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The Hall Charitable Trust
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 $10k4 grants · $10k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $62k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL | $50,000 |
| HEAL THE OCEAN | $25,000 |
| CHILDREN'S TUMOR FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $12,000 |
| SANTA BARBARA CHANNELKEEPER INC | $3,500 |
| SANTA BARBARA BOTANIC GARDEN | $2,500 |
| THE NEW YORK BOTANICAL GARDEN | $2,500 |
| WILLISTON NORTHAMPTON SCHOOL | $1,847 |
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 (FY18–23, $8k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% 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 +41% since the first grant, against +10% for the ones you funded once.
16 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down.
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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
Northwestern University4× · 2017–2021 · $535k · revenue +41%
NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC8× · 2017–2025 · $305k · revenue +41%- HTHEAL THE OCEAN INC9× · 2017–2025 · $145k · revenue +119%
Funded once
- TVTHE VOTER PARTICIPATION CENTERone grant, 2020 · $100k · revenue -34%
- LTLOMPOC THEATREone grant, 2017 · $40k
- NBNATIONAL BREAST CANCER COALITION FUone grant, 2021 · $15k
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.
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 union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.
Nacwa is the national voice of public clean water utilities, shaping water policy, convening a vibrant peer network, and empowering water leaders.
The natural areas conservancy champions urban natural areas in new york city and across the nation through innovative research, partnerships, and advocacy. we increase the health and resilience of urban forests and wetlands, catalyze…
To enrich life by perpetuating tropical plants, ecosystems and cultural heritage through discovery, scientific research, conservation, and education.
Our mission is to invest in and accelerate the development of the most promising future leaders in biomedical research with global impact.
To drive transformational adaptation to protect communities across the country from higher seas, stronger storms, and more frequent flooding.
To sustain, restore, and enhance the nation's fish, wildlife, plants, and habitats.
The organization's mission is to conserve and promote new england's native plants to ensure healthy, biologically diverse landscapes.
To cultivate and develop an expansive collection of trees, gardens, and plants for all to explore, enjoy and study; and to provide through education and stewardship, a greener, healthier, more beautiful environment.
National public radio, inc. ("npr") works collaboratively with member public radio station licensees ("member stations") to create a more informed public, one that is challenged and invigorated by a deeper understanding and appreciation of…
Eastern national promotes the public's understanding and support of america's national parks and other public trust partners by providing quality educational experiences, products and services.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is New Venture Fund and the most unlike its peers is Feeding America. 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 39 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) — 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 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.
29 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. 29 of the 40 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 Northwestern University ↗
- Who funds NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds HEAL THE OCEAN INC ↗
- Who funds THE VOTER PARTICIPATION CENTER ↗
- Who funds NEW VENTURE FUND ↗
- Who funds HEAL THE BAY ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S TUMOR FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SANTA BARBARA CHANNELKEEPER INC ↗
- Who funds THE WILLISTON NORTHAMPTON SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds SURFAID INTERNATIONAL USA ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL NETWORK OF ABORTION FUNDS INC ↗
- Who funds THE ARCHER SCHOOL FOR GIRLS INC ↗
- Who funds EVERYTOWN FOR GUN SAFETY SUPPORT FUND INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL BREAST CANCER COALITION ↗
- Who funds BOYS and GIRLS CLUB OF SANTA BARBARAINC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDSHIP ADULT DAY CARE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds NEW YORK BOTANICAL GARDEN ↗
- Who funds SANTA BARBARA BOTANIC GARDEN ↗
- Who funds DAVID LYNCH FOUNDATION FOR CONSCIOUSNESS -BASED EDUCATION AND WORLD PEACE ↗
- Who funds Feeding America ↗
- Who funds BANK STREET COLLEGE OF EDUCATION ↗
- Who funds BREAST CANCER ACTION ↗
- Who funds Jenesse Center Inc ↗
- Who funds MELISSA'S HOUSE ↗
- Who funds VNA HEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LEAGUE OF CHICAGO THEATRES ↗
- Who funds HARTLEY NATURE CENTER ↗
- Who funds THE LAND TRUST FOR SANTA BARBARA COUNTY ↗
- Who funds THE AMANDA 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: Santa Barbara Foundation · The Kirby-Jones Foundation · Hutton Foundation Dba Hutton Parker Foundation · California Community Foundation · Mosher Foundation · Www Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc
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 Hall Charitable Trust 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.
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