· Private foundation
The Michael Hausmanfilmhaus Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
Read this first · the figures below need context
77% of The Michael Hausmanfilmhaus Foundation’s FY2024 grant dollars went to The Trustees Of Columbia University In The City Of New York, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2024 names 8 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k9 grants · $14k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $17k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $100k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY | $100,000 |
| MISCELLANEOUS DONEES UNDER 5000 EACH | $17,059 |
| LABORATORY FOR ICON & IDIOM | $5,100 |
| FILM FORUM | $3,000 |
| MARA ELEPHANT PROJECT | $1,100 |
| ARBOR DAY FOUNDATION | $1,100 |
| BOWERY MISSION | $900 |
| DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS | $800 |
| ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND | $600 |
| Individual grant recipient | $600 |
| MONTANA FOOD BANK | $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 (FY17–17, $100) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 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
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +66% since the first grant, against +47% for those funded once.
29 repeat relationships: 9 still active in FY2024, 20 since wound down; 1 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, 45% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $17k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- LFLABORATORY FOR ICON AND IDIOM INC3× · 2022–2024 · $25k · revenue +54%
- MEMARA ELEPHANT PROJECT USA INC3× · 2021–2024 · $4k · revenue +93%
MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC5× · 2017–2024 · $4k · revenue +98%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2017 · $10k
- MCMISCELLANEOUS CONTRIBUTIONS UNDER 500 EACHone grant, 2021 · $2k
- UOUNIVERSITY OF MONTANAone grant, 2017 · $2k
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.
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Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.
Project drawdown's mission is to drive meaningful climate action by advancing science-based solutions and strategies. project drawdown's work is focused on three pillars: science - advancing science-based climate solutions and strategies;…
The museum's mission statement is: "to discover, interpret, and disseminate - through scientific research and education - knowledge about human cultures, the natural world, and the universe."
Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.
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Fern seeks to make the food system more sustainable and equitable through powerful journalism and storytelling.
Inspiring communities to save wildlife for future generations.
To engage and catalyze global seafood supply chains in rebuilding depleted fish stocks and reducing the environmental impacts of fishing and fish farming.
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Island press creates, publishes and promotes powerful ideas and solutions that help transform local, national, and global environmental practices and policies in order to better ecological and human well-being.
Perc is dedicated to advancing conservation through markets, incentives, property rights, and partnerships.
How this is measured
28 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. 28 of the 57 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 THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK ↗
- Who funds FILM FORUM INC ↗
- Who funds LABORATORY FOR ICON AND IDIOM INC ↗
- Who funds MARA ELEPHANT PROJECT USA INC ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds Christian Herald Association Inc ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MONTANA FOOD BANK NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL ARBOR DAY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BLOOMINGDALEFAMILYPROGRAMINC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL AUDUBON SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds THE PALEY CENTER FOR MEDIA ↗
- Who funds UNITED CEREBRAL PALSY OF NEW YORK CITY INC ↗
- Who funds NEW YORK PUBLIC RADIO ↗
- Who funds ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds THE WILDERNESS SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL WILDLIFE FEDERATION ↗
- Who funds FILMSCENE ↗
- Who funds CITY HARVEST INC ↗
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 · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Michael Hausmanfilmhaus Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Michael Hausmanfilmhaus Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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