· Private foundation
The Hainer 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k11 grants · $37k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $81k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $53k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SUN VALLEY TOUR DE FORCE | $52,500 |
| COMMUNITY CANCER FUND | $25,000 |
| CA HWY PATROL 11-99 FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| BELIEVE RANCH AND RESCUE | $10,763 |
| DEBO FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| BABY 2 BABY | $10,000 |
| WOODLAND HILLS ROTARY CLUB CHARITABLE FD | $7,452 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| ROTARY INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| PACIFIC RESIDENT THEATRE | $5,000 |
| HAVEN HILLS | $2,500 |
| HIPPOLYTE FOUNDATION | $2,500 |
| FLORENCE FOR YOUTH IN ACTION | $2,500 |
| RESCUE MISSION ALLIANCE | $2,500 |
| GIGI'S PLAYHOUSE | $2,500 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $212k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 51% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 11% of The Hainer Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 60% of the giving stays in CA; read by stated purpose it is 56% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
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 foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +19% since the first grant, against +8% for the ones you funded once.
27 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2025, 16 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 73% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $44k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- OCOAKS CHRISTIAN SCHOOL2× · 2017–2018 · $100k · revenue +84%
- NDNew Directions for Youth Inc7× · 2017–2024 · $37k · revenue +116%
- TGTHE GENTLE BARN FOUNDATION3× · 2017–2024 · $35k · revenue +22%
Funded once
- MKMending Kids International dba Mending Kidsone grant, 2023 · $86k · revenue -22%
- IEINTREPID EVENTS INCgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $72k · revenue +37%
NAACP LEGAL DEFENSE & EDUC FUND INCone grant, 2020 · $25k · revenue -54%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Food forward fights hunger and prevents food waste by rescuing fresh surplus produce, connecting this abundance with people experiencing food insecurity, and inspiring others to do the same.
Animal outlook is a national animal protection organization working to end the abuse of farmed animals using a variety of strategies, including investigations, legal advocacy, corporate and food system reform, and vegan outreach.
Network for Animals crusades against cruelty to animals by focusing on direct action, often in far-flung, otherwise neglected places around the globe. We receive no government grants and rely on the generosity of our supporters to conduct…
To remove the "no pets allowed" sign on the doors of domestic violence shelters. women should not have to choose between leaving their abuser and leaving their pets behind to be abused.
Peace 4 animals animal welfare organization supports the conservation of endangered species worldwide. we work on campaigns to promote advocacy and education on how to protect wildlife in peril, as well as the preservation of their natural…
To improve the health & well-being of animals through veterinary aid, response, training, research & local capacity building worldwide. We provide services to companion animals, horses, street dogs, livestock and marine animals including…
To bring animals out of crisis and strengthen the bond between people and animals through emergency sheltering, disaster relief services, financial assistance and education. redrover accomplishes its mission by engaging volunteers and…
To bring about a time when there are no more homeless pets. we do this by demonstrating and promoting exemplary animal care and building community programs and partnerships.
Heaven on Earth Society for Animals is a nonprofit organization that exists totransform the lives of homeless cats through rescue, sanctuary, and new beginnings.We do this by pulling cats and kittens from municipal shelters in and around…
Protection of animal rights
We exist to end the abuse of animals raised for food. this mission is executed by persuading companies and institutions to adopt animal welfare policies through negotiation and pressure campaigns, and then holding them accountable to their…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Fight for Children Inc and the most unlike its peers is Believe Ranch and Rescue. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 27 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
49 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 49 of the 91 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds OAKS CHRISTIAN SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds Mending Kids International dba Mending Kids ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST ↗
- Who funds INTREPID EVENTS INC ↗
- Who funds THE ROTARY FOUNDATION OF ROTARY INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds New Directions for Youth Inc ↗
- Who funds THE GENTLE BARN FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Casa Pacifica Centers for Children & Families ↗
- Who funds NAACP LEGAL DEFENSE & EDUC FUND INC ↗
- Who funds HOPE THE MISSION ↗
- Who funds FIGHT FOR CHILDREN INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY CANCER FUND ↗
- Who funds TB12 FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Valley Womens Center ↗
- Who funds OUR RESCUE ↗
- Who funds FLORENCE FOR YOUTH IN ACTION ↗
- Who funds RESCUE MISSION ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds WORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC ↗
- Who funds CITY OF ANGELS BALLET ↗
- Who funds Believe Ranch and Rescue ↗
- Who funds Haven Hills Inc ↗
- Who funds SEMPER FI & AMERICA'S FUND ↗
- Who funds THE MIDNIGHT MISSION ↗
- Who funds BABY2BABY ↗
- Who funds THE OVARIAN CANCER CIRCLE ↗
- Who funds ALL SEATED IN A BARN ↗
- Who funds THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS ↗
- Who funds Drive Toward a Cure ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: The Annenberg Foundation · Leo and Sydelle Ward Foundation · California Foundation for Stronger Communities · Dignity Health · Jewish Community Foundation of Los Angeles · California Community Foundation · Kaiser Foundation Hospitals · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Network for Good · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Charities Aid Foundation America
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization The Hainer Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.