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The HSC Foundation

See schedule o.to provide and coordinate innovative, high quality, community-based care for individuals with complex needs and their families. The HSC Foundation (foundation) empowers all we serve to improve the quality of their lives through its support of the hospital for sick children (commonly referred to as children's national…

$211k
Granted FY2019
15
Itemized grants FY2019
15
Organizations funded FY2019
47%
First-time grantees FY2019
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Itemized, FY2019
$201k
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2019
$6,000
Largest grant, FY2019
$116,878
Organizations funded a year
1 to 15
FY2017 to FY2019
States reached, FY2019
4

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2019, 47% of the organizations The HSC Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 21% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2019, 79% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $42k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19
RenewedFirst-time

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

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Human ServicesHealthEducationOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY201915$201k47%
FY20181$127k100%
FY201714$194kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2019.

Health$298kYouth Development$65kEducation$53kScience & Tech$37kCommunity Improvement$25kHuman Services$22kCrime & Legal$12kEmployment$10k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2019, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

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Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The HSC Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetChildren's Hospital Corporation: $243,654 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSmithsonian Institution: $36,712 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDisabilityin: $25,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetDC Public Charter School Cooperative Inc: $17,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetMontgomery College Foundation: $12,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetAdvocates for Justice and Education: $12,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetThe Arc of Northern Virginia: $12,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetLatin American Youth Center: $12,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTLC - The Treatment & Learning Centers: $12,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetEndependence Center of Northern Va: $12,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetBroadfutures Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetWashington Area Women's Foundation: $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetIvymount Foundation Inc: $6,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetPotomac Community Resources Inc: $6,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetUpcounty Community Resources Inc: $6,000 over 1y, 4.0% of budgetThe Arc of Southern Maryland Inc: $6,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCornerstone Montgomery: $6,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Arc of Prince George's County Inc: $6,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDistrict of Columbia Assn for Special Education: $6,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetThe Arc of Loudoun: $6,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThe Ivymount School Inc: $6,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 21.

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.

Children's National Rehabilitation and Specialized CareDC22.1× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Children's National Rehabilitation and Specialized Care · The Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation · William S Abell Foundation Inc · Clark-Winchcole Foundation · United Way of the National Capital Area · Greater Washington Community Foundation · Pettit Family Charitable Foundation · Redskin Foundation Inc George Preston Marshall Foundation · The Arc of the United States · Verizon Foundation · Enterprise Holdings Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation America

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.

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About The HSC Foundation

How much does The HSC Foundation give?
The HSC Foundation reported 15 itemized grants totaling $200,878, out of $210,878 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2019 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 15 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2019.
What does The HSC Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2019, its largest causes are Health (57%), Youth Development (12%), Education (10%).
Who are The HSC Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2019: Children's Hospital Corporation ($244k), National Council on Independent Living ($53k), Smithsonian Institution ($37k).
Does The HSC Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2019, 47% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as The HSC Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Children's National Rehabilitation and Specialized Care, The Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation, William S Abell Foundation Inc.
Where is The HSC Foundation based?
The HSC Foundation is based in DC.

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 22 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2019, released 2019. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2024) is on record and reports no grant expense, so the figures above are from FY2019, the most recent year this funder made grants.

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