· Private foundation
The Robert and Mary Haft Foundation Inc
Its FY2023 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
Read this first · the figures below need context
97% of The Robert and Mary Haft Foundation Inc’s FY2023 grant dollars went to Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2023 names 12 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2021, the last year The Robert and Mary Haft Foundation Inc named its own grantees at scale: 18 organizations, $94k. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2023.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2021
- Under $10k21 grants · $56k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $38k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE WASHINGTON BALLET | $15,000 |
| ST PATRICK'S EPISCOPAL DAY SCHOOL | $13,153 |
| CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL | $10,000 |
| KINGDOME COUNTY PRODUCTIONS | $5,500 |
| CITYDANCE | $5,000 |
| THE DC JAZZ FESTIVAL | $5,000 |
| NANTUCKET BOOK FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| AMERICAN WRITERS MUSEUM | $5,000 |
| REFUGEES INTERNATIONAL | $5,000 |
| COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR NANTUCKET | $5,000 |
| SUSTAINABLE NANTUCKET | $3,500 |
| MARINA ORTH FOUNDATION | $3,000 |
| THE HOFFMAN BREAST CENTER AT MOUNT AUBURN HOSPITAL | $2,500 |
| NANTUCKET ATHENEUM | $2,000 |
| AP SCHOLARSHIP FUND | $2,000 |
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 (FY23–23, $3k) land where the poverty rate runs at 20%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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.
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.
19 repeat relationships — 15 still active in FY2021, 4 since wound down; 23 grantees were first funded in FY2021 (too recent to call). Read against FY2021, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.
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 FY2023, 58% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $37k 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
- NBNANTUCKET BOOK FOUNDATION INC3× · 2020–2023 · $49k · revenue +102%
- PFPEN FAULKNER FOUNDATION2× · 2020–2023 · $28k · revenue +20%
- TWTHE WASHINGTON BALLET3× · 2020–2022 · $25k · revenue +14%
Funded once
- CCCapital Caring Healthone grant, 2020 · $10k
- FHFACING HISTORY & OURSELVES INCgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $5k · revenue +29%
- CSCONGREGATION SHIRAT HAYAMone grant, 2020 · $5k
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.
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The newport art museum's mission is to share a diversity of art and experiences that spark reflection, inspiration, and connection within our newport community and beyond. the museum was founded in 1912 on the belief that arts and culture…
The mission of the jewish museum is to collect, preserve, exhibit and interpret art and jewish culture. see schedule o for more information.
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Support and encourage a collaborative community of the visual, performing and literary arts through education, grants, scholarships and events.
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The Morgan Library & Museum celebrates and shares the history and process of human creativity from antiquity to the present day through the preservation, study, and interpretation of a dynamic and growing collection.
The nantucket historical association preserves and interprets the history of nantucket through its programs, collections, and properties, in order to promote the island's significance and foster an appreciation of it among all audiences.
The mission of the brooklyn institute of arts and sciences, d/b/a brooklyn museum (the "museum") is to bring people together through art and experiences that inspire celebration, compassion, courage, and the will to act. (see schedule o).
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Facing History & Ourselves Inc and the most unlike its peers is Mount Auburn Hospital. 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 30 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 6% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 10% 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.
27 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. 27 of the 52 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 Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds NANTUCKET BOOK FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds PEN FAULKNER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE WASHINGTON BALLET ↗
- Who funds Community Foundation for Nantucket Inc ↗
- Who funds REFUGEES INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
- Who funds KINGDOM COUNTY PRODUCTIONS INC ↗
- Who funds MARINA ORTH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FACING HISTORY & OURSELVES INC ↗
- Who funds THE AMERICAN WRITERS MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds DC JAZZ FESTIVAL ↗
- Who funds CITYDANCE ENSEMBLE INC ↗
- Who funds NANTUCKET BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB INC ↗
- Who funds NANTUCKET ATHENEUM INC ↗
- Who funds TRANSFORMER INC ↗
- Who funds NANTUCKET SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds NANTUCKET CONSERVATION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF MITCHELL PARK INC ↗
- Who funds WADSWORTH-SULGRAVE HISTORIC PRESERVATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds JOYFUL HEART FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MOUNT AUBURN HOSPITAL ↗
- Who funds THE BARBARA BUSH FOUNDATION FOR FAMILY LITERACY INC ↗
- Who funds EDLAVITCH JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF WASHINGTON DC 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: Greater Washington Community Foundation · The Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · American Gift Fund · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc
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 Robert and Mary Haft 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.
- Community Foundation for Nantucket Inc — 10% of income from government
- Mount Auburn Hospital — 5% of income from government
- Nantucket Conservation Foundation Inc — 4% of income from government
- Kingdom County Productions Inc — 1% of income from government
- Nantucket Book Foundation Inc — 1% 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.