Haffenreffer Family Fund
Providence, RI · EIN 05-6012787. Reported 119 grants totalling $2,606,074 to 44 organizations across tax years 2021-2024, on Form 990 Schedule I.
Does this grantmaker accept applications?
Its tax return does not say, and we will not guess. Private foundations file Form 990-PF, which asks outright whether they fund only organizations they select themselves -- 78% say yes, and that one answer is what lets the rest of this site tell you which foundations are worth approaching. Grantmaking charities like this one file a regular Form 990 instead, and the IRS never puts the question to them. Anyone claiming to know the answer from the filing is inventing it.
Three things in the filing do bear on it:
- What kind of organization it is. For Haffenreffer Family Fund, the IRS classifies it as a named trust (NTEE T90Z).
- How spread out its giving is. 44 distinct organizations, with 13% of the dollars going to the largest single recipient. That is genuinely spread out -- the mark of a funder making many independent decisions rather than underwriting one institution.
- How much its list changes. 81% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 3 year-to-year transitions. That is well above the 57% median for grantmaking charities, and above the 67% private foundations manage. This list is close to settled, so a newcomer has to displace someone rather than fill a gap.
How big are its grants?
The median reported grant is $15,000. Half of what it reported fell between $10,000 and $25,000; the smallest was $5,250 and the largest $118,400. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong organization.
Every organization it funded
This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Recipients are grouped by the EIN the filer reported, not by name, so an organization that was typed differently in two years appears once rather than twice.
| Organization | Location | Total received | Grants | Years funded | Last |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund | Boston, MA | $335,911 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Rhode Island Hospital | Providence, RI | $275,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Brown University of Providence | Providence, RI | $226,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Planned Parenthood of Southern New England Inc | New Haven, CT | $180,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| The Sanctuary United Pentecostal Church Inc | Hudson, NH | $135,984 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Fund for Ucap | Providence, RI | $120,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Southside Community Land Trust | Providence, RI | $120,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| The Salvation Army | West Nyack, NY | $103,964 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Rhode Islanders Sponsoring Education | Providence, RI | $84,750 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Young Mens Christian Association of Greater Nashua | Nashua, NH | $80,964 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Amos House | Providence, RI | $52,500 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Nature Conservancy | Arlington, VA | $50,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Rhode Island Community Food Bank Association | Providence, RI | $50,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| The University of Rhode Island Foundation & Alumni Engagement | Kingston, RI | $50,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Christ Evangelical Lutheran Church | Webster Grvs, MO | $46,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Family Service of Rhode Island Inc | Providence, RI | $45,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Day One | Providence, RI | $44,750 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Nonviolence Institute | Providence, RI | $41,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Crossroads Rhode Island | Providence, RI | $40,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Ocean State Media Group | Providence, RI | $40,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| The Rhode Island Community Foundation | Providence, RI | $40,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| St Luke's Episcopal Church | Darien, CT | $38,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Mass General Brigham Incorporated | Somerville, MA | $37,700 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Dorcas International Institute of Rhode Island Inc | Providence, RI | $37,500 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Lucys Hearth | Middletown, RI | $37,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Moses Brown School | Providence, RI | $34,500 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Providence Athenaeum | Providence, RI | $31,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| The Providence Center Inc | Providence, RI | $30,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Diocese of Rhode Island | Providence, RI | $27,500 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| St Jude Childrens Research Hospital Inc | Memphis, TN | $19,500 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| City Academy Inc | Saint Louis, MO | $18,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Foster Forward | E Providence, RI | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Rhode Island Business Development Institute Inc | Providence, RI | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| World Wildlife Fund Inc | Washington, DC | $13,500 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| The Community Fund of Darien | Darien, CT | $12,801 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Islesboro Community Center | Islesboro, ME | $11,250 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Asociacion of Celebration Community Church of Guanacaste | Port Orchard, WA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Portland Museum of Art | Portland, ME | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Rhode Island Philharmonic Orchestra & Music School | E Providence, RI | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Urban Collaborative | Providence, RI | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Hughes Foundation | Minneapolis, MN | $8,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Mary Institute and Saint Louis Country Day School | Saint Louis, MO | $6,500 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| The David Sheldrick Wildlife Trust USA Inc | Laguna Hills, CA | $6,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Bard College | Annandale, NY | $5,500 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
33 of 44 (75%) received money in more than one year over the 4 years we hold. Remember the $5,000 floor: an organization funded every year at $3,000 shows up here as never funded at all.
What the money was for
Taken verbatim from the purpose column of its filings, largest first. This is the closest thing to a statement of what it funds, in its own words.
- Brown University
HIGHER EDUCATION, PROGRAM SUPPORT - Rhode Islanders Sponsoring Education (rise)
Program Support, General Operating - Rhode Island Foundation
STEINBERG CIVIC LEADERSHIP FUND
What kind of organizations it funds
By each recipient's own IRS classification, for the 36 of 44 recipients we could match to a registered organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses -- Schedule I reports the recipient's EIN, so this is a lookup rather than a name match.
Giving by year
| Tax year | Grants reported | Total | Median grant |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 26 | $554,372 | $10,250 |
| 2022 | 31 | $628,177 | $14,500 |
| 2023 | 31 | $699,700 | $15,000 |
| 2024 | 31 | $723,825 | $15,000 |
Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- Form 990 arrives about a year after the year it covers, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a grantmaker winding down.
Where its money goes
57% of its giving went to organizations in Rhode Island. Community foundations and federated funds are usually the most geographically bounded funders there are -- being outside the footprint is normally disqualifying in a way that a weak programme fit is not.
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How to approach this grantmaker
- Look for a published programme first. Unlike most private foundations, organizations of this kind often do run open, deadlined grant cycles with written guidelines. Its own website is the authority on that; this page is the authority on who it has actually paid.
- Check you are its size. The median reported grant is $15,000 -- and because grants under $5,000 need not be reported, it very likely writes smaller cheques than this page can see.
- Check you are in its geography. Its giving concentrates in Rhode Island.
- Read the recipient list for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer and a cheap one to get.
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Where these numbers come from
Everything above is taken from Haffenreffer Family Fund's own Form 990 Schedule I filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2021-2024). Nothing here is scraped, inferred or estimated.
On its most recent return it told the IRS it made grants to 31 section 501(c)(3) organizations and 0 other organizations. That is the filer's own count for one year; the totals above cover every year we hold.
Address of record on the latest return: One Union Station, Providence, RI, 02903.
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