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Amherst F Hardy Foundation at a glance

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Amherst F Hardy 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.

$295k
Granted FY2025still arriving
11
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$80k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Health$1.0MEducation$883kArts & Culture$389kHuman Services$56kCrime & Legal$39kScience & Tech$39kPhilanthropy$30kEnvironment$20kOther$0
02FY2025 · 11 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k3 grants · $16k
  • $10k–50k5 grants · $95k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $185k
$15,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$5.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MILLIKIN UNIVERSITY$79,583
ST MARY'S HOSPITAL$52,708
DECATUR MEMORIAL HOSPITAL$52,708
FRIENDS OF LINCOLN SQUARE THEATER$35,000
DECATUR AREA ARTS COUNCIL$24,000
DECATUR PARKS FOUNDATION$15,000
GOOD SAMARITIAN INN$10,500
Individual grant recipient$10,000
DECATUR FAMILY YMCA$6,000
GALLERY 510 ARTS GUILD$5,000
CHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF ILLINOIS$5,000
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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY23–23, $15k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 15%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 15%DECATUR MACON COUNTY OPPORTUNITIES CORPORATION: $15k → 15%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.

92%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.3M · 15 repeat orgs$193k to everyone else

15 repeat relationships: 8 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

15
12

Total granted

$2.3M
$133k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+8%
+16%

Still filing today

53%
42%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $61k 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
EducationHealthYouth DevelopmentArts & CultureRecreation & SportsFood & NutritionOther
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

  • DM
    DECATUR MEMORIAL HOSPITAL
    9× · 2017–2025 · $520k · revenue +8%
  • DA
    DECATUR AREA ARTS COUNCIL INC
    6× · 2017–2025 · $124k · revenue +25%
  • SO
    SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA GUILD OF DECATUR
    6× · 2017–2023 · $80k · revenue +30%

Funded once

  • TM
    THINKWELL MAKERSPACE INNOVATIONS
    one grant, 2024 · $39k · 57% of their budget
  • LS
    LUTHERAN SCHOOL ASSOCIATION
    one grant, 2020 · $32k
  • DC
    DECATUR-MACON COUNTY OPPORTUNITIES CORP
    one grant, 2023 · $15k · revenue -28%
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
Decatur Chamber of Commerce

Develop commerce in the city of decatur indiana

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2
Decatur Education Association

Education equity and excellence

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3
Decatur County Community Foundation Inc

The foundation encourages, prudently manages and distributes charitable contributions to improve the quality of life of decatur county residents, now and in the future.

Philanthropy
4
Decatur Area Senior Citizens Council Inc

Facility providing services and wellness for elderly in decatur and macon county, illinois

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5
Decatur Area Convention & Visitors Bureau

To encourage, foster, promote and stimulate conventions and tourism in the decatur, illinois area.

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6
Decatur Postal Credit Union

We are a credit union serving our members with a place for loans and a place to save their money.

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7
Decatur County United Fund Inc

To support social services in decatur county.

Philanthropy
8
Decatur County Museum Inc

Preservation of historical items and materials relating to this area for this communiy as well as outside visitors.

Arts & Culture
9
Decatur Cooperative Ministry Inc

Decatur cooperative ministry helps families facing homelessness settle into safe, stable homes and build healthy lives filled with peace, hope and opportunity.

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10
Decatur Area Habitat

Provide housing for the needy

Housing & Shelter
11
Decatur County Chamber of Commerce

Business and tourism development for decatur county, tennessee

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12
Decatur Cemetery Association Inc

Operation and maintenance of cemetery

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Decatur Public Schools Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Good Samaritan Inn. 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

16 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. 16 of the 30 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
15/16
Grantees still filing
8/16
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ST MARY'S HOSPITAL: $465,870 · OtherST MARY'S HOSPITALDECATUR AREA ARTS COUNCIL INC: $124,000 · OtherDECATUR AREA ARTS COUNCIL INCSYMPHONY ORCHESTRA GUILD OF DECATUR: $79,500 · OtherSYMPHONY ORCHESTRA GUILD OF DECATURDECATUR MUNICIPAL BAND: $60,000 · OtherDECATUR MUNICIPAL BANDMACON COUNTY CASA: $39,100 · OtherTHINKWELL MAKERSPACE INNOVATIONS: $38,500 · OtherFRIENDS OF LINCOLN SQUARE THEATER: $35,000 · Other+15 more: $187,158 · Other+15 moreMILLIKIN UNIVERSITY: $825,131 · EducationMILLIKIN UNIVERSITY+1 more: $9,587 · EducationDECATUR MEMORIAL HOSPITAL: $519,619 · HealthDECATUR MEMORIAL HOSPITALMACON RESOURCES INC: $42,322 · HealthMACON RESOURCES INCCHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF ILLINOIS: $46,942 · Arts & CultureBEAUTIFY DECATUR COALITION: $20,000 · EnvironmentDECATUR PARKS FOUNDATION INC: $15,000 · Recreation & SportsDECATUR-MACON COUNTY OPPORTUNITIES CORP: $15,000 · Human Services
Other$1,029,128Education$834,718Health$561,941Arts & Culture$46,942Environment$20,000Recreation & Sports$15,000Human Services$15,000

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 budgetMILLIKIN UNIVERSITY: $825,131 over 9y, 0.2% of budgetDECATUR MEMORIAL HOSPITAL: $519,619 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetDECATUR AREA ARTS COUNCIL INC: $124,000 over 6y, 7.3% of budgetSYMPHONY ORCHESTRA GUILD OF DECATUR: $79,500 over 6y, 13% of budgetCHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF ILLINOIS: $46,942 over 7y, 3.6% of budgetMACON RESOURCES INC: $42,322 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetMACON COUNTY CASA: $39,100 over 3y, 3.3% of budgetTHINKWELL MAKERSPACE INNOVATIONS: $38,500 over 1y, 57% of budgetBEAUTIFY DECATUR COALITION: $20,000 over 2y, 30% of budgetDECATUR PARKS FOUNDATION INC: $15,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetDECATUR-MACON COUNTY OPPORTUNITIES CORP: $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGOOD SAMARITAN INN: $10,500 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetDECATUR PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION: $9,587 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetST TERESA EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION: $8,119 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF DECATUR INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetRICHLAND COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $2,400 over 1y, 0.2% 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 MILLIKIN UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds DECATUR MEMORIAL HOSPITAL ↗
  • Who funds DECATUR AREA ARTS COUNCIL INC ↗
  • Who funds SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA GUILD OF DECATUR ↗
  • Who funds CHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF ILLINOIS ↗
  • Who funds MACON RESOURCES INC ↗
  • Who funds MACON COUNTY CASA ↗
  • Who funds THINKWELL MAKERSPACE INNOVATIONS ↗
  • Who funds BEAUTIFY DECATUR COALITION ↗
  • Who funds DECATUR PARKS FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds DECATUR-MACON COUNTY OPPORTUNITIES CORP ↗
  • Who funds GOOD SAMARITAN INN ↗
  • Who funds DECATUR PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds ST TERESA EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF DECATUR INC ↗
  • Who funds RICHLAND COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

The Community Foundat…John Ullrich Foundati…Andreas FoundationThe Erwin and Linda A…James Millikin Trust ATs & Juanita Ballance…Edward Whinnery TrustHenry M Staley Declar…United Way of Decatur…Howard G Buffett Foun…Amazonsmile Foundation
The Community Foundation of Macon CountyIL43× affinity18 shared granteesties to 10 of 10Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Community Foundation of Macon County · John Ullrich Foundation Trust Busey Trust Co - Trustee · Andreas Foundation · The Erwin and Linda Arends Foundation · James Millikin Trust A · Ts & Juanita Ballance Foundation · Edward Whinnery Trust · Henry M Staley Declaration of Charit Tr D/B/A Staley Family Foundation · United Way of Decatur and Mid Il · Howard G Buffett Foundation · Amazonsmile Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

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

2025
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%4%15%34%60%funder's share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%
    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.
    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Amherst F Hardy Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Amherst F Hardy Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 30 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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