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Halbert Harmon Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k11 grants · $45k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $65k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $400k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FOREST FORWARD | $200,000 |
| ABILENE CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY | $200,000 |
| PURE HOPE FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| CL - CHANGING LIVES | $20,000 |
| FORTRESS YOUTH DEVELOPMENT CENTER INC | $15,000 |
| HOPEKIDS INC | $10,000 |
| PTA TEXAS CONGRESS | $5,521 |
| LAKE CITIES CHURCH OF CHRIST | $5,000 |
| TEXAS INTERNATIONAL BIBLE INSTITUTE | $5,000 |
| YOUTH VOICE INC | $5,000 |
| ABILENE CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY | $5,000 |
| WEST FORT WORTH CENTER OF HOPE INC | $5,000 |
| COME BEFORE WINTER INC | $4,600 |
| BIG COUNTRY COURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATES INC | $3,000 |
| ABILENE HIGH SCHOOL BOOSTER CLUB | $2,500 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY18–24, $68k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 61% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 51% of Halbert Harmon Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +42% since the first grant, against -9% for the ones you funded once.
24 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2024, 13 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $30k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- FFFOREST FORWARD3× · 2022–2024 · $600k · revenue +400%
- GFGRANT FOUNDATION INC2× · 2020–2021 · $261k · revenue +269%
- FYFORTRESS YOUTH DEVELOPMENT CENTER INC7× · 2017–2024 · $82k · revenue +33%
Funded once
- THTHE HILLS CHURCH OF CHRISTone grant, 2018 · $40k
- HDHARVEY DRIVE CHURCH OF CHRISTone grant, 2020 · $17k
- ACALAMEDA CHURCH OF CHRISTone grant, 2018 · $15k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
To provide family services and to provide residential child care for dependent children where there is a need to assist children and families disrupted by problems.
Working in creative collaboration to provide quality care that transforms the lives of at-risk children and their families through the active compassion of christ.
We minister to orphans and widows in their distress by transitioning children from orphanages into loving families. We do this through Christ- centered care, training and social work.
Refuge city provides safe places for children in dallas / ft. worth (dfw) who have been sex trafficked or sexually exploited to achieve restoration, education, and reintegration in a family-focused environment through the love of jesus…
It is the mission of the organization to provide services to disadvantaged and homeless families with children; to reintegrate homeless families with children into permanent housing and employment.
To change lives and build Christian families through maternity, foster, and adoption services.
The home provides care for children and wards of the court placed for foster home purposes.
Christian coaching, counseling, assessment and consulting services to the communities of Tarrant County, Texas.
Chariots for hope shares the hope of christ by loving kenyan children through christian discipleship and long-term physical, emotional, and educational care and provision. the vision of chariots for hope is to create a transformed future…
To strengthen the lives of children and families.
To educate students with the transforming truth of christ, inspiring academic excellence, godly character, and integrity in life pursuits.
A state of texas licensed foster care-adoption agency that identifies and provides approved healing foster homes for children.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Arms of Hope and the most unlike its peers is Zoies Place. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 24 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 28% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 17% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
28 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 28 of the 44 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds ABILENE CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds FOREST FORWARD ↗
- Who funds GRANT FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds PURE HOPE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FORTRESS YOUTH DEVELOPMENT CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds HOPEKIDS INC ↗
- Who funds Rwanda Children ↗
- Who funds CITYSQUARE ↗
- Who funds ETERNAL THREADS ↗
- Who funds TEXAS INTERNATIONAL BIBLE INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds CL - CHANGING LIVES ↗
- Who funds ZOIES PLACE ↗
- Who funds ABILENE HIGH SCHOOL BOOSTER CLUB ↗
- Who funds WEST FORT WORTH CENTER OF HOPE INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF ABILENE ↗
- Who funds COME BEFORE WINTER INC ↗
- Who funds LOS ALAMOS FAMILY COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds ALEDO CHILDRENS ADVOCATS INC ↗
- Who funds YOUTH VOICE INC ↗
- Who funds WI Cook Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds We Are Cherished Inc ↗
- Who funds ALEDO ISD EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds EMMAUS HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds BIG COUNTRY COURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATES INC ↗
- Who funds ARMS OF HOPE ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITIES FOUNDATION OF TEXAS INC ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Community Foundation of Abilene · Communities Foundation of Texas Inc · Community Foundation of North Texas (Tax · Caris Foundation · Bny Mellon Charitable Gift Fund · The Robison Excelsior Foundation · Abilene Christian University · Greathouse Foundation · Servant Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Texas Instruments Foundation · Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Halbert Harmon Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.
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