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The Hyman Foundation

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.

$93k
Granted FY2025still arriving
12
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$32k
Largest
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20202025.

Education$407kHuman Services$57kReligion$45kPhilanthropy$19kHealth$18kArts & Culture$7kInternational$6kYouth Development$1kOther$0
02FY2025 · 12 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k10 grants · $31k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $62k
$3,300
Median grant
3
States reached
$2.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
RAINBOW COMMUNITY SCHOOL$32,000
KENNESAW STATE UNIVERSITY$30,050
JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER ATLANTA$6,500
CAMP JUDAEA$5,500
MARCUS JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER$5,000
TEMPLE SINAI$3,300
CONGREGATION BETH HATEPHILA$2,950
Individual grant recipient$2,500
ALL SOULS COUNSELING$2,500
HILLELS OF GEORGIA$1,800
ALZHEIMER'S FOUNDATION OF AMERICA$500
JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER$320
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY20–25, $54k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%FRIENDSHIP CIRCLE OF ATLANTA: $3k → 13%FRIENDSHIP CIRCLE OF ATLANTA: $3k → 13%MARCUS JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER: $17k → 14%MARCUS JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER: $11k → 14%MARCUS JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER: $10k → 14%MARCUS JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER: $5k → 14%MARCUS JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER: $5k → 14%MARCUS JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER: $600 → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

99%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$532k · 16 repeat orgs$6k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +42% since the first grant, against +20% for the ones you funded once.

16 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

16
5

Total granted

$532k
$6k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+42%
+20%

Still filing today

38%
60%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $500 went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationHuman ServicesHealthInternationalAnimalsArts & CultureOther

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

  • RC
    Rainbow Community School
    6× · 2020–2025 · $144k · revenue +42%
  • MJ
    MARCUS JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF ATLANTA INC
    6× · 2020–2025 · $49k · revenue +139%
  • HO
    Hillels of Georgia Inc
    4× · 2020–2025 · $6k · revenue +18%

Funded once

  • BI
    BIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2020 · $3k · revenue +19%
  • CS
    City Springs Theatregraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $2k · revenue +96%
  • FC
    FRIENDSHIP CIRCLE
    one grant, 2022 · $1k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Pirchei of Atlanta

Summer Educational camp for children.

Education
2
Jewish Community Centers of Greater Boston

To advance the aspirations of families and individuals to enrich their lives, bodies and spirits, by providing the best in contemporary programs and experiences, informed by jewish values for today's jews and the people in their lives.

Human Services
3
The Jerusalem Connection
4
Jewish Community Center of Asheville Inc

To strengthen jewish identity, celebrate jewish culture, and build inclusive community.

Religion
5
Jcc of Central New Jersey

The JCC of Central New Jersey, Inc. (the JCC) is a not-for-profit community center which serves both the Jewish community and the community at large. As a leader in the community, the JCCs mission is to educate, enrich and empower from…

6
Jewish United Fund of Metropolitan Chicago

Juf provides critical resources that bring food, refuge, health care, education and emergency assistance to over 500,000 chicagoans of all faiths and millions of jews in israel and around the world, funding a network of 100+ agencies,…

Philanthropy
7
Bronfman Youth Fellowships to Israel in Inc
Youth Development
8
The Bnai Jacob Foundation
9
Jewish Community Center of the Delaware Valley

To serve as an inclusive, dynamic and nurturing home for the local jewish community and welcome the community at large. dedicated to enhancing jewish identity, continuity and enriching jewish life with the connections to israel and jewry.

Religion
10
University of Judaism Foundation
11
Hillel Foundation at Miami University

Hillel at Miami University, the center of Jewish life on campus, seeks to engage, connect, and empower students to explore their Jewish identity creating a vibrant Jewish community and inspiring the next generation of Jewish leaders.

12
Bender Jcc of Greater Washington

The bender jcc embraces and welcomes the diversity of our community and encourages everyone to seek meaning and fulfillment by participating in our rich programming inspired by our jewish heritage. we open our doors to everyone, including…

Human Services

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jewish Federation of Greater Atlanta Inc and the most unlike its peers is City Springs Theatre. 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

13 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 13 of the 25 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
13/13
Grantees still filing
12/13
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

KENNESAW STATE UNIVERSITY — $208,150 · OtherKENNESAW STATE UNIVERSITYUNIVERSITY OF NC — $37,350 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF NCTEMPLE SINAI INC — $25,851 · OtherTEMPLE SINAI INCCONGREGATION BETH HA TEPHILA — $12,650 · Other+9 more — $30,270 · Other+9 moreRainbow Community School — $144,225 · EducationRainbow Community SchoolCamp Judaea Inc — $17,500 · EducationCamp Judaea IncMARCUS JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF ATLANTA INC — $48,878 · Human ServicesMARCUS JEW…Friendship Circle of Atlanta Inc — $5,000 · Human ServicesFriendship…JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER ATLANTA INC — $18,500 · PhilanthropyBIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION — $3,000 · InternationalJEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC — $2,500 · InternationalNEW ISRAEL FUND — $500 · InternationalAll Souls Counseling Center — $3,500 · HealthALZHEIMER'S FOUNDATION OF AMERICA INC — $500 · HealthCity Springs Theatre — $1,500 · Arts & CultureFURKIDS INC — $200 · Animals
Other$314,271Education$161,725Human Services$53,878Philanthropy$18,500International$6,000Health$4,000Arts & Culture$1,500Animals$200

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetRainbow Community School — $144,225 over 6y, 0.8% of budgetMARCUS JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF ATLANTA INC — $48,878 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetJEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER ATLANTA INC — $18,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCamp Judaea Inc — $17,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetHillels of Georgia Inc — $5,600 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetFriendship Circle of Atlanta Inc — $5,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetAll Souls Counseling Center — $3,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetBIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION — $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCity Springs Theatre — $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNEW ISRAEL FUND — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFURKIDS INC — $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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 Rainbow Community School
  • Who funds MARCUS JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF ATLANTA INC
  • Who funds JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER ATLANTA INC
  • Who funds Camp Judaea Inc
  • Who funds Hillels of Georgia Inc
  • Who funds Friendship Circle of Atlanta Inc
  • Who funds All Souls Counseling Center
  • Who funds BIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION
  • Who funds JEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC
  • Who funds City Springs Theatre
  • Who funds ALZHEIMER'S FOUNDATION OF AMERICA INC
  • Who funds NEW ISRAEL FUND
  • Who funds FURKIDS INC

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 tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

The Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta IncGA15× affinity5 shared granteesties to 9 of 9Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta Inc · Betty and Leon Goldstein Foundation · V' Al Kol Yisrael Foundation Inc · Jewish Federation of Greater Atlanta Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · 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 Hyman 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.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    3report 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, FY2025

    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.

    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to The Hyman Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to The Hyman 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 25 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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