· Private foundation
The Melissa and Doug Hahn Charitable Trust
Its FY2023 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2022.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2022
- Under $10k2 grants · $6k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Asia Foundation Gala | $10,000 |
| Silkroad | $5,000 |
| Memorial Sloan Kettering | $500 |
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 (FY17–19, $9k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 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
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 55% of The Melissa and Doug Hahn Charitable Trust’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 40% of the giving stays in NY; by stated purpose, 37%.
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 +981% since the first grant, against +15% for those funded once.
5 repeat relationships: 0 still active in FY2022, 5 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2022 (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 FY2022, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $16k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- FAFIFTH AVENUE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH3× · 2017–2019 · $360k
- TSTrinity School4× · 2017–2020 · $46k
- KCKorean Community Services of NY3× · 2017–2020 · $39k
Funded once
- LLLINK Liberty in North Koreaone grant, 2019 · $50k
- NYNew York Philharmonic10one grant, 2019 · $25k
- TCTHE COLLEGIATE SCHOOLone grant, 2021 · $15k · revenue +15%
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 bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
New york school of interior design provides the most innovative, immersive, and transformative interior design education in the world, demonstrating the impact of professionally designed interiors on the health, happiness, and well-being…
To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.
The mission of the Bowdoin International Music Festival is to provide gifted young musicians from around the world with an opportunity to study with world-class artists, and to provide audiences with classical music performed to the…
Alvin ailey dance foundation's mission is to further the pioneering vision of the choreographer, dancer, and cultural leader alvin ailey by building an extended cultural community which provides dance performances, training and education,…
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.
The asian art museum celebrates, preserves, and promotes asian and asian american art and cultures for local and global audiences. we provide a dynamic forum for exchanging ideas, inviting collaboration, and fueling imagination to deepen…
The new york academy of art is a unique graduate school that combines intensive technical training in the fine arts with active critical discourse. we believe that rigorously trained artists are best able to realize their artistic vision.…
The music institute of chicago ("music institute") leads people toward a lifelong engagement with music, by providing widely accessible resources for high quality music teaching, performing, and service activities.
The new york studio school is committed to giving a significant education to the aspiring artist, a preamble to a lifetime's engagement in drawing, painting, and sculpture. (see schedule o for continuation)
The organization's mission is to educate students for creative occupations in diverse fields of arts and media.
York school is an award-winning, private, coed college-prep school for grades 8-12, that develops confident and authentic leaders. we offer an academically challenging experiential program for bright, kind, and driven students in an…
How this is measured
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 24 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 Massachusetts Institute of Technology ↗
- Who funds THE COLLEGIATE SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds THE JEFFREY AHN JR FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds NEW BEGINNINGS FOR TOMORROW INC ↗
- Who funds THE ASIA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds JUILLIARD SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds SILK ROAD PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds SYLVESTER MANOR EDUCATIONAL FARM INC ↗
- Who funds ELAINE KAUFMAN CULTURAL CENTER LUCY MOSES SCHOOL FOR MUSIC AND DANCE ↗
- Who funds THE PAUL ROBERT CAREY FOUNDATION ↗
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: National Philanthropic Trust · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Melissa and Doug Hahn Charitable Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Melissa and Doug Hahn Charitable Trust. Bigger dots raise more.
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology: 35% of income from government
- Silk Road Project Inc: 4% of income from government
How this is measured
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