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The Howdy Doody Good Times Foundation Inc

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.

$596k
Granted FY2025still arriving
16
Grants FY2025still arriving
10
States reached
$340k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0195% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.

Public Benefit$617kFood & Nutrition$360kEducation$253kReligion$143kCommunity Improvement$20kArts & Culture$13kCrime & Legal$10kPhilanthropy$5kOther$0
02FY2025 · 16 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k4 grants · $8k
  • $10k–50k10 grants · $118k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $131k
  • $250k+1 grant · $340k
$10,000
Median grant
10
States reached
$3.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
HOLY TRINITY CATHEDRAL$340,000
THE CLAREMONT INSTITUTE$130,500
AMERICAN REFORMER$20,000
THE AMERICAN CAUSE$15,000
THE CHARLEMAGNE INSTITUTE$12,500
INDY LATIN SCHOOL$10,184
NATALISMORG$10,000
ANNUNCIATION GREEK ORTHODOX CHURCH$10,000
HAMILTON LINCOLN LAW INSTITUTE$10,000
THE AMERICAN MOMENT$10,000
ST JOHN THE BAPTIST ACADEMY$10,000
HOLY APOSTLES ORTHODOX CHURCH$10,000
ABIGAIL ADAMS INSTITUTE$5,000
KRISTINA'S HOUSE OF HOPE$1,000
BORDER HAWK NEWS CORP$1,000
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:

Its human-services grants (FY21–24, $27k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%EDMUND BURKE FOUNDATION: $25k → 14%PAWS & THINK: $1k → 16%INDIANA DIAPER BANK: $1k → 16%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

MN
MI
NY
MA
IN
OH
CA
VA
DE
TN
NC
SC
DC
TX
FL
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.

74%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.1M · 12 repeat orgs$374k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +23% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.

12 repeat relationships: 8 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

12
20

Total granted

$1.1M
$309k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+23%
0%

Still filing today

50%
65%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $65k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24’25
EducationHuman ServicesSocial ScienceReligionPublic BenefitScience & TechOther
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

  • TC
    THE CLAREMONT INSTITUTE FOR THE STUDY OF STATESMANSHIP & POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY
    4× · 2021–2025 · $441k · revenue +40%
  • AM
    American Moment Inc
    4× · 2022–2025 · $48k · revenue +83%
  • TA
    The Abigail Adams Institute Inc
    2× · 2024–2025 · $30k · revenue +23%

Funded once

  • CI
    Cobb Institute
    one grant, 2022 · $145k · revenue -10% · 93% of their budget
  • HT
    HOLY TRINITY CATHEDRAL
    one grant, 2023 · $45k
  • EB
    Edmund Burke Foundation Incgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $25k · revenue +67%
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.

1
The Libertarian Institute

Disseminate information and education about pertinent economic, social and governmental topics, via print, web and other media to educate the public about the principles of LIbertarianism.

Education
2
Pax Americana Institute Inc
Education
3
American Exceptionalism Institute

The organization engaged in public communications and issue education activities related to national security, the protection of life, and tax and spending issues.

Community Improvement
4
Center of Theological Inquiry

The Center of Theological Inquiry is an independent research institution with an international visiting scholar program which convenes researchers in an ideal setting for interdisciplinary inquiries where theology casts light on global…

Religion
5
Hudson Institute Inc

Hudson Institute is a research organization promoting American leadership for a secure, free, and prosperous future.

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6
Frontiers of Freedom Institute

To educate the public on constitutional issues and public policy matters. We are dedicated to the principles of individual liberty, peace through strength, limited government, free enterprise, and the values embodied in the Declaration of…

Public Benefit
7
American Brownstone Institute

Brownstone Institute is an educational nonprofit corporation that strives to provide an independent voice for personal liberty and free enterprise in the United States. We look to influence a post-lockdown world by generating new ideas in…

Education
8
American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research

The american enterprise institute is a community of scholars and supporters committed to expanding liberty, increasing individual opportunity, and strengthening free enterprise. aei pursues these ideals through independent thinking and the…

Social Science
9
Republic Book Publishers

We amplify First Principles through the publishing of books and showcasing authors and their ideas using a unique communications and marketing model to re-engage the public in Americas founding ideals.

Health
10
Alexander Hamilton Institute for the Study of Western Civilization

The organization promotes excellence in the scholarly study of freedom, democracy, and capitalism, as these ideas were developed and institutionalized in the united states and within the larger tradition of western civilization. the ahi…

Education
11
The Claremont Strategy Group Inc Dba the American Strategy Group

THE ORGANIZATION'S MISSION IS TO OFFER A MORAL AND MATERIAL DEFENSE OF AMERICA AND THE PRINCIPLES OF HUMAN FREEDOM EMBODIED IN THE WEST. The work of the Organization is dedicated to understanding the existential threat to the United States…

International
12
American-German Institute Inc

The American-German Institute is a center for policy research and scholarship dedicated to the most important political, economic, and security issues confronting Germany and the United States in the global arena. AGI anticipates…

Social Science
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Claremont Institute for the Study of Statesmanship & Political Philosophy; the most unlike its peers is Paws & Think Inc. 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

22 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. 22 of the 41 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
22/22
Grantees still filing
10/22
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE CLAREMONT INSTITUTE FOR THE STUDY OF STATESMANSHIP & POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY: $440,500 · OtherTHE CLAREMONT INSTITUTE FOR THE STUDY OF STATESMANSHIP & POLITICAL PHILOSOPHYHOLY TRINITY CATHEDRAL: $360,000 · OtherHOLY TRINITY CATHEDRALHOLY TRINITY CATHEDRAL: $45,000 · OtherUNIFY CARMEL INC: $40,000 · OtherSOCIETY FOR AMERICAN CIVIC RENEWAL INC: $40,000 · Other+20 more: $136,884 · Other+20 moreCobb Institute: $145,000 · EducationCobb InstituteThe Abigail Adams Institute Inc: $30,000 · EducationThe Abigail Adam…HILLSDALE COLLEGE: $25,000 · EducationHILLSDALE COLLEG…+4 more: $9,000 · EducationAmerican Moment Inc: $47,500 · Public BenefitTHE AMERICAN CAUSE: $32,500 · Public BenefitAMERICAN REFORMER: $40,000 · ReligionAncient Faith Ministries Formerly Conciliar Media Ministries: $5,000 · ReligionEdmund Burke Foundation Inc: $25,000 · Human ServicesINDIANA DIAPER BANK INC: $1,000 · Human ServicesPAWS & THINK INC: $1,000 · Human ServicesTHE AMERICAN CONSERVATIVE: $25,000 · Arts & CultureHAMILTON LINCOLN LAW INSTITUTE: $10,000 · Civil Rights
Other$1,062,384Education$209,000Public Benefit$80,000Religion$45,000Human Services$27,000Arts & Culture$25,000Civil Rights$10,000

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 budgetTHE CLAREMONT INSTITUTE FOR THE STUDY OF STATESMANSHIP & POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY: $440,500 over 4y, 1.6% of budgetCobb Institute: $145,000 over 1y, 93% of budgetAmerican Moment Inc: $47,500 over 4y, 1.4% of budgetAMERICAN REFORMER: $40,000 over 2y, 7.1% of budgetTHE AMERICAN CAUSE: $32,500 over 3y, 9.4% of budgetThe Abigail Adams Institute Inc: $30,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetHILLSDALE COLLEGE: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEdmund Burke Foundation Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetTHE AMERICAN CONSERVATIVE: $25,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetAmerican Governance Foundation Inc: $6,200 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetThe Burroughs Foundation Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetAncient Faith Ministries Formerly Conciliar Media Ministries: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetINTERCOLLEGIATE STUDIES INSTITUTE INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetKRISTINAS HOUSE OF HOPE INC: $3,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetThe Charlemagne Institute: $2,500 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetTHE CENTER FOR THE STUDY OF TECHNOLOGY AND SOCIETY: $2,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetINDIANA DIAPER BANK INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPAWS & THINK INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetWARHORN MEDIA INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetBORDER HAWK NEWS CORP: $1,000 over 1y, 3.3% of budgetCedarville University: $500 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

Donors Trust IncThomas D Klingenstein…Vanguard Charitable E…Natl Christian Charit…Paypal Charitable Giv…National Philanthropi…Fidelity Investments …Donor Advised Charita…Amazonsmile Foundation
Donors Trust IncVA19× affinity7 shared granteesties to 8 of 8Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Donors Trust Inc · Thomas D Klingenstein Fund · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · National Philanthropic Trust · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation

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

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    2get no government money at all
    2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
    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 Howdy Doody Good Times Foundation Inc?

    Find your warmest path to The Howdy Doody Good Times 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 41 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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