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Duke and Gael Habernickel Charitable Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$49k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
14
Grants FY2025
10
Organizations funded FY2024
10%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$1,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$22,000
Organizations funded a year
10 to 27
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
3
Total assets, FY2025
$2.0M
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 10% of the organizations Duke and Gael Habernickel Charitable Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 1% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $750 went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
HealthEnvironmentPhilanthropyEducationArts & CultureYouth DevelopmentOther
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 arriving14$49k14%
FY202410$77k10%
FY202312$97k25%
FY202214$191k21%
FY202114$164k14%
FY202016$110k6%
FY201917$95k18%
FY201827$98k67%
97% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Environment$341kArts & Culture$297kEducation$56kHealth$34kPublic Benefit$33kInternational$31kHuman Services$25kReligion$10kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Indian River Land Trust Inc$306,95075%
Riverside Theatre Inc$144,34190%
Vero Beach Museum of Art Inc$123,77090%
The Learning Alliance Inc$43,00060%
United Against Poverty Inc$31,40050%
McKee Botanical Garden Inc$22,50080%
Indian River Memorial Hospital Inc$21,0001n/a
Share Foundation Inc$21,0005n/a
Metropolitan Museum of Art$15,40060%
Environmental Learning Center Inc$11,10040%
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What it could do for these grantees

Plus 23 recipients with no EIN on record ($205k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Duke and Gael Habernickel Charitable Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetIndian River Land Trust Inc: $306,950 over 7y, 4.6% of budgetRiverside Theatre Inc: $144,341 over 9y, 0.2% of budgetVero Beach Museum of Art Inc: $123,770 over 9y, 0.3% of budgetThe Learning Alliance Inc: $43,000 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetUnited Against Poverty Inc: $31,400 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetMcKee Botanical Garden Inc: $22,500 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetMetropolitan Museum of Art: $15,400 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetEnvironmental Learning Center Inc: $11,100 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetMuseum of Modern Art: $10,628 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetMontclair Kimberley Academy Foundation: $8,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetJohn's Island Community Service League Inc: $4,450 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetThe John's Island Foundation Inc: $2,700 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetGeorgian Court University: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Trustees of Princeton University: $1,556 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetQuail Valley Charities Inc: $1,300 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetAlzheimer's Disease and Related Disorders New York City Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetChild Evangelism Fellowship of Nj Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetWhole Family Health Center Inc: $300 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Garden Conservancy Inc: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Breast Cancer Research Foundation Inc: $150 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBlood Cancer United Inc: $100 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 21.

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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 Berghorst Foundation IncDE15.7× affinity5 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Berghorst Foundation Inc · Archie S Wingfield Jr Charitable Trust U/A/D 5/15/1995 · Indian River Community Foundation Inc · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · Higgs Family Foundation · The Curley Foundation · The Ron and Nancy Rosner Charitable Foundation Inc · The Ned and Emily Sherwood Family Foundation · The Rogers Family Foundation · Welsh Family Foundation Inc · Dominick & Rose Ciampa Foundation Inc · The Carwill 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 Duke and Gael Habernickel Charitable Foundation

How much does Duke and Gael Habernickel Charitable Foundation give?
Duke and Gael Habernickel Charitable Foundation reported 14 grants totaling $49,450 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 10 and 27 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does Duke and Gael Habernickel Charitable Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Environment (35%), Arts & Culture (30%), Education (6%).
Who are Duke and Gael Habernickel Charitable Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Indian River Land Trust Inc ($307k), Riverside Theatre Inc ($144k), Vero Beach Museum of Art Inc ($124k).
Does Duke and Gael Habernickel Charitable Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 10% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Duke and Gael Habernickel Charitable Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as Duke and Gael Habernickel Charitable Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Berghorst Foundation Inc, Archie S Wingfield Jr Charitable Trust U/A/D 5/15/1995, Indian River Community Foundation Inc.
Where is Duke and Gael Habernickel Charitable Foundation based?
Duke and Gael Habernickel Charitable Foundation is based in DE.

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 52 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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