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The Hasten Foundation at a glance

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The Hasten 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.

$188k
Granted FY2025still arriving
3
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$100k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.

Education$540kHealth$472kInternational$38kHuman Services$28kCrime & Legal$20kYouth Development$18kFood & Nutrition$7kEnvironment$6kOther$0
02FY2025 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k1 grant · $13k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $175k
$75,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$891k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
START EARLY (FKA OUNCE OF PREVENTION FUND)$100,000
LOYOLA UNIVERSITY CHICAGO$75,000
LURIE CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION$12,500
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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Its human-services grants (FY18–19, $50k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%CHRISTOPHER HOUSE: $25k → 14%CHRISTOPHER HOUSE: $25k → 14%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.

95%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.1M · 9 repeat orgs$57k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +34% since the first grant, against +33% for those funded once.

9 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

9
9

Total granted

$1.1M
$57k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+34%
+33%

Still filing today

67%
89%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationInternationalEnvironmentHousing & ShelterRecreation & SportsHuman ServicesOther
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

  • LU
    LOYOLA UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO
    5× · 2021–2025 · $260k · revenue +30%
  • START EARLY
    3× · 2018–2020 · $230k · revenue +106%
  • CH
    CHRISTOPHER HOUSE
    2× · 2018–2019 · $50k · revenue +28%

Funded once

  • MASS DESIGN GROUP LTD
    one grant, 2019 · $25k · revenue -43%
  • JF
    JEH FOUNDATION FOR PANCREATIC CANCER
    one grant, 2018 · $10k
  • MM
    MISTY MEADOWS EQUINE LEARNING CENTER INC
    one grant, 2023 · $5k · revenue -3%
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
Chicago Cultural Alliance

The Chicago Cultural Alliances mission is to connect, promote, and support centers of cultural heritage for a more inclusive Chicago. We are an active consortium of 50 cultural heritage museums, centers, and historical societies that…

Arts & Culture
2
Chicago Parks Foundation

The Chicago Parks Foundation is a separate 501 (c) (3) non-profit organization that also serves as the strategic partner for the coordination of fundraising and charitable resources for the Chicago Park District.

Recreation & Sports
3
Children's Museum of Oak Park

To spark curiosity and creativity in all young children through positive, play-based learning experiences.

Arts & Culture
4
Lincoln Park Zoological Society

Lincoln park zoo is dedicated to connecting people with nature by providing a free, family-oriented wildlife experience in the heart of chicago and by advancing the highest quality of animal care, horticulture, education, science and…

Animals
5
Saint Xavier University

Saint xavier university, a catholic institution inspired by the heritage of the sisters of mercy, educates persons to search for truth, think critically, communicate effectively and serve wisely and compassionately in support of human…

Education
6
Illinois College

Illinois college is a co-educational institution of higher education learning providing a four-year educational program leading to the baccalaureate degree. illinois college is a community committed to the highest standards of scholarship…

Education
7
Chicago Municipal Employee's Credit Union

To give members the ability to control their financial destiny by providing members with the means to satisfy their needs for financial services in a comfortable family-like environment. in doing so, the credit union strives to maintain…

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8
Lake Forest Graduate School of Management

Lake Forest Graduate School of Management's mission is to bring the real world to business education and leadership development.

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9
Chicago Psychoanalytic Institute

The chicago psychoanalytic institute transforms the lives of individuals, families and communities, using psychoanalytic knowledge to help them grow and thrive.

Social Science
10
Chicagoland Associated General Contractors

To deliver exceptional value to our members through industry leadership, superior services, and innovative programs.

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11
Chicago United for Equity

Connecting and amplifying the power of individuals to build a just, equitable, and inclusive city.

Civil Rights
12
Chicago Commons Association

Chicago Commons' mission is to empower individuals, families, and communities to overcome poverty, embrace opportunities, and thrive across generations. To fulfill that mission, we provide high quality early childhood education,…

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Greater Chicago Food Depository; the most unlike its peers is Lynn Sage Breast Cancer Foundation. 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

14 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. 14 of the 18 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)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
14/14
Grantees still filing
10/14
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

START EARLY (FKA OUNCE OF PREVENTION FUND): $456,624 · OtherSTART EARLY (FKA OUNCE OF PREVENTION FUND)START EARLY: $230,128 · OtherSTART EARLYLURIE CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION: $40,000 · OtherLURIE CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION+6 more: $22,813 · OtherLOYOLA UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO: $260,000 · EducationLOYOLA UNIVERSITY OF CHICA…+1 more: $5,150 · EducationCHRISTOPHER HOUSE: $50,000 · Human ServicesMASS DESIGN GROUP LTD: $25,000 · InternationalCOOPERATIVE FOR ASSISTANCE AND RELIEF EVERYWHERE INC: $12,625 · InternationalCOURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATES OF COOK COUNTY: $20,000 · Crime & LegalGREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY: $7,000 · Food & NutritionTHE TRUSTEES OF RESERVATIONS: $5,000 · EnvironmentSHERIFF'S MEADOW FOUNDATION: $1,000 · Environment
Other$749,565Education$265,150Human Services$50,000International$37,625Crime & Legal$20,000Food & Nutrition$7,000Environment$6,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetLOYOLA UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO: $260,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetSTART EARLY: $230,128 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetCHRISTOPHER HOUSE: $50,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMASS DESIGN GROUP LTD: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCOURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATES OF COOK COUNTY: $20,000 over 2y, 2.8% of budgetCOOPERATIVE FOR ASSISTANCE AND RELIEF EVERYWHERE INC: $12,625 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY: $7,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMISTY MEADOWS EQUINE LEARNING CENTER INC: $5,150 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetLYNN SAGE BREAST CANCER FOUNDATION: $5,113 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF RESERVATIONS: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFIGURE SKATING IN HARLEM INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSHERIFF'S MEADOW FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budget626 LANDMARK FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetInternational Women Associates Inc: $115 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.

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.

Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Donor Advised Charitable Giving IncCO6.8× affinity5 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Hasten Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Hasten Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2025
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →median 18%
  • Sheriff's Meadow Foundation: 18% of income from government
  • The Trustees of Reservations: 2% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
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.

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 18 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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