· Public charity
Haffenreffer Family Fund
To operate exclusively for educational, charitable and scientific purposes within the meaning of section 501(c)(3) of the internal revenue code as a section 509(a)(3) supporting organization of the rhode island community foundation.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 31 grants below total $723,825 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $947,854 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $224,029 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k7 grants · $51k
- $10k–50k20 grants · $405k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $267k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FIDELITY CHARITABLE GIFT FUND | $79,891 |
| RHODE ISLAND HOSPITAL | $70,000 |
| BROWN UNIVERSITY | $67,500 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF SOUTHERN NEW ENGLAND | $50,000 |
| SOUTHSIDE COMMUNITY LAND TRUST | $40,000 |
| YMCA OF GREATER NASHUA | $39,964 |
| THE SANCTUARY UNITED PENTECOSTAL CHURCH INC | $39,964 |
| THE SALVATION ARMY - NASHUA NEW HAMPSHIRE | $39,964 |
| RHODE ISLAND PBS FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| RHODE ISLANDERS SPONSORING EDUCATION | $20,000 |
| RHODE ISLAND FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| FUND FOR UCAP | $20,000 |
| ST LUKE'S EPISCOPAL CHURCH | $19,000 |
| MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL | $18,391 |
| RHODE ISLAND COMMUNITY FOOD BANK | $15,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY19–24, $273k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 67% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 7% of Haffenreffer Family Fund’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 85% of the giving stays in RI; read by stated purpose it is 82% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +62% since the first grant, against +8% for the ones you funded once.
35 repeat relationships — 26 still active in FY2024, 9 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $15k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
Rhode Island Hospital6× · 2019–2024 · $410k · revenue +53%
PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF SOUTHERN NEW ENGLAND INC6× · 2019–2024 · $245k · revenue +17%- FFFUND FOR UCAP6× · 2019–2024 · $200k · revenue +63%
Funded once
FOSTER FORWARDone grant, 2022 · $15k · revenue +1%- HFHUGHES FOUNDATIONone grant, 2022 · $8k
- RIRHODE ISLAND PUBLIC RADIOone grant, 2019 · $7k · revenue -18%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
The mission of rhode island school of design, through its college and museum,is to educate its students and the public in the creation and (see schedule o)appreciation of works of art and design, to discover and transmit knowledge and to…
At Roger Williams University, students are prepared to be thinkers and doers ready to solve challenging problems with innovative solutions. RWU offers robust offerings of undergraduate, graduate and professional programs across eight…
The university of rhode island alumni association informs and engages current and future alumni as committed partners of the university, its missions and traditions.
The organization's mission is to eliminate health disparities in rhode island and beyond. the organization develops innovative public health programs, conducts translational and policy research, provides clinical services, and trains…
The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
To encourage and receive private and public support to enhance and expand rhode island college's continued tradition of educational excellence. the foundation provides support for scholarships, faculty research grants, capital…
United way's mission is uniting our community and resources to build racial equity and opportunities for all rhode islanders.
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…
The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.
The only law school in Rhode Island, Roger Williams University School of Law offers future attorneys a rigorous, hands-on legal education in a supportive, personalized environment. Preparing students for success in the public and private…
The rhode island bankers association will serve as the sole rhode island based organization serving the banking industry and will advocate for its member institutions and participate alongside other new england banking industry…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Rhode Island Community Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Christ Evangelical Lutheran Church. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 43 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 10% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
38 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 38 of the 46 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ↗
- Who funds Rhode Island Hospital ↗
- Who funds BROWN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF SOUTHERN NEW ENGLAND INC ↗
- Who funds FUND FOR UCAP ↗
- Who funds Rhode Islanders Sponsoring Education ↗
- Who funds THE RHODE ISLAND COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SOUTHSIDE COMMUNITY LAND TRUST ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF RHODE ISLAND FOUNDATION & ALUMNI ENGAGEMENT ↗
- Who funds Young Men's Christian Association of Greater Nashua ↗
- Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds AMOS HOUSE ↗
- Who funds RHODE ISLAND COMMUNITY FOOD BANK ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds Christ Evangelical Lutheran Church ↗
- Who funds NONVIOLENCE INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds CROSSROADS RHODE ISLAND ↗
- Who funds FAMILY SERVICE OF RHODE ISLAND INC ↗
- Who funds DORCAS INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE OF RHODE ISLAND INC ↗
- Who funds PROVIDENCE ATHENAEUM ↗
- Who funds DAY ONE ↗
- Who funds OCEAN STATE MEDIA GROUP ↗
- Who funds LUCY'S HEARTH ↗
- Who funds URBAN COLLABORATIVE ↗
- Who funds RHODE ISLAND PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA & MUSIC SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds Portland Museum of Art ↗
- Who funds THE PROVIDENCE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds CITY ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds Islesboro Community Center ↗
- Who funds RHODE ISLAND BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds FOSTER FORWARD ↗
- Who funds WORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC ↗
- Who funds THE COMMUNITY FUND OF DARIEN ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: The Rhode Island Community Foundation · United Way of Rhode Island Inc · The Champlin Foundation · June Rockwell Levy Foundation Incorporated · Ralph R Papitto & Barbara a Papitto Private Family Foundation · Amica Companies Foundation · Citizens Charitable Foundation · Washington Trust Co Charitable Fdn · Textron Charitable Trust Dtd 122353 · The Joseph and Rosalyn Sinclair Foundation Inc · Mary D Chafee Fund Co Mark Chafee · Pobble Stone Foundation
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Haffenreffer Family Fund funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Planned Parenthood of Southern New England Inc — 10% of income from government
- The Community Fund of Darien — 9% of income from government
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.