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Hafner Charitable Foundation at a glance

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Hafner Charitable Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$61k
Granted FY2025still arriving
5
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$20k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0196% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Philanthropy$199kHuman Services$102kEducation$38kCivil Rights$29kReligion$25kArts & Culture$20kHealth$18kYouth Development$14kOther$0
02FY2025 · 5 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k3 grants · $24k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $37k
$8,500
Median grant
2
States reached
$1.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
JEWISH FAMILY ASSISTANCE FUND$20,000
NATIONAL COUNCIL OF JEWISH WOMEN$16,649
HEBREW FREE LOAN ASSOCIATION$8,500
JEWISH FAMILY & CHILDRENS SERVIC$8,223
PITTSBURGH HEARTS OF STEEL$7,500
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 (FY17–25, $42k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 88% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%MITZVAH CIRCLE FOUNDATION: $5k → 7%Jewish Family and Children Services: $10k → 11%JEWISH FAMILY & CHILDRENS SERVIC: $8k → 11%JEWISH ASSOCIATION ON AGING: $6k → 11%OUTREACH TEEN & FAMILY SERVICES: $13k → 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.
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.

28%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$90k · 3 repeat orgs$229k to everyone else

3 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2025, 0 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

3
14

Total granted

$90k
$205k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+23%
+99%

Still filing today

100%
57%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 60% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $24k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesPhilanthropyFood & NutritionCommunity ImprovementHousing & 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.

Backed again, and grew

  • JF
    JEWISH FAMILY ASSISTANCE FUND dba JEWISH ASSISTANCE FUND
    2× · 2021–2025 · $40k · revenue -12%
  • HF
    HEBREW FREE LOAN ASSOCIATION OF PITTSBURGH
    3× · 2021–2025 · $32k · revenue +23%
  • JF
    JEWISH FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S SERVICE OF PITTSBURGH
    2× · 2020–2025 · $18k · revenue +69%

Funded once

  • YS
    YESHIVA SCHOOLS OF PITTSBURGH
    one grant, 2024 · $38k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2023 · $30k
  • TS
    Temple Sinai
    one grant, 2018 · $25k
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
Jewish Family and Children's Service Inc

Strengthening the community by providing behavioral health, healthcare and social services to all ages, faiths and backgrounds.

Human Services
2
Jewish Family Service of Greater Harrisburg Inc

To help individuals and families meet life's challenges. jewish family service is a forward-thinking mental health and social service agency dedicated to helping people achieve their full potential while honoring choice, diversity, and…

Health
3
Jewish Family Service

Jewish Family Service is a nonprofit social service organization that supports people of all faiths as they navigate through lifes's challenges - illness, aging , finanical uncertainty, mental health concerns, family problems, or personal…

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4
Jewish Family and Children's Service of Minneapolis

Jewish family and children's service of minneapolis provides essential services to people of all ages and backgrounds to sustain healthy relationships, ease suffering and offer support in times of need.

Human Services
5
Jewish Family Service of the Cincinnati Area

A social service agency, JFS strengthens lives and our diverse community by providing exceptional and transformational human services. Services include: Counseling, Case Management, Financial and Food Support, Home Care, Senior Services,…

Human Services
6
Jewish Family Services

To help individuals and families achieve economic self-sufficiency and emotional stability.

Human Services
7
Jewish Family Service of Northeastern Pennsylvania

Jewish family service is a human service organization which reflects the jewish tradition of caring and compassion for all people in need. through professional counseling, advocacy and educational programming, our services seek to enhance…

Human Services
8
Jewish Family Service of Greater New Hav

Jewish family service of greater new haven (jfsgnh) supports and strengthens individual, family, and community life by providing a wide range of social services. we welcome people of all ages, races, ethnicities, sexual orientations,…

Human Services
9
Jewish Family & Children's Services of Northern New Jersey Endowment Inc

To further the purposes of jewish family & children's services of northern new jersey, inc.

Philanthropy
10
Jewish Family Service of the Lehigh Valley

Jewish family service of the lehigh valley, guided by jewish values, helps individuals and families to live healthier, more stable lives by providing social services, professional counseling, education, and community programs. our vision…

Human Services
11
Metropolitan Jewish Health System Inc

Mjhs health system is a charitable not-for-profit established to support the activities of affiliated organizations. mjhs is built on the core values of compassion, dignity and respect, first established by the four brooklyn ladies in…

Health
12
Legal Services for Immigrants and Internationals

To provide legal services to poor and needy immigrants and internationals in southwestern pennsylvania.

Crime & Legal
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jewish Family and Children's Service of Pittsburgh; the most unlike its peers is Outreach Teen and Family Services Inc. 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

13 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. 13 of the 20 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
13/13
Grantees still filing
9/13
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

JEWISH FAMILY ASSISTANCE FUND dba JEWISH ASSISTANCE FUND: $40,000 · OtherJEWISH FAMILY ASSISTANCE FUND dba JEWISH ASSISTAN…YESHIVA SCHOOLS OF PITTSBURGH: $38,209 · OtherYESHIVA SCHOOLS OF PITTSBURGHIndividual grant recipient: $30,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientTemple Sinai: $25,000 · OtherTemple SinaiAmerican Jewish Museum of the JC: $20,000 · OtherAmerican Jewish Museum of the JCTHE CROSSROADS FOUNDATION: $14,451 · OtherTHE CROSSROADS FOUNDATIONNATIONAL COUNCIL OF JEWISH: $12,500 · OtherNATIONAL COUNCIL OF JEWISHVINCENTIAN COLLABORATIVE SYSTEM: $12,500 · OtherVINCENTIAN COLLABORATIVE SYSTEMHEALTHY START INC: $10,000 · OtherPITTSBURGH HEARTS OF STEEL: $7,500 · Other+1 more: $3,497 · OtherJEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER PITTSBURGH: $167,480 · PhilanthropyJEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER PITTSBURGHHEBREW FREE LOAN ASSOCIATION OF PITTSBURGH: $32,000 · PhilanthropyHEBREW FREE LOAN ASSOCIATION OF PITTSBURGHJEWISH FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S SERVICE OF PITTSBURGH: $17,800 · Human ServicesJEWISH FA…Outreach Teen and Family Services Inc: $12,500 · Human ServicesOutreach …JEWISH ASSOCIATION ON AGING: $6,437 · Human ServicesJEWISH AS…MITZVAH CIRCLE FOUNDATION: $5,000 · Human ServicesMITZVAH C…NATIONAL COUNCIL OF JEWISH WOMEN INCORPORATED: $16,649 · Community ImprovementGREATER PITTSBURGH COMMUNITY FOOD BANK: $10,000 · Food & NutritionMAINSTAY LIFE SERVICES: $4,652 · Housing & Shelter
Other$213,657Philanthropy$199,480Human Services$41,737Community Improvement$16,649Food & Nutrition$10,000Housing & Shelter$4,652

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetJEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER PITTSBURGH: $167,480 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetJEWISH FAMILY ASSISTANCE FUND dba JEWISH ASSISTANCE FUND: $40,000 over 2y, 3.3% of budgetHEBREW FREE LOAN ASSOCIATION OF PITTSBURGH: $32,000 over 3y, 3.0% of budgetJEWISH FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S SERVICE OF PITTSBURGH: $17,800 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetNATIONAL COUNCIL OF JEWISH WOMEN INCORPORATED: $16,649 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE CROSSROADS FOUNDATION: $14,451 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetVINCENTIAN COLLABORATIVE SYSTEM: $12,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetOutreach Teen and Family Services Inc: $12,500 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetHEALTHY START INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetGREATER PITTSBURGH COMMUNITY FOOD BANK: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH ASSOCIATION ON AGING: $6,437 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMITZVAH CIRCLE FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMAINSTAY LIFE SERVICES: $4,652 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.

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 Jack Buncher Foun…Hillman Family Founda…The Pittsburgh Founda…Staunton Farm Foundat…Jewish Federation of …Network for GoodFidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
The Jack Buncher FoundationPA15.7× affinity5 shared granteesties to 7 of 7Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Jack Buncher Foundation · Hillman Family Foundations · The Pittsburgh Foundation · Staunton Farm Foundation 540-054 Dba Staunton Farm Foundation · Jewish Federation of Greater Pittsburgh · Network for Good · 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
    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 20 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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