How much does Randall and Mary Hack Foundation give?

Randall and Mary Hack Foundation reported 7 grants totaling $974,889 in its FY2023 IRS filing. It funded between 4 and 59 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.

What does Randall and Mary Hack Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2023, its largest causes are Environment (56%), Education (11%), International (8%).

Who are Randall and Mary Hack Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2023: Climate Central Inc ($1.7M), The Trustees of Princeton University ($300k), New York-Presbyterian Fund Inc ($200k).

Does Randall and Mary Hack Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2023, 25% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does Randall and Mary Hack Foundation accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

Where is Randall and Mary Hack Foundation based?

Randall and Mary Hack Foundation is based in CT.

Randall and Mary Hack Foundation

Randall and Mary Hack Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

Randall and Mary Hack Foundation

Q: Which funders back the same organizations as Randall and Mary Hack Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc, The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund, Boston Foundation Inc.

Its FY2023 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$975k

Granted FY2023

Grants FY2023

States reached

$500k

Largest

01What it funds

0193% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2023.

Environment$2.2MEducation$458kInternational$306kPhilanthropy$303kHealth$293kArts & Culture$107kScience & Tech$71kHousing & Shelter$43kOther$0

02FY2023 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2023

Under $10k2 grants · $10k
$50k–250k4 grants · $465k
$250k+1 grant · $500k

$78,750

Median grant

States reached

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
CLIMATE CENTRAL INC	$500,000
GOLDMAN SACHS PHILANTHROPY FUND	$236,639
NEW YORK PRESBYTERIAN FUND	$100,000
CLIMATE CENTRAL INC	$78,750
PARKINSON'S MIND & BODY INC	$50,000
PARKINSON'S MIND & BODY INC	$7,500
AMERICARES FOUNDATION	$2,000

02The need

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 (FY17–22, $13k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 69% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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

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.

98%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$3.7M · 64 repeat orgs$92k to everyone else

64 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2023, 61 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$3.7M

$35k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+25%

+82%

Still filing today

61%

33%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $58k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

EnvironmentArts & CultureEducationInternationalHuman ServicesScience & TechOther

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

CC
CLIMATE CENTRAL INC
7× · 2017–2023 · $1.7M · revenue +209%
The Trustees of Princeton University
5× · 2017–2022 · $300k · revenue +5%
NY
NEW YORK-PRESBYTERIAN FUND INC
2× · 2021–2023 · $200k · revenue +8%

Funded once

TO
TRUSTEES OF DEERFIELD ACADEMYgraduated
one grant, 2019 · $25k · revenue +82%
CC
CITY COLLEGE OF NEW YORK
one grant, 2022 · $3k
YO
YMCA OF GREENWICH
one grant, 2022 · $3k

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.

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

Conservation International Foundation

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

Environment

Earth & Space Research

Increase societal understanding of the earth system through scientific research and education.

Science & Tech

American Museum of Natural History

The museum's mission statement is: "to discover, interpret, and disseminate - through scientific research and education - knowledge about human cultures, the natural world, and the universe."

Arts & Culture

Climate Institute

The climate institute is organized for the purpose of educating the general public and policy makers as to the gravity of potential climate change, exploring the policy implications of the latest scientific findings on climate modelling…

Environment

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

Governors Island Corporation

The governors island corporation, doing business as the trust for governors island, is the 501(c)(3) not-for-profit organization created by the city of new york and charged with the planning, redevelopment and ongoing operations of 150…

Animals

United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

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Hudson River Foundation for Science and Environmental Research Inc

The mission of the hudson river foundation is to inspire and inform action through science and engaging people to enhance the hudson river, estuary, and watershed (see schedule o).

Environment

Institute for Advanced Study - Louis Bamberger & Mrs Felix Fuld Foundation

The institute for advanced study (the institute) is one of the world's leading centers for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. see schedule o.

Science & Tech

Marine Biological Laboratory

The Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL) is a world-renowned center for biological discovery and training that is notably affiliated with more than 60 Nobel Prize winners. Research is conducted by full-time faculty as well as hundreds of the…

Science & Tech

Peter G Peterson Institute for International Economics

The peterson institute for international economics (piie) is an independent nonprofit, nonpartisan research organization dedicated to strengthening prosperity and human welfare in the global economy through expert analysis and practical…

Social Science

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Environmental Defense Fund Incorporated; the most unlike its peers is Squirrel Island Historical 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

48 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. 48 of the 73 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

43/48

Grantees still filing

35/48

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Science & Tech$1,699,577Other$638,941Environment$482,750Education$364,000Philanthropy$318,639International$305,500Health$205,500

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

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.

Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management IncNY17.6× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · Boston Foundation Inc · Maine Community Foundation Inc · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund

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 Randall and Mary Hack Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Randall and Mary Hack Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

5get no government money at all

11report 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.

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The regranting layer

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The camps

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By state

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