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The HSC Foundation

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$211k
Granted FY2019
15
Grants FY2019
4
States reached
$117k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% 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
02FY2019 · 15 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 15 grants below total $200,878, the rows itemized in this filing. The $210,878 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $10,000 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2019

  • Under $10k14 grants · $84k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $117k
$6,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
BOSTON CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL$116,878
Advocates for Justice & Education Inc$6,000
Potomac Community Resources Inc$6,000
The Arc of Southern Maryland$6,000
Upcounty Community Resources Inc$6,000
Latin American Youth Center$6,000
The Katherine Thomas School$6,000
Cornerstone Montgomery inc$6,000
Endependence Center of N VA$6,000
The Arc of Loudoun$6,000
The Arc of Northern Virginia$6,000
The DC Public Charter School Cooperative$6,000
DC Assoc for Special Education Inc$6,000
Montgomery College Foundation Inc$6,000
The Ivymount School Inc$6,000
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–19, $75k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 92% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%The Arc of Loudoun: $6k → 4%WASHINGTON AREA WOMEN'S FOUNDATION: $10k → 14%Potomac Community Resources Inc: $6k → 8%NATIONAL COUNCIL ON INDEPENDENT LIVING: $53k → 14%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.
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.

64%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$333k · 8 repeat orgs$189k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +110% since the first grant, against +31% for those funded once.

8 repeat relationships: 8 still active in FY2019, 0 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2019 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

8
7

Total granted

$333k
$147k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+110%
+31%

Still filing today

100%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

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

50%100%’17’18’19
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19
Human ServicesEducationHealthArts & CultureCommunity ImprovementYouth DevelopmentOther
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

  • CH
    Children's Hospital Corporation
    2× · 2018–2019 · $244k · revenue +78%
  • DP
    DC PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOL COOPERATIVE INC
    2× · 2017–2019 · $17k · revenue +214%
  • MC
    MONTGOMERY COLLEGE FOUNDATION
    2× · 2017–2019 · $12k · revenue +53%

Funded once

  • NC
    NATIONAL COUNCIL ON INDEPENDENT LIVING
    one grant, 2017 · $53k · revenue -14%
  • SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTIONgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $37k · revenue +31%
  • D
    DISABILITYINgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $25k · revenue +367%
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
Nysarc Inc New York City Chapter

We are committed to helping people with intellectual (cont. on schedule o) and developmental disabilities to live full lives.

Human Services
2
Elwyn of Pennsylvania and Delaware

Elwyn makes life better for people with developmental and behavioral health challenges.

Human Services
3
Linwood Center Inc

Linwood creates the possibility of extraordinary lives for children and adults living with autism and related developmental disabilities by providing education, vocational training, residential support, and employment opportunities.

Education
4
Spectrum Support Inc

To form relationships which support people to achieve their life goals in the areas of residential, employment, meaningful community engagement and personal services.

Employment
5
Teamability Inc

Teamability strives to ensure that children with severe multiple disabilities have the opportunity to benefit from therapeautic educational intervention to participate actively in life.

Education
6
Disability Empowerment Center

Disability empowerment center helps community members find and access the resources they need to lead successful and independent lives.

Human Services
7
Center for Developmental Disabilities

The center's mission is to help children and adults with differing abilities achieve their dreams by overcoming barriers to living, working, learning & enjoying recreational opportunities in the community of their choice.

Human Services
8
The Arc of the United States

The arc of the united states (the arc) promotes and protects the human rights of people with intellectual and developmental disabilities (idd) and actively supports their full inclusion and participation in the community throughout their…

Human Services
9
The Arc of Essex County Inc

The arc of essex county provides advocacy and services empowering individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities and their families to realize a lifetime of personal achievement and full partnership in the community.

Human Services
10
The Benedictine School for Exceptional Children Inc

To support children and adults living with intellectual and developmental disabilities so they can achieve their greatest potential. we accomplish our mission through the values of dignity, integrity, collaboration, and excellence. at…

Education
11
Progress Unlimited Inc

To empower individuals to lead fulfilling and productive lives at home and in the community.

Human Services
12
Potential Inc

Potential engages children and adults with autism in personalized programs that help them realize their full potential.

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Arc of Prince George's County Inc; the most unlike its peers is Smithsonian Institution. 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
8
Early backer (in before they grew)
21/22
Grantees still filing
19/22
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Children's Hospital Corporation: $243,654 · HealthChildren's Hospital CorporationNATIONAL COUNCIL ON INDEPENDENT LIVING: $53,000 · Human ServicesNATIONAL COUNCIL …WASHINGTON AREA WOMEN'S FOUNDATION: $10,000 · Human ServicesWASHINGTON AREA W…POTOMAC COMMUNITY RESOURCES INC: $6,000 · Human ServicesPOTOMAC COMMUNITY…Upcounty Community Resources Inc: $6,000 · Human ServicesUpcounty Communit…THE ARC OF LOUDOUN: $6,000 · Human ServicesTHE ARC OF LOUDOU…Advocates for Justice and Education: $12,000 · OtherAdvocates for J…The Arc of Northern Virginia: $12,000 · OtherThe Arc of Nort…TLC - The Treatment & Learning Centers: $12,000 · OtherTLC - The Treat…ENDEPENDENCE CENTER OF NORTHERN VA: $12,000 · OtherENDEPENDENCE CE…THE ARC OF SOUTHERN MARYLAND INC: $6,000 · OtherTHE ARC OF SOUT…CORNERSTONE MONTGOMERY: $6,000 · OtherCORNERSTONE MON…THE ARC OF PRINCE GEORGE'S COUNTY INC: $6,000 · OtherTHE ARC OF PRIN…District of Columbia Assn for Special Education: $6,000 · OtherDistrict of Col…DC PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOL COOPERATIVE INC: $17,000 · EducationMONTGOMERY COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $12,000 · EducationIvymount Foundation Inc: $6,000 · EducationThe Ivymount School Inc: $6,000 · EducationSMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION: $36,712 · Arts & CultureDISABILITYIN: $25,000 · Community ImprovementLATIN AMERICAN YOUTH CENTER: $12,000 · Youth DevelopmentBROADFUTURES INC: $10,000 · Public Benefit
Health$243,654Human Services$81,000Other$72,000Education$41,000Arts & Culture$36,712Community Improvement$25,000Youth Development$12,000Public Benefit$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 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
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.

Children's National R…The Morris and Gwendo…William S Abell Found…Clark-Winchcole Found…United Way of the Nat…Greater Washington Co…Pettit Family Charita…Redskin Foundation In…The Arc of the United…Verizon FoundationEnterprise Holdings F…Charities Aid Foundat…
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The HSC Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The HSC Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →median 3%
  • Children's Hospital Corporation: 10% of income from government
  • Cornerstone Montgomery: 3% of income from government
  • The Arc of Southern Maryland Inc: 2% of income from government
  • The Arc of Prince George's County Inc: 2% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
8report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
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.

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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