Pennsylvania · Private foundation
The Hovey 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.
- $316k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 17
- Grants FY2025
- 18
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 11%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $3,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $150,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 15 to 20
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 3
- Total assets, FY2025
- $3.9M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 11% of the organizations The Hovey Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 2% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $11k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 15 | $263k | 20% |
| FY2024 | 18 | $442k | 11% |
| FY2023 | 17 | $384k | 18% |
| FY2022 | 18 | $117k | 28% |
| FY2021 | 20 | $178k | 45% |
| FY2020 | 15 | $293k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Eisenhower Exchange Fellowships Incorporated | $900,000 | 6 | 5% |
| The Finger Lakes Land Trust Inc | $185,000 | 3 | 3% |
| Guadalupe Center Inc | $119,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Wills Eye Foundation Inc | $80,000 | 5 | 1% |
| Springside Chestnut Hill Academy | $61,500 | 5 | 0% |
| Neighborhood Health Clinic Inc | $30,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Neighborhood Health Clinics Inc | $30,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Navy Seal Foundation Inc | $11,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Stephen Siller Tunnel to Towers Foundation | $8,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Philadelphia Museum of Art | $7,500 | 3 | 0% |
Show all 27 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 10 recipients with no EIN on record ($193k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Hovey Foundation supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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: The William Penn Foundation · The Philadelphia Foundation · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · The Cigna Group Foundation · The Bessemer Giving Fund · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc
How this is measured
About The Hovey Foundation
- How much does The Hovey Foundation give?
- The Hovey Foundation reported 17 grants totaling $316,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 15 and 20 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does The Hovey Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are International (47%), Education (17%), Health (15%).
- Who are The Hovey Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Eisenhower Exchange Fellowships Incorporated ($900k), The Finger Lakes Land Trust Inc ($185k), Guadalupe Center Inc ($119k).
- Does The Hovey Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 11% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Hovey Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Hovey Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The William Penn Foundation, The Philadelphia Foundation, The Ayco Charitable Foundation.
- Where is The Hovey Foundation based?
- The Hovey Foundation is based in PA.
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