· Private foundation
The Hassenfeld Family Foundation
Its FY2024 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, FY2018 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k2 grants · $15k
- $10k–50k8 grants · $188k
- $50k–250k21 grants · $2.5M
- $250k+13 grants · $5.7M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Brown University | $977,550 |
| University Of Chicago Medicine | $964,174 |
| Brown University | $698,700 |
| The Strong National Museum of Play | $500,250 |
| Massachusetts General Hospital | $340,275 |
| Dream It Foundation Inc | $295,000 |
| Dream It Foundation Inc | $295,000 |
| Dream It Foundation Inc | $295,000 |
| Dream It Foundation Inc | $295,000 |
| The Jerusalem Foundation | $272,220 |
| Women & Infants Development Foundation | $265,320 |
| Massachusetts General Hospital | $250,000 |
| The Jerusalem Foundation | $250,000 |
| Brown University | $221,904 |
| Tufts University | $204,350 |
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 (FY18–24, $7.2M) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 18% of The Hassenfeld Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.
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 +18% since the first grant, against +1% for those funded once.
55 repeat relationships: 16 still active in FY2024, 39 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 74% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.5M went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
University of Chicago5× · 2019–2023 · $9.2M · revenue +25%- JFJERUSALEM FOUNDATION INC7× · 2018–2024 · $6.3M · revenue +45%
- DIDREAM IT FOUNDATION INC6× · 2019–2024 · $5.6M · revenue +6% · 100% of their budget
Funded once
- NYNEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINEone grant, 2019 · $1.3M
- TCTHE CATS2 FOUNDATIONone grant, 2023 · $1.0M · revenue -66% · 67% of their budget
- TTTHE TOY FOUNDATION INCgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $1.0M · revenue +206%
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.
The mission of rhode island school of design, through its college and museum,is to educate its students and the public in the creation and (see schedule o)appreciation of works of art and design, to discover and transmit knowledge and to…
The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…
Dartmouth College educates the most promising students and prepares them for a lifetime of learning and of responsible leadership, through a faculty dedicated to teaching and the creation of knowledge.
Wpi transforms lives, turns knowledge into action to confront global challenges, and revolutionizes stem through distinctive and inclusive education, projects and research. (http://www.wpi.edu/about/mission.html)
The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…
To represent every constituency of healthcare leadership, as well as health insurance, consumer and public interest. to work collaboratively, come up with innovative solutions, champion changes throughout our organizations, and dedicate…
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 only law school in Rhode Island, Roger Williams University School of Law offers future attorneys a rigorous, hands-on legal education in a supportive, personalized environment. Preparing students for success in the public and private…
Organization's mission: boston university is an international, comprehensive, private research university, committed to educating students to be reflective, resourceful individuals ready to live, adapt, and lead in an interconnected world.…
Western new england university, a comprehensive private institution with a tradition of excellence in teaching and scholarship and a commitment to service, awards undergraduate, master's, and doctoral degrees in various departments from…
How this is measured
76 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. 76 of the 119 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 BROWN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds University of Chicago ↗
- Who funds JERUSALEM FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds DREAM IT FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds THE INSTITUTE OF CONTEMPORARY ART INC ↗
- Who funds JEWISH ALLIANCE OF GREATER RHODE ISLAND ↗
- Who funds MARGARET WOODBURY STRONG MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds Trustees of Tufts College ↗
- Who funds The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Inc ↗
- Who funds THE CATS2 FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE TOY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds BRYANT UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds President and Fellows of Harvard College ↗
- Who funds HIAS INC ↗
- Who funds POPULATION AND DEVELOPMENT INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
- Who funds Women & Infants Development Foundation ↗
- Who funds MARINE TOYS FOR TOTS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HUMMEL REPORT ↗
- Who funds RHODE ISLAND KIDS COUNT INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY COLLEGE OF RI FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE RHODE ISLAND COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FOCUSED ULTRASOUND FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF SOUTHERN NEW ENGLAND INC ↗
- Who funds BLUE WINGS WORLD INC ↗
- Who funds ONE TREE PLANTED INC ↗
- Who funds ROGER WILLIAMS UNIVERSITY ↗
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: The Rhode Island Community Foundation · United Way of Rhode Island Inc · Amica Companies Foundation · Washington Trust Co Charitable Fdn · Ralph R Papitto & Barbara a Papitto Private Family Foundation · The Champlin Foundation · Harborone Foundation Rhode Island · Centreville Savings Bank Charitable Foundation · Ida Ballou Littlefield Memorial Trust · June Rockwell Levy Foundation Incorporated · Citizens Charitable Foundation · Ruth & Louis Baker Family Found
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Hassenfeld Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Hassenfeld Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Hias Inc: 88% of income from government
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology: 35% of income from government
- International Youth Foundation: 17% of income from government
- Trustees of Tufts College: 13% of income from government
- Planned Parenthood of Southern New England Inc: 10% of income from government
- Brandeis University: 9% of income from government
- President and Fellows of Harvard College: 7% of income from government
- University of Miami: 5% of income from government
- Connecticut Public Broadcasting Inc: 3% of income from government
- Camp Harbor View Foundation Inc: 1% of income from government
- The Institute of Contemporary Art Inc: 1% of income from government
- Wentworth Institute of Technology Inc: 1% of income from government
How this is measured
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