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The HydroPhilanthropy Foundation at a glance

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The HydroPhilanthropy Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$131k
Granted FY2024still arriving
3
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$82k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
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 2024.

Religion$475kEducation$409kHealth$283kHuman Services$184kInternational$89kEnvironment$69kFood & Nutrition$29kHousing & Shelter$15kOther$0
02FY2024 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k2 grants · $48k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $82k
$38,400
Median grant
3
States reached
$49k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
HARGRAVE MILITARY ACADEMY$82,300
GLOBAL WATER CENTER$38,400
MISSION AVIATION FELLOWSHIP$10,000
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 (FY17–23, $199k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 61% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%AMIGOS DE JESUS: $5k → 6%AMIGOS DE JESUS: $52k → 7%COVENANT HOUSE: $10k → 17%WATER 4 INC: $50k → 16%US CATHOLIC SISTERS AGAINST HUMAN TRAFFICKING: $1k → 11%RESCUE MISSION OF SALT LAKE INC: $1k → 8%CHRISTIAN APPALACHIAN PROJECT INC: $10k → 26%AMIGOS DE JESUS: $5k → 6%AMIGOS DE JESUS: $10k → 7%WATER 4 INC: $45k → 16%AMIGOS DE JESUS: $5k → 7%LATIN WOMENS INITIATIVE: $5k → 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

ID
MN
IL
WI
NY
OH
PA
CT
CA
UT
CO
MO
KY
VA
AZ
TN
SC
DC
OK
LA
AL
GA
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.
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Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 11% of The HydroPhilanthropy Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

The HydroPhilanthropy Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 9.6% directed abroad (not shown)
How this is measured
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

45%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$722k · 11 repeat orgs$866k to everyone else

11 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2024, 10 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

11
69

Total granted

$722k
$818k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+16%
+44%

Still filing today

82%
61%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 63% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $48k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
ReligionEducationInternationalHuman ServicesArts & CultureHealthOther
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

  • OH
    OneWorld Health
    2× · 2021–2022 · $165k · revenue +57%
  • WI
    WATER4 INC
    2× · 2022–2023 · $95k · revenue +9%
  • Amigos de Jesus
    4× · 2017–2020 · $77k · revenue +38%

Funded once

  • SB
    ST BARTHOLOMEW THE APOSTLE CATHOLIC CHURCH
    one grant, 2019 · $100k
  • TE
    TEXAS EDUCATION WORKSgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $55k · revenue +26%
  • HC
    HOUSTON COALITION FOR LIFEgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $50k · revenue +27%
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.

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Living His Life Abundantly International

To inform, instruct and inspire people through the media about the sacred scriptures and teachings of the roman catholic church

Religion
2
Ave Maria Communications

Ave Maria Communications (AMC)employs radio, internet and other media to offer news, analysis, teaching, devotion and music to demonstrate Catholic values.

Religion
3
Christianity Today International

Christianity Today is a global community inspired by evangelical conviction to advance the stories and ideas of the kingdom of God. Our mission is to elevate the storytellers and sages of the global church.

Religion
4
Focolare Media Inc

Our mission is to provide content that empowers people to grow spiritually, improve relationships, engage in dialogue and foster collaboration within the Church and throughout society.

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5
Bibleproject

Bibleproject's mission is to help people experience the bible as a unified story that leads to jesus. this is achieved by creating biblical videos to be regularly released on a newly-created youtube channel. (continued on schedule o.)each…

Religion
6
Mercy Health

Mercy Health will provide assistance, support and direction to all of the health care institutions and activities operated and maintained by its Subsidiaries. The mission of Mercy Health in performing these activities shall be to provide a…

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7
Our Sunday Visitor Inc

Our sunday visitor's mission is to serve the church by providing catholics with materials that will strengthen their relationship with christ, deepen their commitment to the church and help them to see the world through the eyes of faith.

Religion
8
Christian Mission for the United Nations Community

Christian Mission for the United Nations Community is a ministry aimed at leading the head of every nation and other top leaders to faith in Jesus Christ and helping them to walk in dependence upon God as they discharge the…

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9
Wichita Adore Ministries

Bringing souls face to face with the Eucharistic Heart of Jesus Christ and forming missionaries of the New Evangelization. The organization has realized this mission by providing music and production services for worship events.

Religion
10
Paulist Press Inc

The Paulist Press was founded to provide Catholic literature and resources for the the religious use of parishes, institutions, individuals and other religious bodies to further the educational and mission goals of the Christian faith and…

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11
Immaculate Heart Media Inc

Relevant radio - bringing christ to the world through the media.

Religion
12
His Way At Work

Transform workplaces by inspiring business leaders to consecrate their companies and equipping them to seek eternal value by placing god at the center.

Religion
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Food for the Poor Inc; the most unlike its peers is WATER4 Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network

53 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. 53 of the 82 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)
17
Early backer (in before they grew)
52/53
Grantees still filing
45/53
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ST BARTHOLOMEW THE APOSTLE CATHOLIC CHURCH: $100,000 · OtherST BARTHOLOMEW THE APOSTLE CATHOL…MARCO LUTHERAN CHURCH: $56,000 · OtherMARCO LUTHERAN CHURCHPREGNANCY HELP CENTER INC DBA ADIRA CLINIC: $25,000 · OtherST MAXIMILIAN KOLBE: $20,000 · OtherST JOSEPH ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH: $20,000 · OtherST MARYS CHURCH CORPORATION OF SIMSBURY: $20,000 · OtherCRISTO REY JESUIT HIGH SCHOOL OF HOUSTON INC: $20,000 · OtherMONASTERY OF THE HOLY GHOST INC: $20,000 · OtherST JOHN XXIII INC: $20,000 · Other+34 more: $168,500 · Other+34 moreHARGRAVE MILITARY ACADEMY: $224,800 · EducationHARGRAVE MILITARY ACADEMYTEXAS EDUCATION WORKS: $55,000 · EducationTEXAS EDUCATION WORKSInstitute for Girls Education Inc DBA Magnolia School: $50,000 · EducationInstitute for Girls Educatio…Augustine Institute Inc: $22,500 · EducationAugustine Institute IncThe Brookwood Community Inc: $20,000 · Education+3 more: $21,000 · Education+3 moreOneWorld Health: $165,000 · InternationalOneWorld HealthEL PORVENIR: $68,985 · InternationalEL PORVENIRGLOBAL WATER CENTER: $38,400 · InternationalGLOBAL WATER CENTERHAITI OUTREACH INC: $17,620 · InternationalHAITI OUTREACH INCFOOD FOR THE POOR INC: $13,775 · International+2 more: $9,500 · InternationalWATER4 INC: $95,000 · Human ServicesWATER4 INCAmigos de Jesus: $76,551 · Human ServicesAmigos de Jesu…COVENANT HOUSE: $10,000 · Human ServicesCHRISTIAN APPALACHIAN PROJECT INC: $10,000 · Human Services+3 more: $7,000 · Human ServicesSouthmore Foundation Inc: $25,000 · ReligionSouthmore …WOODLAWN FOUNDATION: $20,000 · ReligionWOODLAWN F…THE JOHN PAUL II FOUNDATION FOR LIFE AND FAMILY: $20,000 · ReligionTHE JOHN P…WORD ON FIRE CATHOLIC MINISTRIES: $20,000 · ReligionWORD ON FI…CHRISTIAN CENTER OF PARK CITY: $10,500 · ReligionCHRISTIAN …ETERNAL WORD TELEVISION NETWORK INC: $10,000 · ReligionETERNAL WO…Featherock Conference Center: $10,000 · ReligionFeatherock…THE DYNAMIC CATHOLIC INSTITUTE: $10,000 · ReligionTHE DYNAMI…ROSARY ARMY CORP: $10,000 · ReligionROSARY ARM…THE CATECHESIS OF THE GOOD SHEPHERD INC: $5,000 · Religion+1 more: $1,038 · ReligionHOUSTON COALITION FOR LIFE: $50,000 · HealthTITUS COMMUNITY INC: $5,000 · Health+1 more: $1,000 · HealthPRIESTS FOR LIFE: $10,000 · Youth DevelopmentEyes On Me Inc: $5,000 · Youth DevelopmentCAMP KUDZU INC: $1,000 · Youth Development
Other$469,500Education$393,300International$313,280Human Services$198,551Religion$141,538Health$56,000Youth Development$16,000

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 budgetHARGRAVE MILITARY ACADEMY: $224,800 over 5y, 1.0% of budgetOneWorld Health: $165,000 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetWATER4 INC: $95,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetAmigos de Jesus: $76,551 over 4y, 2.7% of budgetEL PORVENIR: $68,985 over 2y, 2.9% of budgetHOUSTON COALITION FOR LIFE: $50,000 over 1y, 4.7% of budgetGLOBAL WATER CENTER: $38,400 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetAugustine Institute Inc: $22,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWOODLAWN FOUNDATION: $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE JOHN PAUL II FOUNDATION FOR LIFE AND FAMILY: $20,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetWORD ON FIRE CATHOLIC MINISTRIES: $20,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetThe Brookwood Community Inc: $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHAITI OUTREACH INC: $17,620 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetFOOD FOR THE POOR INC: $13,775 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCHRISTIAN CENTER OF PARK CITY: $10,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetETERNAL WORD TELEVISION NETWORK INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLIVE ACTION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCATHOLIC ANSWERS INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFeatherock Conference Center: $10,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetCOVENANT HOUSE: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetREGINA CAELI INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTHE DYNAMIC CATHOLIC INSTITUTE: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNORTH HOUSTON CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOOL: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetROSARY ARMY CORP: $10,000 over 1y, 17% of budgetCHRISTIAN APPALACHIAN PROJECT INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVISITATION HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $7,500 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetOUR DAILY BREAD FOOD PANTRY INCORPORATED: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetLATIN WOMENS INITIATIVE: $5,000 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetBREATHESTRONG CF INC: $5,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetEyes On Me Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetAccord Network: $3,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetST MATTHEWS HOUSE INC: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEVERY VILLAGE: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPark City Performances: $2,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCatholics Come Home Inc: $1,038 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetRESCUE MISSION OF SALT LAKE INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPARK CITY HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetDISMAS MINISTRY INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCAMP KUDZU INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCommunity Wireless of Park City: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetUTAH SYMPHONY & OPERA: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKimball Art Center: $500 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

Strake FoundationGreater Houston Commu…Shell USA Company Fou…Scanlan FoundationHarry S & Isabel C Ca…The Carl a Davis and …Marek Family Foundati…Albert & Ethel Herzst…St Albert TrustSad Foundation IncCharity Guild of Cath…Baker Hughes Foundati…
Strake FoundationTX25.2× affinity10 shared granteesties to 10 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Strake Foundation · Greater Houston Community Foundation · Shell USA Company Foundation · Scanlan Foundation · Harry S & Isabel C Cameron Foundation Sentinel Trust Company · The Carl a Davis and Lois E Davis Foundation · Marek Family Foundation · Albert & Ethel Herzstein Charitable Foundation · St Albert Trust · Sad Foundation Inc · Charity Guild of Catholic Women of Harris County Inc · Baker Hughes 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 HydroPhilanthropy Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The HydroPhilanthropy Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Food for the Poor Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
12report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
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.
05Through Plinth

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How do I get to The HydroPhilanthropy Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The HydroPhilanthropy Foundation 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 82 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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