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The Haiku Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$65k
Granted FY2025still arriving
8
Grants FY2025still arriving
6
States reached
$14k
Largest
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

International$182kEducation$94kAnimals$65kEnvironment$30kHuman Services$28kCommunity Improvement$10kScience & Tech$7k
02FY2025 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k6 grants · $41k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $24k
$8,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$1.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CARTHAGE COLLEGE$14,000
DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS$10,000
SHEDD AQUARIUM$8,000
MAP INTERNATIONAL$8,000
NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES$7,000
WATERORG$7,000
CLEAN OCEAN ACTION$6,000
WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT$4,500
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 (FY19–22, $9k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT: $6k → 14%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT: $2k → 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

IL
WI
NY
NJ
MO
MD
KS
GA
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.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$399k · 7 repeat orgs$17k to everyone else

7 repeat relationships: 7 still active in FY2025, 0 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

7
1

Total granted

$399k
$10k

Still filing today

100%
0%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $7k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
InternationalEducationHuman ServicesAnimalsEnvironmentScience & 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

  • CARTHAGE COLLEGE
    9× · 2017–2025 · $94k · revenue +3%
  • MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC
    8× · 2017–2025 · $69k · revenue +98%
  • MAP International Inc
    9× · 2017–2025 · $66k · revenue +131%

Funded once

  • WC
    W CONNECTION HAMPTONS CHAPTER
    one grant, 2018 · $10k
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
American Water Works Association

To promote public health, safety, and welfare through the improvement of the quality and quantity of drinking water and the development and furtherance of understanding of the problems relating thereto.

Public Benefit
2
American Gas Association

American gas association's (the association) mission is to develop and advocate for informed, innovative, and durable policy that fulfills our nation's energy needs, environmental aspirations and economic potential. we are committed to…

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3
National Association of Clean Water Agencies

Nacwa is the national voice of public clean water utilities, shaping water policy, convening a vibrant peer network, and empowering water leaders.

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4
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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5
American Association for the Advancement of Science

Advance science, engineering, and innovation throughout the world for the benefit of all. the world's largest multidisciplinary scientific society and a leading publisher of cutting-edge research through its science family of journals,…

Science & Tech
6
American Geophysical Union

Agu's mission is to advance and support an inclusive community of earth and space scientists and partners dedicated to discovery and solutions to societal challenges. agu seeks to catalyze discovery and solutions to scientific and societal…

Science & Tech
7
American Political Science Association

The american political science association ("apsa") supports excellence in scholarship and teaching and informed discourse about politics, policy, and civic participation. the association promotes a lively, diverse community of scholars,…

Social Science
8
Wildaid Inc

Wildaid's mission is to inspire change and empower the world to protect wildlife and vital habitats from critical threats.

Animals
9
American Society for Microbiology

To promote and advance the microbial sciences

Science & Tech
10
Minnesota Medical Association

To be the leading voice of medicine to make minnesota the healthiest state and the best place to practice.

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11
University of the Sciences in Philadelphia

University of the sciences prepares students to become leaders, innovators, and skilled practitioners in the sciences, the health professions, and related disciplines. we deliver excellence in teaching, research, and service through a safe…

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12
The Water Research Foundation

The purpose of the water research foundation (wrf) is a definitive research organization to advance the science of all things water to better meet the evolving needs of its subscribers and the water sector. to engage exclusively in…

Environment
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Waterorg; the most unlike its peers is Clean Ocean Action 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

8 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. 8 of the 9 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/8
Grantees still filing
7/8
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $69,300 · InternationalMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INCMAP International Inc: $65,825 · InternationalMAP International IncWATERORG: $47,300 · InternationalWATERORGCARTHAGE COLLEGE: $94,000 · EducationCARTHAGE COLLEGESHEDD AQUARIUM SOCIETY: $64,500 · AnimalsSHEDD AQUARIUM SO…CLEAN OCEAN ACTION INC: $30,000 · EnvironmentWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $27,700 · Human ServicesW CONNECTION HAMPTONS CHAPTER: $10,000 · OtherNATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES: $7,000 · Science & Tech
International$182,425Education$94,000Animals$64,500Environment$30,000Human Services$27,700Other$10,000Science & Tech$7,000

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

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCARTHAGE COLLEGE: $94,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $69,300 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetMAP International Inc: $65,825 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetSHEDD AQUARIUM SOCIETY: $64,500 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetWATERORG: $47,300 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetCLEAN OCEAN ACTION INC: $30,000 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $27,700 over 6y, 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 CARTHAGE COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
  • Who funds MAP International Inc ↗
  • Who funds SHEDD AQUARIUM SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds WATERORG ↗
  • Who funds CLEAN OCEAN ACTION INC ↗
  • Who funds WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC ↗
  • Who funds NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES ↗

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Haiku Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Haiku 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%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Wounded Warrior Project Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
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 9 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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