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Hafer Family 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.

$100k
Granted FY2023
8
Itemized grants FY2023
8
Organizations funded FY2023
25%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Itemized, FY2023
$88k
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2023
$10,000
Largest grant, FY2023
$20,000
Organizations funded a year
4 to 9
FY2021 to FY2023
States reached, FY2023
3
Total assets, FY2023
$2.1M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 25% of the organizations Hafer Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 34% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 66% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $30k went to new ones.

50%100%’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’22’23
Food & NutritionArts & CultureHousing & ShelterOther
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
FY20238$88k25%
FY20229$78k56%
FY20214$19kn/a
70% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Arts & Culture$88kFood & Nutrition$22kHousing & Shelter$20kReligion$20kAnimals$16kCrime & Legal$14kEnvironment$5kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2021 to FY2023, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Pickford Film Center$52,50032%
Lost Our Home Pet Foundation$16,00030%
Maui Food Bank Inc$15,00020%
Intiman Theatre$15,00020%
Free Arts for Abused Children of Arizona$14,00030%
Lydia Place$10,00020%
Kulshan Community Land Trust$10,00011%
St Mary's Food Bank Alliance$7,00020%

Plus 3 recipients with no EIN on record ($45k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Hafer Family Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetPickford Film Center: $52,500 over 3y, 2.4% of budgetLost Our Home Pet Foundation: $16,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetMaui Food Bank Inc: $15,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetIntiman Theatre: $15,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetFree Arts for Abused Children of Arizona: $14,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetLydia Place: $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetKulshan Community Land Trust: $10,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetSt Mary's Food Bank Alliance: $7,000 over 2y, 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 8.

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 Bank of America C…Vanguard Charitable E…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
The Bank of America Charitable Foundation IncNC10.2× affinity5 shared granteesties to 5 of 5Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Hafer Family Foundation

How much does Hafer Family Foundation give?
Hafer Family Foundation reported 8 itemized grants totaling $87,500, out of $100,000 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2023 IRS filing. It funded between 4 and 9 organizations a year over FY2021 to FY2023.
What does Hafer Family Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2021 to FY2023, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (9%), Food & Nutrition (2%), Housing & Shelter (2%).
Who are Hafer Family Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2021 to FY2023: Pickford Film Center ($53k), Lost Our Home Pet Foundation ($16k), Maui Food Bank Inc ($15k).
Does Hafer Family Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 25% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Hafer Family 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.
Which funders back the same organizations as Hafer Family Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc, Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program, American Online Giving Foundation Inc.
Where is Hafer Family Foundation based?
Hafer Family Foundation is based in WA.

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 11 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 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2024) is on record and reports $110k of grant expense with no grantee named in the published copy. A private foundation itemizes every grant it makes, so a return carrying none has filed its list as an attachment that the public copy does not include. The figures above are therefore from FY2023, the most recent year this funder’s grantee list reached the public record.

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