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The Haven Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$353k
Granted FY2024still arriving
2
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$350k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Arts & Culture$7.2MHealth$2.1MPublic Safety & Disaster$905kHuman Services$165kMembership Benefit$160kEducation$135kPhilanthropy$25k
02FY2024 · 2 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k1 grant · $3k
  • $250k+1 grant · $350k
$350,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$139k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CERF$350,000
Individual grant recipient$2,500
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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY20–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 87% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%SAG-AFTRA FOUNDATION: $580k → 14%MUSICARES: $410k → 17%THE AUTHOR'S LEAGUE: $720k → 20%MUSIC HEALTH ALLIANCE: $410k → 14%THE BLUES FOUNDATION: $450k → 17%CERF: $370k → 9%MAINE WRITERS AND PUBLISHERS ALLIANCE: $135k → 7%SCREEN ACTORS GUILD FOUNDATION: $135k → 14%MUSICARES: $135k → 17%THE AUTHOR'S LEAGUE: $135k → 20%MUSIC HEALTH ALLIANCE: $135k → 14%THE BLUES FOUNDATION: $135k → 17%CERF: $350k → 9%SAG-AFTRA FOUNDATION: $25k → 14%MUSICARES: $25k → 17%THE AUTHOR'S LEAGUE: $25k → 20%MUSIC HEALTH ALLIANCE: $25k → 14%THE BLUES FOUNDATION: $25k → 17%CERF: $135k → 9%SCREEN ACTORS GUILD FOUNDATION: $25k → 14%MUSICARES: $25k → 17%THE AUTHOR'S LEAGUE: $25k → 20%MUSIC HEALTH ALLIANCE: $25k → 14%THE BLUES FOUNDATION: $25k → 17%CERF: $25k → 9%THE JAZZ FOUNDATION: $410k → 17%CERF: $25k → 9%JAZZ FOUNDATION: $135k → 17%THE JAZZ FOUNDATION: $25k → 17%JAZZ FOUNDATION: $25k → 17%THE ARTIST'S FELLOWSHIP: $580k → 17%THE ARTIST'S FELLOWSHIP: $135k → 17%THE ARTIST'S FELLOWSHIP: $25k → 17%THE ARTIST'S FELLOWSHIP: $25k → 17%THE ENTERTAINMENT FOUNDATION: $680k → 17%THE ACTORS FUND: $135k → 17%ENTERTAINMENT COMMUNITY FUND: $25k → 17%THE ACTORS FUND: $25k → 17%PEN AMERICAN CENTER: $675k → 17%PEN WRITER'S EMERGENCY FUND: $135k → 17%PEN WRITER'S EMERGENCY FUND: $25k → 17%PEN AMERICAN CENTER: $25k → 17%LOCAL 802 MUSICIANS ERF: $125k → 17%LOCAL 802 MUSICIANS: $90k → 17%LOCAL 802 MUSICIANS: $25k → 17%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.

Which US states its grants reach

ME
VT
WA
MT
MN
IL
WI
MI
NY
MA
OR
NV
IA
IN
OH
PA
NJ
CT
RI
CA
CO
NE
KY
VA
MD
AZ
NM
KS
AR
TN
NC
SC
DC
OK
LA
MS
AL
GA
TX
FL
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.

70%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$7.6M · 39 repeat orgs$3.2M to everyone else

39 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2024, 37 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

39
259

Total granted

$7.6M
$3.2M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

-24%
+51%

Still filing today

21%
1%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
Arts & CulturePhilanthropyHealthMembership BenefitHuman 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

  • TA
    THE AUTHOR'S LEAGUE
    4× · 2020–2023 · $905k
  • CRAFT EMERGENCY RELIEF FUND INC
    5× · 2020–2024 · $905k · revenue +127%
  • SA
    SCREEN ACTORS GUILD-AMERICAN FEDERATION OF TELEVISION AND RADIO ARTISTS FOUND
    4× · 2020–2023 · $765k · revenue -31%

Funded once

  • TE
    THE ENTERTAINMENT FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2023 · $680k
  • MW
    MAINE WRITERS AND PUBLISHERS ALLIANgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $135k · revenue +51% · 36% of their budget
  • L8
    LOCAL 802 MUSICIANS ERF
    one grant, 2020 · $125k
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
Americans for the Arts Foundation
Arts & Culture
2
Atlantic Arts Foundation
—
3
The American Playwriting Foundation
—
4
The Filmmaker Fund
Philanthropy
5
Artists for a Better World International
Arts & Culture
6
Artists and Musicians in Recovery
Education
7
The Broad Art Foundation
Arts & Culture
8
United Federation of Artistic Minds
Arts & Culture
9
Stevenson Arts Foundation
Arts & Culture
10
Our Arts Foundation
Arts & Culture
11
Think Global Arts Foundation
International
12
The Mike Kelley Foundation for the Arts
Philanthropy
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Actors' Fund of America; the most unlike its peers is Fulcrum Foundations. 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

10 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. 10 of the 298 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.

4
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
10/10
Grantees still filing
3/10
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE AUTHOR'S LEAGUE: $905,000 · OtherTHE AUTHOR'S LEAGUEARTISTS FELLOWSHIP INC: $765,000 · OtherARTISTS FELLOWSHIP INCTHE ENTERTAINMENT FOUNDATION: $680,000 · OtherTHE ENTERTAINMENT FOUNDATIONTHE JAZZ FOUNDATION: $595,000 · OtherTHE JAZZ FOUNDATIONMUSICARES: $595,000 · OtherMUSICARES+187 more: $2,931,017 · Other+187 moreSCREEN ACTORS GUILD-AMERICAN FEDERATION OF TELEVISION AND RADIO ARTISTS FOUND: $765,000 · Arts & CultureSCREEN ACTORS GUILD-AM…PEN AMERICAN CENTER INC: $700,000 · Arts & CulturePEN AMERICAN CENTER IN…The Blues Foundation Inc: $635,000 · Arts & CultureThe Blues Foundation I…CRAFT EMERGENCY RELIEF FUND INC: $905,000 · PhilanthropyCRAFT EMER…+1 more: $25,000 · PhilanthropyMUSIC HEALTH ALLIANCE INC: $595,000 · HealthTHE ACTORS' FUND OF AMERICA: $185,000 · Membership BenefitMaxs Kansas City Project: $140,000 · Human Services
Other$6,471,017Arts & Culture$2,100,000Philanthropy$930,000Health$595,000Membership Benefit$185,000Human Services$140,000

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCRAFT EMERGENCY RELIEF FUND INC: $905,000 over 5y, 19% of budgetSCREEN ACTORS GUILD-AMERICAN FEDERATION OF TELEVISION AND RADIO ARTISTS FOUND: $765,000 over 4y, 2.0% of budgetARTISTS FELLOWSHIP INC: $765,000 over 4y, 4.7% of budgetPEN AMERICAN CENTER INC: $700,000 over 2y, 3.1% of budgetThe Blues Foundation Inc: $635,000 over 4y, 37% of budgetMUSIC HEALTH ALLIANCE INC: $595,000 over 4y, 16% of budgetTHE ACTORS' FUND OF AMERICA: $185,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetMaxs Kansas City Project: $140,000 over 3y, 72% of budgetMAINE WRITERS AND PUBLISHERS ALLIAN: $135,000 over 1y, 36% of budgetFulcrum Foundations: $25,000 over 1y, 31% 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.

  • Who funds CRAFT EMERGENCY RELIEF FUND INC ↗
  • Who funds SCREEN ACTORS GUILD-AMERICAN FEDERATION OF TELEVISION AND RADIO ARTISTS FOUND ↗
  • Who funds ARTISTS FELLOWSHIP INC ↗
  • Who funds PEN AMERICAN CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds The Blues Foundation Inc ↗
  • Who funds MUSIC HEALTH ALLIANCE INC ↗
  • Who funds THE ACTORS' FUND OF AMERICA ↗
  • Who funds Maxs Kansas City Project ↗
  • Who funds MAINE WRITERS AND PUBLISHERS ALLIAN ↗
  • Who funds Fulcrum Foundations ↗

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 IncCO5× affinity4 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 Haven Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Haven Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    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

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to The Haven Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to The Haven 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 298 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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