· Private foundation
The Hanafin Foundation Inc
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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k1 grant · $5k
- $10k–50k8 grants · $188k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| LITTLE FLOWER HIGH SCHOOL | $50,000 |
| DIOCESE OF METUCHEN | $35,000 |
| DC BURN FOUNDATION | $30,000 |
| DIOCESE OF METUCHEN | $30,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $25,000 |
| MIDDLE EARTH | $23,399 |
| MERCY CAREER & TECHNICAL HIGH SCHOOL | $20,000 |
| CHILDREN'S DAY SCHOOL | $15,000 |
| RED MILL MUSEUM VILLAGE | $10,000 |
| TURNER PUBLIC LIBRARY | $5,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $109k) land where the poverty rate runs at 5%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +37% since the first grant, against -4% for those funded once.
12 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down; 3 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, 71% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $70k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- MEMiddle Earth5× · 2017–2025 · $109k · revenue +37%
- RPREADING PARTNERS2× · 2017–2018 · $70k · revenue +1%
- KAKids & Art Foundation2× · 2017–2018 · $51k · revenue +310%
Funded once
- MSMAINE SCHOOL DISTRICT #52one grant, 2021 · $30k
CRADLE BEACH INCone grant, 2017 · $25k · revenue -5%- SSSIXTH STREET COMMUNITY STREETone grant, 2018 · $25k
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.
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.
Public lending library
Provide a free, safe, educational environment for those young in years, or young at heart, to experience the power of imagination.
Dansville Public Library purchases and maintains a collection of books and other materials for loan to the public to meet the educational, informational, and recreational needs of its users, along with providing early literacy programs,…
Children will discover their unique potential by living the Montessori lifestyle hand in hand with parents and staff.
Raising a Reader supports families and inspires the development of literacy skills and a lifelong love for reading. We help children attain brighter futures in which they can thrive and contribute in school, the workforce and society.
Kirkland town library is a voluntary, not-for-profit corporation organized under the laws of the education department of the state of new york. the library provides informational materials and programs to members from the greater kirkland,…
The mission of the Wallkill Public Library is to provide our community with access to the highest quality materials, services, and programs, as a source of information, education, entertainment, and cultural enrichment. The library enables…
To provide preschool education for children ages 2-5.
Read to a child's mission is to foster a love of reading, improve literacy skills and support socio-emotional well-being in students from under-resourced communities.
Valley Cottage Library (the Library) a not-for-profit corporation chartered by the New York State Education Department in 1959. It is organized to serve the educational and cultural needs of the community of the Nyack School District. It…
Provide reading, research, etc and materials to the general public
The library serves to enrich the quality of life for a diverse and growing constituency of all ages by providing resources and services which contribute to individual literacy, education, and entertainment.
How this is measured
8 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. 8 of the 22 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
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.
- Who funds Middle Earth ↗
- Who funds READING PARTNERS ↗
- Who funds Kids & Art Foundation ↗
- Who funds CRADLE BEACH INC ↗
- Who funds MK Gandhi Institute For Nonviolence ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S DAY SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds THE RED MILL MUSEUM VILLAGE INC ↗
- Who funds TURNER PUBLIC LIBRARY PORTLAND TRUST COMPANY MANAGER ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Hanafin Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Hanafin Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
- Middle Earth: 30% of income from government
- The Red Mill Museum Village Inc: 8% of income from government
How this is measured
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