Hasna Inc.

Hasna Inc. (branded "HasNa" on its site) is a small, family-governed private foundation in Raleigh, NC, run without compensated staff by Cyrus Stacey (Chairman), Mark Stacey (Treasurer), and Nevzer Stacey (Board Member). With $5.33M in assets and $271,270 disbursed across 25 grants in FY2025, this is a micro-funder by dollar volume but an active one — giving has risen every year since at least 2023. The single most important operating fact for grant seekers: the foundation's own filings mark it "preselected only," meaning HasNa identifies and invites the organizations it funds rather than reviewing unsolicited applications. There is no published LOI portal, application form, or deadline anywhere in its 990 data or on hasna.org. Treat this as a relationship-first funder, not an open-call funder.

The grantee roster (18 recipients in the most recent full year sampled) is heavily weighted toward small, founder-led or single-issue nonprofits — animal rescue (Maryland Horse Rescue, Saving Grace Animals for Adoption), literacy and immigrant services (Read Early and Daily Read, Immigrant and Refugee Outreach Center), community health (Neighbor Health Center, So Others Might Eat), and peace/cross-cultural organizations (Alliance for Middle East Peace, Peace for DC) sit side by side with a single outsized $61,000 gift to Spur Local, a DC-area nonprofit capacity-building intermediary. That pattern — one anchor grant an order of magnitude larger than the rest, surrounded by a long tail of $1,000-$10,000 gifts — suggests HasNa uses a handful of trusted intermediaries or long-term relationships to reach smaller groups it can't identify directly.

For organizations without an existing tie to the Stacey family or the DC/Raleigh nonprofit circles they move in, the realistic path in is indirect: build a relationship with an intermediary the foundation already trusts (Spur Local is the clearest one identified here), get visibility in the Mid-Atlantic cross-cultural, refugee-integration, or community-outreach space where HasNa's mission and research history (the Turkey Refugee Response Initiative) live, or connect directly via email since no formal portal exists. First-time applicants should not expect a competitive open cycle; expect, at best, a warm email exchange.

HasNa's giving has grown three years running: $194,663 across 18 grants in 2023 (avg $10,815), $252,023 across 22 grants in 2024, and $271,270 across 25 grants in FY2025 — a ~39% increase in total dollars over two years. Individual grants range from $500 (St Judes) to $61,000 (Spur Local), with a median around $8,000 per third-party 990 analysis. Excluding the Spur Local outlier, the bulk of awards cluster tightly between $1,000 and $20,000, with $5,000 and $10,000 the most common single amounts — a strong signal that a first-time or non-anchor grant from HasNa is likely to land in the $5,000-$10,000 range.

Geographically, the sampled grant year concentrated in five states: North Carolina (5 grantees, reflecting the foundation's home base), DC (5), Virginia (4), Maryland (2), and Tennessee (2) — a clear Mid-Atlantic/Southeast footprint despite the foundation's international, cross-cultural mission statement. All 18 sampled grants were tagged with the single purpose code "COMMUNITY OUTREACH," which likely reflects a filing-level simplification rather than genuine program-area granularity, but it confirms the foundation does not appear to segment its giving into named program buckets (no separate education, health, or international lines visible in the grants data).

On the balance-sheet side, FY2025 revenue of $402,814 was driven overwhelmingly by realized gains on asset sales ($294,325, or 73%) rather than new contributions, with dividends ($70,942) and interest ($37,547) providing the remainder. Expenses totaled $327,264, of which charitable disbursements were 82.9% ($271,270) — a high program-to-overhead ratio consistent with an all-volunteer, family-run structure with zero officer compensation. Total assets stand at $5,330,064, up from roughly $4.28M in 2020, indicating the foundation is both accumulating assets and increasing its payout rate simultaneously — a funder with growing, not shrinking, capacity.

HasNa sits in a cluster of similarly sized private foundations classified under the "International" NTEE category, most in the $4.8M-$5.8M asset range. None of the five closest peers identified operate a public grant application process either — this appears to be a structural norm for foundations at this asset scale, not a HasNa-specific quirk.

HasNa is the only peer in this set for which grant-level data (recipients, amounts, purposes) is publicly available through 990 filings, giving applicants unusually good visibility into its actual behavior versus its stated mission — a real advantage over peers like Tzedakah V Chesed or the Alsikafi Family Foundation, which disclose almost nothing beyond asset totals. For organizations focused on refugee integration, cross-cultural dialogue, or community outreach in the DC/Mid-Atlantic corridor, HasNa's transparency makes it easier to build a targeted case even without a formal application channel.

The most concrete recent signal is financial: HasNa's FY2025 Form 990 (indexed by third-party trackers as of 2026-05-24) shows $271,270 given across 25 grants, the highest total in the three years of data available (2023-2025), funded substantially by $294,325 in realized investment gains. That continues an unbroken upward trend from $194,663 (2023) and $252,023 (2024).

On the program side, the picture is less clear-cut. HasNa's own website currently frames the organization as "headed in new directions," and several previously indexed content pages — including a piece on representing refugee voices in Turkish media and a recap of a "DemoSapiens: Freedom Under Threat" discussion series (reportedly co-hosted with an organization called MetaCulture) — now return 404 errors. That combination (rising financial activity, disappearing legacy web content, and self-described transition language) suggests the foundation may be in the middle of a rebrand, leadership transition, or program pivot away from its earlier Turkey Refugee Response Initiative (TRRI) research focus toward the community-outreach grantmaking that now dominates its 990 filings.

No public press releases, staff announcements, or new-initiative launches were located for 2025-2026 beyond what the tax filings show. Leadership remains the Stacey family — Cyrus (Chairman), Mark (Treasurer), and Nevzer (Board Member) — all uncompensated, per the most recent filing. Organizations tracking this funder should watch hasna.org directly over the next several months, since the site itself signals more change is coming than the grant-making data alone reveals.

There is no open application, LOI form, or published deadline for HasNa — every third-party tracker (GuideStar, Instrumentl, ProPublica, Grantable) and the foundation's own 990 agree it operates on a preselected/invitation basis. Treat cold applications as a low-probability channel and prioritize these approaches instead:

• Lead with the mission language, not a generic ask. HasNa's stated mission is to "facilitate cross-cultural understanding between communities divided along ethnic, religious, racial, gender, and national lines" and to advance "economic empowerment, equality, and justice." Grantee names (Alliance for Middle East Peace, Peace for DC, Absolutely Anatolian Artisans, Immigrant and Refugee Outreach Center) show this is not boilerplate — proposals that speak directly to bridging divided communities or refugee/immigrant integration are the closest fit to what has actually been funded, even though the grants data itself is tagged generically as "community outreach."
• Target the right size ask. Outside of the single $61,000 anchor grant to Spur Local, awards cluster between $1,000 and $20,000, with $5,000-$10,000 most common. A first outreach should request an amount in that range, not a six-figure ask.
• Use a warm door, not a portal. With no compensated staff and no application system, the realistic entry points are: (1) an introduction through Spur Local or another DC-area nonprofit intermediary already in HasNa's network, (2) a direct, personal email to info@hasna.org that references specific past grantees or the TRRI/refugee-integration work to show real familiarity, or (3) visibility in the Raleigh, NC or DC nonprofit circles where the Stacey family is likely active.
• Time outreach to their fiscal cycle. Since giving is funded partly by realized investment gains, and 2025 was a record year, capacity currently appears to be expanding — a reasonable window to make a relationship-building approach, even absent a formal cycle.
• Don't expect a program officer. All three officers (Cyrus, Mark, Nevzer Stacey) are uncompensated; assume any response will come from a family member directly, and keep initial outreach concise and personal rather than written for a review committee.