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Hausman Foundation for the Environment at a glance

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Hausman Foundation for the Environment

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.

$32k
Granted FY2025still arriving
15
Grants FY2025still arriving
9
States reached
$15k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Environment$134kAnimals$16kHousing & Shelter$8kInternational$5kPublic Safety & Disaster$4kFood & Nutrition$950Philanthropy$500Education$500Other$0
02FY2025 · 15 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k14 grants · $17k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $15k
$309
Median grant
9
States reached
$692k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
FRIENDS OF MEXICAN DEVT$15,000
LONG WAY HOME$8,000
DC ENVIRONMENTAL FILM FESTIVAL$4,500
FRIENDS OF TURNEFFE ATOLL TRUST$1,021
SHELDRICK WILDLIFE TRUST USA$1,010
World Central Kitchen$522
Alliance for International Reforestation$412
WINGS Guatemala$309
IFAWAfrican Wildlife Foundation$265
Wildlife Conservation Network$258
Coral Reef Alliance$210
Rainforest Alliance$210
MISSION BLUE$103
Rails to Trails$100
Greenbelt Land Trust$100
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 (FY20–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 99% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%LONG WAY HOME: $8k → 10%WINGS Guatemala: $400 → 14%SHELDRICK WILDLIFE TRUST USA: $1k → 10%Philanthropic Ventures -- TIDE Belize: $500 → 10%Long Way Home: $8k → 10%Rainforest Alliance: $400 → 17%Long Way Home: $8k → 16%Ceiba: $400 → 10%Long Way Home: $4k → 13%Alliance for Intl Reforestation: $515 → 14%Jack's Solar Garden: $1k → 9%Environmental Learning for Kids: $500 → 10%Volunteers for Outdoor CO: $519 → 12%FRIENDS OF MEXICAN DEVT: $15k → 16%ACTS: $500 → 9%WINGS Guatemala: $309 → 14%NFGPhilanthropic Ventures Found: $500 → 10%Long Way HomeNetwork for Good: $8k → 16%Alliance for Intl Reforestation: $515 → 14%Colorado GivesJacks Solar Garden: $1k → 9%ELK Denver: $500 → 10%Environmental Learning for Kids: $500 → 12%NFG Philanthropic Ventures Foundation: $500 → 10%Doctors without Borders: $500 → 17%LONG WAY HOME: $6k → 16%NFGAIR -- Alliance for International Reforestation: $500 → 14%Jacks Solar Garden: $900 → 9%High Country Conservation Advocates: $516 → 10%NFGPhil Vent Foundation: $500 → 10%NFG-Alliance for Intl Reforestation: $500 → 14%HCCAHigh Country Conservation: $515 → 10%Friends of TIDE Belize: $500 → 10%FRIENDS OF MEXICAN DEVT: $17k → 17%Alliance for Intl Reforestation: $500 → 14%High Country Conservation Advocates: $500 → 10%Friends Of Mexican Dev Foundation: $17k → 17%Environmental Film Festival -- Nation's Capital: $8k → 14%Alliance for International Reforestation: $412 → 14%Friends of Mexican Development: $15k → 17%FRIENDS OF MEXICAN DEV FOUNDATION: $10k → 17%World Central Kitchen: $2k → 14%Friends of Mexican Devt Foundation: $10k → 17%World Central Kitchen: $600 → 14%World Central Kitchen: $522 → 14%World Central Kitchen: $522 → 14%World Central Kitchen: $400 → 14%DC ENVIRONMENTAL FILM FESTIVAL: $5k → 14%Environmental Film Festival DC: $510 → 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

VT
MT
MN
WI
NY
MA
OR
NJ
CA
CO
MD
DC
GA
TX
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.

64%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$108k · 21 repeat orgs$60k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +27% since the first grant, against +21% for those funded once.

21 repeat relationships: 11 still active in FY2025, 10 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

21
27

Total granted

$108k
$53k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+27%
+21%

Still filing today

71%
30%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 79% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $7k went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
EnvironmentInternationalAnimalsEducationArts & CultureYouth DevelopmentOther
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

  • WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC
    6× · 2020–2025 · $4k · revenue +21%
  • AF
    ALLIANCE FOR INT'L REFORESTATION
    6× · 2020–2025 · $3k · revenue +46%
  • EL
    ENVIRONMENTAL LEARNING FOR KIDS
    4× · 2020–2024 · $2k · revenue +52%

Funded once

  • FO
    Friends of Mexican Development
    one grant, 2023 · $15k
  • FO
    Friends of Mexican Devt Foundation
    one grant, 2021 · $10k
  • EF
    ENVIRONMENTAL FILM FESTIVAL IN THE NATION'S CAPITAL
    one grant, 2020 · $8k · revenue -25%
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
World Wildlife Fund Inc

Wwf's mission is to conserve nature and reduce the most pressing threats to the diversity of life on earth. (continued on schedule o)

Environment
2
Rainforest Trust

Rainforest trust saves endangered wildlife and protects our planet by creating rainforest reserves through partnerships, community engagement, and donor support.

International
3
Conservation International Foundation

Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.

Environment
4
Rainforest Alliance Holding Inc

RA works at the intersection of business, agriculture & forests to improve lives & protect nature by transforming how land is used, production of goods & consumer choices.

Environment
5
Nature and Culture International

Nature and culture international conserves biologically diverse landscapes in latin america, in concert with local cultures, for the well-being of the planet.

Environment
6
Global Forest Generation

Global Forest Generation restores and protects forest ecosystems in partnership with grassroots leaders and local communities across vast landscapes which play a critical role in preserving water, protecting biodiversity, storing carbon,…

Environment
7
Natura Bolivia Foundation

The Natura Bolivia Foundation is dedicated to implementing, and evaluating the impact of conservation and development programs, with a focus on watershed conservation, protected areas, and incentive based conservation in Bolivia. We work…

International
8
Sustainable Conservation

Sustainable Conservation advances the collaborative stewardship of Californias land, air, and water for the benefit of nature and people. For over three decades, Sustainable Conservation has built coalitions of people with different…

Environment
9
International Conservation Caucus Network

To advance conservation governance through political will and to provide "on the ground" solutions to ensure sustained economic benefits while managing the earth's natural resource wealth for future generations.

Unclassified
10
Wild Earth Society Incorporated

Wildlands Network works to reconnect, restore and rewild North America so that life-in all its diversity-can thrive.

Arts & Culture
11
Wild Earth Allies Inc

Our mission is to protect vital areas of our natural world for the benefit of wildlife, habitats, and people by inspiring collaborative action. Our vision is a world where wildlife and people flourish in healthy ecosystems that sustain us…

Environment
12
Rainforest Foundation Inc

The purpose of rainforest foundation us is to support indigenous peoples and forest communities in their efforts to secure their lands, protect their environment, and uphold their rights.

Environment
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Wildlife Conservation Network Inc; the most unlike its peers is National Geographic Society. 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

26 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. 26 of the 54 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)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
26/26
Grantees still filing
19/26
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

FRIENDS OF MEXICAN DEVT: $32,000 · OtherFRIENDS OF MEXICAN DEVTFriends Of Mexican Dev Foundation: $27,000 · OtherFriends Of Mexican Dev FoundationLONG WAY HOME: $16,000 · OtherLONG WAY HOMEFriends of Mexican Development: $15,000 · OtherFriends of Mexican DevelopmentFriends of Mexican Devt Foundation: $10,000 · OtherFriends of Mexican Devt FoundationLong Way HomeNetwork for Good: $7,551 · OtherLong Way HomeNetwork for GoodDC ENVIRONMENTAL FILM FESTIVAL: $4,500 · Other+29 more: $16,612 · Other+29 moreTHE LONG WAY HOME INC: $14,025 · AnimalsTHE LONG W…THE DAVID SHELDRICK WILDLIFE TRUST USA INC: $1,010 · AnimalsTHE DAVID …+1 more: $508 · AnimalsLong Way Home Inc: $4,075 · InternationalWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $3,919 · InternationalMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $800 · International+1 more: $209 · InternationalENVIRONMENTAL FILM FESTIVAL IN THE NATION'S CAPITAL: $8,000 · Arts & CultureALLIANCE FOR INT'L REFORESTATION: $2,942 · EnvironmentGLOBAL CORAL REEF ALLIANCE INC: $1,080 · EnvironmentGREENBELT LAND TRUST: $300 · EnvironmentDUMBARTON OAKS PARK CONSERVANCY INC: $300 · EnvironmentCOAL CREEK WATERSHED COALITION: $250 · Environment+2 more: $200 · EnvironmentENVIRONMENTAL LEARNING FOR KIDS: $1,500 · Youth DevelopmentPHILANTHROPIC VENTURES FOUNDATION: $500 · PhilanthropyCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE GUNNISON VALLEY: $250 · Philanthropy
Other$128,663Animals$15,543International$9,003Arts & Culture$8,000Environment$5,072Youth Development$1,500Philanthropy$750

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 budgetTHE LONG WAY HOME INC: $14,025 over 2y, 2.5% of budgetENVIRONMENTAL FILM FESTIVAL IN THE NATION'S CAPITAL: $8,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetLong Way Home Inc: $4,075 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $3,919 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetALLIANCE FOR INT'L REFORESTATION: $2,942 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetENVIRONMENTAL LEARNING FOR KIDS: $1,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetRAINFOREST ALLIANCE INC: $1,123 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetGLOBAL CORAL REEF ALLIANCE INC: $1,080 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetHIGH COUNTRY CONSERVATION ADVOCATES: $1,016 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetTHE DAVID SHELDRICK WILDLIFE TRUST USA INC: $1,010 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $800 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSylvia Earle AllianceMission Blue: $659 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetVOLUNTEERS FOR OUTDOOR COLORADO: $519 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWILDLIFE CONSERVATION NETWORK INC: $508 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPHILANTHROPIC VENTURES FOUNDATION: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGREENBELT LAND TRUST: $300 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetDUMBARTON OAKS PARK CONSERVANCY INC: $300 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetPROJECT HOPE OF GUNNISON VALLEY: $250 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCOAL CREEK WATERSHED COALITION: $250 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE GUNNISON VALLEY: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWORLD RESOURCES INSTITUTE: $209 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAlice Ferguson Foundation Inc: $100 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCHILDREN & NATURE NETWORK: $100 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetRAILS TO TRAILS CONSERVANCY: $100 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC SOCIETY: $50 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFeeding America: $50 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 THE LONG WAY HOME INC ↗
  • Who funds ENVIRONMENTAL FILM FESTIVAL IN THE NATION'S CAPITAL ↗
  • Who funds Long Way Home Inc ↗
  • Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
  • Who funds ALLIANCE FOR INT'L REFORESTATION ↗
  • Who funds ENVIRONMENTAL LEARNING FOR KIDS ↗
  • Who funds RAINFOREST ALLIANCE INC ↗
  • Who funds GLOBAL CORAL REEF ALLIANCE INC ↗
  • Who funds HIGH COUNTRY CONSERVATION ADVOCATES ↗
  • Who funds THE DAVID SHELDRICK WILDLIFE TRUST USA INC ↗
  • Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
  • Who funds Sylvia Earle AllianceMission Blue ↗
  • Who funds VOLUNTEERS FOR OUTDOOR COLORADO ↗
  • Who funds WILDLIFE CONSERVATION NETWORK INC ↗
  • Who funds PHILANTHROPIC VENTURES FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds GREENBELT LAND TRUST ↗
  • Who funds DUMBARTON OAKS PARK CONSERVANCY INC ↗

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.

PatagoniaorgColorado Gives Founda…Network for GoodVanguard Charitable E…Donor Advised Charita…American Online Givin…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
PatagoniaorgCA12.9× affinity4 shared granteesties to 7 of 7Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Patagoniaorg · Colorado Gives Foundation · Network for Good · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 34%
  • Alice Ferguson Foundation Inc: 34% of income from government
  • Greenbelt Land Trust: 31% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
6report 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.
05Through Plinth

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How do I get to Hausman Foundation for the Environment?

Find your warmest path to Hausman Foundation for the Environment through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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 54 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
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars land in 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