· Private foundation
The Hollyhock Foundation Inc
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 $10k1 grant · $10k
- $10k–50k8 grants · $216k
- $50k–250k19 grants · $2.7M
- $250k+25 grants · $33M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| JP MORGAN CHARITABLE GIVING FUND | $15,700,000 |
| UNCOMMON SCHOOLS | $3,802,654 |
| PROPUBLICA | $1,719,706 |
| ROBIN HOOD FOUNDATION | $1,500,000 |
| MOUNT ST JOSEPH UNIVERSITY | $1,254,528 |
| MOUNT ST JOSEPH UNIVERSITY | $1,055,300 |
| RELAY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF EDUCATION | $770,394 |
| GRIDLAB | $750,000 |
| REEL STORIES TEEN FILMMAKING | $750,000 |
| ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND | $500,000 |
| RECIDIVIZ | $500,000 |
| MUSEUM OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK | $500,000 |
| CITY LORE | $400,000 |
| AMERICAN PUBLIC MEDIA GROUP | $400,000 |
| GOOD SHEPHERD SERVICES | $350,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $2.7M) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, 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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 31% of The Hollyhock Foundation Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +63% since the first grant, against +26% for the ones you funded once.
42 repeat relationships — 30 still active in FY2024, 12 since wound down; 18 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, 77% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4.6M 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
- USUNCOMMON SCHOOLS INC8× · 2017–2024 · $19M · revenue +89%
PRO PUBLICA INC6× · 2019–2024 · $5.4M · revenue +64%- RHROBIN HOOD FOUNDATION7× · 2017–2024 · $5.0M · revenue +49%
Funded once
- HHTFHGSEone grant, 2017 · $2.5M
MULTIPLIERone grant, 2023 · $1.5M · revenue -12%- BCBROOKE CHARTER SCHOOLSone grant, 2021 · $350k
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.
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To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.
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The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
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As a diverse community of learners, we cultivate integrity, curiosity, connection and resilience.
Excellence community schools prepares young people in new york city and stamford to compete for admission to and succeed in top public, private and parochial high schools by cultivating their intellectual, artistic, social, emotional, and…
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To create and inspire better ways to give every student an educational foundation for lifelong success. we imagine a world where every student attends a school that meets them where they are, adapts to the unique ways they learn, and…
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Uncommon Schools Inc and the most unlike its peers is Museum of the City of New York. 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 24 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) — 8% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% 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.
59 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. 59 of the 83 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.
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- Who funds NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST ↗
- Who funds UNCOMMON SCHOOLS INC ↗
- Who funds THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds PRO PUBLICA INC ↗
- Who funds ROBIN HOOD FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds MOUNT ST JOSEPH UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds ZEARN ↗
- Who funds TEACHING LAB ↗
- Who funds GOOD SHEPHERD SERVICES ↗
- Who funds RELAY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF EDUCATION ↗
- Who funds IMMIGRANT JUSTICE CORPS INC ↗
- Who funds City Report Inc ↗
- Who funds GENERATION TEACH INC ↗
- Who funds MULTIPLIER ↗
- Who funds MUSEUM OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK ↗
- Who funds CHANGE SUMMER INC ↗
- Who funds ARRAY EDUCATION INC ↗
- Who funds Impact Public Schools ↗
- Who funds THE READING LEAGUE INC ↗
- Who funds CHARTER FUND INC D/B/A CHARTER SCHOOL GROWTH FUND ↗
- Who funds REEL STORIES TEEN FILMMAKING INC ↗
- Who funds GridLab Inc ↗
- Who funds Research Foundation of the City University of New York ↗
- Who funds MINNESOTA PUBLIC RADIO AMERICAN PUBLIC MEDIA ↗
- Who funds ISLANDWOOD ↗
- Who funds JAPAN SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds West Contra Costa Public Education Fund ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN PUBLIC MEDIA GROUP ↗
- Who funds CITY LORE INC ↗
- Who funds BEAM CENTER 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: Robin Hood Foundation · Gates Foundation · Walton Family Foundation Inc · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Beth and Ravenel Curry Foundation · Carnegie Corporation of New York · New Schools Fund · The Heckscher Foundation for Children · Pinkerton Foundation · The New York Community Trust · The Hyde and Watson Foundation · Charter Fund Inc D/B/A Charter School Growth Fund
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 Hollyhock Foundation Inc 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.
- Generation Teach Inc — 42% of income from government
- Project Hope Boston Inc — 18% of income from government
- Wgbh Educational Foundation — 1% of income from government
- Zearn — 0% of income from government
- Williams College — 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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