Hahn Family Foundation Inc.

Hahn Family Foundation Inc. is a closely-held family foundation run entirely by directors Barry Hahn and Lillian Hahn (Elliot Hahn served as a third director through roughly 2018), with no paid staff, no public website, no grants portal, and no published RFP. Every inquiry the foundation itself discloses to the IRS routes through one channel: an email to hahnfamilyfoundation@gmail.com, restricted to "qualified section 501(c)(3) organizations only." This is a relationship-driven, closed-network funder rather than a competitive open-application shop. Its 71 disclosed grants total $1,089,333, split between a small set of large, repeated commitments — Congregation Shaaray Tefilah ($305,000 across 2 grants), Yeshiva Toras Chaim Toras Emes ($251,000 across 2 grants), Beth Jacob High School ($60,000) — and a long tail of small, often one-time gifts under $1,000 (roughly half of the top-50 disclosed grantees). That pattern signals a foundation anchored to a handful of institutions the Hahn family is personally affiliated with (synagogues, day schools/yeshivas near Teaneck, NJ and South Florida), supplemented by modest goodwill gifts to a much wider circle of Jewish charitable and educational causes. First-time applicants with no connection to this network should expect long odds and no acknowledgment protocol — there's no LOI-to-full-proposal cascade, no board cycle, and no site-visit process documented anywhere in public filings or databases. The realistic path in is a warm introduction: a rabbi, yeshiva administrator, or existing grantee referral carries far more weight than a cold proposal. Applicants should mirror the foundation's own language — grants are logged almost universally as "FOR RELIGIOUS GENERAL SUPPORT" or "FOR EDUCATIONAL GENERAL SUPPORT" — meaning general operating requests, not restricted program grants, are what this funder is comfortable making. Given the foundation's total annual giving hovers in the $550,000–$800,000 range against $11.3M in assets, expect capacity for only a handful of new relationships per year; most of the payout is already committed to legacy institutions.

Across 71 disclosed grants (top-50 detail available), the foundation gave a combined $1,089,333 at an average of $15,343 per grant, though the distribution is heavily skewed: a handful of five- and six-figure anchor gifts (Congregation Shaaray Tefilah $305,000; Yeshiva Toras Chaim Toras Emes $251,000; Beth Jacob High School $60,000; Friends of United Hatzalah $56,000; Toras Chaim Toras Emes Academy, Mesorah Heritage Foundation, and Southern NCSY each $50,000) sit alongside roughly 20 gifts under $1,000, some as small as $100–$500. By purpose, religious general support and educational general support together account for the large majority of dollars, with smaller allocations to medical support (American Committee for Shaare Zedek, $50,000; Sharsheret, $100) and general charitable/emergency causes (Friends of United Hatzalah, Hatzolah Air, Zaka Tel Aviv). Geographically, grants concentrate in three states — NY (23 grants), FL (22 grants), and NJ (19 grants) — matching the foundation's stated geographic focus, with a thin spread into MA (2), TX (2), VA (1), and PA (1); a Jerusalem-linked thread runs through several grantee names (Hebron Fund, Chabad of Iceland notwithstanding, and Israel Special Kids Fund). At the foundation level, total assets have declined gradually from $12.4M (FY2012) to $11.3M (FY2024), while annual charitable giving has fluctuated between $553,945 (FY2019, a low point) and $805,816 (FY2015, a peak), settling most recently at $607,945 (FY2023) and an estimated $602,298 in FY2024 disbursements. Net investment income, not new contributions, funds the payout — the foundation has received $0 in outside contributions in every year with disclosed data, meaning its giving capacity is entirely a function of the Hahn family's existing $11.3M endowment and its market performance.

Hahn sits in a tight asset-size cohort (all five peers cluster within $20,000 of each other at roughly $11.3M) that IRS classification groups under "Philanthropy & Grantmaking" — a category that typically denotes small, closely-held family vehicles rather than institutional grantmakers with public program staff. Only Purjes Foundation among the peer set maintains an actual website; the rest, like Hahn, are almost certainly relationship-based, invitation-only funders with no competitive application process, making direct outreach and warm introductions the standard playbook across this entire peer group rather than an exception unique to Hahn.

No press coverage, program announcements, or leadership changes turned up in web searches for 2025-2026 — this is expected for an unstaffed, two-person family foundation with no public communications presence. The most concrete recent signal is the FY2024 Form 990-PF, filed November 13, 2025, which reported $829,167 in total revenue (driven by $449,375-equivalent-scale investment activity, consistent with prior years' pattern of dividends, asset sales, and interest as the sole revenue sources), $672,426 in total expenses, $602,298 in charitable disbursements, and $11,297,578 in year-end assets — essentially flat versus FY2023's $11,140,834. Leadership has been stable at two directors, Barry Hahn and Lillian Hahn, both unpaid, since at least 2019; a third director, Elliot Hahn, appears in older filings but drops from the disclosed officer list by around 2018, suggesting a generational narrowing of control rather than an expansion. Grants-paid data is not yet broken out for FY2024 in the available filing summary, but FY2023's $544,866 in grants paid and $607,945 in total giving continue the foundation's decade-long pattern of giving in the $545K-$806K band. There is no evidence of new program areas, geographic expansion, or a shift away from the foundation's core Orthodox Jewish religious and educational grantee base.

This foundation has no formal proposal process — the single documented channel is an email to hahnfamilyfoundation@gmail.com, and the IRS filing explicitly restricts eligibility to "qualified section 501(c)(3) organizations only." Because there's no board cycle, deadline, or LOI-to-proposal cascade published anywhere, timing is flexible but response speed is likely slow and informal since the foundation has no staff to triage inbound requests. The single highest-leverage move is a warm introduction: nearly every large, repeated grantee (Congregation Shaaray Tefilah, Yeshiva Toras Chaim Toras Emes, Beth Jacob High School, Toras Chaim Toras Emes Academy) is an Orthodox Jewish congregation or day school in the Hahns' NY/NJ/FL orbit, so a referral from a rabbi, school administrator, or current grantee will do more than any cold proposal. Frame the ask using the foundation's own recorded language — "general religious support" or "general educational support" — rather than a restricted program grant; every large gift in the disclosed data is logged as general support, indicating the Hahns fund institutions broadly rather than specific initiatives. Keep the initial ask proportionate: the realistic entry point for a new relationship is likely in the $1,000-$25,000 range given that roughly half of disclosed grantees received under $1,000 and only a handful of legacy relationships reach five or six figures. Avoid elaborate proposal packages — there is no evidence this foundation reviews formal grant applications, budgets, or logic models; a concise email describing the organization's 501(c)(3) status, mission, and specific need is the appropriate format. Common mistakes to avoid: sending unsolicited mail to the Teaneck, NJ address (1313 Hastings St) instead of email, requesting restricted/project-specific funding rather than general support, and applying without any connection to the Orthodox Jewish community networks the foundation has funded consistently since at least 2012.