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Harbaugh George & Betty Charitable Foundation at a glance

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Harbaugh George & Betty Charitable Foundation

Its FY2018 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$52M
Granted FY2018
15
Grants FY2018
4
States reached
$51M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0189% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2018.

Philanthropy$52MHealth$590kYouth Development$535kEducation$242kInternational$204kArts & Culture$195kPublic Benefit$177kEnvironment$68kOther$0
02FY2018 · 15 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2018

  • Under $10k1 grant · $6k
  • $10k–50k8 grants · $171k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $300k
  • $250k+3 grants · $52M
$36,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
G HARBAUGH FOUNDATION$51,201,657
SOCIAL IMPACT FUND$320,000
PROJECT HEALING WATERS FLY FISHING$300,000
EMERIL LAGASSE FOUNDATION$125,000
JESSIE REES FOUNDATION$100,000
SOCIAL GOOD FUND$75,000
IAN WALSH MENEHUNE MAYHEM FOUNDATIO$40,000
Individual grant recipient$36,000
MAUI FOOD BANK$25,000
CARDIFF BY THE SEA$20,000
SOLID ROCK$15,000
THE CENTURY CLUB$15,000
PROTEUS ACADEMY INC$10,415
SOUL SURVIVOR OUTDOOR$10,000
EDWARD CHARLES FOUNDATION$6,000
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 (FY17–18, $104k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%EDWARD CHARLES FOUNDATION: $98k → 14%EDWARD CHARLES FOUNDATION: $6k → 14%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

MT
MN
NY
CA
MD
DE
DC
HI
LA
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.

2%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$886k · 7 repeat orgs$53M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +125% since the first grant, against +59% for those funded once.

7 repeat relationships: 7 still active in FY2018, 0 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2018 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

7
22

Total granted

$886k
$1.0M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+125%
+59%

Still filing today

57%
64%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2018, 1% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $52M went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18
PhilanthropyHealthPublic BenefitEducationEmploymentFood & 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

  • TE
    THE EMERIL LAGASSE FOUNDATION
    2× · 2017–2018 · $245k · revenue +125%
  • JR
    Jessie Rees Foundation
    2× · 2017–2018 · $190k · revenue +44%
  • EC
    EDWARD CHARLES FOUNDATION
    2× · 2017–2018 · $104k · revenue +863%

Funded once

  • FO
    Festival of Children Foundation
    one grant, 2017 · $200k · revenue -11%
  • CULINARY INSTITUTE OF AMERICAgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $200k · revenue +29%
  • XP
    X PRIZE FOUNDATION INCgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $142k · revenue +72%
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.

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Sff Foundation
Philanthropy
2
Sfs Foundation
Human Services
3
Sfw Foundation
Philanthropy
4
Gates Family Foundation
—
5
The Search Foundation
Philanthropy
6
The Nfg Foundation
—
7
The Osi Group Foundation
Philanthropy
8
Efa Foundation
Philanthropy
9
The International Foundation
—
10
The Wilson Foundation
—
11
The Seg Foundation
Philanthropy
12
Gsf Foundation
Philanthropy
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Edward Charles Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Open Gate International. 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

25 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. 25 of the 37 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.

3
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
9
Early backer (in before they grew)
24/25
Grantees still filing
17/25
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

G HARBAUGH FOUNDATION: $51,201,657 · PhilanthropyG HARBAUGH FOUNDATION+4 more: $1,121,000 · PhilanthropyPROJECT HEALING WATERS FLY FISHING INC: $300,000 · HealthJessie Rees Foundation: $190,000 · HealthStarkey Hearing Foundation: $100,000 · HealthTHE CENTURY CLUB: $135,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $107,000 · OtherAMERICAN CAREER COLLEGE EDUCATION F: $40,000 · OtherEDWARD CHARLES FOUNDATION: $104,000 · OtherIAN WALSH MENEHUNE MAYHEM FOUNDATION: $70,000 · OtherMAUI FOOD BANK INC: $25,000 · OtherSHASTA TRINITY FLY FISHERS INC: $25,000 · Other+13 more: $165,000 · OtherCULINARY INSTITUTE OF AMERICA: $200,000 · EducationSOCIAL GOOD FUND INC: $75,000 · Education+1 more: $1,500 · EducationFestival of Children Foundation: $200,000 · Youth DevelopmentX PRIZE FOUNDATION INC: $142,000 · Public BenefitPROTEUS ACADEMY INC: $35,415 · Public Benefit+1 more: $5,000 · Public BenefitOPEN GATE INTERNATIONAL: $100,000 · EmploymentTHE HONOR FOUNDATION INC: $11,000 · Employment
Philanthropy$52,322,657Health$590,000Other$671,000Education$276,500Youth Development$200,000Public Benefit$182,415Employment$111,000

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 budgetG HARBAUGH FOUNDATION: $51,201,657 over 1y, 99% of budgetPROJECT HEALING WATERS FLY FISHING INC: $300,000 over 1y, 6.0% of budgetTHE EMERIL LAGASSE FOUNDATION: $245,000 over 2y, 5.3% of budgetFestival of Children Foundation: $200,000 over 1y, 16% of budgetCULINARY INSTITUTE OF AMERICA: $200,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetJessie Rees Foundation: $190,000 over 2y, 2.8% of budgetX PRIZE FOUNDATION INC: $142,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetEDWARD CHARLES FOUNDATION: $104,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetStarkey Hearing Foundation: $100,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetOPEN GATE INTERNATIONAL: $100,000 over 1y, 8.3% of budgetSOCIAL GOOD FUND INC: $75,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetIAN WALSH MENEHUNE MAYHEM FOUNDATION: $70,000 over 2y, 51% of budgetSIMA ENVIRONMENTAL FUND: $43,000 over 1y, 21% of budgetPROTEUS ACADEMY INC: $35,415 over 2y, 35% of budgetFRIENDS OF BETHANY HAMILTON INC DBATHE BEAUTIFULLYFLAWED FOUNDATION: $33,000 over 1y, 22% of budgetMAUI FOOD BANK INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetSHASTA TRINITY FLY FISHERS INC: $25,000 over 1y, 15% of budgetORANGEWOOD FOUNDATION: $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE HONOR FOUNDATION INC: $11,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetSOUL SURVIVOR OUTDOOR: $10,000 over 1y, 7.8% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF SONOMA COUNTY: $7,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetSUPPORT THE ENLISTED PROJECT INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetMONTANA PRESERVATION ALLIANCE INC: $5,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetWILLOW GROVE EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION: $1,500 over 1y, 0.5% 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.

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.

G Harbaugh FoundationThe Stanley E Hanson …Jpmorgan Chase Founda…Gs Donor Advised Phil…Charities Aid Foundat…National Philanthropi…Paypal Charitable Giv…American Endowment Fo…Natl Christian Charit…Donor Advised Charita…Network for GoodThe Bank of America C…
G Harbaugh FoundationTN24.2× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: G Harbaugh Foundation · The Stanley E Hanson Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Charities Aid Foundation America · National Philanthropic Trust · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · American Endowment Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Network for Good · The Bank of America 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 Harbaugh George & Betty Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Harbaugh George & Betty Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →median 46%
  • Project Healing Waters Fly Fishing Inc: 46% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
7report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
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.
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Find your warmest path to Harbaugh George & Betty Charitable 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 37 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 2018, released 2018. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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