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The George and Louise J Hauser Charitable Trust at a glance

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The George and Louise J Hauser Charitable Trust

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.

$393k
Granted FY2025still arriving
30
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$50k
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, FY2021 to 2025.

Human Services$586kEducation$351kHousing & Shelter$152kYouth Development$67kCivil Rights$48kPhilanthropy$45kFood & Nutrition$42kCrime & Legal$42kOther$0
02FY2025 · 30 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k15 grants · $81k
  • $10k–50k13 grants · $213k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $100k
$10,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$8.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
NEWTON COMMUNITY SERVICE CENTERS INC$50,000
FRAMINGHAM STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC$50,000
NEWTON COMMUNITY SERVICE CENTERS INC$25,000
NEWTON COMMUNITY SERVICE CENTERS INC$25,000
FAMILYAID BOSTON INC$20,000
WEST SUBURBAN Y M C A$20,000
NEW ENGLAND JUSTICE FOR OUR NEIGHBORS$17,500
NEWTON COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION INC$15,000
NEWTON YOUTH SUCCESS COLLABORATIVE$15,000
THE JOHN M BARRY BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF NEWTON INC$15,000
SOCIAL GOOD FUND INC$15,000
PATHWAY TO POSSIBLE INC$15,000
NEWTON ARTS CENTER INC$10,000
REACH BEYOND DOMESTIC VIOLENCE INC$10,000
THE NEWTON FREE LIBRARY$10,000
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY21–25, $163k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%NEWTON METCO COMMUNITY SCHOLARSHIP FUND INC: $15k → 8%NEWTON AT HOME INC: $7k → 8%NEWTON AT HOME INC: $5k → 8%NEWTON AT HOME INC: $4k → 8%NEWTON AT HOME INC: $3k → 8%PATHWAY TO POSSIBLE INC: $15k → 8%PATHWAY TO POSSIBLE INC: $15k → 8%PATHWAY TO POSSIBLE INC: $15k → 8%WEST SUBURBAN Y M C A: $20k → 8%WEST SUBURBAN Y M C A: $15k → 8%WEST SUBURBAN Y M C A: $15k → 8%WEST SUBURBAN Y M C A: $15k → 8%SOLUTIONS AT WORK INC: $5k → 8%SOLUTIONS AT WORK INC: $5k → 8%SOLUTIONS AT WORK INC: $5k → 8%SOLUTIONS AT WORK INC: $5k → 8%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.

89%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.3M · 25 repeat orgs$151k to everyone else

25 repeat relationships: 24 still active in FY2025, 1 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

25
15

Total granted

$1.3M
$139k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+19%
+43%

Still filing today

88%
67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $12k went to new ones.

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

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

’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesFood & NutritionArts & CultureHousing & ShelterEducationHealthOther
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

  • NC
    NEWTON COMMUNITY SERVICE CENTERS INC
    4× · 2021–2025 · $365k · revenue +19%
  • FS
    FRAMINGHAM STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC
    5× · 2021–2025 · $250k · revenue +179%
  • WS
    WEST SUBURBAN YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION
    4× · 2021–2025 · $65k · revenue +19%

Funded once

  • FO
    FAMILIES ORGANIZING FOR RACIAL JUSTICE-FORJ
    one grant, 2023 · $29k
  • NATIONAL NETWORK OF ABORTION FUNDS INCgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $25k · revenue +135%
  • PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INCgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $25k · revenue +26%
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
Newvue Affordable Housing Corporation

Newvue affordable housing corporation is a nonprofit organization that develops and provides affordable housing to low and moderate income households in north central massachusetts.

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2
New Bedford Women's Center Inc

To empower and support positive choices for all and to educate and take action in the community for the prevention of oppression and violence.

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3
Newton Communications Access Center Inc

Newton communications access center, inc. (newtv) is newton's emmy award-winning, state-of-the-art hd media center, specializing in television production, training, and content distribution. newtv's cable channels (community, education,…

Arts & Culture
4
Newton News Foundation Inc

To promote and carry out public educational and charitable activities including the creation, publication and distribution of news and information in the city of newton, massachusetts and surrounding areas; to promote an informed citizenry…

Arts & Culture
5
Stone Institute and Newton Home for Aged People
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6
New England First Amendment Coalition Inc

Nefac is a growing 501(c)(3) non-profit non-political organization that advances the five freedoms of the first amendment and the public's right to know about government through education, advocacy and defense.

Public Benefit
7
New England Community Project Inc

Necp believes that social change happens when those most impacted by issues of systemic injustice, organize at the block level to address issues within their neighborhoods. through their involvement at a community level, residents engage…

Community Improvement
8
The Newton Family Foundation
Philanthropy
9
New England Food Foundation Inc

The foundation assists poor, needy, homeless and destitute children and young adults, particularly those with special educational and social needs.

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10
United Way of Greater New Bedford Inc

Our mission is to mobilize people, partnerships and resources to catalyze change that strengthens the communities served.

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11
Newton Teachers Association Inc

Labor union provides legal representation arbitration and coordination of services to members

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12
Operation Peace Northeast Inc

Provide educational opportunities & programs to low and moderate income level residents of multifamily housing complexes receiving section 8 subsidy

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Newton Community Service Centers Inc; the most unlike its peers is The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. 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

36 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. 36 of the 44 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.

3
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
35/36
Grantees still filing
25/36
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

NEWTON COMMUNITY SERVICE CENTERS INC: $365,000 · OtherNEWTON COMMUNITY SERVICE CENTERS INCFRAMINGHAM STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC: $250,000 · OtherFRAMINGHAM STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INCFAMILYAID BOSTON INC: $45,000 · OtherTHE NEWTON FREE LIBRARY: $44,700 · OtherNEWTON COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION INC: $44,550 · OtherSENIOR CITIZENS FUND OF NEWTON INC: $42,200 · OtherNew England Justice for Our Neighbors: $42,050 · OtherTHE JOHN M BARRY BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF NEWTON INC: $37,000 · Other+16 more: $170,495 · Other+16 moreWEST SUBURBAN YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION: $64,550 · Human ServicesWEST SUBURBAN …PATHWAY TO POSSIBLE INC: $44,550 · Human ServicesPATHWAY TO POS…REACH BEYOND DOMESTIC VIOLENCE INC: $29,700 · Human ServicesREACH BEYOND D…SOLUTIONS AT WORK INC: $19,850 · Human ServicesSOLUTIONS AT W…NEWTON AT HOME INC: $19,400 · Human ServicesNEWTON AT HOME…NEWTON METCO COMMUNITY SCHOLARSHIP FUND INC: $15,000 · Human ServicesNEWTON METCO C…SOCIAL GOOD FUND INC: $44,550 · EducationNEWTON SCHOOLS FOUNDATION INC: $26,850 · EducationCOALITION FOR NEWTON COMMUNITY EDUCATION INC: $14,910 · EducationCENTRE STREET FOOD PANTRY INC: $13,880 · Food & NutritionNEWTON FOOD PANTRY INC: $13,880 · Food & NutritionPROJECT BREAD-THE WALK FOR HUNGER INC: $9,850 · Food & NutritionNEWTON COMMUNITY FARM INC: $3,000 · Food & NutritionCitizens for Affordable Housing in Newton Development Corp: $32,700 · Housing & ShelterROSIE'S PLACE INC: $5,000 · Housing & ShelterNEW ART CENTER IN NEWTON INC (FKA) NEWTON ARTS CENTER INC: $17,500 · Arts & CultureProject STEP Inc: $13,000 · Arts & CultureThe United States Holocaust Memorial Museum: $5,000 · Arts & CulturePLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC: $25,000 · HealthTHE CARROLL CENTER FOR THE BLIND INC: $1,000 · Health
Other$1,040,995Human Services$193,050Education$86,310Food & Nutrition$40,610Housing & Shelter$37,700Arts & Culture$35,500Health$26,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetNEWTON COMMUNITY SERVICE CENTERS INC: $365,000 over 4y, 2.7% of budgetFRAMINGHAM STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC: $250,000 over 5y, 2.4% of budgetWEST SUBURBAN YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION: $64,550 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetFAMILYAID BOSTON INC: $45,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSOCIAL GOOD FUND INC: $44,550 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPATHWAY TO POSSIBLE INC: $44,550 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetNEWTON COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION INC: $44,550 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetSENIOR CITIZENS FUND OF NEWTON INC: $42,200 over 4y, 60% of budgetNew England Justice for Our Neighbors: $42,050 over 3y, 9.6% of budgetTHE JOHN M BARRY BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF NEWTON INC: $37,000 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetCitizens for Affordable Housing in Newton Development Corp: $32,700 over 4y, 75% of budgetREACH BEYOND DOMESTIC VIOLENCE INC: $29,700 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetNEWTON SCHOOLS FOUNDATION INC: $26,850 over 4y, 2.0% of budgetNATIONAL NETWORK OF ABORTION FUNDS INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSOLUTIONS AT WORK INC: $19,850 over 4y, 2.0% of budgetNEWTON AT HOME INC: $19,400 over 4y, 2.9% of budgetANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE FOUNDATION: $19,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetNEW ART CENTER IN NEWTON INC (FKA) NEWTON ARTS CENTER INC: $17,500 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetUNDERSTANDING OUR DIFFERENCES INC: $16,000 over 2y, 4.4% of budgetNEWTON METCO COMMUNITY SCHOLARSHIP FUND INC: $15,000 over 1y, 91% of budgetCOALITION FOR NEWTON COMMUNITY EDUCATION INC: $14,910 over 3y, 16% of budgetCENTRE STREET FOOD PANTRY INC: $13,880 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetNEWTON FOOD PANTRY INC: $13,880 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetProject STEP Inc: $13,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetPROJECT BREAD-THE WALK FOR HUNGER INC: $9,850 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNewton Neighbors Inc: $8,940 over 4y, 4.8% of budgetLEAGUE OF WOMEN VOTERS EDUCATION FUND: $7,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPHYSICIANS FOR HUMAN RIGHTS INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetROSIE'S PLACE INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe United States Holocaust Memorial Museum: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF 2LIFE COMMUNITIES INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCATHOLIC CHARITABLE BUREAU OF THE ARCHDIOCESE OF BOSTON INC: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCIRCUS UP INC: $3,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetTHE CARROLL CENTER FOR THE BLIND INC: $1,000 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.

Pomroy Rebecca Founda…Eastern Cambridge Fou…Eastern Bank Foundati…Cambridge Savings Cha…The Hamilton Company …Boston Foundation IncGivenGain Foundation …Rockland Trust Charit…Combined Jewish Phila…Janey Fund Charitable…Randi and David Zussm…Joseph and Rae Gann C…
Pomroy Rebecca Foundation Inc (Cust)MA30.6× affinity12 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Pomroy Rebecca Foundation Inc (Cust) · Eastern Cambridge Foundation · Eastern Bank Foundation · Cambridge Savings Charitable Foundation Inc · The Hamilton Company Charitable Foundation · Boston Foundation Inc · GivenGain Foundation USA · Rockland Trust Charitable Foundation Inc · Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc · Janey Fund Charitable Trust · Randi and David Zussman Family Foundation · Joseph and Rae Gann Charitable 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 The George and Louise J Hauser Charitable Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The George and Louise J Hauser Charitable Trust. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 130%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →median 4%
  • Pathway to Possible Inc: 84% of income from government
  • Reach Beyond Domestic Violence Inc: 53% of income from government
  • Solutions at Work Inc: 20% of income from government
  • Newton Community Service Centers Inc: 20% of income from government
  • Familyaid Boston Inc: 4% of income from government
  • The Carroll Center for the Blind Inc: 3% of income from government
  • Newton at Home Inc: 3% of income from government
  • Rosie's Place Inc: 0% of income from government
  • West Suburban Young Men's Christian Association: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
13get no government money at all
8report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
2rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
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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Find your warmest path to The George and Louise J Hauser Charitable Trust 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 44 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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