How much does The Hanley Foundation give?

The Hanley Foundation reported 27 grants totaling $848,500 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 33 and 50 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.

What does The Hanley Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (21%), Education (18%), Youth Development (13%).

Who are The Hanley Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Spark the Journey ($849k), Boys and Girls Clubs of Greater Washington and Affiliate ($713k), Friendship Place ($485k).

Does The Hanley Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 13% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does The Hanley 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.

Where is The Hanley Foundation based?

The Hanley Foundation is based in DC.

The Hanley Foundation

The Hanley Foundation at a glance

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The Hanley Foundation

Q: Which funders back the same organizations as The Hanley Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Greater Washington Community Foundation, Silicon Valley Community Foundation, The Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz 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.

$849k

Granted FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$236k

Largest

01What it funds

01100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Health$1.1MEducation$953kYouth Development$719kHousing & Shelter$660kEnvironment$478kFood & Nutrition$346kInternational$241kPhilanthropy$235kOther$0

02FY2025 · 27 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k17 grants · $73k
$10k–50k5 grants · $125k
$50k–250k5 grants · $651k

$5,000

Median grant

States reached

$6.2M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
WENDT CENTER FOR LOSSHEALING	$236,000
BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF GREATER WASHINGTON	$150,000
Individual grant recipient	$100,000
SPARK THE JOURNEY	$100,000
FRIENDSHIP PLACE	$65,000
ASYLUM WORKS	$40,000
WASHINGTON LAWYERS' COMMITTEE	$35,000
MARTHA'S TABLE	$25,000
CHILDREN OF UGANDA	$15,000
DUMBARTON ARTS AND EDUCATION	$10,000
NEGOTIATION WORKS	$7,500
ISSA TRUST FOUNDATION	$6,000
CHRIST HOUSE	$5,000
MUTTVILLE	$5,000
48 HILLS	$5,000

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 (FY20–25, $50k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 90% 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.

92%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$4.9M · 63 repeat orgs$413k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +42% since the first grant, against +3% for those funded once.

63 repeat relationships: 21 still active in FY2025, 42 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$4.9M

$258k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+42%

+3%

Still filing today

79%

76%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $155k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

EducationEnvironmentInternationalArts & CultureHuman ServicesHousing & ShelterOther

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

BA
BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF GREATER WASHINGTON AND AFFILIATE
8× · 2018–2025 · $713k · revenue +74%
FP
Friendship Place
9× · 2017–2025 · $485k · revenue +104%
CHESAPEAKE BAY FOUNDATION INC
7× · 2017–2024 · $350k · revenue +53%

Funded once

TW
THE WILLIAM C BAKER BUILDING A BETTER FUTURE FUND
one grant, 2021 · $100k
IG
Individual grant recipient
one grant, 2017 · $50k
LH
LINC HOUSING CORPORATIONgraduated
one grant, 2017 · $25k · revenue +277%

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.

The Union of Concerned Scientists Inc

The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.

International

Friends of the Earth

Friends of the earth strives for a more healthy and just world by defendng the environment and human health while advancing social and economic justice by conducting research and education, transforming the economy so it protects the…

Environment

Asociacion Interamericana Para La Defensa Del Ambiente

To strenghten people's ability to guarantee their individual and collective right to a healthy environment, via the development, implementation, and effective enforcement of national and international law.

Crime & Legal

Conservation International Foundation

Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.

Environment

Environmental Investigation Agency

To establish and promote programs to protect the global climate, forests, wildlife and the natural environment, through research, advocacy, and investigation.

International

University Cooperative School

We take a joyful, community-oriented approach to raising engaged citizens, deep learners, and brave adventurers with the skills, creativity, and heart needed to better the world.

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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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Rainforest Trust

Rainforest trust saves endangered wildlife and protects our planet by creating rainforest reserves through partnerships, community engagement, and donor support.

International

Aquarium of the Pacific Corporation

The aquarium of the pacific's mission is to instill a sense of wonder, respect, and stewardship for the pacific ocean, its inhabitants, and ecosystems.

Animals

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.

—

Namati Inc

Namati, inc. (namati) is dedicated to putting the law in people's hands. we strive to build a just world, in which every one of us can take part in the decisions and demand accountability from the institutions that affect our lives.…

Crime & Legal

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

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Spur Local Inc; the most unlike its peers is Wildlife Conservation Society. 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

77 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 77 of the 97 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)

76/77

Grantees still filing

52/77

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$2,702,250Education$990,500Housing & Shelter$552,500Environment$446,250Food & Nutrition$298,000International$232,000Philanthropy$139,000

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.

Greater Washington Community FoundationDC26.7× affinity13 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Greater Washington Community Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · The Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation · Philip L Graham Fund co Graham Holdings Company · The San Francisco Foundation · Corina Higginson Trust Co Laura Ford Trustee · Clark-Winchcole Foundation · John Edward Fowler Memorial Foundation · Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma · Impactassetsinc · Marin Community Foundation · McNabb 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 Hanley Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Hanley Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

5get no government money at all

28report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely 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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