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Vernon H Haase Foundation at a glance

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Vernon H Haase Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$25k
Granted FY2025still arriving
11
Grants FY2025still arriving
7
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Education$118kHuman Services$30kInternational$9kHealth$8kScience & Tech$8kFood & Nutrition$7kArts & Culture$5kPhilanthropy$3kOther$0
02FY2025 · 11 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k10 grants · $15k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
$500
Median grant
7
States reached
$425k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
AURORA UNIVERSITY$10,000
LITTLE HOOVES AND BIG HEARTS$5,000
COMMUNITY FOUNDATION TEXAS HILL COU$3,500
BEACON GROUP$2,500
MERCYCHEFS$1,000
GARFIELD FARM MUSEUM$500
TRI-COUNTY FOOD BANK$500
THE SALVATION ARMY OF PIMA$500
CRU$500
LUKE'S WINGS$500
GOSHEN COLLEGE$500
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $34k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, 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.

area typical 11%BEACON GROUP: $3k → 15%MERCYCHEFS: $1k → 20%LITTLE HOOVES AND BIG HEARTS: $5k → 11%LITTLE HOOVES AND BIG HEARTS: $5k → 11%LITTLE HOOVES AND BIG HEARTS: $4k → 11%LITTLE HOOVES AND BIG HEARTS: $4k → 11%LITTLE HOOVES AND BIG HEARTS: $3k → 11%LITTLE HOOVES AND BIG HEARTS: $3k → 11%LITTLE HOOVES AND BIG HEARTS: $2k → 11%LITTLE HOOVES AND BIG HEARTS: $2k → 11%LITTLE HOOVES AND BIG HEARTS: $2k → 11%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.
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.

93%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$198k · 14 repeat orgs$15k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +37% since the first grant, against +3% for those funded once.

14 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2025, 10 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

14
2

Total granted

$198k
$6k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+37%
+3%

Still filing today

64%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 64% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $9k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationHuman ServicesReligionArts & CultureFood & NutritionHealthOther
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

  • AURORA UNIVERSITY
    9× · 2017–2025 · $90k · revenue +44%
  • LH
    LITTLE HOOVES AND BIG HEARTS
    9× · 2017–2025 · $30k · revenue +10%
  • OS
    ORACLE SCHOOLS FOUNDATION
    6× · 2017–2024 · $22k · revenue +341%

Funded once

  • OS
    ORACLE SCHOOLS FOUNDATION SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAM
    one grant, 2018 · $5k
  • AN
    American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches
    one grant, 2024 · $1k · revenue +3%
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
Miracles From Heaven
International
2
Aerial Recovery

Aerial recovery's mission is to save lives and stop evil. through the creation and deployment of humanitarian special operators, aerial recovery brings together selected veterans, first responders, and mission-qualified civilians who,…

—
3
Helicopters for Heroes
Human Services
4
American Bible Society

Since 1816, american bible society has been fulfilling its mission of making the bible available to every person in a language and format each can understand and afford so all people may experience its life-changing message.

Religion
5
Honorhealth

Honorhealth's mission is to improve the health and well-being of those we serve.

Health
6
The Veterans and First Responders
Human Services
7
Mission of Mercy
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8
National September 11 Memorial and Museum At the World Trade Center

The national september 11 memorial & museum at the world trade center bears solemn witness to the terrorist attacks of september 11, 2001, and february 26, 1993. located at a site made sacred through loss, the memorial & museum remembers…

Arts & Culture
9
Logan's Heroes
Health
10
National Science and Technology Medals Foundation Inc

The nstmf's mission is to build inclusive stem communities across the united states. fundamental to these communities are the significant, inspirational connections we foster between the individuals who have received national recognition…

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11
University of Southern California

The central mission of the university of southern california is the development of human beings and society as a whole through the cultivation and enrichment of the human mind and spirit. the principal means by which our mission is…

Education
12
Yeshiva University

The university is composed of several colleges and schools providing undergraduate, graduate, professional and post-doctoral education and training and research and clinical programs.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches; the most unlike its peers is Little Hooves and Big Hearts. 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

13 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. 13 of the 23 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)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
13/13
Grantees still filing
11/13
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

AURORA UNIVERSITY: $90,000 · EducationAURORA UNIVERSITYORACLE SCHOOLS FOUNDATION: $21,500 · EducationORACLE SCHOOLS FOUNDATIONGoshen College Inc: $6,000 · EducationSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION: $5,500 · EducationLITTLE HOOVES AND BIG HEARTS: $30,000 · Human ServicesLITTLE HOOVES AND …BEACON GROUP INC: $2,500 · Human ServicesBEACON GROUP INC+2 more: $2,000 · Human Services+2 moreSMILE TRAIN INC: $8,250 · OtherSMILE TRAIN INCGARFIELD FARM MUSEUM: $5,000 · OtherGARFIELD FARM MU…ORACLE SCHOOLS FOUNDATION SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAM: $5,000 · OtherORACLE SCHOOLS F…COMMUNITY FOUNDATION TEXAS HILL COU: $3,500 · OtherCOMMUNITY FOUNDA…THE INDEPENDENCE FUND: $3,400 · OtherTHE INDEPENDENCE…SALVATION ARMY OF TUSCON: $2,000 · OtherSALVATION ARMY O…SALVATION ARMY OF TUCSON: $2,000 · OtherSALVATION ARMY O…+4 more: $2,400 · Other+4 moreSAMARITAN'S PURSE: $9,000 · ReligionSCIENCE CENTRAL INC: $7,500 · Arts & CultureTRI-COMMUNITY FOOD BANK INC: $6,500 · Food & NutritionLUKE'S WINGS: $500 · Health
Education$123,000Human Services$34,500Other$31,550Religion$9,000Arts & Culture$7,500Food & Nutrition$6,500Health$500

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetAURORA UNIVERSITY: $90,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetLITTLE HOOVES AND BIG HEARTS: $30,000 over 9y, 1.1% of budgetORACLE SCHOOLS FOUNDATION: $21,500 over 6y, 5.0% of budgetSAMARITAN'S PURSE: $9,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetSMILE TRAIN INC: $8,250 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetSCIENCE CENTRAL INC: $7,500 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetTRI-COMMUNITY FOOD BANK INC: $6,500 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetGoshen College Inc: $6,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION: $5,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetBEACON GROUP INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $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.

  • Who funds AURORA UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds LITTLE HOOVES AND BIG HEARTS ↗
  • Who funds ORACLE SCHOOLS FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
  • Who funds SMILE TRAIN INC ↗
  • Who funds SCIENCE CENTRAL INC ↗
  • Who funds TRI-COMMUNITY FOOD BANK INC ↗
  • Who funds Goshen College Inc ↗
  • Who funds STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds BEACON GROUP INC ↗
  • Who funds MERCY CHEFS INC ↗
  • Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
  • Who funds LUKE'S WINGS ↗

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Vernon H Haase Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Vernon H Haase Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
    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 23 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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