How much does The Mark & Carol Hyman Fund give?

The Mark & Carol Hyman Fund reported 4 grants totaling $47,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 6 and 24 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.

What does The Mark & Carol Hyman Fund fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Philanthropy (60%), Education (15%), International (10%).

Who are The Mark & Carol Hyman Fund's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: National Gallery of Art ($90k), Children First Inc ($90k), The Winsor School ($75k).

Does The Mark & Carol Hyman Fund fund new organizations?

In FY2023, 17% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does The Mark & Carol Hyman Fund accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

Which funders back the same organizations as The Mark & Carol Hyman Fund?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Cook Family Foundation, National Philanthropic Trust, The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc.

Where is The Mark & Carol Hyman Fund based?

The Mark & Carol Hyman Fund is based in MD.

The Mark & Carol Hyman Fund

The Mark & Carol Hyman Fund at a glance

· Private foundation

The Mark & Carol Hyman Fund

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.

$47k

Granted FY2024still arriving

Grants FY2024still arriving

States reached

$15k

Largest

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.

Philanthropy$1.7MEducation$441kInternational$303kArts & Culture$257kHealth$58kScience & Tech$30kReligion$28kHuman Services$26kOther$0

02FY2024 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$11,000

Median grant

States reached

$1.2M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
AMERICAN TASK FORCE FOR LEBANON	$15,000
SHAKESPEARE THEATRE	$11,000
THE PHILLIPS COLLECTION	$11,000
NATIONAL GALLERY OF ART	$10,000

02The need

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, $13k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

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

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.

39%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$1.1M · 26 repeat orgs$1.8M to everyone else

26 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2024, 22 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$1.1M

$1.8M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+26%

+32%

Still filing today

81%

29%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

EducationArts & CultureInternationalHealthHuman ServicesSocial ScienceOther

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

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National Gallery of Art
6× · 2017–2024 · $90k · revenue +57%
Children First Inc
3× · 2017–2019 · $90k · revenue +53%
THE WINSOR SCHOOL
2× · 2020–2021 · $75k · revenue +26%

Funded once

CF
COOK FAMILY FOUNDATION CO HUNTINGTON BANK
one grant, 2020 · $1.7M
OU
OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
one grant, 2022 · $20k
CC
Campbell Collaboration
one grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue +1%

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.

University of Miami

See Form 990, Part I, Line 1, Description of Organization Mission.

Education

American Museum of Natural History

The museum's mission statement is: "to discover, interpret, and disseminate - through scientific research and education - knowledge about human cultures, the natural world, and the universe."

Arts & Culture

Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden Inc

We harness the power of plants for humankind and share the joy and beauty of tropical gardening with everyone. fairchild tropical botanic garden is a museum of tropical plants within a world famous, 83-acre designed landscape. it was…

Environment

Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum Inc

Organization's mission statement true to the ambitious vision of its founder and her spirit of creative risk-taking, the mission of the isabella stewart gardner museum is: - to bring to life and preserve the rich historic collection; - to…

Arts & Culture

Savannah College of Art and DesignInc

Scad prepares talented students for creative professions through engaged teaching and learning in a positively oriented university environment.

Education

Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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Pratt Institute

Pratt is an institute, an experience, and an idea. what started as a radical experiment to expand access to creative careers is now a community of 5,137 grad and undergrad students working across 48 programs with 1,200 dedicated faculty.…

Education

Institute for Advanced Study - Louis Bamberger & Mrs Felix Fuld Foundation

The institute for advanced study (the institute) is one of the world's leading centers for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. see schedule o.

Science & Tech

The Trustees of the Smith College

Smith college educates women of promise for lives of distinction and purpose. a college of and for the world, smith college links the power of the liberal arts to excellence in research and scholarship, developing leaders for society's…

Education

New York University

Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.

Education

University of Southern California

The central mission of the university of southern california is the development of human beings and society as a whole through the cultivation and enrichment of the human mind and spirit. the principal means by which our mission is…

Education

Bard College

Bard college seeks to provide a challenging academic program and a supportive environment that fosters a collaborative interchange of ideas in the classroom as well as ambition to achieve excellence.

Education

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Sarasota Performing Arts Center Foundation Inc; the most unlike its peers is Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc. 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

23 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. 23 of the 33 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

23/23

Grantees still filing

17/23

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$2,325,574Education$241,000Arts & Culture$213,000International$63,000Health$55,000Recreation & Sports$16,000Human Services$12,500

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

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.

Cook Family FoundationFL13.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 6 of 6Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Cook Family Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile 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 Mark & Carol Hyman Fund funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Mark & Carol Hyman Fund. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

5get no government money at all

5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

1rely on government for over half their income

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.

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