· Private foundation
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2018–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k18 grants · $41k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $45k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SOCIETY OF THE FOUR ART | $35,000 |
| ARTISTS ASSOCIATION OF NANTUCKET | $10,000 |
| NANTUCKET HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION | $9,700 |
| WOMENS DONORS NETWORK | $5,000 |
| PRESERVATION FOUNDATION OF PALM BEACH | $5,000 |
| COOLIDGE CORNER THEATRE | $5,000 |
| CORPORATE ACCOUNTABILITY | $5,000 |
| SUSTAINABLE NANTUCKET | $1,700 |
| ARTBARN COMMUNITY THEATER | $1,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,000 |
| BROOKLINE INNOVATION FUND | $1,000 |
| SAVE THE CHILDREN | $1,000 |
| GREENROOTS INC | $1,000 |
| TRUSTEES OF RESERVATIONS | $1,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY23–25, $2k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 25% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 10% of Charles Hale & Kaaren Hale Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.
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 foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +40% since the first grant, against +14% for the ones you funded once.
34 repeat relationships — 14 still active in FY2025, 20 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- TSThe Society of the Four Arts Inc4× · 2020–2025 · $89k · revenue ×11
- AAARTISTS ASSOCIATION OF NANTUCKET INC8× · 2018–2025 · $68k · revenue +40%
- NHNANTUCKET HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION8× · 2018–2025 · $61k · revenue +178%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2020 · $25k
- CHCHATHAM HOUSE FOUNDATIONone grant, 2022 · $18k
- TWTHEATER WORKSHOP OF NANTUCKETone grant, 2024 · $10k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
The nantucket conservation foundation owns, protects, and stewards over 9,000 acres of land and coastal shoreline, conserves nantucket's rare and significant natural resources, and engages in impactful ecological research to inform…
The organization's mission is to conserve and promote new england's native plants to ensure healthy, biologically diverse landscapes.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
Our mission is to ensure that the people of greater boston benefit from a vibrant, resilient, and inclusive waterfront, harbor, and islands; these spaces are equitable, accessible, and adapted to climate change; and to ensure our public,…
The npr foundation ("foundation") is organized and operated exclusively for the benefit of its sole supported organization, national public radio, inc. ("npr inc."). the foundation supports npr inc. through various activities such as…
National public radio, inc. ("npr") works collaboratively with member public radio station licensees ("member stations") to create a more informed public, one that is challenged and invigorated by a deeper understanding and appreciation of…
Preserve ri's vision is a future where historic preservation creates positive change, making our diverse cultures, the environment, and the economy better for the people who live, visit and work in rhode island. preserve ri's mission is to…
To cultivate and develop an expansive collection of trees, gardens, and plants for all to explore, enjoy and study; and to provide through education and stewardship, a greener, healthier, more beautiful environment.
The alliance to protect nantucket sound is a 501(c)(3) non-profit environmental organization dedicated to the permanent preservation of nantucket sound, the historic body of water that lies between cape cod, martha's vineyard, and…
To preserve and steward aquidneck island's open spaces for the lasting benefit of the community while connecting people with the land that defines the island's natural character.
Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.
To preserve the unique character and natural resources of harvard.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Trustees of Reservations and the most unlike its peers is Randolph Mountain Club. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 46 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
42 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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 42 of the 81 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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 The Society of the Four Arts Inc ↗
- Who funds ARTISTS ASSOCIATION OF NANTUCKET INC ↗
- Who funds CHARITIES AID FOUNDATION AMERICA ↗
- Who funds NANTUCKET HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds NANTUCKET ATHENEUM INC ↗
- Who funds Infact DBA Corporate Accountability ↗
- Who funds THE CHATHAM HOUSE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF COVENT GARDEN THE ROYAL BALLET INC ↗
- Who funds HOPE FOR DEPRESSION RESEARCH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds The Preservation Foundation of Palm Beach Inc ↗
- Who funds ARTBARN COMMUNITY THEATER INC ↗
- Who funds WHITE HERON THEATER COMPANY ↗
- Who funds MYRIAD USA INC ↗
- Who funds NANTUCKET PRESERVATION TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds The Trustees of Princeton University ↗
- Who funds NANTUCKET SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds Zero Line Logistics ↗
- Who funds TIDES FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF THE PALM BEACHES INC ↗
- Who funds FARM AND WILDERNESS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds NANTUCKET ARTS COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds FOUNTAIN HOUSE 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.
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
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 Charles Hale & Kaaren Hale Family 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Save the Children Federation Inc — 30% of income from government
- Greater Boston Food Bank Inc — 22% of income from government
- The Trustees of Princeton University — 11% of income from government
- Nantucket Maria Mitchell Association in — 9% of income from government
- The Trustees of Reservations — 2% of income from government
- Greenroots Inc — 1% of income from government
- Nantucket Historical Association — 1% of income from government
- American Repertory Theatre Co Inc — 0% of income from government
- Farm and Wilderness Foundation Inc — 0% of income from government
- Artists Association of Nantucket Inc — 0% of income from government
- Infact Dba Corporate Accountability — 0% of income from government
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.
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