How much does The Hale Foundation give?

The Hale Foundation reported 55 grants totaling $95,750 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 29 and 64 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.

What does The Hale Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are International (33%), Food & Nutrition (17%), Philanthropy (11%).

Who are The Hale Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Medecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc ($46k), Feeding America ($43k), The Carter Center Inc ($43k).

Does The Hale Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 4% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does The Hale 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 Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include AbbVie Foundation, Blowitz-Ridgeway Foundation, George M Eisenberg Foundation for Charities.

Where is The Hale Foundation based?

The Hale Foundation is based in IL.

The Hale Foundation

The Hale Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

The Hale 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.

$96k

Granted FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$6k

Largest

01What it funds

0198% classified

What it funded, over time

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

International$292kFood & Nutrition$146kPhilanthropy$96kHuman Services$81kHealth$56kArts & Culture$36kPublic Benefit$33kPublic Safety & Disaster$29kOther$0

02FY2025 · 55 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$1,500

Median grant

States reached

$651k

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS	$5,500
CARTER CENTER	$5,000
FEEDING AMERICA	$5,000
PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION	$4,000
GREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY	$4,000
ALIGHT	$3,000
INTL RESCUE COMMITTEE	$3,000
FEED THE CHILDREN	$3,000
NORTHERN IL FOOD BK	$2,500
RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES	$2,500
READING IS FUNDAMENTAL	$2,000
FOOD FOR THE HUNGRY	$2,000
NATIONAL WILDLIFE FEDERATION	$2,000
PARTNERS IN HEALTH	$2,000
OXFAM	$2,000

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, $63k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 75% 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.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$843k · 96 repeat orgs$38k to everyone else

96 repeat relationships: 53 still active in FY2025, 43 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$843k

$36k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+38%

+42%

Still filing today

56%

45%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

InternationalHuman ServicesHealthFood & NutritionEducationPhilanthropyOther

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

MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC
9× · 2017–2025 · $46k · revenue +98%
Feeding America
9× · 2017–2025 · $43k · revenue +84%
TC
THE CARTER CENTER INC
9× · 2017–2025 · $43k · revenue +38%

Funded once

IG
Individual grant recipient
one grant, 2017 · $10k
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WWWWEAREALIGHTORF
one grant, 2024 · $3k
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350ORG
one grant, 2023 · $2k · revenue -18%

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.

World Relief Corp of National Association of Evangelicals

To boldly engage the world's greatest crises in partnership with the church.

International

Actionaid Usa

Actionaid is an international network building a just, equitable, and sustainable world in solidarity with communities on the frontlines of poverty and injustice. actionaid usa is the u.s. branch of actionaid international, which works in…

Social Science

Waterorg

Water.org's goal is to bring safe water and sanitation to the world through access to small, affordable loans.

International

Counterpart International Inc

For over 60 years, counterpart international has partnered with communities worldwide to turn local ideas into lasting solutions, connecting local vision with global opportunity. (continued on schedule o)we believe people closest to the…

International

Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition

The mission of the global alliance for improved nutrition (gain) is to improve the consumption of healthier diets for all, especially the most vulnerable, by improving the availability, affordability, desirability, and sustainability of…

Food & Nutrition

International Development Enterprises

See schedule o for a more detailed description of ide's mission statement and achievements.

International

Partners in Food Solutions

Improve the food value chain in developing countries by mobilizing corporate volunteers to share knowledge and expertise with small and growing food processors.

International

Management Sciences for Health Inc

(msh) saves lives and improves the health of the world's poorest (see schedule o) and most vulnerable people by closing the gap between knowledge and action in public health.

International

The Global FoodBanking Network

To nourish the world's hungry through uniting and advancing food banks.

International

Global Partners in Care

The organization's mission is to build partnerships to enhance compassionate care globally. we are dedicated to improving access to hospice and palliative care worldwide.

International

World Resources Institute

Wri is committed to creating change that improves people's lives and ensures the natural world can thrive. (see schedule o)wri's bold vision requires a formula for success we call "count it. change it. scale it.":- count it: our work is…

International

International Medical Corps

To save lives & relieve suffering through health interventions & related activities that strengthen communities affected by conflict, natural disasters & disease outbreaks.

International

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Action Against Hunger - Usa; the most unlike its peers is Meals On Wheels. 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

66 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. 66 of the 120 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)

65/66

Grantees still filing

50/66

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$390,189International$247,745Food & Nutrition$85,750Health$64,250Human Services$63,230Education$17,500Philanthropy$12,150

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.

AbbVie FoundationIL16.2× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: AbbVie Foundation · Blowitz-Ridgeway Foundation · George M Eisenberg Foundation for Charities · Trustmark Foundation · Northwestern Memorial HealthCare Group · Enterprise Holdings Foundation · Baxter International Foundation · Synchrony Foundation · Chubb Charitable Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation America · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · The Chicago Community Trust

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

2024

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

4get no government money at all

16report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%

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.

05Through Plinth

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How do I get to The Hale Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Hale Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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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

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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