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The Hainer Foundation at a glance

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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.

$171k
Granted FY2025still arriving
17
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$53k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0194% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Human Services$495kPhilanthropy$345kInternational$199kEducation$105kAnimals$104kHealth$74kRecreation & Sports$70kArts & Culture$57kOther$0
02FY2025 · 17 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k11 grants · $37k
  • $10k–50k5 grants · $81k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $53k
$5,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$2.8M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
PACIFIC RESIDENT THEATRE$5,000
Individual grant recipient$5,000
ROTARY INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATION$5,000
HIPPOLYTE FOUNDATION$2,500
FLORENCE FOR YOUTH IN ACTION$2,500
HAVEN HILLS$2,500
GIGI'S PLAYHOUSE$2,500
RESCUE MISSION ALLIANCE$2,500
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.

show:

Its 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. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 11%CASA PACIFICA: $10k → 10%COMMUNITY CANCER FUND: $25k → 12%INTREPID EVENTS INC: $72k → 7%CASA PACIFICA: $10k → 10%CASA PACIFICA: $5k → 10%CASA PACIFICA: $5k → 10%CASA PACIFICA: $3k → 10%FIGHT FOR CHILDREN: $25k → 14%CITY OF ANGELS BALLET: $5k → 14%CITY OF ANGELS BALLET: $3k → 14%CITY OF ANGELS BALLET: $1k → 14%FLORENCE FOR YOUTH IN ACTION: $8k → 14%FLORENCE FOR YOUTH IN ACTION: $5k → 14%FLORENCE FOR YOUTH IN ACTION: $3k → 14%FLORENCE FOR YOUTH IN ACTION: $3k → 14%CITY OF ANGELS BALLET: $3k → 14%CITY OF ANGELS BALLET: $3k → 14%RESCUE MISSION ALLIANCE: $5k → 14%RESCUE MISSION ALLIANCE: $5k → 14%RESCUE MISSION ALLIANCE: $4k → 14%RESCUE MISSION ALLIANCE: $3k → 14%THE MIDNIGHT MISSION: $10k → 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

WA
ID
IL
NY
MA
IN
PA
CT
CA
UT
CO
NE
MD
KS
TN
DC
HI
AL
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.
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Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 11% of The Hainer Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 60% of the giving stays in CA; by stated purpose, 56%.

The Hainer Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 3.2% directed abroad (not shown)
How this is measured
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 funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

67%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.1M · 27 repeat orgs$529k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +19% since the first grant, against +8% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

27
55

Total granted

$1.1M
$485k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+19%
+8%

Still filing today

52%
45%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 73% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $44k 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
Human ServicesAnimalsHealthInternationalCivil RightsEnvironmentOther
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

  • OC
    OAKS CHRISTIAN SCHOOL
    2× · 2017–2018 · $100k · revenue +84%
  • ND
    New Directions for Youth Inc
    7× · 2017–2024 · $37k · revenue +116%
  • TG
    THE GENTLE BARN FOUNDATION
    3× · 2017–2024 · $35k · revenue +22%

Funded once

  • MK
    Mending Kids International dba Mending Kids
    one grant, 2023 · $86k · revenue -22%
  • IE
    INTREPID EVENTS INCgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $72k · revenue +37%
  • FF
    FIGHT FOR CHILDREN INC
    one grant, 2017 · $25k · revenue -54%
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
Global Animal Partnership
Animals
2
Food Forward Inc

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.

Food & Nutrition
3
Animal Outlook Inc

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.

Animals
4
Network for Animals Usa Inc

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…

Animals
5
Noah's Animal House Foundation

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.

Animals
6
Peace 4 Animals

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…

Animals
7
World Vets

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…

Animals
8
United Animal Nations Dba Redrover

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…

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9
Best Friends Animal Society

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.

Animals
10
Heaven on Earth Society for Animals Inc

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…

Animals
11
People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals Inc

Protection of animal rights

Animals
12
The Humane League

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…

Animals
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Fight for Children Inc; 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.
05the grantee network

49 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. 49 of the 91 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)
9
Early backer (in before they grew)
45/49
Grantees still filing
28/49
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

SUN VALLEY TOUR DE FORCE: $251,720 · OtherSUN VALLEY TOUR DE FORCECA HWY PATROL 11-99 FOUNDATION: $215,000 · OtherCA HWY PATROL 11-99 FOUNDATIONMending Kids International dba Mending Kids: $86,150 · OtherMending Kids International dba Mending KidsIndividual grant recipient: $63,371 · OtherIndividual grant recipientWOODLAND HILLS ROTARY CLUB CHARITABLE FD: $58,876 · OtherWOODLAND HILLS ROTARY CLUB CHARITABLE FD+54 more: $425,532 · Other+54 moreINTREPID EVENTS INC: $71,700 · Human ServicesINTREPID EVENTS…Casa Pacifica Centers for Children & Families: $32,500 · Human ServicesCasa Pacifica C…FIGHT FOR CHILDREN INC: $25,000 · Human ServicesFIGHT FOR CHILD…HOPE THE MISSION: $25,000 · Human ServicesHOPE THE MISSIO…COMMUNITY CANCER FUND: $25,000 · Human ServicesCOMMUNITY CANCE…FLORENCE FOR YOUTH IN ACTION: $17,750 · Human ServicesFLORENCE FOR YO…RESCUE MISSION ALLIANCE: $16,500 · Human ServicesRESCUE MISSION …CITY OF ANGELS BALLET: $13,640 · Human ServicesCITY OF ANGELS …THE MIDNIGHT MISSION: $10,000 · Human ServicesOAKS CHRISTIAN SCHOOL: $100,000 · EducationAIDS UNITED: $5,000 · EducationNATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST: $75,000 · PhilanthropyDrive Toward a Cure: $7,500 · PhilanthropyTHE GENTLE BARN FOUNDATION: $35,000 · AnimalsBelieve Ranch and Rescue: $13,263 · AnimalsALL SEATED IN A BARN: $7,765 · AnimalsTHE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS: $7,500 · AnimalsSKY DOG SANCTUARY INC: $5,000 · AnimalsTHE WILD ANIMAL SANCTUARY: $5,000 · AnimalsWILDLIFE WAYSTATION: $5,000 · Animals+2 more: $3,685 · AnimalsTHE ROTARY FOUNDATION OF ROTARY INTERNATIONAL: $47,657 · InternationalHOPE HAVEN CHARITABLE TRUST: $7,000 · International+3 more: $3,056 · InternationalTB12 FOUNDATION INC: $25,000 · HealthSEMPER FI & AMERICA'S FUND: $10,100 · HealthTHE OVARIAN CANCER CIRCLE: $9,703 · HealthLOVING HOME HOSPICE FOR CHILDREN INCORPORATED: $6,184 · HealthMINI THERAPY HORSES: $2,000 · Health
Other$1,100,649Human Services$237,090Education$105,000Philanthropy$82,500Animals$82,213International$57,713Health$52,987

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 budgetOAKS CHRISTIAN SCHOOL: $100,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMending Kids International dba Mending Kids: $86,150 over 1y, 4.0% of budgetNATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST: $75,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetINTREPID EVENTS INC: $71,700 over 1y, 11% of budgetTHE ROTARY FOUNDATION OF ROTARY INTERNATIONAL: $47,657 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetNew Directions for Youth Inc: $36,534 over 7y, 0.4% of budgetTHE GENTLE BARN FOUNDATION: $35,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetCasa Pacifica Centers for Children & Families: $32,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetFIGHT FOR CHILDREN INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetNAACP LEGAL DEFENSE & EDUC FUND INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHOPE THE MISSION: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTB12 FOUNDATION INC: $25,000 over 1y, 3.1% of budgetValley Womens Center: $23,815 over 4y, 4.2% of budgetOUR RESCUE: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFLORENCE FOR YOUTH IN ACTION: $17,750 over 4y, 4.2% of budgetRESCUE MISSION ALLIANCE: $16,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetWORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC: $15,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCITY OF ANGELS BALLET: $13,640 over 5y, 6.9% of budgetBelieve Ranch and Rescue: $13,263 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetHaven Hills Inc: $12,500 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetSEMPER FI & AMERICA'S FUND: $10,100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MIDNIGHT MISSION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE OVARIAN CANCER CIRCLE: $9,703 over 3y, 4.4% of budgetALL SEATED IN A BARN: $7,765 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS: $7,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetDrive Toward a Cure: $7,500 over 1y, 3.1% of budgetTHE LITTLE ANGELS PROJECT: $7,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetHOPE HAVEN CHARITABLE TRUST: $7,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetLOVING HOME HOSPICE FOR CHILDREN INCORPORATED: $6,184 over 3y, 5.0% of budgetSKY DOG SANCTUARY INC: $5,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetAIDS UNITED: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE WILD ANIMAL SANCTUARY: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLOS ANGELES LGBT CENTER: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWILDLIFE WAYSTATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetLOS ANGELES MISSION INC: $3,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHIGHLANDER RESEARCH & EDUCATION CENTER INC: $2,700 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWags and Walks: $2,685 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSHARE OUR STRENGTH: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJOURNEY OUT: $2,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetMINI THERAPY HORSES: $2,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetNETWORK FOR GOOD: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCompassion International Incorporated: $1,056 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWORLD VISION INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Labelle Foundation Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetFeeding America: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA 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.

  • 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 FIGHT FOR CHILDREN INC ↗
  • Who funds NAACP LEGAL DEFENSE & EDUC FUND INC ↗
  • Who funds HOPE THE MISSION ↗
  • Who funds TB12 FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds COMMUNITY CANCER FUND ↗
  • 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 BABY2BABY ↗
  • Who funds THE MIDNIGHT MISSION ↗
  • 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 ↗

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.

The Annenberg Foundat…Leo and Sydelle Ward …California Foundation…Dignity HealthJewish Community Foun…California Community …Kaiser Foundation Hos…Jpmorgan Chase Founda…Network for GoodPaypal Charitable Giv…Morgan Stanley Global…Charities Aid Foundat…
The Annenberg FoundationPA14.6× affinity5 shared granteesties to 10 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Hainer Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Hainer Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    8report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
    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 91 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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