· Private foundation
Thomas W Haas Foundation
Its FY2024 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 placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k34 grants · $109k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $86k
- $50k–250k5 grants · $635k
- $250k+12 grants · $16M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| NHCF | $4,500,000 |
| BUILDING A RESILIENT GREAT BAY | $3,000,000 |
| SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION | $2,000,000 |
| ROSEBUD SIOUX TRIBE | $1,189,355 |
| NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST | $1,000,000 |
| MGH HEALTH ADMINISTRATION | $924,600 |
| NORTHERN FOREST CENTER FOREST FUND CAMPAIGN | $750,000 |
| AIRCRAFT OWNERS AND PILOTS ASSOCIATION | $500,000 |
| NATIONAL AIR & SPACE MUSEUM | $500,000 |
| THE NATURE CONSERVANCY | $500,000 |
| ST JOHN'S PREPATORY SCHOOL | $500,000 |
| HEALTH NETWORK FOUNDATION | $300,000 |
| EAA AVIATION FOUNDATION | $200,000 |
| PARTNERS IN HEALTH | $190,358 |
| LIGHTHAWK | $100,000 |
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 (FY19–24, $941k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 98% 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +38% since the first grant, against +24% for the ones you funded once.
66 repeat relationships — 41 still active in FY2024, 25 since wound down; 13 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, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $733k 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
SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION7× · 2017–2024 · $17M · revenue +34%- HOHOPE ON HAVEN HILL INC4× · 2021–2024 · $1.3M · revenue +45% · 39% of their budget
- EAEAA AVIATION FOUNDATION INC5× · 2020–2024 · $1.0M · revenue +19%
Funded once
- 3C3S CONTEMPORARY ARTSPACE INCone grant, 2022 · $429k · revenue -15% · 32% of their budget
- JFJOHN F KENNEDY CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTSone grant, 2017 · $200k
- CICONSERVATION INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATIONone grant, 2017 · $100k
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 nantucket conservation foundation owns, protects, and stewards over 9,000 acres of land and coastal shoreline, conserves nantucket's rare and significant natural resources, and engages in impactful ecological research to inform…
Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.
The organization's mission is to conserve and promote new england's native plants to ensure healthy, biologically diverse landscapes.
Our mission is to ensure that the people of greater boston benefit from a vibrant, resilient, and inclusive waterfront, harbor, and islands; these spaces are equitable, accessible, and adapted to climate change; and to ensure our public,…
Saint anselm is a catholic, benedictine college providing all of its students a distinctive liberal arts education that incorporates opportunities for professional and career preparation. it does so in a learning community that encourages…
To enhance, every day, the health of our patients, our families and our communities. We do that through a range of health care services for people of all ages, in a variety of care settings.
Kennebunk Land Trust's mission is to permanently conserve and steward land to benefit natural and human communities.
Bates is a college of the liberal arts and sciences, and is a coeducational, nonsectarian, residential college with special commitments to academic rigor, and to assuring in all of its efforts the dignity of each individual, and access to…
Wentworth institute of technology is a nationally recognized private coeducational and residential university of higher education with a mission to empower, inspire and innovate through experiential learning with a core purpose of career…
Breathe new hampshire's mission is to eliminate lung disease and to improve the quality of life for those living with lung disease in new hampshire.
Brighton marine, inc. provides military and veteran families with comprehensive campus-based quality health care, as well as affordable and supportive housing for at-risk veterans and their families.
Provider of pediatric healthcare, education, research & community service
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Rannie Webster Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Thrive New England. 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 24 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) — 7% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% 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.
70 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. 70 of the 136 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 SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST ↗
- Who funds HOPE ON HAVEN HILL INC ↗
- Who funds EAA AVIATION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds HEALTHNETWORK FOUNDATION FKA HEALTH NET FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds AIRCRAFT OWNERS & PILOTS ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds DREXEL UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds 3S CONTEMPORARY ARTSPACE INC ↗
- Who funds WINGS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Small Hope Bay Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds BEYOND CELIAC ↗
- Who funds PARTNERS IN HEALTH A NONPROFIT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds ESSEX COUNTY GREENBELT ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds ACORN SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds CHESTER RESIDENTS CONCERNED FOR QUALITY LIVING ↗
- Who funds A House for ME ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF THE COLLEGE OF THE HOLY CROSS ↗
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: New Hampshire Charitable Foundation · Essex County Community Foundation Inc · Eastern Bank Foundation · A Caring Community Inc · Amica Companies Foundation · Ge Aerospace Foundation · The Andover Companies Charitable Foundation · American Tower Corporation Foundation Inc · Fidelity Foundation · Cummings Foundation Grants Inc (Fka Oneworld Boston Inc) · Textron Charitable Trust Dtd 122353 · Rogers Family 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 Thomas W Haas Foundation 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.
- Mab Community Services Inc — 69% of income from government
- Trustees of Tufts College — 13% of income from government
- Reach Out and Read Inc — 9% of income from government
- Essex County Greenbelt Association — 8% of income from government
- Ymca of the North Shore Inc — 6% of income from government
- Somebody Cares New England Inc — 4% of income from government
- Supportive Living Inc — 3% of income from government
- Northeast Wilderness Trust Corporation — 2% of income from government
- Resist Inc — 2% of income from government
- Central Catholic High School of Lawrence Inc — 0% of income from government
- Cape Ann Animal Aid Associationinc — 0% of income from government
- Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation — 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.