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The Homestead 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.

$192k
Granted FY2024still arriving
8
Grants FY2024still arriving
5
States reached
$125k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0194% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Education$921kEnvironment$137kPhilanthropy$107kArts & Culture$45kRecreation & Sports$43kAnimals$30kHealth$18kFood & Nutrition$17kOther$0
02FY2024 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k4 grants · $17k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $50k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $125k
$10,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$1.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
FAR HILLS COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL$125,455
THE HOTCHKISS FUND$25,000
NATIONAL SPORTING LIBRARY & MUSEUM$15,000
NATIONAL SPORTING LIBRARY & MUSEUM$10,000
MFHA FOUNDATION$5,000
BARNARD COLLEGE$5,000
FOX RIVER VALLEY HOUND HERITAGE FOUNDATION$5,000
UNCOMMONORG$2,000
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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 6%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 17% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%THE OLANA PARTNERSHIP: $10k → 11%BARNARD COLLEGE: $15k → 17%THE HOTCHKISS FUND: $45k → 9%FOX RIVER VALLEY HOUND HERTIAGE FOUNDATION: $5k → 14%MANE STREAM: $5k → 4%COUNTRYSIDE ALLIANCE OF SOMERSET HILLS: $45k → 5%HUDSON FARM FOUNDATION: $6k → 6%BLAIR ACADEMY: $10k → 7%MFHA FOUNDATION: $5k → 4%MASTER OF FOXHOUNDS ASSOCIATION: $10k → 7%NAVY SEAL FOUNDATION: $5k → 10%BARNARD COLLEGE: $10k → 17%THE HOTCHKISS FUND: $35k → 9%FOX RIVER VALLEY HOUND HERITAGE FOUNDATION: $5k → 14%COUNTRYSIDE ALLIANCE OF SOMERSET HILLS: $25k → 5%HUDSON FARM FOUNDATION: $6k → 6%BLAIR ACADEMY: $5k → 7%MASTER OF FOXHOUNDS ASSOCIATION: $5k → 7%NAVY SEALS FOUNDATION: $5k → 10%BARNARD COLLEGE: $5k → 17%THE HOTCHKISS SCHOOL: $30k → 9%THE SHAKESPEARE THEATRE OF NEW JERSEY: $5k → 4%COUNTRYSIDE ALLIANCE OF SOMERSET HILLS: $25k → 5%HUDSON FARM FOUNDATION: $5k → 6%MASTER OF FOXHOUNDS ASSOCIATION: $5k → 7%ALZHEIMER'S ASSOCIATION: $5k → 17%THE HOTCHKISS FUND: $25k → 9%COUNTRYSIDE ALLIANCE OF SOMERSET HILLS: $15k → 5%THE HOTCHKISS SCHOOL: $10k → 9%COUNTRYSIDE ALLIANCE OF SOMERSET HILLS: $11k → 5%THE WILLOW SCHOOL: $10k → 5%ESSEX HORSE TRAILS: $5k → 5%ST LUKE'S EPISCOPAL CHURCH: $5k → 5%ESSEX HORSE TRIALS: $5k → 5%THE PINGRY SCHOOL: $20k → 5%THE PINGRY SCHOOL: $20k → 5%THE PINGRY SCHOOL: $20k → 5%THE PINGRY SCHOOL: $20k → 5%FAR HILLS COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL: $125k → 5%FAR HILLS COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL: $123k → 5%FAR HILLS COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL: $112k → 5%FAR HILLS COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL: $108k → 5%FAR HILLS COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL: $101k → 5%FAR HILLS COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL: $60k → 5%FAR HILLS COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL: $42k → 5%FAR HILLS COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL: $40k → 5%FAR HILLS COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL: $15k → 5%NJ AUDUBON: $10k → 5%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

IL
NY
PA
NJ
CT
RI
VA
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.

95%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.3M · 20 repeat orgs$72k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +17% since the first grant, against +11% for those funded once.

20 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2024, 15 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

20
15

Total granted

$1.3M
$45k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+17%
+11%

Still filing today

70%
40%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $27k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationArts & CultureRecreation & SportsEnvironmentCommunity ImprovementHealthOther
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

  • TH
    THE HOTCHKISS SCHOOL
    2× · 2019–2021 · $40k · revenue +52%
  • HF
    HUDSON FARM FOUNDATION INC
    3× · 2018–2020 · $17k · revenue +58%
  • BA
    BLAIR ACADEMY
    2× · 2021–2023 · $15k · revenue +27%

Funded once

  • PS
    Princeton Show Jumping Charities Inc
    one grant, 2019 · $5k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2022 · $5k
  • SL
    ST LUKES EPISCOPAL CHURCH
    one grant, 2023 · $5k
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.

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Masters School

The masters school celebrates active participation, deep understanding, and meaningful connection. a community of diverse individuals, we gather to learn, to strive, to dare, to do - to be a power for good in the world.

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2
Seton Hall University

Seton hall university is a catholic institution of higher education

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3
United States Hunter Jumper Association Inc

The mission of the ushja is to unify and represent the hunter and jumper disciplines of equestrian sport through education, recognition and sport programs.

Recreation & Sports
4
Fairleigh Dickinson University

Fairleigh dickinson university is a center of academic excellence dedicated to the preparation of world citizens through global education. the university strives to provide students with the multi-disciplinary, intercultural, and ethical…

Education
5
Institute for Advanced Study - Louis Bamberger & Mrs Felix Fuld Foundation

The institute for advanced study (the institute) is one of the world's leading centers for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. see schedule o.

Science & Tech
6
Phillips Exeter Academy

Unite goodness and knowledge and inspire youth from every quarter to lead purposeful lives. [text in quotations is taken from the academy's deed of gift, drafted in 1781] knowledge and goodness "above all, it is expected that the attention…

Education
7
Hackensack Meridian School of Medicine

A medical school dedicated to excellence in the tripartite academic medical missions of education, scientific research, and clinical care.

Education
8
Hillsdale College

Hillsdale college is a private liberal arts college with approximately 1,500 students. founded in 1844, the college remains, in the words of its articles of association, "grateful to god for the inestimable blessings resulting from the…

Education
9
Hampden-Sydney College

Since 1775, the mission of Hampden-Sydney College has been to form good men and good citizens in an atmosphere of sound learning.

Education
10
Hudson River Foundation for Science and Environmental Research Inc

The mission of the hudson river foundation is to inspire and inform action through science and engaging people to enhance the hudson river, estuary, and watershed (see schedule o).

Environment
11
Northfield Mount Hermon School

Northfield mount hermon educates the head, heart and hands of our students. we engage their intellect, compassion, and talents, empowering them to act with humanity and purpose.

Education
12
Western New England University

Western new england university, a comprehensive private institution with a tradition of excellence in teaching and scholarship and a commitment to service, awards undergraduate, master's, and doctoral degrees in various departments from…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Far Hills Country Day School; the most unlike its peers is Fox River Valley Hound Heritage Foundation. 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

24 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. 24 of the 37 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
22/24
Grantees still filing
14/24
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

FAR HILLS COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL: $731,290 · EducationFAR HILLS COUNTRY DAY SCHOOLTHE HOTCHKISS SCHOOL: $40,000 · EducationBARNARD COLLEGE: $30,000 · Education+5 more: $63,500 · Education+5 moreCOUNTRYSIDE ALLIANCE OF SOMERSET HILLS: $124,612 · OtherCOUNTRYSIDE ALLIANCE OF SOMERSET…THE HOTCHKISS FUND: $105,000 · OtherTHE HOTCHKISS FUNDTHE PINGRY SCHOOL: $80,000 · OtherTHE PINGRY SCHOOLMASTER OF FOXHOUNDS ASSOCIATION: $20,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $15,000 · Other+11 more: $41,000 · Other+11 moreFox River Valley Hound Heritage Foundation: $10,000 · Arts & CultureNAVY SEAL FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 · Arts & CultureSHAKESPEARE THEATRE OF NEW JERSEY: $5,000 · Arts & CultureFRIENDS OF JACOBUS VANDERVEER HOUSE: $4,000 · Arts & CultureMFHA Foundation: $10,000 · Recreation & SportsESSEX HORSE TRIALS INC: $10,000 · Recreation & SportsPrinceton Show Jumping Charities Inc: $5,000 · Recreation & SportsUNITED STATES EQUESTRIAN TEAM FOUNDATION INC: $2,500 · Recreation & SportsHUDSON FARM FOUNDATION INC: $17,000 · Food & NutritionTHE OLANA PARTNERSHIP: $13,000 · Community ImprovementNEW JERSEY CONSERVATION FOUNDATION: $11,500 · EnvironmentRARITAN HEADWATERS ASSOCIATION: $1,000 · EnvironmentDKMS: $1,000 · Health
Education$864,790Other$385,612Arts & Culture$29,000Recreation & Sports$27,500Food & Nutrition$17,000Community Improvement$13,000Environment$12,500Health$1,000

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 budgetFAR HILLS COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL: $731,290 over 8y, 1.1% of budgetTHE HOTCHKISS SCHOOL: $40,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBARNARD COLLEGE: $30,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE NATIONAL SPORTING LIBRARY AND MUSEUM: $25,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetHUDSON FARM FOUNDATION INC: $17,000 over 3y, 1.4% of budgetBLAIR ACADEMY: $15,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE OLANA PARTNERSHIP: $13,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetTHE WILLOW SCHOOL INC: $12,500 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetNEW JERSEY CONSERVATION FOUNDATION: $11,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetMane Stream Inc: $11,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetFox River Valley Hound Heritage Foundation: $10,000 over 2y, 7.5% of budgetNAVY SEAL FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMFHA Foundation: $10,000 over 2y, 2.2% of budgetESSEX HORSE TRIALS INC: $10,000 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetST GEORGE'S SCHOOL: $9,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSHAKESPEARE THEATRE OF NEW JERSEY: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFRIENDS OF JACOBUS VANDERVEER HOUSE: $4,000 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetUNITED STATES EQUESTRIAN TEAM FOUNDATION INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNCOMMONORG INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetHOMELESS SOLUTIONS INC: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDKMS: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVISITING NURSE ASSOCIATION OF SOMERSET HILLS INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRARITAN HEADWATERS ASSOCIATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

Community Foundation …Louis G Piancone Char…Chubb Charitable Foun…Swiftwater Foundation…Welsh Family Foundati…Ej Grassmann TrustThe Ayco Charitable F…National Philanthropi…The Pfizer Foundation…Morgan Stanley Global…Jpmorgan Chase Founda…Vanguard Charitable E…
Community Foundation of New JerseyNJ16.2× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Community Foundation of New Jersey · Louis G Piancone Charitable Foundation Inc · Chubb Charitable Foundation · Swiftwater Foundation Inc · Welsh Family Foundation Inc · Ej Grassmann Trust · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program

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 Homestead Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Homestead Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 60%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 6%
  • Raritan Headwaters Association: 94% of income from government
  • Homeless Solutions Inc: 6% of income from government
  • Mane Stream Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Blair Academy: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
6get no government money at all
3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely 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.
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How do I get to The Homestead Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to The Homestead Foundation Inc 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 37 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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