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Hacker Family Charitable 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.

$87k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
3
Grants FY2024
2
Organizations funded FY2022
50%
First-time grantees FY2022
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98% of Hacker Family Charitable Foundation’s FY2024 grant dollars went to Ucla Foundation, not to grantees.

Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2024 names 1 organization directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it.

Organizations named directly on the return

1
’21
2
’22
1
’24

Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.

Median grant, FY2024
$10,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$75,000
Organizations funded a year
2 to 2
FY2021 to FY2022
States reached, FY2024
1
Total assets, FY2024
$164k
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2022, 50% of the organizations Hacker Family Charitable Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 33% of its grant dollars.

The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving1$2k0%
FY20222$15k50%
FY20212$23kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2024.

Education$88kArts & Culture$20kPhilanthropy$10kHealth$7k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2021 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Dancessence Inc Donna Sternberg & Dancers$20,000213%
Prostate Cancer Foundation$6,80020%

Plus 1 recipient with no EIN on record ($13k), not named here.

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About Hacker Family Charitable Foundation

How much does Hacker Family Charitable Foundation give?
Hacker Family Charitable Foundation reported 3 grants totaling $86,800 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 2 organizations a year over FY2021 to FY2022.
What does Hacker Family Charitable Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2021 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (70%), Arts & Culture (16%), Philanthropy (8%).
Who are Hacker Family Charitable Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2021 to FY2024: Dancessence Inc Donna Sternberg & Dancers ($20k), Prostate Cancer Foundation ($7k).
Does Hacker Family Charitable Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2022, 50% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Hacker Family Charitable 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.
Where is Hacker Family Charitable Foundation based?
Hacker Family Charitable 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 5 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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