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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.

$510k
Granted FY2024still arriving
17
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$200k
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 2024.

Education$1.0MCommunity Improvement$600kInternational$319kReligion$312kHuman Services$111kHousing & Shelter$100kYouth Development$87kHealth$45kOther$0
02FY2024 · 17 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k11 grants · $45k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $65k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $400k
$5,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$8.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
ABILENE CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY$5,000
WEST FORT WORTH CENTER OF HOPE INC$5,000
LAKE CITIES CHURCH OF CHRIST$5,000
TEXAS INTERNATIONAL BIBLE INSTITUTE$5,000
YOUTH VOICE 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
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 (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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%ARMS OF HOPE: $3k → 12%CHRISTIAN WORKS FOR CHILDREN INC: $2k → 14%ALEDO CHILDRENS ADVOCATES INC: $3k → 8%CITYSQUARE: $25k → 14%ALEDO CHILDRENS ADVOCATES INC: $2k → 8%CITYSQUARE: $5k → 14%ALEDO CHILDRENS ADVOCATES INC: $2k → 8%CITYSQUARE: $5k → 14%CL - CHANGING LIVES: $20k → 8%LOVE & CARE MINISTRIES: $2k → 16%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.

Which US states its grants reach

PA
NE
AZ
NM
TN
OK
GA
TX
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.
04

Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 51% of Halbert Harmon Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

Halbert Harmon Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
How this is measured
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 funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

91%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.5M · 24 repeat orgs$148k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +58% since the first grant, against +16% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

24
13

Total granted

$1.5M
$118k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+58%
+16%

Still filing today

63%
46%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $30k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesReligionYouth DevelopmentHealthEducationCommunity ImprovementOther
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

  • FF
    FOREST FORWARD
    3× · 2022–2024 · $600k · revenue +400%
  • GF
    GRANT FOUNDATION INC
    2× · 2020–2021 · $261k · revenue +258%
  • FY
    FORTRESS YOUTH DEVELOPMENT CENTER INC
    7× · 2017–2024 · $82k · revenue +72%

Funded once

  • TH
    THE HILLS CHURCH OF CHRIST
    one grant, 2018 · $40k
  • HD
    HARVEY DRIVE CHURCH OF CHRIST
    one grant, 2020 · $17k
  • AC
    ALAMEDA CHURCH OF CHRIST
    one grant, 2018 · $15k
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
Central Texas Children's Home

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.

Human Services
2
Children's Home of Lubbock and Family Service Agency Inc

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.

Human Services
3
Child Hope International

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.

Arts & Culture
4
Refuge City

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…

Human Services
5
Compassion Ministries of Waco

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.

Community Improvement
6
Christian Homes of Abilene Inc

To change lives and build Christian families through maternity, foster, and adoption services.

Human Services
7
Albuquerque Christian Children's Home Inc

The home provides care for children and wards of the court placed for foster home purposes.

Human Services
8
His Story Coaching and Counseling

Christian coaching, counseling, assessment and consulting services to the communities of Tarrant County, Texas.

Human Services
9
Chariots for Hope Inc

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…

International
10
Texas Center for Child and Family Studies

To strengthen the lives of children and families.

Human Services
11
Central Texas Christian School Inc

To educate students with the transforming truth of christ, inspiring academic excellence, godly character, and integrity in life pursuits.

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12
Family Link Treatment Services Inc

A state of texas licensed foster care-adoption agency that identifies and provides approved healing foster homes for children.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Arms of Hope; 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.
05the grantee network

28 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. 28 of the 44 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
9
Early backer (in before they grew)
27/28
Grantees still filing
18/28
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ABILENE CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY: $992,200 · OtherABILENE CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITYCHURCH OF CHRIST OF LOS ALAMOS NEW MEXICO: $70,000 · OtherLAKE CITIES CHURCH OF CHRIST: $59,000 · Other+25 more: $370,521 · Other+25 moreFOREST FORWARD: $600,000 · Community ImprovementFOREST FORWARDGRANT FOUNDATION INC: $260,780 · InternationalGRANT FOUND…PURE HOPE FOUNDATION: $90,000 · Housing & ShelterFORTRESS YOUTH DEVELOPMENT CENTER INC: $82,000 · Youth DevelopmentYOUTH VOICE INC: $5,000 · Youth DevelopmentCITYSQUARE: $35,000 · Human ServicesCL - CHANGING LIVES: $20,000 · Human ServicesALEDO CHILDRENS ADVOCATS INC: $6,500 · Human ServicesEMMAUS HOUSE INC: $3,000 · Human ServicesARMS OF HOPE: $2,500 · Human Services+2 more: $3,500 · Human ServicesTEXAS INTERNATIONAL BIBLE INSTITUTE: $20,000 · ReligionWEST FORT WORTH CENTER OF HOPE INC: $15,000 · ReligionCOME BEFORE WINTER INC: $9,200 · ReligionWe Are Cherished Inc: $5,000 · Religion
Other$1,491,721Community Improvement$600,000International$260,780Housing & Shelter$90,000Youth Development$87,000Human Services$70,500Religion$49,200

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 budgetABILENE CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY: $992,200 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetFOREST FORWARD: $600,000 over 3y, 6.8% of budgetGRANT FOUNDATION INC: $260,780 over 2y, 2.3% of budgetPURE HOPE FOUNDATION: $90,000 over 5y, 3.4% of budgetFORTRESS YOUTH DEVELOPMENT CENTER INC: $82,000 over 7y, 1.3% of budgetHOPEKIDS INC: $40,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetRwanda Children: $38,000 over 3y, 1.9% of budgetCITYSQUARE: $35,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetETERNAL THREADS: $20,000 over 3y, 12% of budgetTEXAS INTERNATIONAL BIBLE INSTITUTE: $20,000 over 3y, 1.8% of budgetCL - CHANGING LIVES: $20,000 over 1y, 13% of budgetZOIES PLACE: $17,000 over 2y, 7.1% of budgetABILENE HIGH SCHOOL BOOSTER CLUB: $16,000 over 4y, 3.1% of budgetWEST FORT WORTH CENTER OF HOPE INC: $15,000 over 2y, 3.2% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF ABILENE: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCOME BEFORE WINTER INC: $9,200 over 2y, 2.0% of budgetLOS ALAMOS FAMILY COUNCIL INC: $8,500 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetALEDO CHILDRENS ADVOCATS INC: $6,500 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetYOUTH VOICE INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetWe Are Cherished Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetWI Cook Foundation Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetALEDO ISD EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $4,500 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetEMMAUS HOUSE INC: $3,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetBIG COUNTRY COURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATES INC: $3,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetARMS OF HOPE: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMUNITIES FOUNDATION OF TEXAS INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLove & Care Ministries: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetChristian Works For Children Inc: $1,500 over 1y, 0.1% 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 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 We Are Cherished Inc ↗
  • Who funds WI Cook Foundation 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 ↗

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.

Community Foundation …Communities Foundatio…Community Foundation …Caris FoundationBny Mellon Charitable…The Robison Excelsior…Abilene Christian Uni…Greathouse FoundationServant FoundationNatl Christian Charit…Texas Instruments Fou…Renaissance Charitabl…
Community Foundation of AbileneTX21.3× affinity8 shared granteesties to 10 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Halbert Harmon Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Halbert Harmon Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%4%8%15%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
    6report 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 Halbert Harmon Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Halbert Harmon 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 44 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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