

Science & Tech
9
Aquila Theatre Company

Aquila theatre's mission is to create bold reinterpretations of the classics for contemporary audiences. by expanding the canon and diversifying the classics, aquila dares to expand our collective perspectives. aquila theatre is one of the…

Arts & Culture
10
Watertower Theatre Inc

To create innovative, diverse theatre that builds community by fostering empathy and dialogue.

Arts & Culture
11
Museum of Modern Art

The Museum of Modern Art is a private, non-profit institution chartered by the State of New York Department of Education in 1929 to foster public awareness of modern and contemporary art. (Continued in Schedule O)

Arts & Culture
12
President and Trustees of Bates College

Bates is a college of the liberal arts and sciences, and is a coeducational, nonsectarian, residential college with special commitments to academic rigor, and to assuring in all of its efforts the dignity of each individual, and access to…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Trees Atlanta Inc; the most unlike its peers is Horizon Theatre Company 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

31 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 31 of the 44 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
31/31
Grantees still filing
24/31
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

HUNTINGTON THEATRE CO INC: $71,375 · Arts & CultureHUNTINGTON THEATRE CO INCDENVER YOUNG ARTISTS ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION: $35,000 · Arts & CultureDENVER YOUNG ARTISTS ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATIO…PILOBOLUS INC: $26,195 · Arts & CulturePILOBOLUS INCA FAR CRY INC: $24,437 · Arts & CultureA FAR CRY INCDenver Architecture Foundation: $20,750 · Arts & CultureDenver Architecture FoundationHORIZON THEATRE COMPANY INC: $13,000 · Arts & CultureHORIZON THEATRE COMPANY INCENGin: $8,250 · Arts & Culture+3 more: $13,437 · Arts & Culture+3 moreINSTITUTE OF CLASSICAL: $21,875 · OtherINSTITUTE OF CLASSICALRIVERWOOD FOUNDATION: $18,000 · OtherRIVERWOOD FOUNDATIONA S A P: $10,305 · OtherA S A PUNC COLLEGE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES: $10,000 · OtherUNC COLLEGE OF ARTS AND SCIENCE…ARTS AND SCIENCES FOUNDATION: $10,000 · OtherARTS AND SCIENCES FOUNDATIONST BOTOLPH CLUB FOUNDATION: $8,750 · OtherST BOTOLPH CLUB FOUNDATIONCLEO PARKER ROBINSON DANCE: $6,875 · OtherJUDY BLACK MEMORIAL PARK: $6,750 · OtherMYOTONIC DYSTROPHY FOUNDATION INC: $19,500 · OtherMYOTONIC DYSTROPHY FOUNDATION I…LaAmistad Inc: $10,500 · OtherLaAmistad IncPREPARATORY FOUNDATION INC: $5,750 · Other+10 more: $29,938 · Other+10 moreSave The Children Federation Inc: $53,250 · InternationalSave The Ch…Women for Afghan Women Inc: $3,750 · InternationalWomen for A…STEEP ROCK ASSOCIATION INC: $24,750 · EnvironmentSTEEP ROC…LAKE WARAMAUG TASK FORCE INC: $10,750 · EnvironmentLAKE WARA…TAOS LAND TRUST: $6,750 · EnvironmentTAOS LAND…TREES ATLANTA INC: $5,000 · EnvironmentTREES ATL…MOTHERS OUT FRONT INC: $3,438 · EnvironmentMOTHERS O…THE INSTITUTE OF CLASSICAL ARCHITECTURE AND ART INC: $18,000 · EducationKENT DENVER COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL: $11,875 · EducationPresident and Fellows of Harvard College: $7,750 · EducationGRALAND COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL: $2,875 · EducationSandy Springs Mission Inc: $32,500 · Human ServicesWoodwell Climate Research Center Inc: $25,625 · Science & Tech
Arts & Culture$212,444Other$158,243International$57,000Environment$50,688Education$40,500Human Services$32,500Science & Tech$25,625

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetHUNTINGTON THEATRE CO INC: $71,375 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetSave The Children Federation Inc: $53,250 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetDENVER YOUNG ARTISTS ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION: $35,000 over 6y, 1.7% of budgetSandy Springs Mission Inc: $32,500 over 4y, 2.5% of budgetPILOBOLUS INC: $26,195 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetWoodwell Climate Research Center Inc: $25,625 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetSTEEP ROCK ASSOCIATION INC: $24,750 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetA FAR CRY INC: $24,437 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetDenver Architecture Foundation: $20,750 over 2y, 3.3% of budgetMYOTONIC DYSTROPHY FOUNDATION INC: $19,500 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetTHE INSTITUTE OF CLASSICAL ARCHITECTURE AND ART INC: $18,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetHORIZON THEATRE COMPANY INC: $13,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetKENT DENVER COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL: $11,875 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetLAKE WARAMAUG TASK FORCE INC: $10,750 over 2y, 3.2% of budgetLaAmistad Inc: $10,500 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetST BOTOLPH CLUB FOUNDATION: $8,750 over 1y, 3.4% of budgetENGin: $8,250 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetPresident and Fellows of Harvard College: $7,750 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetROSIE'S THEATER KIDS INC: $6,750 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetTAOS LAND TRUST: $6,750 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetPREPARATORY FOUNDATION INC: $5,750 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTREES ATLANTA INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE URBAN LEAGUE OF GREATER ATLANTA INC: $5,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGLOUCESTER STAGE COMPANY INC: $4,687 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetMOTHERS OUT FRONT INC: $3,438 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGRALAND COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL: $2,875 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION: $2,250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHEATRE ASPEN: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAll for Lunch Inc: $2,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetWASHINGTON AMBULANCE ASSOCIATION INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

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.

Boston Foundation IncThe Goldman Sachs Cha…Murray & Susan Haber …Dungannon Foundation …The Wenden FoundationThe Kestrel FoundationNational Philanthropi…The Connecticut Commu…The Shubert Foundatio…FjcAmerican Endowment Fo…The Community Foundat…
Boston Foundation IncMA15.2× affinity6 shared granteesties to 10 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Boston Foundation Inc · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · Murray & Susan Haber Charitable Foundation · Dungannon Foundation Inc · The Wenden Foundation · The Kestrel Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · The Connecticut Community Foundation · The Shubert Foundation Inc · Fjc · American Endowment Foundation · The Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta Inc

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Hodges Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Hodges Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 50%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 7%
  • Save the Children Federation Inc: 30% of income from government
  • Steep Rock Association Inc: 19% of income from government
  • Woodwell Climate Research Center Inc: 11% of income from government
  • President and Fellows of Harvard College: 7% of income from government
  • Huntington Theatre Co Inc: 4% of income from government
  • A Far Cry Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Pilobolus Inc: 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
5get no government money at all
9report 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, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 44 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home