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The Hearthland 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.

$27M
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
91
Grants FY2024
35
Organizations funded FY2023
31%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$225,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$2,000,000
Organizations funded a year
28 to 146
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
26
Total assets, FY2024
$513M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 31% of the organizations The Hearthland Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 19% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2.0M went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23
Arts & CultureCivil RightsHuman ServicesEducationHealthPhilanthropyOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving75$25M45%
FY202335$10M31%
FY202228$9.5M25%
FY202143$11M16%
FY2020146$18M53%
FY201995$11M40%
FY2018104$9.2M47%
FY2017104$8.9Mn/a
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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Arts & Culture$23MPublic Benefit$18MReligion$17MEducation$9.7MCrime & Legal$6.3MCivil Rights$6.2MPhilanthropy$5.3MEnvironment$5.1MOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

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Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
The Righteous Persons Foundation$15,552,9666100%
The Barack Obama Foundation$11,025,00071%
The American Exchange Project Inc$4,075,000324%
On Being Project$3,850,000644%
Rewild$2,837,00032%
Firelight Media Inc$2,000,000410%
National Women's Law Center$2,000,00033%
Human Rights Watch Inc$2,000,00061%
Children's Hospital Los Angeles$2,000,00010%
The Studio Museum in Harlem$1,675,00014%
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All grantees of The Hearthland Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
The Righteous Persons Foundation$15,552,9666100%
The Barack Obama Foundation$11,025,00071%
The American Exchange Project Inc$4,075,000324%
On Being Project$3,850,000644%
Rewild$2,837,00032%
Firelight Media Inc$2,000,000410%
National Women's Law Center$2,000,00033%
Human Rights Watch Inc$2,000,00061%
Children's Hospital Los Angeles$2,000,00010%
The Studio Museum in Harlem$1,675,00014%
Equal Justice Initiative$1,663,50071%
Storycorps Inc$1,516,00034%
Workmoney Foundation Inc$1,500,000315%
Eternal Seeds Inc$1,250,000159%
City Year Inc$1,200,00050%
World Central Kitchen Inc$1,200,00020%
Utah Film Center$1,130,00033%
Juilliard School$1,100,00021%
Sag Harbor Cinema Arts Center Inc Co Susan Mead$1,000,00017%
Facing History & Ourselves Inc$1,000,00022%
Solutions Journalism Network Inc$1,000,00036%
Geffen Playhouse Inc$970,00082%
Smithsonian Institution$887,50040%
The Groundtruth Project Inc$850,00025%
Ikar$803,6004n/a
Art and Advocacy Society$725,000212%
Sandy Hook Promise Foundation$600,00061%
Freedom Reads Inc$600,00037%
Pro Publica Inc$575,00021%
More in Common Inc$525,00039%
Los Angeles Philharmonic Association$500,00020%
More Perfect Union Foundation$500,00016%
People's Action Institute$500,00021%
The Mayor's Fund for Los Angeles$500,00011%
Polaris Project$500,00042%
Liberation Ventures Inc$500,000113%
Sag Harbor Partnership Inc$500,00017%
Jewish Council for Public Affairs Inc$500,000124%
Save The Children Federation Inc$482,54450%
Utah Dine Bikeyah$435,000223%
The Center for Rural Strategies Inc$402,00036%
Equis Institute$401,00013%
Translash Media Inc$400,00028%
Community Funds Inc$400,0001n/a
Bvm Capacity Building Institute Inc$400,00031%
Voteorg$380,0001n/a
Vip Community Mental Health Center Inc$360,00062%
We the People MI$350,00035%
American Journalism Project Inc$350,00011%
Future of the Piedmont Foundation$350,000188%
Color of Changeorg Education Fund$321,25040%
Mothering Justice$315,00043%
Weitzman National Museum of American Jewish History$300,00032%
Partners for Justice Inc$300,00044%
Get Lit - Words Ignite Inc$300,00035%
City Club of Chicago$300,000115%
International Wilderness Leadership Foundation Inc$275,00015%
Pine Ridge Girls School Inc$273,000420%
Planned Parenthood Los Angeles$256,25050%
March for Our Lives Foundation$250,00017%
One Fair Wage Inc$250,00013%
Fair Count Inc$250,00012%
Center for American Progress$250,00010%
Peconic Land Trust Inc$250,00051%
Dream Machine Innovation So Inc$250,00011%
United States Artists Inc$250,00014%
Harness Community$250,00025%
T of L Inc$250,00013%
Reboot Inc$250,00015%
Solutions Project Inc$250,00013%
Institute for Media Analysis Inc$250,000127%
Alliance for Youth Organizing$250,00021%
Portland Art Museum$247,45011%
First Corinthian Baptist Church$231,5004n/a
Community Partners$225,00030%
Motion Picture and Television Fund$225,00030%
The Center for Reproductive Rights Inc$225,00050%
Citizen University$200,00019%
Armand Hammer Museum of Art and Cultural Center Inc$200,00011%
Thread Inc$200,00012%
Freshgrass Public Foundation$200,00019%
The National World War II Museum Inc$200,00010%
Forward Impact$200,00023%
Rural Digital Youth Resiliency Project$200,000212%
Faith in Action Network$200,00020%
International Refugee Assistance Project Inc$200,00021%
Para Los Ninos$200,00020%
National College Advising Corps Inc$200,00041%
The News Literacy Project Inc$200,00012%
Friends of Georgica Pond Foundation Inc$175,00079%
Tree Academy$166,00034%
Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences$155,15010%
The Link$155,00041%
Empower Initiative$150,0001n/a
National Domestic Workers Alliance Inc$150,00010%
West End Residences Hdfc Inc Dba Homeward NYC$150,00031%
Larkin Street Youth Services$150,00030%
Shakespeare Center of Los Angeles$150,000310%
Michigan Civic Education Fund$150,000211%
Everytown for Gun Safety Support Fund Inc$150,0002n/a
New America Foundation$150,00010%
Epworth Children & Family Services Inc$150,00030%
Friends of the Brentwood Art Center$150,00064%
M F Place Inc$150,00032%
Mountain Plains Youth Works$150,00031%
The Night Ministry$150,00030%
Truthspeaks Innovation Foundation$150,0001n/a
The Door - a Center of Alternatives Inc$150,00020%
Alliance for a Just Society$150,00012%
New York Shakespeare Festival$150,00030%
Pioneer Works Art Foundation$130,00021%
Vera Institute of Justice Inc$125,00040%
Glsen Inc$125,00031%
National Public Radio Inc$125,00040%
National Redistricting Foundation$125,00011%
Artists for Humanity Inc$116,00012%
Guild Hall of East Hampton Inc$115,00050%
St Louis ArtWorks$110,000120%
California Consortium for Urban Indian Health$100,00012%
Health Research Inc$100,00010%
Foundation for Social Impact$100,0001n/a
Right to Vote Foundation$100,000114%
George Street Playhouseinc$100,00012%
The Rape Foundation$100,00041%
350org$100,00010%
Casa of Los Angeles$100,00041%
ACLU Foundation of Southern California$100,00020%
Asian Law Caucus$100,00011%
The American Film Institute$100,00010%
Destination Crenshaw$100,00011%
The Campaign for the Fair Sentencing of Youth$100,00012%
Allies for Every Child Inc$100,00040%
Oficina Legal del Pueblo Unido Inc$100,00011%
Alliance for Young Artists and Writers Inc$100,00041%
Henry Street Settlement$100,00010%
Boys and Girls Club of Santa Monica Inc$100,00021%
Next River$100,00013%
When We All Vote$100,00010%
Monmouth University Inc$100,0001n/a
Justice for Migrant Women$100,00011%
The Breast Cancer Research Foundation Inc$100,00010%
The 19th News$100,00011%
Conservation Lands Foundation$100,00012%
E Town$95,00043%
Educational Theatre Association Foundation$80,00034%
Bright Prospect$75,00031%
Public Counsel$75,00011%
Ps Arts$75,00031%
New York Academy of Art$75,00030%
American Museum of Natural History$75,00030%
Strive Foundation$75,00033%
Simon Wiesenthal Center Inc$75,00020%
Young Storytellers$75,00032%
The Foundation for AIDS Research$75,00010%
United We Dream Network Inc$75,00011%
Eleanor Whitmore Early Childhood Center Inc$70,00061%
American Cinematheque$70,00031%
Feminist Majority Foundation$65,00030%
Taking the Reins$65,00035%
The Academy of American Poets Inc$60,00051%
The Southampton Hospital Foundation Inc$60,00060%
Team Rubicon Inc$58,33410%
Brentwood School$55,00030%
American Heart Association Inc$55,00040%
Brady Center to Prevent Gun Violence$50,00020%
Anthology Film Archives$50,00013%
Food Bank for New York City$50,00020%
Houston Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals$50,00010%
Southern Poverty Law Center Inc$50,00020%
Austin Pets Alive Inc$50,00010%
The Hawn Foundation$50,00013%
Ella Baker Center for Human Rights$50,00021%
Big Brothers Big Sisters of Greater Los Angeles$50,0001n/a
Bais Bezalel Inc$50,0001n/a
Americares Foundation Inc$50,00010%
Alliance for Justice$50,00011%
Friends of the Los Angeles Free Clinic$50,00012%
Joyful Heart Foundation$50,00011%
International Medical Corps$50,00010%
Imagine North Carolina First$50,00011%
The Edible Schoolyard Project dba The Alice Waters Institute$50,00022%
T'Ruah$50,00013%
Arthur Miller Foundation$50,00023%
Michigan Organizing Project$50,00012%
Native American Rights Fund Inc$50,00010%
Los Angeles Fire Department Foundation$44,66660%
The Ellen P Hermanson Foundation$40,00043%
Norman Rockwell Museum at Stockbridge Inc$35,00020%
Museum of Jewish Heritage a Living Memorial to the Holocaust$35,00020%
Jacob Burns Film Center Inc$35,00021%
Common Sense Media$32,50020%
Chrysalis Center$31,00010%
The Jain Family Institute$30,00010%
Deer Hill Foundation$30,00034%
The Roosevelt Institute$30,00010%
Los Angeles Lgbt Center$30,00020%
Grantmakers Concerned With Immigrants and Refugees$26,00010%
The Midnight Mission$25,00010%
International Women's Media Foundation$25,00014%
Circle of Health International$25,00014%
Hispanic Federation Inc$25,00010%
Data For Black Lives Inc$25,00011%
Mamba & Mambacita Sports Foundation$25,00010%
Planned Parenthood Greater Memphis Region Inc$25,00010%
Planned Parenthood of the Heartland Inc$25,00010%
Planned Parenthood Hudson Peconic Inc$25,00050%
Planned Parenthood Great Plains$25,00010%
Queens College Foundation Inc$25,00010%
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai$25,00010%
Bonapartes Retreat$25,00017%
Damascus Citizens for Sustainability Inc$25,000212%
The People Concern$25,00010%
Ps 1 Contemporary Art Center Inc$25,00010%
Girls for Gender Equity Inc$25,00011%
Planned Parenthood Arizona Inc$25,00010%
Arts Ignite Inc$25,00012%
Planned Parenthood Gulf Coast Inc$25,00010%
Planned Parenthood Great Rivers-Missouri$25,00010%
Planned Parenthood Association of Utah$25,00010%
Upvalley Family Centers of Napa County$24,00011%
Free Arts for Abused Children of New York City Inc$20,00011%
United Way of Northern California$20,00010%
Wellness Foundation$20,00021%
United Jewish Appeal-Federation of Jewish Philanthropies of New York Inc$20,00010%
Canyon School Booster Club$20,00013%
Marian and Edward Macdowell Inc$20,00011%
Jewish Family Service of San Diego$19,00010%
Electronic Frontier Foundation Inc$18,75010%
Food Forward Inc$18,50010%
Academy of Scifi Fantasy & Horror$16,0002n/a
Delaware Riverkeeper Network$15,00011%
Santa Barbara International Film Festival Inc$15,00010%
Partnership for Los Angeles Schools$15,00010%
Police Athletic League Inc$15,00010%
Los Angeles Police Foundation$15,00030%
Baby2baby$10,00010%
Ride on la Ride on Therapeutic Horsemanship$10,00011%
Museum Associates$10,0001n/a
The Art of Elysium$10,00020%
Debbie Allen Dance Inc Debbie Allen Dance Academy$10,00010%
Institute of Mathematical Statistics$10,00010%
Choices Healthcare$10,00010%
Delaware Valley Arts Alliance Inc$10,00012%
Island Theatre Workshop Inc$10,0001n/a
Every Mother Counts$10,00010%
Children's Service Society of Utah$10,00010%
Hispanics in Philanthropy$10,00010%
Oral Cancer Foundation Hill$10,00011%
The Elie Wiesel Foundation Inc$9,00011%
Puppies Behind Bars Inc$6,25010%
The Unusual Suspects Theatre Company$6,25011%
Fight for the Future Education Fund$6,25011%
Harvard-Westlake School$6,00010%
EcoHealth Alliance Inc$5,00010%
American Jewish Committee$5,00010%
Southern Ca Tri Counties Branch of Intl Dyslexia$5,000116%
New York Historical Society$5,00010%
Victor D'Amico Institute of Art$5,00012%
Chaddock Childrens Foundation$5,00010%
Variations Theatre Group Inc$5,00014%
Community Coalition for Substance Abuse Prevention and Treatment$5,00010%
BYP100 Education Fund$5,00010%
Warm Cookies of the Revolution$5,00012%
Wildwood School Inc$5,00010%
Art Division$5,0001n/a
The George and Barbara Bush Foundation$4,1671n/a
Bend the Arc - a Jewish Partnership for Justice$3,60010%
Graffiti 2 Community Ministries$3,60011%
Hamptons Youth Camps Inc$3,0001n/a
Congregation Bnai Jeshurun$2,5001n/a
University of California Santa Barbara$2,5001n/a
Seven Arrows Inc$2,50010%
Our Fabulous Variety Show Inc$2,00016%
Als Therapy Development Foundation Inc$1,07610%
Alpine Learning Group Education Program Inc$1,00010%
The Andrew McDonough B Foundation$1,00010%
Aliento Education Fund$1,00010%
East Valley Bible Church$1,0001n/a
Los Angeles Alliance for a New Economy$1,00010%
West Harlem Environmental Action Inc$1,00010%
Black Emotional and Mental Health Collec$1,00010%
International Rescue Committee INC$50010%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 46 recipients with no EIN on record ($6.6M), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

The Hearthland Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 5 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 200 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetThe Righteous Persons Foundation: $15,552,966 over 6y, 100% of budgetThe Barack Obama Foundation: $11,025,000 over 7y, 1.4% of budgetThe American Exchange Project Inc: $4,075,000 over 3y, 24% of budgetOn Being Project: $3,850,000 over 6y, 44% of budgetRewild: $2,837,000 over 3y, 1.9% of budgetFirelight Media Inc: $2,000,000 over 4y, 9.9% of budgetNational Women's Law Center: $2,000,000 over 3y, 3.4% of budgetHuman Rights Watch Inc: $2,000,000 over 6y, 0.8% of budgetChildren's Hospital Los Angeles: $2,000,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThe Studio Museum in Harlem: $1,675,000 over 1y, 3.9% of budgetEqual Justice Initiative: $1,663,500 over 7y, 0.7% of budgetStorycorps Inc: $1,516,000 over 3y, 4.1% of budgetWorkmoney Foundation Inc: $1,500,000 over 3y, 15% of budgetEternal Seeds Inc: $1,250,000 over 1y, 59% of budgetCity Year Inc: $1,200,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetWorld Central Kitchen Inc: $1,200,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetUtah Film Center: $1,130,000 over 3y, 2.7% of budgetJuilliard School: $1,100,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetSag Harbor Cinema Arts Center Inc Co Susan Mead: $1,000,000 over 1y, 6.8% of budgetFacing History & Ourselves Inc: $1,000,000 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetSolutions Journalism Network Inc: $1,000,000 over 3y, 5.7% of budgetGeffen Playhouse Inc: $970,000 over 8y, 1.8% of budgetSmithsonian Institution: $887,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetThe Groundtruth Project Inc: $850,000 over 2y, 4.7% of budgetArt and Advocacy Society: $725,000 over 2y, 12% of budgetSandy Hook Promise Foundation: $600,000 over 6y, 1.0% of budgetFreedom Reads Inc: $600,000 over 3y, 6.9% of budgetPro Publica Inc: $575,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetMore in Common Inc: $525,000 over 3y, 8.5% of budgetLos Angeles Philharmonic Association: $500,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetMore Perfect Union Foundation: $500,000 over 1y, 6.1% of budgetPeople's Action Institute: $500,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetThe Mayor's Fund for Los Angeles: $500,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetPolaris Project: $500,000 over 4y, 1.6% of budgetLiberation Ventures Inc: $500,000 over 1y, 13% of budgetSag Harbor Partnership Inc: $500,000 over 1y, 6.6% of budgetJewish Council for Public Affairs Inc: $500,000 over 1y, 24% of budgetSave The Children Federation Inc: $482,544 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetUtah Dine Bikeyah: $435,000 over 2y, 23% of budgetThe Center for Rural Strategies Inc: $402,000 over 3y, 6.0% of budgetEquis Institute: $401,000 over 1y, 3.3% of budgetTranslash Media Inc: $400,000 over 2y, 8.0% of budgetBvm Capacity Building Institute Inc: $400,000 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetVip Community Mental Health Center Inc: $360,000 over 6y, 2.1% of budgetWe the People MI: $350,000 over 3y, 4.9% of budgetAmerican Journalism Project Inc: $350,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetFuture of the Piedmont Foundation: $350,000 over 1y, 88% of budgetColor of Changeorg Education Fund: $321,250 over 4y, 0.5% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 200.

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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.

The Ford FoundationNY46.5× affinity40 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Ford Foundation · California Community Foundation · The Annenberg Foundation · The Ahmanson Foundation · The Ralph M Parsons Foundation · Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc · Weingart Foundation · Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors Inc · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Tides Foundation · The Katie McGrath & Jj Abrams Family Foundation · Conrad N Hilton 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.

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How do I get to The Hearthland Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Hearthland 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.

About The Hearthland Foundation

How much does The Hearthland Foundation give?
The Hearthland Foundation reported 91 grants totaling $26,709,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 28 and 146 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does The Hearthland Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (21%), Public Benefit (17%), Religion (16%).
Who are The Hearthland Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: The Righteous Persons Foundation ($16M), The Barack Obama Foundation ($11M), The American Exchange Project Inc ($4.1M).
Does The Hearthland Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 31% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does The Hearthland Foundation 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 Hearthland Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Ford Foundation, California Community Foundation, The Annenberg Foundation.
Where is The Hearthland Foundation based?
The Hearthland Foundation is based in CA.

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 346 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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