· 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| MUSEUM OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK | $500,000 |
| ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND | $500,000 |
| RECIDIVIZ | $500,000 |
| AMERICAN PUBLIC MEDIA GROUP | $400,000 |
| CITY LORE | $400,000 |
| GOOD SHEPHERD SERVICES | $350,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 31% of The Hollyhock Foundation Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +63% since the first grant, against +26% for those 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
How this is measured
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
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.
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.
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The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
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As a diverse community of learners, we cultivate integrity, curiosity, connection and resilience.
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How this is measured
59 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. 59 of the 83 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
- Who funds DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ↗
- 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 GridLab Inc ↗
- Who funds REEL STORIES TEEN FILMMAKING 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 CITY LORE INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN PUBLIC MEDIA GROUP ↗
- Who funds BEAM CENTER INC ↗
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.
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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Hollyhock Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Hollyhock Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
- 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
How this is measured
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