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Hauser Family Foundation at a glance

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Hauser Family Foundation

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.

$167k
Granted FY2025still arriving
11
Grants FY2025still arriving
5
States reached
$50k
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, FY2022 to 2025.

Education$255kRecreation & Sports$63kCrime & Legal$50kHuman Services$30kHealth$22kPhilanthropy$13kArts & Culture$3k
02FY2025 · 11 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k5 grants · $8k
  • $10k–50k5 grants · $108k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
$12,080
Median grant
5
States reached
$4.6M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
HER CAMPAIGN$50,000
TUFTS UNIVERSITY$34,737
DENVER CITY LAX$21,039
CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL$20,500
SEEDS OF HOPE$20,000
COLORADO GIVES FOUNDATION$12,080
DRAKE UNIVERSTIY IOWA DELTA$5,000
KENT DENVER SCHOOL$2,000
DEERFIELD ACADEMY$1,000
ST RITA SCHOOL$207
HEADSTRONG FOUNDATION$104
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:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY22–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 100% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%PAN-MASS CHALLENGE: $513 → 7%TUFTS UNIVERSITY: $37k → 8%DEERFIELD ACADEMY: $25k → 14%HER CAMPAIGN: $50k → 9%HEADSTRONG FOUNDATION: $104 → 10%DRAKE UNIVERSTIY IOWA DELTA: $5k → 10%COLORADO GIVES FOUNDATION: $12k → 7%BRIGHT FUTURE FOUNDATION: $10k → 7%KENT DENVER SCHOOL: $2k → 8%CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL: $21k → 10%ST RITA SCHOOL: $207 → 12%SEEDS OF HOPE: $20k → 12%TUFTS UNIVERSITY: $35k → 8%DEERFIELD ACADEMY: $5k → 14%VILLANOVA UNIVERSITY: $100k → 10%COLORADO GIVES FOUNDATION: $1k → 7%CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL: $514 → 10%DENVER CITY LAX: $22k → 12%TUFTS UNIVERSITY: $25k → 8%DEERFIELD ACADEMY: $1k → 14%DENVER CITY LAX: $21k → 12%DENVER CITY LAX: $20k → 12%MILE HIGH 360: $10k → 12%MILE HIGH 360: $10k → 12%DENVER ART MUSEUM: $3k → 12%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.
04

Where the work is directed

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

About 6% of Hauser Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 35% of the giving stays in CO; by stated purpose, 32%.

Hauser Family Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
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.

55%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$232k · 5 repeat orgs$191k to everyone else

5 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2025, 1 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

5
4

Total granted

$232k
$114k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+18%
+19%

Still filing today

80%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 50% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $77k went to new ones.

50%100%’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’22’23’24’25
EducationRecreation & SportsCrime & LegalHealthArts & CultureOther
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

  • Trustees of Tufts College
    3× · 2023–2025 · $97k · revenue +16%
  • DC
    DENVER CITY LAX
    3× · 2023–2025 · $63k · revenue +18%
  • TO
    TRUSTEES OF DEERFIELD ACADEMY
    3× · 2023–2025 · $31k · revenue +102%

Funded once

  • VU
    VILLANOVA UNIVERSITY
    one grant, 2023 · $100k · revenue +19%
  • BF
    BRIGHT FUTURE FOUNDATION FOR EAGLE COUNTY
    one grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue +2%
  • DA
    DENVER ART MUSEUMgraduated
    one grant, 2024 · $3k · revenue +107%
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
University of Denver

The university of denver (du) is a higher educational institution, providing both undergraduate and graduate degrees - the mission of the university of denver is to promote learning by engaging with students (continued on schedule o)in…

Education
2
Lehigh University

The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…

Education
3
President and Fellows of Harvard College

Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.

Education
4
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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5
Fountain Valley School of Colorado

Fountain valley school of colorado provides a transformative curriculum in a supportive environment where students are challenged to think critically, become leaders, and live by our core values: courage, compassion, curiosity,…

Education
6
Augustana College

Rooted in the liberal arts & sciences & lutheran expression of the christian faith, & is committed to offering a challenging education that develops qualities of mind, spirit, & body necessary for a rewarding life of leadership & service…

Education
7
The Peak School

The peak school seeks to ignite a passion for learning, to develop students of diverse talents and backgrounds who think critically and act with integrity, and to graduate compassionate, confident, capable students who will embrace their…

Education
8
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
9
Columbia College Chicago

The organization's mission is to educate students for creative occupations in diverse fields of arts and media.

Education
10
Dickinson College

Dickinson college provides a useful, innovative and interdisciplinary education in the liberal arts and sciences to prepare students to lead rich and fulfilling lives of engaged global citizenship

Education
11
Dean College

Dean college is a private, residential new england college grounded in a culture and tradition that all students deserve the opportunity to discover and exceed their greatest aspirations. a personal and transformative community since 1865,…

Education
12
Furman University

The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Colorado Gives Foundation; the most unlike its peers is The Her Campaign. 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

12 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. 12 of the 16 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)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
12/12
Grantees still filing
9/12
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

VILLANOVA UNIVERSITY: $100,000 · EducationVILLANOVA UNIVERSITYTrustees of Tufts College: $96,750 · EducationTrustees of Tufts CollegeTRUSTEES OF DEERFIELD ACADEMY: $31,000 · EducationTRUSTEES OF DEERFIELD ACADEMY+1 more: $2,000 · EducationDENVER CITY LAX: $63,078 · Recreation & SportsDENVER CITY LAXMILE HIGH 360: $20,000 · Recreation & SportsMILE HIGH 360CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL: $21,014 · OtherCHILDREN'S HOS…SEEDS OF HOPE: $20,000 · OtherSEEDS OF HOPEBRIGHT FUTURE FOUNDATION FOR EAGLE COUNTY: $10,000 · OtherBRIGHT FUTURE …DRAKE UNIVERSTIY IOWA DELTA: $5,000 · OtherDRAKE UNIVERST…+2 more: $720 · OtherThe Her Campaign: $50,000 · Crime & LegalThe Her Campa…COLORADO GIVES FOUNDATION: $13,120 · PhilanthropyDENVER ART MUSEUM: $3,000 · Arts & CultureHEADSTRONG FOUNDATION: $104 · Health
Education$229,750Recreation & Sports$83,078Other$56,734Crime & Legal$50,000Philanthropy$13,120Arts & Culture$3,000Health$104

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 budgetVILLANOVA UNIVERSITY: $100,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTrustees of Tufts College: $96,750 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetDENVER CITY LAX: $63,078 over 3y, 3.5% of budgetThe Her Campaign: $50,000 over 1y, 3.4% of budgetTRUSTEES OF DEERFIELD ACADEMY: $31,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMILE HIGH 360: $20,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetCOLORADO GIVES FOUNDATION: $13,120 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBRIGHT FUTURE FOUNDATION FOR EAGLE COUNTY: $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetDENVER ART MUSEUM: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKENT DENVER COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPAN-MASSACHUSETTS CHALLENGE INC: $513 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.

Donor Advised Charita…Amazonsmile Foundation
Donor Advised Charitable Giving IncCO6.5× affinity4 shared granteesties to 1 of 1Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · 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 Hauser Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Hauser Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →median 13%
  • Trustees of Tufts College: 13% of income from government
  • Pan-Massachusetts Challenge Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
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 16 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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The unnamed billions
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The regranting layer
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The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home