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The Hodgson Charitable Trust
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k2 grants · $10k
- $10k–50k15 grants · $206k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $125k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| University of Georgia Foundation | $75,000 |
| Highlands Cashiers Health Foundation | $50,000 |
| Intervarsity Christian Fellowship | $25,625 |
| Martha O'Bryan Center | $20,363 |
| The Horse Shelter | $20,000 |
| Shepherd Center | $20,000 |
| Church Tonight Ministries | $20,000 |
| St George's Episcopal Church | $10,000 |
| Central Presbyterian Church | $10,000 |
| Scottish Rite of Alabama | $10,000 |
| Food Depot | $10,000 |
| Enable Madison County | $10,000 |
| North Alabama Spay Neuter Ass Asso | $10,000 |
| Nashville Children's Alliance | $10,000 |
| The Westminster School | $10,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $55k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
25 repeat relationships — 13 still active in FY2025, 12 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 78% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $76k 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
- TUTHE UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA FOUNDATION9× · 2017–2025 · $295k · revenue +112%
WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC3× · 2017–2019 · $145k · revenue +70%- THTHE HORSE SHELTER8× · 2017–2025 · $85k · revenue +253%
Funded once
- WWWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECTone grant, 2021 · $25k
- SPSOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INCone grant, 2020 · $25k · revenue +13%
- SMSt Matthew Lutheran Chruchone grant, 2017 · $25k
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.
Animal care sanctuary's lifesaving mission as a no kill organization envisions a community that promotes turning compassion into action for companion animals by: 1.) adopting healthy pet companions into loving homes. 2.) promoting the…
Aspca veterinary services of north carolina, p.c. is a professional corporation that provides the veterinary services of qualified, licensed veterinarians exclusively to the aspca in north carolina. these services include the veterinary…
To care for pets, find them homes and save lives.
To compassionately serve pets and the people who love them.
The mission of the humane society is to save and enhance the lives of pets through cooperative and innovative approaches to adoption, spay/neuter, sheltering and community engagement.
Humane Society of Charlotte mission is to champion the wellbeing of companion animals and strengthen their bond with the people who know, love, and need them.
Nashville cares exists to end the hiv epidemic, promote comprehensive sexual health and end sexual health stigmatization and discrimination through prevention, education, treatment, support, advocacy, and strategic partnership.
Founded in 2023, humane animal partners is a nonprofit no-kill animal care and adoption center. we are committed to providing for the needs of homeless and owned dogs and cats in our community. we make "friends for life" by connecting…
The mission of the Atlanta Humane Society is to improve animal welfare in the southeastern United States by providing quality animal services including preventative initiatives, education, advocacy and adoption of animals into permanent…
To maintain high standards for nursing homes in the state of tennessee and to seek the solutions to problems common to members of the association.
The northwest arkansas women's shelter is committed to serving victims of domestic violence and sexual assault and empowering them to build lives free of violence.
Covenant HomeCare provides quality healthcare, in alignment with Covenant Health's mission to serve the community by improving the quality of life through better health, regardless of the patient's ability to pay.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Shepherd Center Inc and the most unlike its peers is Avenue Resource 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.
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 41 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% 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 13% 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.
23 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. 23 of the 43 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 Highlands Cashiers Health Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds THE UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds THE HORSE SHELTER ↗
- Who funds The Westminster Schools Inc ↗
- Who funds THE FOOD DEPOT ↗
- Who funds SOUL SHOPPE PROGRAMS ↗
- Who funds MARTHA O'BRYAN CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds InterVarsity Christian FellowshipUSA ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds SHEPHERD CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds THE VICTOR S JOHNSON III NASHVILLE CHILDREN'S ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds WELLPOINT CARE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THISTLE FARMS INC ↗
- Who funds North Alabama Spay Neuter Assistance Association Inc ↗
- Who funds Diablo Regional Arts Association ↗
- Who funds CARE ASSURANCE SYSTEM FOR THE AGING AND HOMEBOUND OF MADISON COUNTY ↗
- Who funds CHALLENGE DAY FUND ↗
- Who funds KINDRED SPIRITS ANIMAL SANCTUARY ↗
- Who funds NASHVILLE HUMANE ASSOCIATION AKA NASHVILLE HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds NASHVILLE ZOO INC ↗
- Who funds EAA AVIATION FOUNDATION 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: Patricia S Hodgson Charitable Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Network for Good · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · 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 Hodgson Charitable Trust 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.
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc — 0% of income from government
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.
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