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The Hall Family Foundation at a glance

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The Hall Family Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$9k
Granted FY2024still arriving
10
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$2k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0195% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Human Services$9kHealth$6kAnimals$6kFood & Nutrition$4kEducation$3kRecreation & Sports$1kYouth Development$725Philanthropy$200Other$0
02FY2024 · 10 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$1,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$25k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SALVATION ARMY$2,100
READINGTON TRAIL ASSN$2,000
MEALS ON WHEELS$1,000
NJ AID FOR ANIMALS$1,000
NATIONAL KIDNEY FOUNDATION$1,000
STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOU$1,000
MADISON HIGH SCHOOL GIRLS SOFTBALL$525
CENTER FOR DISABILITY SERVICES$450
Individual grant recipient$215
MUSCULAR DISTROPHY ASSOCIATION INC$100
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.

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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY20–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 35% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%FOUNDATION FOR CHALLENGED CHILDREN: $550 → 7%UNIVERSITY OF SCRANTON: $450 → 13%STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOU: $1k → 11%LHS ATHLETIC SCHOLARSHIP FONDATION: $650 → 14%CENTER FOR DISABILITY SERVICES: $450 → 14%NATIONAL KIDNEY FOUNDATION: $1k → 17%MICHAEL P DOYLE MEMORIAL FOUNDATION: $150 → 7%ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITA: $1k → 17%MUSCULAR DISTROPHY ASSOCIATION INC: $100 → 14%PASTIME CLUB: $250 → 4%WILLOW SCHOOL: $300 → 5%EVELYN MIZER FOUNDATION: $200 → 6%SALVATION ARMY: $2k → 10%STREET OF DREAMS: $250 → 12%NATIONAL KIDNEY FOUNDATION: $1k → 17%PASTIME CLUB: $250 → 4%SALVATION ARMY: $2k → 10%STREET OF DREAMS: $215 → 12%NATIONAL KIDNEY FOUNDATION: $1k → 17%PASTIME CLUB: $225 → 4%SALVATION ARMY: $2k → 10%MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CEN: $300 → 17%MEALS ON WHEELS: $1k → 4%SALVATION ARMY: $2k → 10%CROHN'S COLITIS FOUNDATION: $800 → 17%MEALS ON WHEELS: $1k → 4%SALVATION ARMY: $1k → 10%CROHN'S COLITIS FOUNDATION: $500 → 17%MEALS ON WHEELS: $900 → 4%MADISON HIGH SCHOOL GIRLS SOFTBALL: $525 → 4%MEALS ON WHEELS: $500 → 4%MADISON SOFTBALL: $400 → 4%MADISON SOFTBALL: $380 → 4%MEALS ON WHEELS: $200 → 4%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.
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.

81%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$25k · 9 repeat orgs$6k to everyone else

9 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

9
8

Total granted

$25k
$4k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+17%
+29%

Still filing today

56%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 78% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24
EducationHealthRecreation & SportsAnimalsOther
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

  • MO
    MEALS ON WHEELS INC
    5× · 2020–2024 · $4k · revenue +1%
  • NK
    National Kidney Foundation Inc
    3× · 2021–2024 · $3k · revenue +17%
  • MS
    MADISON SOFTBALL INC
    2× · 2020–2022 · $780 · revenue +184%

Funded once

  • ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INCgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $1k · revenue +29%
  • LA
    LHS ATHLETIC SCHOLARSHIP FONDATION
    one grant, 2021 · $650
  • FF
    FOUNDATION FOR CHALLENGED CHILDREN
    one grant, 2021 · $550
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
New York University

Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.

Education
2
St Joseph's Health System Subordinate Group Return

We are committed to providing exceptional quality care which sustains and improves both individual and community health, with a special concern for those who are poor, vulnerable and underserved.

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3
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center

Leadership in the prevention, treatment, and cure of cancer through excellence, vision and cost effectiveness in patient care, outreach programs, research, and education.

Health
4
New Jersey Innovation Institute Inc

We are an innovative research org. dedicated to revitalizing economic development within nj.

Science & Tech
5
New York Genome Center Inc

Operate a state-of-the-art, world-class genomic research center that creates and uses advanced genomics to understand the genetic basis of disease. for more information, see schedule o.

Health
6
Hugo W Moser Research Institute At Kennedy Krieger Inc

The hugo w. moser research institute at kennedy krieger, inc. (the "research institute") is an internationally recognized research facility finding answers to problems and injuries that affect a child's developing brain. researchers have…

Science & Tech
7
Montefiore New Rochelle Hospital

Mission: to heal, to teach, to discover and to advance the health of the communities we serve. values: humanity, innovation, teamwork, diversity and equity - our values define our philosophy of care. they shape our actions and motivate and…

Health
8
The Johns Hopkins Hospital

For more than 125 years, the mission of the johns hopkins hospital has been to lead the world in the diagnosis and treatment of disease and to train tomorrow's great physicians, nurses and scientists. above all, we aim to provide the…

Health
9
Parker Jewish Institute for Health Care and Rehabilitation

To provide with compassion and dedication superior quality health care and rehabilitation for adults and to directly or indirectly coordinate arrangements and provision for comprehensive health care and social support services to frail…

Health
10
National Autism Center Inc

Amid the proliferation of advice about treatment options for autism, the ability to access accurate information about research-validated approaches is critically important to those seeking effective treatment.

Health
11
Thomas Jefferson University

Thomas jefferson university ("tju") is a comprehensive university with preeminence in transdisciplinary, experiential professional education, research and discovery, delivering exceptional value for the 21st century students with…

Education
12
University of Minnesota Physicians

University of minnesota physicians serves as the integrated group practice for the university of minnesota medical school full-time faculty to provide the highest quality healthcare to patients and their families.university of minnesota…

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is St Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc; the most unlike its peers is Pastime Club Inc. 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

12 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. 12 of the 21 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
12/12
Grantees still filing
8/12
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

SALVATION ARMY: $9,310 · OtherSALVATION ARMYCOALITION FOR ANIMALS: $3,800 · OtherCOALITION FOR ANIMALSMEALS ON WHEELS INC: $3,600 · OtherMEALS ON WHEELS INCCROHN'S COLITIS FOUNDATION: $1,300 · OtherCROHN'S COLITIS FOUNDATIONPASTIME CLUB INC: $725 · Other+6 more: $2,690 · Other+6 moreNational Kidney Foundation Inc: $3,000 · HealthNational Kidney …ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $1,000 · HealthST JUDE CHILDREN…CENTER FOR DISABILITY SERVICESINC: $450 · HealthCENTER FOR DISAB…+1 more: $100 · HealthSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION: $1,000 · EducationUniversity of Scranton: $450 · EducationTHE WILLOW SCHOOL INC: $300 · EducationTHE MICHAEL P DOYLE MEMORIAL FOUNDATION INC: $150 · EducationNJ AID FOR ANIMALS INC: $1,800 · AnimalsMADISON SOFTBALL INC: $780 · Recreation & Sports
Other$21,425Health$4,550Education$1,900Animals$1,800Recreation & Sports$780

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 budgetMEALS ON WHEELS INC: $3,600 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetNational Kidney Foundation Inc: $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNJ AID FOR ANIMALS INC: $1,800 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMADISON SOFTBALL INC: $780 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetPASTIME CLUB INC: $725 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetUniversity of Scranton: $450 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCENTER FOR DISABILITY SERVICESINC: $450 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE WILLOW SCHOOL INC: $300 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MICHAEL P DOYLE MEMORIAL FOUNDATION INC: $150 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetMUSCULAR DYSTROPHY ASSOCIATION INC: $100 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 40%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    4get no government money at all
    1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
    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 Hall Family Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to The Hall Family 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.

    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 21 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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