· Private foundation
The Hale Family 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.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SUMMER STOCK STAGE | $3,000 |
| CONQUER PARALYSIS NOW | $2,500 |
| INDIANAPOLIS ARTS COUNCIL | $2,500 |
| RILEY CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION | $2,500 |
| INDIANAPOLIS MOTOR SPEEDWAY MUSEUM | $1,940 |
| ST LUKE UNITED METHODIST CHURCH | $1,625 |
| LANDMARK COLUMBUS FOUNDATION | $1,053 |
| NANTUCKET HISTORICAL ASSN | $1,000 |
| FIRST CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH | $1,000 |
| THE IRELAND FUNDS OF AMERICA | $850 |
| UNITED METHODIST COMMUNICATIONS FOUNDATION | $500 |
| DREAMLAND FOUNDATION | $500 |
| THE WARMING PLACE NANTUCKET | $300 |
| SCONSET TRUST | $250 |
| LADD INC | $250 |
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, $6k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 64% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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.
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 +32% since the first grant, against +30% for the ones you funded once.
44 repeat relationships — 12 still active in FY2025, 32 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, 72% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k 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
- IMINDIANAPOLIS MOTOR SPEEDWAY FOUNDATION INC5× · 2021–2025 · $35k · revenue +47%
DePauw University6× · 2017–2024 · $24k · revenue +43%- HCHanover College4× · 2017–2021 · $16k · revenue +115%
Funded once
- OTON THE ISLE CORPORATIONone grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue -21%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2023 · $5k
- CSCarmel Symphony Orchestragraduatedone grant, 2022 · $3k · revenue +35%
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.
The nantucket conservation foundation owns, protects, and stewards over 9,000 acres of land and coastal shoreline, conserves nantucket's rare and significant natural resources, and engages in impactful ecological research to inform…
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
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.
The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
Saint anselm is a catholic, benedictine college providing all of its students a distinctive liberal arts education that incorporates opportunities for professional and career preparation. it does so in a learning community that encourages…
Bates is a college of the liberal arts and sciences, and is a coeducational, nonsectarian, residential college with special commitments to academic rigor, and to assuring in all of its efforts the dignity of each individual, and access to…
The organization's mission is to conserve and promote new england's native plants to ensure healthy, biologically diverse landscapes.
We empower directors and transform boards to be future ready.
Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.
The mission of rhode island school of design, through its college and museum,is to educate its students and the public in the creation and (see schedule o)appreciation of works of art and design, to discover and transmit knowledge and to…
Empowering college admission counseling professionals through education, advocacy, and community.
To support healthy communities and a healthy earth, the institute for conservation leadership strengthens leaders, organizations, coalitions and networks.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Naples Botanical Garden Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Albert F Egan Jr & Dorothy H Egan F. 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 40 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
69 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. 69 of the 114 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 INDIANAPOLIS MOTOR SPEEDWAY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds DePauw University ↗
- Who funds Hanover College ↗
- Who funds DANCE KALEIDOSCOPE INC ↗
- Who funds NANTUCKET HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park ↗
- Who funds ON THE ISLE CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds THEATRE WORKSHOP OF NANTUCKET INC ↗
- Who funds SUMMER STOCK STAGE INC ↗
- Who funds THE ALBERT F EGAN JR & DOROTHY H EGAN F ↗
- Who funds 'SCONSET TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds ORCHARD SCHOOL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds NANTUCKET ARTS COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds INDIANAPOLIS FILM PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds Community Foundation for Nantucket Inc ↗
- Who funds Landmark Columbus Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds Carmel Symphony Orchestra ↗
- Who funds NANTUCKET ATHENEUM INC ↗
- Who funds STAR INC - LIGHTING THE WAY ↗
- Who funds NANTUCKET LAND & WATER COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds Lubirds Light Foundation ↗
- Who funds The Penrod Society LTD ↗
- Who funds The Curetivity Foundation ↗
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: Community Foundation for Nantucket Inc · Lilly Endowment Inc · Nantucket Golf Club Foundation Inc · The George & Marie Chabot Charitable Foundation · Carverdelaney Families Foundation Inc · Charina Foundation Inc Richard Menschel · Ernst & Elfriede Frank Foundation Inc · Clara Foundation Inc · Central Indiana Community Foundation Inc · Gilbert Verney Foundation · Nancy Sayles Day Foundation · The Linda and Harvey Saligman Charitable Foundation
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 Hale Family 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Star Inc - Lighting the Way — 88% of income from government
- A Safe Place Inc — 45% of income from government
- Family Centers Inc — 20% of income from government
- Community Foundation for Nantucket Inc — 10% of income from government
- Naples Botanical Garden Inc — 3% of income from government
- Nantucket Historical Association — 1% of income from government
- Artists Association of Nantucket Inc — 0% of income from government
- Animal Rescue League of Boston — 0% of income from government
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.