How much does The Hale Family Foundation give?

The Hale Family Foundation reported 18 grants totaling $20,218 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 20 and 38 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.

What does The Hale Family Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (38%), Education (16%), Religion (13%).

Who are The Hale Family Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Indianapolis Motor Speedway Foundation Inc ($35k), DePauw University ($24k), Hanover College ($16k).

Does The Hale Family Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 39% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does The Hale Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

Which funders back the same organizations as The Hale Family Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Community Foundation for Nantucket Inc, Lilly Endowment Inc, Nantucket Golf Club Foundation Inc.

Where is The Hale Family Foundation based?

The Hale Family Foundation is based in FL.

The Hale Family Foundation

The Hale Family Foundation at a glance

· 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.

$20k

Granted FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$3k

Largest

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.

Arts & Culture$124kEducation$54kReligion$44kHealth$26kEnvironment$11kPhilanthropy$7kHuman Services$5kFood & Nutrition$4kOther$0

02FY2025 · 18 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$1,000

Median grant

States reached

$137k

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
SUMMER STOCK STAGE	$3,000
INDIANAPOLIS ARTS COUNCIL	$2,500
CONQUER PARALYSIS NOW	$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

02The need

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 (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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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

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.

83%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$271k · 44 repeat orgs$54k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +32% since the first grant, against +30% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$271k

$48k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+32%

+30%

Still filing today

55%

61%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 72% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Arts & CultureEducationHealthHuman ServicesEnvironmentAnimalsOther

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

IM
INDIANAPOLIS MOTOR SPEEDWAY FOUNDATION INC
5× · 2021–2025 · $35k · revenue +47%
DePauw University
6× · 2017–2024 · $24k · revenue +43%
HC
Hanover College
4× · 2017–2021 · $16k · revenue +115%

Funded once

OT
ON THE ISLE CORPORATION
one grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue -21%
IG
Individual grant recipient
one grant, 2023 · $5k
CS
Carmel Symphony Orchestragraduated
one grant, 2022 · $3k · revenue +35%

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.

Nantucket Conservation Foundation Inc

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…

Environment

Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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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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University of New Haven

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…

Education

Saint Anselm College

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…

Education

President and Trustees of Bates College

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…

Education

Native Plant Trust Inc

The organization's mission is to conserve and promote new england's native plants to ensure healthy, biologically diverse landscapes.

Environment

National Association of Corporate Directors

We empower directors and transform boards to be future ready.

Public Benefit

Northeast College of Health Sciences

Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.

Education

Rhode Island School of Design

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…

Education

National Association for College Admission Counseling

Empowering college admission counseling professionals through education, advocacy, and community.

Education

Institute for Conservation Leadership

To support healthy communities and a healthy earth, the institute for conservation leadership strengthens leaders, organizations, coalitions and networks.

Community Improvement

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Naples Botanical Garden Inc; 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.

04the grantee network

69 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. 69 of the 114 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

65/69

Grantees still filing

48/69

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$174,268Arts & Culture$73,240Education$52,806Health$10,805Environment$8,710Human Services$6,220Philanthropy$3,960

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

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.

Community Foundation for Nantucket IncMA30.2× affinity12 shared granteesties to 10 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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

2024

’20’21’22’23’24’25

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

16get no government money at all

15report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

1rely on government for over half their income

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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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

The endowment market

who holds foundation money, and what just moved

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

where grant money is based, and what stays home