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Charles Hale & Kaaren Hale Family 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.

$86k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
20
Grants FY2025
27
Organizations funded FY2024
56%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$1,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$35,000
Organizations funded a year
6 to 30
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
8
Total assets, FY2025
$1.5M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 56% of the organizations Charles Hale & Kaaren Hale Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 42% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 58% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $36k went to new ones.

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

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureEnvironmentHealthHousing & ShelterAnimalsInternationalOther
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
FY2025still arriving20$86k30%
FY202427$84k56%
FY202315$77k27%
FY202220$87k55%
FY20216$44k17%
FY202030$161k47%
FY201921$108k52%
FY201815$85kn/a
90% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.

Arts & Culture$396kInternational$153kEnvironment$53kHealth$37kPhilanthropy$31kPublic Benefit$30kAnimals$19kEducation$15kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

VT
NH
MI
NY
MA
NJ
CT
CA
CO
VA
DC
FL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2018 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 38 grantees
All grantees of Charles Hale & Kaaren Hale Family Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
The Society of the Four Arts Inc$89,00040%
Artists Association of Nantucket Inc$68,30081%
Nantucket Historical Association$61,43080%
Nantucket Atheneum Inc$47,69051%
Infact DBA Corporate Accountability$47,50060%
The Chatham House Foundation Inc$45,75035%
American Friends of Covent Garden the Royal Ballet Inc$43,45030%
Hope for Depression Research Foundation$34,43431%
The Preservation Foundation of Palm Beach Inc$14,70030%
Artbarn Community Theater Inc$14,00041%
White Heron Theater Company$11,40021%
Nantucket Preservation Trust Inc$7,50031%
The Trustees of Princeton University$6,50040%
Nantucket Sustainable Development Corporation$5,50030%
The Zoological Society of the Palm Beaches Inc$5,00010%
Zero Line Logistics$5,00011%
Farm and Wilderness Foundation Inc$4,00040%
Fountain House Inc$3,00020%
Nantucket Arts Council Inc$3,00022%
Nantucket Land & Water Council Inc$2,0001n/a
Park School Corporation$2,00030%
Metrowest Women's Fund Inc$1,50030%
Brookline Food Pantry Inc$1,50020%
Brookline Education Foundation$1,50010%
Greenroots Inc$1,00010%
American Repertory Theatre Co Inc$1,00010%
Mothers Out Front Inc$1,00010%
Save The Children Federation Inc$1,0001n/a
The Center for Cultural Power$1,00010%
Theatre Workshop of Nantucket Inc$1,00010%
The Trustees of Reservations$1,00010%
United for A Fair Economy Inc$1,00010%
Institute for Policy Studies$5001n/a
Randolph Mountain Club$50010%
Nantucket Maria Mitchell Association In$50010%
Possibility Labs$5001n/a
Greater Boston Food Bank Inc$50010%
Protect Our Winters$50010%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 39 recipients with no EIN on record ($196k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Charles Hale & Kaaren Hale Family Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetThe Society of the Four Arts Inc: $89,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetArtists Association of Nantucket Inc: $68,300 over 8y, 0.8% of budgetNantucket Historical Association: $61,430 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetNantucket Atheneum Inc: $47,690 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetInfact DBA Corporate Accountability: $47,500 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetThe Chatham House Foundation Inc: $45,750 over 3y, 4.9% of budgetAmerican Friends of Covent Garden the Royal Ballet Inc: $43,450 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetHope for Depression Research Foundation: $34,434 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetThe Preservation Foundation of Palm Beach Inc: $14,700 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetArtbarn Community Theater Inc: $14,000 over 4y, 1.5% of budgetWhite Heron Theater Company: $11,400 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetNantucket Preservation Trust Inc: $7,500 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetThe Trustees of Princeton University: $6,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetNantucket Sustainable Development Corporation: $5,500 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetThe Zoological Society of the Palm Beaches Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetZero Line Logistics: $5,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetFarm and Wilderness Foundation Inc: $4,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetFountain House Inc: $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNantucket Arts Council Inc: $3,000 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetPark School Corporation: $2,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMetrowest Women's Fund Inc: $1,500 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetBrookline Food Pantry Inc: $1,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBrookline Education Foundation: $1,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetGreenroots Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Repertory Theatre Co Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMothers Out Front Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Center for Cultural Power: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTheatre Workshop of Nantucket Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThe Trustees of Reservations: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUnited for A Fair Economy Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetRandolph Mountain Club: $500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetNantucket Maria Mitchell Association In: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGreater Boston Food Bank Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetProtect Our Winters: $500 over 1y, 0.0% 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 34.

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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.

Community Foundation for Nantucket IncMA19.9× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Community Foundation for Nantucket Inc · Boston Foundation Inc · Eastern Bank Foundation · Clara Foundation Inc · The George & Marie Chabot Charitable Foundation · The Hale Family Foundation · The Schmidt Family Foundation · Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc · Charles S & Carmen Demora Hale Foundation · Cecelia Joyce and Seward Johnson Foundation Inc · Meyer & Jean Steinberg Family Foundation Inc · Gilbert Verney 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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About Charles Hale & Kaaren Hale Family Foundation

How much does Charles Hale & Kaaren Hale Family Foundation give?
Charles Hale & Kaaren Hale Family Foundation reported 20 grants totaling $86,400 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 6 and 30 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does Charles Hale & Kaaren Hale Family Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (49%), International (19%), Environment (7%).
Who are Charles Hale & Kaaren Hale Family Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2018 to FY2025: The Society of the Four Arts Inc ($89k), Artists Association of Nantucket Inc ($68k), Nantucket Historical Association ($61k).
Does Charles Hale & Kaaren Hale Family Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 56% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Charles Hale & Kaaren Hale Family 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 Charles Hale & Kaaren Hale Family Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Community Foundation for Nantucket Inc, Boston Foundation Inc, Eastern Bank Foundation.
Where is Charles Hale & Kaaren Hale Family Foundation based?
Charles Hale & Kaaren Hale Family Foundation is based in NJ.

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 81 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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