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Thomas W Haas Foundation at a glance

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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.

$16M
Granted FY2024still arriving
56
Grants FY2024still arriving
16
States reached
$4.5M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0194% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Philanthropy$30MArts & Culture$19MEnvironment$8.4MHealth$7.6MCivil Rights$3.7MEducation$3.4MRecreation & Sports$924kScience & Tech$500kOther$0
02FY2024 · 56 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k34 grants · $109k
  • $10k–50k5 grants · $86k
  • $50k–250k5 grants · $635k
  • $250k+12 grants · $16M
$5,000
Median grant
16
States reached
$168M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
THE NATURE CONSERVANCY$500,000
AIRCRAFT OWNERS AND PILOTS ASSOCIATION$500,000
NATIONAL AIR & SPACE MUSEUM$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
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 (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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%COMPASSIONATE CARE ALS INC: $3k → 8%INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE OF GREATER LAWRENCE: $5k → 10%EMMAUS HOUSE: $3k → 17%HEALTH NETWORK FOUNDATION: $300k → 17%COMPASSIONATE CARE ALS INC: $3k → 8%INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE OF GREATER LAWRENCE: $1k → 10%HEALTH NETWORK FOUNDATION: $300k → 17%HEALTH NETWORK FOUNDATION: $300k → 17%CROTCHED MOUNTAIN FOUNDATION: $5k → 7%GREG HILL FOUNDATION INC: $3k → 8%CROTCHED MOUNTAIN FOUNDATION: $5k → 7%YMCA OF NORTH SHORE: $5k → 10%YMCA OF NORTH SHORE: $5k → 10%RUTHS HOUSE: $3k → 10%SEACOAST AREA TEACHERS OF YOGA IN ACTION: $3k → 5%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

ME
VT
NH
WI
MI
NY
MA
WY
SD
OH
PA
NJ
CT
RI
CA
UT
CO
VA
MD
AZ
KS
NC
SC
DC
GA
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.

98%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$70M · 66 repeat orgs$1.8M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +43% since the first grant, against +24% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

66
55

Total granted

$70M
$1.0M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+43%
+24%

Still filing today

53%
45%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $733k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
HealthHuman ServicesEducationEnvironmentArts & CultureAnimalsOther
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

  • SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION
    7× · 2017–2024 · $17M · revenue +31%
  • HO
    HOPE ON HAVEN HILL INC
    4× · 2021–2024 · $1.3M · revenue +45% · 39% of their budget
  • EA
    EAA AVIATION FOUNDATION INC
    5× · 2020–2024 · $1.0M · revenue +19%

Funded once

  • 3C
    3S CONTEMPORARY ARTSPACE INC
    one grant, 2022 · $429k · revenue -15% · 32% of their budget
  • JF
    JOHN F KENNEDY CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS
    one grant, 2017 · $200k
  • WS
    WIND SPORTS FOR WOUNDED WARRIORS
    one grant, 2020 · $100k
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
Nantucket Conservation Foundation Inc

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…

Environment
2
Northeast College of Health Sciences

Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.

Education
3
Native Plant Trust Inc

The organization's mission is to conserve and promote new england's native plants to ensure healthy, biologically diverse landscapes.

Environment
4
Boston Harbor Now Inc

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,…

Environment
5
Saint Anselm College

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…

Education
6
MaineGeneral Health

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.

Health
7
Kennebunk Land Trust

Kennebunk Land Trust's mission is to permanently conserve and steward land to benefit natural and human communities.

Environment
8
President and Trustees of Bates College

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…

Education
9
Wentworth Institute of Technology Inc

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…

Education
10
Breathe New Hampshire

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.

Health
11
Brighton Marine Inc

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.

Health
12
Children's Hospital Corporation

Provider of pediatric healthcare, education, research & community service

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Rannie Webster Foundation; 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.
04the grantee network

70 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. 70 of the 136 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
20
Early backer (in before they grew)
69/70
Grantees still filing
53/70
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

NHCF: $27,500,000 · OtherNHCFBUILDING A RESILIENT GREAT BAY: $6,000,000 · OtherBUILDING A RESILIENT GREAT BAYROSEBUD SIOUX TRIBE: $3,705,990 · OtherROSEBUD SIOUX TRIBENEW HAMPSHIRE TOMORROW SUNSTANCE USE DISORDERS FUND: $3,500,000 · OtherNEW HAMPSHIRE TOMORROW SUNSTANCE USE DISORDERS FUND+91 more: $9,597,100 · Other+91 moreSMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION: $17,000,000 · Arts & CultureSMITHSONIAN INSTITUTIONEAA AVIATION FOUNDATION INC: $1,000,000 · Arts & CultureEAA AVIATION FOUNDATION INC+4 more: $456,250 · Arts & CultureNATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST: $2,995,000 · PhilanthropyHOPE ON HAVEN HILL INC: $1,250,000 · HealthBEYOND CELIAC: $194,400 · HealthPARTNERS IN HEALTH A NONPROFIT CORPORATION: $190,358 · Health+7 more: $40,500 · HealthHEALTHNETWORK FOUNDATION FKA HEALTH NET FOUNDATION INC: $900,000 · Human Services+8 more: $41,000 · Human ServicesDREXEL UNIVERSITY: $500,000 · EducationTRUSTEES OF THE COLLEGE OF THE HOLY CROSS: $30,000 · Education+6 more: $30,000 · EducationSmall Hope Bay Foundation Inc: $330,000 · EnvironmentESSEX COUNTY GREENBELT ASSOCIATION: $51,000 · EnvironmentCHESTER RESIDENTS CONCERNED FOR QUALITY LIVING: $37,500 · EnvironmentNORTHEAST WILDERNESS TRUST CORPORATION: $20,000 · EnvironmentMANCHESTER ESSEX CONSERVATION TRUST: $17,500 · Environment+2 more: $7,500 · Environment
Other$50,303,090Arts & Culture$18,456,250Philanthropy$2,995,000Health$1,675,258Human Services$941,000Education$560,000Environment$463,500

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 budgetSMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION: $17,000,000 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetNATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST: $2,995,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetHOPE ON HAVEN HILL INC: $1,250,000 over 4y, 39% of budgetEAA AVIATION FOUNDATION INC: $1,000,000 over 5y, 2.0% of budgetHEALTHNETWORK FOUNDATION FKA HEALTH NET FOUNDATION INC: $900,000 over 3y, 2.5% of budgetAIRCRAFT OWNERS & PILOTS ASSOCIATION: $750,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $500,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDREXEL UNIVERSITY: $500,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budget3S CONTEMPORARY ARTSPACE INC: $428,750 over 1y, 32% of budgetWINGS FOUNDATION INC: $400,000 over 4y, 16% of budgetSmall Hope Bay Foundation Inc: $330,000 over 3y, 74% of budgetBEYOND CELIAC: $194,400 over 2y, 3.7% of budgetPARTNERS IN HEALTH A NONPROFIT CORPORATION: $190,358 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetESSEX COUNTY GREENBELT ASSOCIATION: $51,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetACORN SCHOOL INC: $47,500 over 5y, 3.5% of budgetCHESTER RESIDENTS CONCERNED FOR QUALITY LIVING: $37,500 over 2y, 14% of budgetTRUSTEES OF THE COLLEGE OF THE HOLY CROSS: $30,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetSUPPORTIVE LIVING INC: $22,500 over 8y, 1.1% of budgetNORTHEAST WILDERNESS TRUST CORPORATION: $20,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetANGEL FACES: $20,000 over 3y, 3.2% of budgetMANCHESTER ESSEX CONSERVATION TRUST: $17,500 over 7y, 0.6% of budgetSweet Paws Rescue Inc: $17,500 over 7y, 0.5% of budgetSEACOAST SOUL MODELS: $17,500 over 4y, 5.8% of budgetCentral Pride Foundation: $15,000 over 2y, 14% of budgetCHALLENGE TO CONQUER CANCER: $15,000 over 3y, 3.2% of budgetRESIST INC: $12,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNEWPORT FESTIVALS FOUNDATION INC: $12,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetRANNIE WEBSTER FOUNDATION: $11,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCAPE ANN ANIMAL AID ASSOCIATIONINC: $10,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetCrotched Mountain Foundation: $10,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetESSEX HISTORICAL SOCIETY AND SHIPBUILDING MUSEUM INC: $10,000 over 3y, 2.2% of budgetYMCA OF THE NORTH SHORE INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHRIVE NEW ENGLAND: $8,000 over 2y, 8.9% of budgetWILLIAMS BRIDGE ACADEMY: $7,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetNORTHERN ARIZONA VOLUNTEER MEDICAL CORP: $7,500 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetUNITED SPORTS FOUNDATION: $7,500 over 1y, 55% of budgetROGER N ALLEN BASEBALL: $7,000 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetINTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE OF GREATER LAWRENCE INC: $6,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetMaine Coast Heritage Trust: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPEACE RIDGE SANCTUARY: $5,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetThe Granite Young Men's Christian Association: $5,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCENTRAL CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOOL OF LAWRENCE INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetREACH OUT AND READ INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBEST FRIENDS ANIMAL SOCIETY: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCompassionate Care ALS Inc: $5,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJOE ANDRUZZI FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetVICTORIA'S VICTORY FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 7.4% 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.

  • 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 THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
  • Who funds DREXEL UNIVERSITY ↗
  • 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 ↗

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.

New Hampshire Charita…Essex County Communit…Eastern Bank Foundati…A Caring Community IncAmica Companies Found…Ge Aerospace Foundati…The Andover Companies…American Tower Corpor…Fidelity FoundationCummings Foundation G…Textron Charitable Tr…Rogers Family Foundat…
New Hampshire Charitable FoundationNH23.3× affinity11 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Thomas W Haas Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Thomas W Haas Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 130%5%19%42%75%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →median 4%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
13get no government money at all
11report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
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 136 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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