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Haffenreffer Family Fund at a glance

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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.

$948k
Granted FY2024still arriving
31
Grants FY2024still arriving
8
States reached
$80k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.

Health$797kEducation$591kPhilanthropy$558kReligion$406kHuman Services$349kArts & Culture$217kEnvironment$171kHousing & Shelter$165kOther$0
02FY2024 · 31 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 31 grants below total $723,825, the rows itemized in this filing. The $947,854 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $224,029 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k7 grants · $51k
  • $10k–50k20 grants · $405k
  • $50k–250k4 grants · $267k
$15,000
Median grant
8
States reached
$16M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
THE SALVATION ARMY - NASHUA NEW HAMPSHIRE$39,964
THE SANCTUARY UNITED PENTECOSTAL CHURCH INC$39,964
YMCA OF GREATER NASHUA$39,964
RHODE ISLAND FOUNDATION$20,000
RHODE ISLANDERS SPONSORING EDUCATION$20,000
FUND FOR UCAP$20,000
RHODE ISLAND PBS FOUNDATION$20,000
ST LUKE'S EPISCOPAL CHURCH$19,000
MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL$18,391
DAY ONE$15,000
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.

show:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%FAMILY SERVICE OF RHODE ISLAND: $15k → 14%YMCA OF GREATER NASHUA: $40k → 7%FAMILY SERVICE OF RHODE ISLAND: $15k → 14%YMCA OF GREATER NASHUA: $16k → 7%Nonviolence Institute: $11k → 14%YMCA OF GREATER NASHUA: $15k → 7%NONVIOLENCE INSTITUTE: $10k → 14%YMCA of Greater Nashua: $10k → 7%NONVIOLENCE INSTITUTE: $10k → 14%YMCA of Greater Nashua: $10k → 7%Nonviolence Institute: $10k → 14%NONVIOLENCE INSTITUTE: $10k → 14%Nonviolence Institute: $10k → 14%Nonviolence Institute: $500 → 14%Nonviolence Institute: $500 → 14%FOSTER FORWARD: $15k → 14%CROSSROADS RHODE ISLAND: $10k → 14%Crossroads Rhode Island: $10k → 14%CROSSROADS RHODE ISLAND: $10k → 14%CROSSROADS RHODE ISLAND: $10k → 14%Crossroads Rhode Island: $10k → 14%Crossroads Rhode Island: $10k → 14%FAMILY SERVICE OF RHODE ISLAND INC: $15k → 14%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

ME
NH
WA
MN
NY
MA
OH
CT
RI
CA
MO
TN
DC
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.
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Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 7% of Haffenreffer Family Fund’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 85% of the giving stays in RI; by stated purpose, 82%.

Haffenreffer Family Fundlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 2.4% directed abroad (not shown)
How this is measured
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 funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

98%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.7M · 35 repeat orgs$63k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

35
6

Total granted

$2.7M
$48k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+63%
+63%

Still filing today

80%
83%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $15k went to new ones.

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

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationHuman ServicesHealthPhilanthropyArts & CultureFood & NutritionOther
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

  • Rhode Island Hospital
    6× · 2019–2024 · $410k · revenue +64%
  • PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF SOUTHERN NEW ENGLAND INC
    6× · 2019–2024 · $245k · revenue +17%
  • FF
    FUND FOR UCAP
    6× · 2019–2024 · $200k · revenue +63%

Funded once

  • FOSTER FORWARDgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $15k · revenue +77%
  • HF
    HUGHES FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2022 · $8k
  • RI
    RHODE ISLAND PUBLIC RADIO
    one grant, 2019 · $7k · revenue -18%
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
Rhode Island School of Design

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…

Education
2
Roger Williams University

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…

Education
3
The Alumni Association of the University of Rhode Island

The university of rhode island alumni association informs and engages current and future alumni as committed partners of the university, its missions and traditions.

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4
The Rhode Island Public Health Foundation

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…

Health
5
University of New Haven

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…

Education
6
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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7
Rhode Island College Foundation

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…

Education
8
United Way of Rhode Island Inc

United way's mission is uniting our community and resources to build racial equity and opportunities for all rhode islanders.

Philanthropy
9
Preserve Rhode Island

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…

Arts & Culture
10
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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.

Education
11
Roger Williams University School of Law

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…

Education
12
Rhode Island Bankers Association Inc

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…

Public Benefit
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Rhode Island Community Foundation; 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.
05the grantee network

38 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, 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.

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)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
38/38
Grantees still filing
35/38
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

The Sanctuary United Pentecostal Church Inc: $234,633 · OtherThe Sanctuary United Pentecosta…THE SALVATION ARMY: $148,964 · OtherTHE SALVATION ARMYTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $75,000 · OtherTHE NATURE CONSERVANCYMOSES BROWN SCHOOL: $69,000 · OtherMOSES BROWN SCHOOLAMOS HOUSE: $67,500 · OtherAMOS HOUSEChrist Evangelical Lutheran Church: $64,000 · OtherChrist Evangelical Lutheran Chu…DAY ONE: $44,750 · OtherDIOCESE OF RHODE ISLAND: $39,000 · OtherST LUKES PARISH: $38,000 · OtherMASS GENERAL BRIGHAM INCORPORATED: $37,700 · OtherRHODE ISLAND COMMUNITY FOOD BANK ASSOCIATION: $65,000 · OtherRHODE ISLAND COMMUNITY FOOD BAN…DORCAS INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE OF RHODE ISLAND INC: $52,500 · OtherLUCY'S HEARTH: $37,000 · Other+6 more: $82,000 · Other+6 moreFIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND: $469,560 · Community ImprovementFIDELITY INVESTMENTS CH…BROWN UNIVERSITY: $309,500 · Community ImprovementBROWN UNIVERSITY+1 more: $15,000 · Community ImprovementRhode Island Hospital: $410,000 · HealthRhode Island Hospita…PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF SOUTHERN NEW ENGLAND INC: $245,000 · HealthPLANNED PARENTHOOD O…THE PROVIDENCE CENTER INC: $30,000 · Health+1 more: $19,500 · HealthRhode Islanders Sponsoring Education: $167,250 · PhilanthropyRhode Islande…THE RHODE ISLAND COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $150,000 · PhilanthropyTHE RHODE ISL…SOUTHSIDE COMMUNITY LAND TRUST: $120,000 · PhilanthropySOUTHSIDE COM…+1 more: $12,801 · PhilanthropyFUND FOR UCAP: $200,000 · EducationFUND FOR UCA…UNIVERSITY OF RHODE ISLAND FOUNDATION & ALUMNI ENGAGEMENT: $100,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY O…PROVIDENCE ATHENAEUM: $46,000 · EducationPROVIDENCE A…URBAN COLLABORATIVE: $30,000 · EducationURBAN COLLAB…CITY ACADEMY INC: $18,000 · Education+3 more: $22,919 · Education+3 moreYoung Men's Christian Association of Greater Nashua: $90,964 · Human ServicesNONVIOLENCE INSTITUTE: $62,000 · Human ServicesCROSSROADS RHODE ISLAND: $60,000 · Human ServicesFAMILY SERVICE OF RHODE ISLAND INC: $55,000 · Human ServicesFOSTER FORWARD: $15,000 · Human ServicesOCEAN STATE MEDIA GROUP: $40,000 · Arts & CulturePortland Museum of Art: $30,000 · Arts & CultureRHODE ISLAND PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA & MUSIC SCHOOL: $30,000 · Arts & Culture
Other$1,055,047Community Improvement$794,060Health$704,500Philanthropy$450,051Education$416,919Human Services$282,964Arts & Culture$100,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetFIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND: $469,560 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetRhode Island Hospital: $410,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetBROWN UNIVERSITY: $309,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD OF SOUTHERN NEW ENGLAND INC: $245,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetFUND FOR UCAP: $200,000 over 6y, 9.7% of budgetRhode Islanders Sponsoring Education: $167,250 over 6y, 11% of budgetTHE RHODE ISLAND COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $150,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetSOUTHSIDE COMMUNITY LAND TRUST: $120,000 over 3y, 1.6% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF RHODE ISLAND FOUNDATION & ALUMNI ENGAGEMENT: $100,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetYoung Men's Christian Association of Greater Nashua: $90,964 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $75,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetAMOS HOUSE: $67,500 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetRHODE ISLAND COMMUNITY FOOD BANK ASSOCIATION: $65,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetChrist Evangelical Lutheran Church: $64,000 over 6y, 1.5% of budgetNONVIOLENCE INSTITUTE: $62,000 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetCROSSROADS RHODE ISLAND: $60,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetFAMILY SERVICE OF RHODE ISLAND INC: $55,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetDORCAS INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE OF RHODE ISLAND INC: $52,500 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetPROVIDENCE ATHENAEUM: $46,000 over 6y, 0.7% of budgetDAY ONE: $44,750 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetOCEAN STATE MEDIA GROUP: $40,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetLUCY'S HEARTH: $37,000 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetURBAN COLLABORATIVE: $30,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetPortland Museum of Art: $30,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTHE PROVIDENCE CENTER INC: $30,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetRHODE ISLAND PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA & MUSIC SCHOOL: $30,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $19,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCITY ACADEMY INC: $18,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetIslesboro Community Center: $17,250 over 3y, 1.9% of budgetRHODE ISLAND BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE INC: $15,000 over 1y, 10% of budgetFOSTER FORWARD: $15,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetWORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC: $13,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE COMMUNITY FUND OF DARIEN: $12,801 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetBARD COLLEGE: $11,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetRHODE ISLAND PUBLIC RADIO: $7,250 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetMary Institute and St Louis Country Day School: $6,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE DAVID SHELDRICK WILDLIFE TRUST USA INC: $6,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFLORIDA GULF COAST UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC: $5,419 over 1y, 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 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 Portland Museum of Art ↗
  • Who funds THE PROVIDENCE CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds RHODE ISLAND PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA & MUSIC SCHOOL ↗
  • 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 ↗

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 Rhode Island Comm…United Way of Rhode I…The Champlin Foundati…June Rockwell Levy Fo…Ralph R Papitto & Bar…Amica Companies Found…Citizens Charitable F…Washington Trust Co C…Textron Charitable Tr…The Joseph and Rosaly…Mary D Chafee Fund Co…Pobble Stone Foundati…
The Rhode Island Community FoundationRI38.5× affinity17 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Haffenreffer Family Fund funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Haffenreffer Family Fund. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 10%
  • Planned Parenthood of Southern New England Inc: 10% of income from government
  • The Community Fund of Darien: 9% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get 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
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 46 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 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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The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
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