California · Private foundation
Hara 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.
- $30k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 14
- Grants FY2025
- 10
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 60%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $1,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $15,151
- Organizations funded a year
- 6 to 17
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 7
- Total assets, FY2025
- $535k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 60% of the organizations Hara Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 19% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 13 | $29k | 54% |
| FY2024 | 10 | $18k | 60% |
| FY2023 | 6 | $13k | 33% |
| FY2022 | 8 | $52k | 13% |
| FY2021 | 17 | $11k | 53% |
| FY2020 | 9 | $93k | 22% |
| FY2019 | 8 | $398k | 25% |
| FY2018 | 13 | $17k | 15% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| West Covina Christian Church | $505,972 | 8 | n/a |
| Lake Avenue Congregational Church of Pasadena | $48,651 | 6 | n/a |
| The Navigators | $12,630 | 3 | n/a |
| Friends of Valor International School | $5,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Humangood Foundation West | $2,200 | 2 | 0% |
| Treepeople Inc | $2,100 | 3 | 0% |
| InterVarsity Christian FellowshipUSA | $1,500 | 1 | n/a |
| Redeemer Community Partnership | $1,200 | 1 | 0% |
| Axia Project | $1,000 | 1 | 2% |
| International Rescue Committee INC | $900 | 2 | 0% |
Show all 21 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| West Covina Christian Church | $505,972 | 8 | n/a |
| Lake Avenue Congregational Church of Pasadena | $48,651 | 6 | n/a |
| The Navigators | $12,630 | 3 | n/a |
| Friends of Valor International School | $5,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Humangood Foundation West | $2,200 | 2 | 0% |
| Treepeople Inc | $2,100 | 3 | 0% |
| InterVarsity Christian FellowshipUSA | $1,500 | 1 | n/a |
| Redeemer Community Partnership | $1,200 | 1 | 0% |
| Axia Project | $1,000 | 1 | 2% |
| International Rescue Committee INC | $900 | 2 | 0% |
| Feeding America | $600 | 1 | 0% |
| Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation | $400 | 1 | 0% |
| Pasadena Humane | $400 | 1 | 0% |
| Southern California Public Radio | $400 | 1 | 0% |
| National Park Foundation | $400 | 1 | 0% |
| Guide Dogs of the Desert | $300 | 1 | 0% |
| Bright Futures Cambodia | $300 | 1 | 0% |
| Japanese American National Museum | $250 | 2 | 0% |
| Wycliffe Associates Inc | $150 | 2 | n/a |
| Los Angeles Mission Inc | $60 | 1 | 0% |
| Oriental Missionary Society Holiness Church of North America | $25 | 1 | n/a |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 26 recipients with no EIN on record ($56k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Hara Foundation supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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.
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How this is measured
About Hara Foundation
- How much does Hara Foundation give?
- Hara Foundation reported 14 grants totaling $29,551 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 6 and 17 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Hara Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Religion (90%), Education (2%), International (1%).
- Who are Hara Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: West Covina Christian Church ($506k), Lake Avenue Congregational Church of Pasadena ($49k), The Navigators ($13k).
- Does Hara Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 60% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Hara Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Hara Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc, Amazonsmile Foundation.
- Where is Hara Foundation based?
- Hara Foundation is based in CA.
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