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The Robert and Mary Haft Foundation Inc at a glance

· Private foundation

The Robert and Mary Haft Foundation Inc

Its FY2023 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$94k
Granted FY2021
24
Grants FY2021
7
States reached
$15k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead

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

16
’20
18
’21
13
’22
12
’23

Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.

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 2023.

Philanthropy$2.9MArts & Culture$159kEducation$44kHealth$43kReligion$31kInternational$10kEnvironment$7kHuman Services$5kOther$0
02FY2021 · 24 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2021

  • Under $10k21 grants · $56k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $38k
$3,000
Median grant
7
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR NANTUCKET$5,000
REFUGEES INTERNATIONAL$5,000
NANTUCKET BOOK FOUNDATION$5,000
AMERICAN WRITERS MUSEUM$5,000
THE DC JAZZ FESTIVAL$5,000
SUSTAINABLE NANTUCKET$3,500
MARINA ORTH FOUNDATION$3,000
THE HOFFMAN BREAST CENTER AT MOUNT AUBURN HOSPITAL$2,500
AP SCHOLARSHIP FUND$2,000
NANTUCKET ATHENEUM$2,000
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:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%JOYFUL HEART FOUNDATION: $3k → 20%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

VT
IL
NY
MA
IN
CA
VA
MD
DC
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.

66%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$210k · 19 repeat orgs$110k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

19
8

Total granted

$210k
$28k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+20%
+29%

Still filing today

58%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 58% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $37k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’20’21’22’23
Arts & CultureEducationHealthRecreation & SportsHuman ServicesInternationalOther
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

  • NB
    NANTUCKET BOOK FOUNDATION INC
    3× · 2020–2023 · $49k · revenue +127%
  • PF
    PEN FAULKNER FOUNDATION
    2× · 2020–2023 · $28k · revenue +20%
  • TW
    THE WASHINGTON BALLET
    3× · 2020–2022 · $25k · revenue +14%

Funded once

  • CC
    Capital Caring Health
    one grant, 2020 · $10k
  • CS
    CONGREGATION SHIRAT HAYAM
    one grant, 2020 · $5k
  • FH
    FACING HISTORY & OURSELVES INCgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $5k · revenue +29%
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
Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum Inc

Organization's mission statement true to the ambitious vision of its founder and her spirit of creative risk-taking, the mission of the isabella stewart gardner museum is: - to bring to life and preserve the rich historic collection; - to…

Arts & Culture
2
Newport Art Museum and Art Association

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…

Arts & Culture
3
The Jewish Museum

The mission of the jewish museum is to collect, preserve, exhibit and interpret art and jewish culture. see schedule o for more information.

Arts & Culture
4
The Company of the Redwood Library and Athenaeum

Founded in 1747 on the enlightenment ideals of intellectual pursuit and civic engagement, the redwood library and athenaeum generates knowledge in the humanities for the benefit of the widest possible audience with nothing in view but the…

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5
Nantucket Arts Council Inc

Support and encourage a collaborative community of the visual, performing and literary arts through education, grants, scholarships and events.

Arts & Culture
6
Associates of Boston Public Library Inc

The associates of the boston public library is an independent nonprofit dedicated to preserving and promoting the historic, literary, and artistic treasures of the boston public library through targeted grantmaking and cultural events. by…

Education
7
The Pierpont Morgan Library

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.

Education
8
Block Island Film Festival
Arts & Culture
9
Nantucket Historical Association

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.

Arts & Culture
10
The Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences

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).

Arts & Culture
11
National Book Foundation Inc

The mission of the national book foundation is to celebrate the best literature published in the united states, expand its audience, and ensure that books have a prominent place in our culture. nbf carries out its mission through awards &…

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12
Fitchburg Art Museum

The mission of the fitchburg art museum is to inspire creativity and learning, and to contribute to the well-being of our diverse communities in fitchburg, north central massachusetts, and new england. to accomplish the mission, we…

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Facing History & Ourselves Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

27 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
27/27
Grantees still filing
21/27
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc: $2,847,156 · PhilanthropyRenaissance Charitable Foundation Inc+1 more: $23,500 · PhilanthropyST PATRICKS EPISCOPAL CHURCH: $32,231 · OtherPEN FAULKNER FOUNDATION: $27,500 · OtherCITY DANCE: $15,000 · OtherWASHINGTON HEBREW CONGREGATION: $13,310 · OtherNANTUCKET COTTAGE HOSPITAL: $12,500 · OtherCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL: $10,000 · Other+26 more: $65,750 · OtherTHE WASHINGTON BALLET: $25,000 · Arts & CultureKINGDOM COUNTY PRODUCTIONS INC: $5,500 · Arts & CultureFACING HISTORY & OURSELVES INC: $5,000 · Arts & CultureCITYDANCE ENSEMBLE INC: $5,000 · Arts & CultureDC JAZZ FESTIVAL: $5,000 · Arts & CultureTHE AMERICAN WRITERS MUSEUM: $5,000 · Arts & CultureTRANSFORMER INC: $4,500 · Arts & CultureWADSWORTH-SULGRAVE HISTORIC PRESERVATION FOUNDATION: $2,500 · Arts & CultureTHE BARBARA BUSH FOUNDATION FOR FAMILY LITERACY INC: $2,500 · Arts & Culture+3 more: $3,250 · Arts & CultureNANTUCKET BOOK FOUNDATION INC: $48,500 · EducationMARINA ORTH FOUNDATION: $5,500 · EducationCapital Caring Health: $10,000 · HealthMOUNT AUBURN HOSPITAL: $2,500 · HealthREFUGEES INTERNATIONAL INC: $10,000 · InternationalNANTUCKET SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $3,500 · Housing & Shelter
Philanthropy$2,870,656Other$176,291Arts & Culture$63,250Education$54,000Health$12,500International$10,000Housing & Shelter$3,500

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetRenaissance Charitable Foundation Inc: $2,847,156 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetNANTUCKET BOOK FOUNDATION INC: $48,500 over 3y, 9.3% of budgetPEN FAULKNER FOUNDATION: $27,500 over 2y, 2.8% of budgetTHE WASHINGTON BALLET: $25,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetCommunity Foundation for Nantucket Inc: $23,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetREFUGEES INTERNATIONAL INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMARINA ORTH FOUNDATION: $5,500 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetKINGDOM COUNTY PRODUCTIONS INC: $5,500 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetNANTUCKET BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB INC: $5,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetFACING HISTORY & OURSELVES INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNANTUCKET ATHENEUM INC: $5,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCITYDANCE ENSEMBLE INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetDC JAZZ FESTIVAL: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTHE AMERICAN WRITERS MUSEUM: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTRANSFORMER INC: $4,500 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetNANTUCKET SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $3,500 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetNANTUCKET CONSERVATION FOUNDATION INC: $3,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWADSWORTH-SULGRAVE HISTORIC PRESERVATION FOUNDATION: $2,500 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetTHE BARBARA BUSH FOUNDATION FOR FAMILY LITERACY INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetEDLAVITCH JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF WASHINGTON DC INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF MITCHELL PARK INC: $2,500 over 3y, 1.6% of budgetJOYFUL HEART FOUNDATION: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMOUNT AUBURN HOSPITAL: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPOETS AND WRITERS INC: $1,250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTWO CENTRE STREET RESTORATION PROJECT INC: $1,000 over 1y, 7.4% of budgetGREATER WASHINGTON EDUCATIONAL TELECOMMUNICATIONS ASSOCIATION INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE NATIONAL MUSEUM OF WOMEN IN THE ARTS: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

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.

Greater Washington Co…The Morris and Gwendo…National Philanthropi…American Gift FundThe Ayco Charitable F…Renaissance Charitabl…Morgan Stanley Global…Vanguard Charitable E…Donor Advised Charita…American Endowment Fo…Fidelity Investments …The Bank of America C…
Greater Washington Community FoundationDC23.5× affinity10 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Robert and Mary Haft Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Robert and Mary Haft Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 40%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →median 4%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
4get no government money at all
5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
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.

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 52 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 2021, released 2021. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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