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.

The Hovey Foundation

The Hovey Foundation at a glance

· 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 FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$150k

Largest

01What it funds

01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

International$900kEducation$330kHealth$286kEnvironment$192kHuman Services$132kArts & Culture$32kPhilanthropy$30kRecreation & Sports$25kOther$0

02FY2025 · 17 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k11 grants · $21k
$10k–50k4 grants · $95k
$50k–250k2 grants · $200k

$3,000

Median grant

States reached

$3.9M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
EISENHOWER FELLOWSHIPS	$150,000
UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA	$50,000
WILLS EYE HOSPITAL FOUNDATION	$40,000
GUADALUPE CENTER	$25,000
BASCOM PALMER EYE INSTITUTE	$20,000
NEIGHBORHOOD HEALTH CLINIC	$10,000
NCH CENTER FOR PHILANTHROPY	$7,500
OPERATION HEALING FORCES	$3,000
MORRIS ARBORETUM	$3,000
Save a Mind (SAM) Elimu Charity	$2,000
MATTHEW'S MINDFUL MOMENT	$1,000
TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION	$1,000
FRIENDS OF THE OUTLET	$1,000
FLORIDA GULF COAST UNIVERSITY	$1,000
WHITEMARSH FOUNDATION	$500

02The need

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY20–25, $130k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 8% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

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

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.

94%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$1.6M · 21 repeat orgs$105k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +22% since the first grant, against +14% for those funded once.

21 repeat relationships: 12 still active in FY2025, 9 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$1.6M

$61k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+22%

+14%

Still filing today

76%

54%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $44k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Arts & CultureHuman ServicesEnvironmentEducationHealthInternationalOther

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

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The Finger Lakes Land Trust Inc
3× · 2020–2024 · $185k · revenue +24%
GC
Guadalupe Center Inc
5× · 2020–2025 · $119k · revenue +27%
SC
SPRINGSIDE CHESTNUT HILL ACADEMY
5× · 2020–2024 · $62k · revenue +38%

Funded once

BM
BELLA MENTE QUANTUM RACING
one grant, 2020 · $10k
UB
UM BASCOM PALMER EYE INSTITUTE
one grant, 2020 · $10k
BM
BELLE MENTE QUANTUM RACING ASSN
one grant, 2024 · $10k

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.

The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia

The children's hospital of philadelphia, the oldest hospital in the united states dedicated exclusively to pediatrics, strives to be the world leader in the advancement of health care for children by integrating excellent patient care,…

Health

University Hospital & Clinics Inc

The organization provides medical care to improve, maintain, and restore the health of the people in the communities we serve.

Health

United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

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Stony Brook Ophthalmology University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health

The Phillips Collection

The phillips collection is the oldest museum of modern and contemporary art in the u.s. in addition to presentation of works from the permanent collection and special exhibitions, the museum maintains active educational, academic,…

Arts & Culture

University of New Haven

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…

Education

American Museum of Natural History

The museum's mission statement is: "to discover, interpret, and disseminate - through scientific research and education - knowledge about human cultures, the natural world, and the universe."

Arts & Culture

Stony Brook Internists University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health

Federation of State Medical Boards of the United States Inc

The fsmb serves as the voice for state medical boards, supporting them through education, assessment, research and advocacy while providing services and initiatives that promote patient safety, quality health care and regulatory best…

Health

Neurology Associates of Stony Brook University Faculty Practice Corp

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health

Drexel University

Drexel university fulfills its founder's vision of preparing each new generation of students for productive professional and civic lives while also focusing its collective expertise on solving society's greatest problems. drexel is an…

Education

Stony Brook Urology University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Naples Community Hospital Inc; the most unlike its peers is Philadelphia Museum of Art. 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

26 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. 26 of the 38 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

26/26

Grantees still filing

15/26

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

International$900,000Education$405,542Other$204,300Environment$191,250Human Services$129,500Health$67,500Arts & Culture$31,500Community Improvement$3,000

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.

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.

The William Penn FoundationPA17.4× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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

2024

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

4get no government money at all

6report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%

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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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

The endowment market

who holds foundation money, and what just moved

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

where grant money is based, and what stays home