· Private foundation
The Joan Shafran and Rob Haimes 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 you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k83 grants · $114k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $95k
- $250k+1 grant · $250k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FRIENDS OF MENDELSOHN | $250,000 |
| THE CULTURAL LANDSCAPE FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY | $25,000 |
| THE CULTURAL LANDSCAPE FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| CHICAGO MOBILE MAKERS | $10,000 |
| BOSTON ARCHITECTURAL COLLEGE | $10,000 |
| MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY | $8,500 |
| DANA FARBER CANCER INSTITUTE INC | $5,000 |
| THE CULTURAL LANDSCAPE FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| FREE SPEECH FOR PEOPLE | $2,500 |
| TRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY | $2,500 |
| TRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY | $2,500 |
| PROJECT EDUCATION | $2,500 |
| FREE SPEECH FOR PEOPLE | $2,500 |
| NEW ISRAEL FUND | $2,500 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $23k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 50% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 5% of The Joan Shafran and Rob Haimes Foundation Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +19% since the first grant, against +11% for the ones you funded once.
72 repeat relationships — 58 still active in FY2025, 14 since wound down; 12 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, 37% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $279k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- BABOSTON ARCHITECTURAL COLLEGE9× · 2017–2025 · $255k · revenue +29%
- CMCLEVELAND MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY4× · 2022–2025 · $210k · revenue +15%
- WLWESTPORT LAND CONSERVATION TRUST INC7× · 2019–2025 · $21k · revenue +54%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2024 · $50k
- FSFreed Seed Federation Incgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $4k · revenue +46%
- FTFOUNDATION TO COMBAT ANTI-SEMITISM INCone grant, 2023 · $2k · revenue -15%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
The mission of the organization is to foster the development of creative individuals as writers and artists and to promote public appreciation of excellence in the literary and graphic arts by publishing a magazine containing fiction,…
Advance science, engineering, and innovation throughout the world for the benefit of all. the world's largest multidisciplinary scientific society and a leading publisher of cutting-edge research through its science family of journals,…
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 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 open markets institute works to help people relearn how to use competition policy to build stronger democracies, more just and equitable societies, more innovative and sustainable economies, and a more secure and peaceful world.
The architectural league of new york supports critically transformative work in the allied fields that shape the built environment. as a vital, independent forum, the league stimulates thinking, debate, and action on today's (continued on…
The npr foundation ("foundation") is organized and operated exclusively for the benefit of its sole supported organization, national public radio, inc. ("npr inc."). the foundation supports npr inc. through various activities such as…
To preserve the unique character and natural resources of harvard.
Wheaton college provides a transformative liberal arts education, combining theory and practice, for intellectually curious students within a collaborative and vibrant extended community and network that values and strives to create an…
The organization's mission is to conserve and promote new england's native plants to ensure healthy, biologically diverse landscapes.
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…
Seeks to expand the boundaries of theater, producing, performing and presenting works of literary, experimental and educational value. provide a home for outstanding artists, a training ground for young artists (including an extensive…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is New Bedford Light and the most unlike its peers is Foundation to Combat Anti-Semitism Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 36 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 18% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
87 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 87 of the 103 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds THE CULTURAL LANDSCAPE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BOSTON ARCHITECTURAL COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF MENDELSOHN ↗
- Who funds CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY ↗
- Who funds AIDS PROJECT LOS ANGELES ↗
- Who funds Massachusetts Institute of Technology ↗
- Who funds WESTPORT LAND CONSERVATION TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc ↗
- Who funds PROJECT EDUCATION INC ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds OUR SISTERS SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds CHICAGO MOBILE MAKERS ↗
- Who funds WGBH Educational Foundation ↗
- Who funds NEW ISRAEL FUND ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE ↗
- Who funds HANDEL AND HAYDN SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds ONE COMMUNITY NYC INC ↗
- Who funds THE GRIFFIN MUSEUM OF PHOTOGRAPHY INC ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FEDERATION OF CLEVELAND ↗
- Who funds HUDSON OPERA HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds Metropolitan Opera Association Inc ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Israel 21c ↗
- Who funds WILLIAM J BRENNAN CENTER FOR JUSTICE INC ↗
- Who funds WATERSHED CENTER FOR THE CERAMIC ARTS ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF HORSESHOE LAKE INC ↗
- Who funds FREE SPEECH FOR PEOPLE INC ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD LEAGUE OF MASSACHUSETTS INC ↗
- Who funds NEW BEDFORD LIGHT ↗
- Who funds COOL CULTURE INC ↗
- Who funds KAATSBAAN INTERNATIONAL DANCE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Freed Seed Federation Inc ↗
- Who funds ACLU FOUNDATION OF MASSACHUSETTS INC ↗
- Who funds CAMBRIDGE PUBLIC ACCESS CORPORATION INC ↗
- Who funds Reporters Without Borders Inc ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Boston Foundation Inc · Eastern Bank Foundation · Highland Street Connection and Subsidiaries · The Christopher W Schlesinger Foundation · Stevenson Family Charitable Trust · Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc · Cummings Foundation Grants Inc (Fka Oneworld Boston Inc) · American Tower Corporation Foundation Inc · The Gertler Clark Foundation Inc · Alvord Family Foundation · Stearns Charitable Trust · Philip Snyder Foundation
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization The Joan Shafran and Rob Haimes Foundation Inc funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Buzzards Bay Coalition — 37% of income from government
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology — 35% of income from government
- International Institute of New England Inc — 24% of income from government
- Greater Boston Food Bank Inc — 22% of income from government
- Just-a-Start Corporation — 16% of income from government
- Trustees of Boston University — 12% of income from government
- Cambridge Community Center Inc — 8% of income from government
- President and Fellows of Harvard College — 7% of income from government
- Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc — 7% of income from government
- Narrows Center for the Arts Inc — 5% of income from government
- The Griffin Museum of Photography Inc — 5% of income from government
- Yellow Farmhouse Education Center Inc — 5% of income from government
- Planned Parenthood League of Massachusetts Inc — 3% of income from government
- Mass Design Art & Technology Institute Inc — 3% of income from government
- Handel and Haydn Society — 2% of income from government
- Massachusetts Audubon Society Inc — 1% of income from government
- Wgbh Educational Foundation — 1% of income from government
- Boston Architectural College — 1% of income from government
- Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival Inc — 1% of income from government
- Coolidge Corner Theatre Foundation Inc — 0% of income from government
- Our Sisters School — 0% of income from government
- Animal Rescue League of Boston — 0% of income from government
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.