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Hafener Charitable Foundation Inc

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.

$145k
Granted FY2025still arriving
34
Grants FY2025still arriving
12
States reached
$60k
Largest
01What it funds
0189% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Education$153kPhilanthropy$78kArts & Culture$42kHealth$30kEnvironment$24kCrime & Legal$15kFood & Nutrition$13kHuman Services$10kOther$0
02FY2025 · 34 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k32 grants · $54k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $30k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $60k
$1,000
Median grant
12
States reached
$2.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
HEIGHTS FOUNDATION$60,250
CLARKSON UNIVERSITY$30,000
ABILITY PARTNERS FOUNDATION$5,000
CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER OF SW FLORIDA$5,000
CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER OF SNOHOMISH COUNTY - DAWSON PLACE$5,000
BAINBRIDGE ISLAND LAND TRUST$5,000
FOUNDATION FOR THE SCHOOL OF YOUNG CHILDREN$5,000
DUQUESNE UNIVERSITY$5,000
MARVIN RIDGE BAND BOOSTERS$3,000
FISH OF SANIBEL-CAPTIVA$2,000
FRIENDS OF SENEGAL$2,000
CHARITABLE FOUNDATION OF THE ISLANDS INC$2,000
SOCIAL GOOD FUND$2,000
Individual grant recipient$2,000
VISION QUILT$2,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY20–25, $32k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%INTERFAITH CHARITIES OF SOUTH LEE: $1k → 11%FRIENDS OF SENEGAL: $2k → 12%ABILITY PARTNERS FOUNDATION: $5k → 14%INTERFAITH CHARITIES OF SOUTH LEE: $1k → 11%INTERFAITH CHARITIES OF SOUTH LEE: $1k → 11%FRIENDS OF SENEGAL: $2k → 12%ABILITY PARTNERS FOUNDATION: $5k → 14%FRIENDS OF SENEGAL: $1k → 12%BAINBRIDGE ISLAND SENIOR COMM CENTE: $250 → 10%FISH OF SANIBEL-CAPTIVA: $2k → 11%FISH OF SANIBEL-CAPTIVA: $2k → 11%BAINBRIDGE ISLAND SENIOR COMMUNITY CENTER: $100 → 10%CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER OF SW FLORIDA: $5k → 11%CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER OF SW FLORIDA: $5k → 11%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

WA
MN
NY
OR
OH
PA
CT
CA
NC
SC
DC
OK
GA
TX
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

95%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$408k · 51 repeat orgs$22k to everyone else

51 repeat relationships: 27 still active in FY2025, 24 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

51
19

Total granted

$408k
$15k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+9%
+32%

Still filing today

53%
21%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $7k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationHuman ServicesEnvironmentAnimalsArts & CulturePhilanthropyOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • TF
    THE FOUNDATION FOR THE SCHOOL FOR YOUNG CHILDREN
    6× · 2020–2025 · $30k · revenue +8%
  • DU
    DUQUESNE UNIVERSITY OF THE HOLY SPIRIT
    3× · 2021–2025 · $10k · revenue +20%
  • WS
    WELLINGTON SCHOOL
    2× · 2021–2023 · $10k · revenue +8%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2022 · $4k
  • HF
    HEIGHTS FDN LEARNING CTR
    one grant, 2020 · $4k
  • P
    PELOTONIAgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $2k · revenue +32%
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.

04Its field

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.

1
United States Naval Institute

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.

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2
Marine Science Institute

The institutes mission is to cultivate a responsibility for the natural environment and our human communities through interdisciplinary science education.

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3
Aquarium of the Pacific Corporation

The aquarium of the pacific's mission is to instill a sense of wonder, respect, and stewardship for the pacific ocean, its inhabitants, and ecosystems.

Animals
4
Naples Zoo Inc

Naples zoo is accredited by the american zoo & aquarium association (aza) and has numerous animal exhibits placed on its 45-acre site. (continued on schedule o)each exhibit is unique and designed to simulate typical conditions for the…

Animals
5
Bermuda Institute of Ocean Sciences Bios Inc

Bios's mission is to seek and share fundamental knowledge of the oceans through state-of-the-art scientific research, world-class field expeditions, and comprehensive educational experiences.

Science & Tech
6
Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden Inc

We harness the power of plants for humankind and share the joy and beauty of tropical gardening with everyone. fairchild tropical botanic garden is a museum of tropical plants within a world famous, 83-acre designed landscape. it was…

Environment
7
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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8
Conservation International Foundation

Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.

Environment
9
International Life Sciences Institute

Ilsi is a global, nonprofit federation dedicated to generating and advancing emerging science and groundbreaking research to ensure foods are safe, nutritious and sustainable, and that they improve planetary and human health and well-being…

Science & Tech
10
Sanibel & Captiva Island Association of Realtors Inc

The sanibel & captiva islands association of realtors is the trusted voice and advocate for real estate. real estate professionals adding value to our community.

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11
Barton College

Founded in 1902, barton college is a four-year, private, liberal arts college located in wilson, n.c. the barton experience focuses on academic excellence within a wide range of professional and liberal arts programs leading to…

Education
12
Institute for Conservation Leadership

To support healthy communities and a healthy earth, the institute for conservation leadership strengthens leaders, organizations, coalitions and networks.

Community Improvement
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Bainbridge Island Land Trust; the most unlike its peers is Friends of Senegal. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

37 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. 37 of the 77 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
37/37
Grantees still filing
23/37
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Individual grant recipient: $102,500 · OtherIndividual grant recipientTHE FOUNDATION FOR THE SCHOOL FOR YOUNG CHILDREN: $30,000 · OtherTHE FOUNDATION FOR THE SCHOOL FOR YOUNG CHILDRENCLARKSON UNIVERSITY SCH FUND: $25,000 · OtherCLARKSON UNIVERSITY SCH FUNDBIG ARTS BARRIER ISLAND GRP FOR THE: $16,000 · OtherBIG ARTS BARRIER ISLAND GRP FOR THEGALISANO AUTISM CENTER: $15,000 · OtherGALISANO AUTISM CENTERFISH FRIENDS IN SERVICE HERE: $12,050 · OtherBIG ARTS BARRIER IS GRP FOR THE ART: $11,000 · OtherWELLINGTON SCHOOL: $10,000 · Other+45 more: $57,046 · Other+45 moreCLARKSON UNIVERSITY: $73,000 · EducationCLARKSON UNIVERSITYDUQUESNE UNIVERSITY OF THE HOLY SPIRIT: $10,250 · EducationDUQUESNE UNIVERSITY OF THE…Visioning Beyond Violence: $8,000 · EducationVisioning Beyond ViolenceSOCIAL GOOD FUND INC: $5,000 · EducationMARVIN RIDGE BAND BOOSTERS INC: $4,500 · Education+2 more: $2,000 · EducationCHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER OF SOUTHWEST FLORIDA INC: $10,000 · Human ServicesABILITY PARTNERS FOUNDATION: $10,000 · Human ServicesFriends of Senegal: $5,000 · Human ServicesFISH OF SANIBEL-CAPTIVA INC: $4,000 · Human ServicesINTERFAITH CHARITIES OF SOUTH LEE INC: $3,000 · Human Services+1 more: $350 · Human ServicesBAINBRIDGE ISLAND LAND TRUST: $11,000 · EnvironmentCAPTAINS FOR CLEAN WATER INC: $3,000 · EnvironmentSANIBEL-CAPTIVA CONSERVATION FOUNDATION: $1,000 · Environment+1 more: $500 · EnvironmentDING DARLING WILDLIFE SOCIETY INC: $2,500 · AnimalsCLINIC FOR THE REHABILITATION OF WILDLIFE INC: $500 · AnimalsTHE SEATTLE AQUARIUM SOCIETY: $350 · AnimalsBAINBRIDGE ISLAND PARKS & TRAILS FOUNDATION: $1,500 · Arts & CultureSHELL MUSEUM AND EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INC: $750 · Arts & CultureBAINBRIDGE ISLAND MUSEUM OF ART: $750 · Arts & CultureCHARITABLE FOUNDATION OF THE ISLANDS INC: $2,000 · Community Improvement
Other$278,596Education$102,750Human Services$32,350Environment$15,500Animals$3,350Arts & Culture$3,000Community Improvement$2,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCLARKSON UNIVERSITY: $73,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE FOUNDATION FOR THE SCHOOL FOR YOUNG CHILDREN: $30,000 over 6y, 0.8% of budgetBAINBRIDGE ISLAND LAND TRUST: $11,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetDUQUESNE UNIVERSITY OF THE HOLY SPIRIT: $10,250 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetWELLINGTON SCHOOL: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER OF SOUTHWEST FLORIDA INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetABILITY PARTNERS FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetVisioning Beyond Violence: $8,000 over 4y, 8.1% of budgetFriends of Senegal: $5,000 over 3y, 4.8% of budgetSOCIAL GOOD FUND INC: $5,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetMARVIN RIDGE BAND BOOSTERS INC: $4,500 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetFISH OF SANIBEL-CAPTIVA INC: $4,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCAPTAINS FOR CLEAN WATER INC: $3,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetINTERFAITH CHARITIES OF SOUTH LEE INC: $3,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetDING DARLING WILDLIFE SOCIETY INC: $2,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BLOEDEL RESERVE: $2,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetCATO INSTITUTE: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPELOTONIA: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBAINBRIDGE ISLAND PARKS & TRAILS FOUNDATION: $1,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $1,100 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSANIBEL-CAPTIVA CONSERVATION FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCrawford Crew Foundation: $750 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetSHELL MUSEUM AND EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INC: $750 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CONSERVANCY OF SOUTHWEST FLORIDA: $750 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBAINBRIDGE ISLAND MUSEUM OF ART: $750 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL AUDUBON SOCIETY INC: $500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFEED MY STARVING CHILDREN INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFLORIDA GULF COAST UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVASSAR COLLEGE: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCLINIC FOR THE REHABILITATION OF WILDLIFE INC: $500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBAINBRIDGE ISLAND SENIOR COMMUNITY CENTER: $350 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetAmigos de las Americas: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWesley Chapel Weddington Athletic Association: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSANIBEL COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION INC: $200 over 2y, 0.0% of budget
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 CLARKSON UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds THE FOUNDATION FOR THE SCHOOL FOR YOUNG CHILDREN ↗
  • Who funds BAINBRIDGE ISLAND LAND TRUST ↗
  • Who funds DUQUESNE UNIVERSITY OF THE HOLY SPIRIT ↗
  • Who funds WELLINGTON SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER OF SOUTHWEST FLORIDA INC ↗
  • Who funds ABILITY PARTNERS FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Visioning Beyond Violence ↗
  • Who funds Friends of Senegal ↗
  • Who funds SOCIAL GOOD FUND INC ↗
  • Who funds MARVIN RIDGE BAND BOOSTERS INC ↗
  • Who funds FISH OF SANIBEL-CAPTIVA INC ↗
  • Who funds CAPTAINS FOR CLEAN WATER INC ↗
  • Who funds INTERFAITH CHARITIES OF SOUTH LEE INC ↗
  • Who funds DING DARLING WILDLIFE SOCIETY INC ↗
  • Who funds CHARITABLE FOUNDATION OF THE ISLANDS INC ↗
  • Who funds THE BLOEDEL RESERVE ↗
  • Who funds CATO INSTITUTE ↗
  • Who funds PELOTONIA ↗
  • Who funds BAINBRIDGE ISLAND PARKS & TRAILS FOUNDATION ↗

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.

One Call for AllWA15.7× affinity5 shared granteesties to 10 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: One Call for All · Bainbridge Community Foundation · Seattle Foundation · Southwest Florida Community Foundation Inc · Marks Family Foundation · Ibm International Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Hafener Charitable Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Hafener Charitable Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 110%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →median 4%
  • Sanibel-Captiva Conservation Foundation: 4% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
11get no government money at all
10report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

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 77 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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