· Private foundation
The Hss Foundation
Its FY2018 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2018.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2018
- Under $10k21 grants · $13k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $30k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| JEWISH UNITED FUND | $30,000 |
| FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES | $4,000 |
| EASTERSEALS | $3,000 |
| ISRAEL TENNIS CENTER | $2,000 |
| FOR AUTISTIC KIDS FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| CHARLES M SCHWARTZ MEMORIAL FOUNDATION | $750 |
| DISABLED AMERICAN VETERANS | $500 |
| EVANS SCHOLARS FOUNDATION | $250 |
| CARE | $200 |
| USO | $200 |
| NATIONAL LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICERS MEMORIAL FUND | $150 |
| NATIONAL MS SOCIETY | $100 |
| ADL | $100 |
| THE ARK | $100 |
| RUSSELL - CLARKE YOUTH FOUNDATION | $100 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY18–18, $100) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
9 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2018, 0 since wound down; 13 grantees were first funded in FY2018 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2018, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- JUJEWISH UNITED FUND OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO2× · 2017–2018 · $110k · revenue +13%
FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES2× · 2017–2018 · $9k · revenue +53%- CMCHARLES M SCHWARTZ MEMORIAL FOUNDATION2× · 2017–2018 · $2k · revenue +90%
Funded once
- MMISERICORDIAone grant, 2017 · $2k
- T1THE 100 CLUB OF ILLINOISone grant, 2017 · $1k · revenue +10%
- MSMERIT SCHOOL OF MUSICgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $1k · revenue +113%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Wounded Warrior Project Inc and the most unlike its peers is Charles M Schwartz Memorial Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
18 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 18 of the 34 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds JEWISH UNITED FUND OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES ↗
- Who funds EASTER SEALS INC ↗
- Who funds CHARLES M SCHWARTZ MEMORIAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE 100 CLUB OF ILLINOIS ↗
- Who funds MERIT SCHOOL OF MUSIC ↗
- Who funds FOR AUTISTIC KIDS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds TAILS FOR LIFE INC ↗
- Who funds THE FOUNDATION FIGHTING BLINDNESS INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds OPERATION SMILE INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICERS MEMORIAL FUND INC ↗
- Who funds COMPASSION & CHOICES ↗
- Who funds GARY SINISE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds United States Association for UNHCR ↗
- Who funds WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds ADMIRALS COVE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Feeding America ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a set of overlaps that mostly run through you, not between each other.
Open a dossier: Amazonsmile Foundation
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization The Hss Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc — 0% of income from government
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.