· 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| CORPORATE ACCOUNTABILITY | $5,000 |
| COOLIDGE CORNER THEATRE | $5,000 |
| PRESERVATION FOUNDATION OF PALM BEACH | $5,000 |
| SUSTAINABLE NANTUCKET | $1,700 |
| ARTBARN COMMUNITY THEATER | $1,500 |
| TRUSTEES OF RESERVATIONS | $1,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,000 |
| SAVE THE CHILDREN | $1,000 |
| GREENROOTS INC | $1,000 |
| BROOKLINE INNOVATION FUND | $1,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 10% of Charles Hale & Kaaren Hale Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +40% since the first grant, against +14% for those 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
How this is measured
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
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.
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.
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.
How this is measured
42 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. 42 of the 81 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
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.
- 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 THE ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF THE PALM BEACHES INC ↗
- Who funds TIDES FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Zero Line Logistics ↗
- Who funds FARM AND WILDERNESS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds FOUNTAIN HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds NANTUCKET ARTS COUNCIL INC ↗
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.
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Charles Hale & Kaaren Hale Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Charles Hale & Kaaren Hale Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- 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
How this is measured
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