Funding search · EIN 010850218 · Somerville, MA

The Joan Shafran and Rob Haimes

Name: The Joan Shafran and Rob Haimes grants, 2022–2025
Creator: PaperOrbit
License: https://www.irs.gov/charities-non-profits/exempt-organization-public-disclosure-and-availability-requirements

A private foundation (files IRS Form 990-PF). Most private foundations do not take unsolicited applications; the route in is usually a program officer.

286
grants reported: $1.1M
total given: 2022–2025
filing years: $1,000
median grant

Based on grants this organization reported to the IRS for tax years 2022–2025. This is what they filed, not a complete record of their giving, and recent years may be incomplete because filings lag.

What they fund

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Funding pattern

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3 grants matching “shafran” · $185,000

$25,000
Cleveland Museum of Natural History · Cleveland, OH · 2025
Shafran planetarium
$25,000
Cleveland Museum of Natural History · Cleveland, OH · 2023
The nathan and fannye shafran planetarium
$135,000
Cleveland Museum of Natural History · Cleveland, OH · 2022
The nathan & fanny shafran planetarium renovations & technology upgrade

Top recipients

Repeat recipients are the strongest signal of whether a funder has an open door or quietly re-funds the same organizations.

Friends of Mendelsohn1 grant · $250,000
Cleveland Museum of Natural History4 grants · $210,000
Boston Architectural College8 grants · $162,300
The Cultural Landscape Foundation11 grants · $152,560
Mobile Makers1 grant · $50,000
Massachusetts Institute of Technology6 grants · $21,500
Dana Farber Cancer Institute2 grants · $15,000
Chicago Mobile Makers2 grants · $12,500
Westport Land Conservation Trust7 grants · $10,500
American Jewish Committee3 grants · $10,000

Giving over time

$250,134

2022

$215,710

2023

$216,505

2024

$442,000

2025

Grant history

The 100 largest of 286 grants.

$250,000
Friends of Mendelsohn · Cleveland, OH · 2025
Annual fund
$135,000
Cleveland Museum of Natural History · Cleveland, OH · 2022
The nathan & fanny shafran planetarium renovations & technology upgrade
$50,000
Mobile Makers · Chicago, IL · 2024
Boston fund
$50,000
Boston Architectural College · Boston, MA · 2023
Mobile makers boston fund
$37,300
Boston Architectural College · Boston, MA · 2022
Mobile makers
$25,000
Cleveland Museum of Natural History · Cleveland, OH · 2025
Shafran planetarium
$25,000
The Cultural Landscape Foundation · Washington, DC · 2025
Annual fund
$25,000
The Cultural Landscape Foundation · Washington, DC · 2025
The landscape prize
$25,000
Boston Architectural College · Boston, MA · 2024
Social innovation & entrepreneurship initiative
$25,000
Cleveland Museum of Natural History · Cleveland, OH · 2024
Annual fund
$25,000
Cleveland Museum of Natural History · Cleveland, OH · 2023
The nathan and fannye shafran planetarium
$25,000
The Cultural Landscape Foundation · Washington, DC · 2023
Ny times new landscape architecture award
$20,000
The Cultural Landscape Foundation · Washington, DC · 2024
Annual fund
$20,000
The Cultural Landscape Foundation · Washington, DC · 2023
Annual fund
$20,000
The Cultural Landscape Foundation · Washington, DC · 2022
Annual fund
$10,000
Boston Architectural College · Boston, MA · 2025
Bac exhibition program
$10,000
Chicago Mobile Makers · Chicago, IL · 2025
Annual fund
$10,000
Boston Architectural College · Boston, MA · 2024
School of architecture and bac exhibition program
$10,000
Boston Architectural College · Boston, MA · 2024
Walter hood native(s) exhibit
$10,000
Dana Farber Cancer Institute · Brookline, MA · 2024
Cll research
$10,000
Boston Architectural College · Boston, MA · 2023
School of architecture and bac exhibition program
$10,000
Boston Architectural College · Boston, MA · 2022
$3,500 to a student in the school of architecture, $3,500 to a student in the school of landscape architecture and $3,000 to the bac exhibition program
$8,500
Massachusetts Institute of Technology · Cambridge, MA · 2025
Annual fund
$8,334
Jewish Federation of Cleveland · Cleveland, OH · 2022
Park synagogue donation
$5,000
Dana Farber Cancer Institute · Brookline, MA · 2025
Leukemia research and ccl
$5,000
The Cultural Landscape Foundation · Washington, DC · 2025
Soak it up conference
$5,000
The Cultural Landscape Foundation · Washington, DC · 2024
General operating support
$5,000
American Jewish Committee · New York, NY · 2023
Annual fund
$5,000
Dana Farber Cancer Institute · Boston, MA · 2023
Cll research
$5,000
The Cultural Landscape Foundation · Washington, DC · 2022
Educational, scientific, literary, religious, and charitable
$4,000
Massachusetts Institute of Technology · Cambridge, MA · 2024
Mit press muriel cooper design fund and mit media lab discretionary fund
$4,000
Massachusetts Institute of Technology · Boston, MA · 2023
Mit press muriel cooper design fund/media lab discretionary fund
$3,500
Massachusetts Institute of Technology · Cambridge, MA · 2022
Media lab discretionary fund
$2,500
Aclu Foundation · New York, NY · 2025
Annual fund
$2,500
American Jewish Committee · New York, NY · 2025
Annual fund
$2,500
Brennan Center for Justice · New York, NY · 2025
Annual fund
$2,500
Chicago Mobile Makers · Chicago, IL · 2025
New bedford seaport art walk installation
$2,500
Free Speech for People · Amherst, MA · 2025
Annual fund
$2,500
Israel21c · San Francisco, CA · 2025
Annual fund
$2,500
Lahaina Restoration Foundation · Puunene, HI · 2025
Annual fund
$2,500
New Israel Fund · Philadelphia, PA · 2025
Annual fund
$2,500
Passim · Cambridge, MA · 2025
Club passim
$2,500
Project Education · Bellingham, WA · 2025
Annual fund
$2,500
Public Media Company · Boulder, CO · 2025
Public media bridge fund
$2,500
Trustees of Boston University · Boston, MA · 2025
Fund for wbur
$2,500
Wgbh Educational Foundation · Boston, MA · 2025
Annual fund
$2,500
American Jewish Committee · New York, NY · 2024
Annual fund
$2,500
Israel21c · San Francisco, CA · 2024
Annual fund
$2,500
New Israel Fund · Philadelphia, PA · 2024
Annual fund
$2,500
Passim · Cambridge, MA · 2024
Annual fund
$2,500
Project Education · Brookline, MA · 2024
Annual fund
$2,500
Trustees of Boston University · Boston, MA · 2024
Wbur
$2,500
Watershed Center for Ceramic Arts · Edgecomb, ME · 2024
Founders hill
$2,500
Wgbh Educational Foundation · Boston, MA · 2024
Annual fund
$2,500
Friends of Horseshoe Lake · Cleveland, OH · 2023
Save horseshoe lake
$2,500
Israel21c · San Francisco, CA · 2023
Annual fund
$2,500
Kaatsbaan International Dance Center · Tivoli, NY · 2023
Kaatsbaan kitchen upgrade
$2,500
Metropolitan Opera Association · New York, NY · 2023
Annual fund
$2,500
New Bedford Light · New Bedford, MA · 2023
Annual fund
$2,500
New Israel Fund · Philadelphia, PA · 2023
Annual fund
$2,500
Passim · Cambridge, MA · 2023
Annual fund
$2,500
Project Education · Brookline, MA · 2023
Annual fund
$2,500
Trustees of Boston University · Boston, MA · 2023
Wbur
$2,500
Wgbh Educational Foundation · Boston, MA · 2023
Annual fund
$2,500
Friends of Horseshoe Lake · Shaker Heights, OH · 2022
Save horseshoe lake campaign
$2,500
Passim · Cambridge, MA · 2022
Pear fund (passim emergency artist relief)
$2,500
Westport Land Conservation Trust · Westport, MA · 2022
The berry hill farm project
$2,000
Hudson Opera House · Hudson, NY · 2025
Giulio cesare opera
$2,000
Kaatsbaan Cultural Park · Tivoli, NY · 2025
Annual fund
$2,000
One Community Nyc · Brooklyn, NY · 2025
Annual fund
$2,000
Hudson Opera House · Hudson, NY · 2024
Giulio cesare opera
$2,000
Hudson Opera House · Hudson, NY · 2023
Support for rodelina opera
$2,000
Hudson Opera House · Hudson, NY · 2022
Educational, scientific, literary, religious, and charitable
$1,650
Foundation To Combat Antisemitism · Foxborough, MA · 2023
Stand up to jewish hate
$1,650
The Cultural Landscape Foundation · Washington, DC · 2023
Annual fund
$1,500
Harvard University · Cambridge, MA · 2025
Presidential priorities fund
$1,500
Metropolitan Opera Association · New York, NY · 2025
Annual fund
$1,500
Our Sisters School · New Bedford, MA · 2025
Annual fund
$1,500
Westport Food Pantry · Westport, MA · 2025
Annual fund
$1,500
Westport Land Conservation Trust · Westport, MA · 2025
Annual fund
$1,500
Our Sisters School · New Bedford, MA · 2024
Annual fund
$1,500
Westport Land Conservation Trust · Westport, MA · 2024
Annual fund
$1,500
Cool Culture · Brooklyn, NY · 2023
Annual fund
$1,500
New Israel Fund · Philadelphia, PA · 2023
Annual fund
$1,500
Our Sisters School · New Bedford, MA · 2023
Annual fund
$1,500
Project Education · Brookline, MA · 2023
For stem initiative
$1,500
Westport Land Conservation Trust · Westport, MA · 2023
Annual fund
$1,500
Trustees of Boston University · Boston, MA · 2022
Wbur
$1,500
Westport Land Conservation Trust · Westport, MA · 2022
Annual fund
$1,500
Wgbh Educational Foundation · Boston, MA · 2022
Annual fund
$1,000
Aclu Foundation of Massachusetts · Boston, MA · 2025
Annual fund
$1,000
Boston Neighborhood Community Land Trust · Roxbury, MA · 2025
Annual fund
$1,000
Brennan Center for Justice · New York, NY · 2025
Annual fund
$1,000
Cool Culture · Brooklyn, NY · 2025
Annual fund
$1,000
Datma · New Bedford, MA · 2025
Annual fund
$1,000
Doctors Without Borders USA · New York, NY · 2025
Annual fund
$1,000
Fidalgo Island Rotary Foundation · Anacortes, WA · 2025
Guatemala surgical mission
$1,000
Handel and Haydn Society · Boston, MA · 2025
Annual fund
$1,000
International Institute of New England · Boston, MA · 2025
Annual fund
$1,000
Massachusetts General Hospital · Boston, MA · 2025
Annual fund

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