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Harbourton 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.

$140k
Granted FY2024still arriving
3
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$75k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Philanthropy$5.2MEducation$686kFood & Nutrition$612kHealth$333kEnvironment$300kHousing & Shelter$260kInternational$239kYouth Development$119kOther$0
02FY2024 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k2 grants · $65k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $75k
$40,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$31M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
METANOIA PROPERTIES LTD OF SOUTH AFRICA METANOIA$74,929
BIOLA (ISF SPIRITUAL MINISTRY)$40,000
CHILD HOUSES USA$25,000
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 (FY21–23, $1.3M) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 5% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%ZEPHYR IMPACT: $896k → 7%ZEPHYR IMPACT: $306k → 7%FRIENDLY HOUSE: $15k → 12%SPOON: $10k → 12%GROWING GARDENS: $33k → 12%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

NH
WA
NY
MA
OR
NV
OH
PA
NJ
CA
CO
VA
MD
AZ
DC
HI
GA
FL
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.
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Where the work is directed

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

About 11% of Harbourton Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

Harbourton Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 6.1% directed abroad (not shown)
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.

24%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.9M · 9 repeat orgs$6.1M to everyone else

9 repeat relationships: 0 still active in FY2024, 9 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

9
49

Total granted

$1.9M
$6.0M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+5%
+29%

Still filing today

78%
78%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $140k went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24
Food & NutritionEducationHealthInternationalHuman ServicesEnvironmentOther
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

  • ISLES INC
    2× · 2021–2022 · $80k · revenue +31%
  • FO
    FRIENDS OF ZENGER FARM
    2× · 2021–2022 · $55k · revenue +69%
  • WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC
    2× · 2021–2022 · $30k · revenue +167%

Funded once

  • FC
    FIDELITY CHARITABLE GIFT FUND-HARBOURTON FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2022 · $2.5M
  • PS
    PIPER SUTTON FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2022 · $1.5M · 100% of their budget
  • Woodwell Climate Research Center Inc
    one grant, 2021 · $200k · revenue +24%
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
Food Forward Inc

Food forward fights hunger and prevents food waste by rescuing fresh surplus produce, connecting this abundance with people experiencing food insecurity, and inspiring others to do the same.

Food & Nutrition
2
Farmers Ending Hunger

The organization's mission is to increase the quantity of high quality food commodities donated to the oregon food bank network through a partnership of farmers, food processors, the oregon food bank network and the public.

Human Services
3
The Global FoodBanking Network

To nourish the world's hungry through uniting and advancing food banks.

International
4
Zero Foodprint

Zero foodprint is mobilizing the food world around agricultural climate solutions. our work aims to create a circular economy that incentivizes practices that actively draw down carbon dioxide and offer our best hope of addressing the…

Food & Nutrition
5
Foodshot Global Inc

Accelerate the transformation to a healthy, sustainable and equitable food system.

Food & Nutrition
6
Extrafood

Food Rescue - The Organization rescues excess fresh food from Bay Area businesses, schools and non-profits and immediately delivers the food to safety net partners - such as senior housing centers, after-school programs, and homeless…

Food & Nutrition
7
Oregon Tilth Inc

Oregon tilth is a leading nonprofit certifier, educator and advocate for sustainable organic agriculture and products since 1974. the organizations mission to make the food system and agriculture biologically sound and socially equitable…

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Partners in Food Solutions

Improve the food value chain in developing countries by mobilizing corporate volunteers to share knowledge and expertise with small and growing food processors.

International
9
Sustainable Fisheries Partnership Foundation

To engage and catalyze global seafood supply chains in rebuilding depleted fish stocks and reducing the environmental impacts of fishing and fish farming.

Animals
10
Counterpart International Inc

For over 60 years, counterpart international has partnered with communities worldwide to turn local ideas into lasting solutions, connecting local vision with global opportunity. (continued on schedule o)we believe people closest to the…

International
11
Outgrowing Hunger

We nurture connections between people,nature,and food by ensuring access to garden space and farmland, and providing education and mentoring on regenerative and sustainable agricultural practices.

Food & Nutrition
12
Feeding San Diego

On a mission to connect every person facing hunger with nutritious meals by maximizing food rescue. through direct service and community partnerships, feeding san diego provides more than 26 million meals each year to children, families,…

Food & Nutrition
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Mindful Philanthropy Inc; the most unlike its peers is The Manav Foundation. 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

48 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. 48 of the 63 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)
12
Early backer (in before they grew)
47/48
Grantees still filing
31/48
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

FIDELITY CHARITABLE GIFT FUND-HARBOURTON FOUNDATION: $2,500,000 · OtherFIDELITY CHARITABLE GIFT FUND-HARBOURTON FOUNDATIONDARTMOUTH COLLEGE: $320,000 · OtherDARTMOUTH COLLEGEPROTESTANT EPISCOPAL CATHEDRAL FOUNDATION OF THE D OF C: $143,059 · Other+34 more: $1,295,929 · Other+34 morePIPER SUTTON FOUNDATION INC: $1,456,000 · PhilanthropyPIPER SUTTON FOUNDATI…+2 more: $70,000 · PhilanthropyZEPHYR IMPACT: $1,201,113 · Human ServicesZEPHYR IMPACT+3 more: $57,500 · Human ServicesNICHOLS SCHOOL OF BUFFALO: $186,410 · EducationHOMEFRONT INC: $60,000 · EducationGUARDIAN SCHOLARS INC: $20,000 · EducationTHE MANAV FOUNDATION: $16,500 · EducationWALKING MOUNTAINS: $15,000 · Education+1 more: $10,000 · EducationOUTSIDE THE BOWL: $90,000 · Food & NutritionREFED INC: $75,000 · Food & NutritionFOOD RECOVERY NETWORK INC: $40,000 · Food & NutritionOUR VILLAGE GARDENS: $40,000 · Food & NutritionURBAN GLEANERS: $30,000 · Food & NutritionClay Street Table: $20,000 · Food & Nutrition+1 more: $10,000 · Food & NutritionOPERATION SMILE INC: $180,000 · InternationalWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $30,000 · InternationalMercy Corps: $30,000 · InternationalGLOBALGIVING FOUNDATION INC: $20,000 · InternationalHOPE INTERNATIONAL: $15,000 · InternationalWoodwell Climate Research Center Inc: $200,000 · Science & Tech
Other$4,258,988Philanthropy$1,526,000Human Services$1,258,613Education$307,910Food & Nutrition$305,000International$275,000Science & Tech$200,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetPIPER SUTTON FOUNDATION INC: $1,456,000 over 1y, 100% of budgetZEPHYR IMPACT: $1,201,113 over 2y, 90% of budgetWoodwell Climate Research Center Inc: $200,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetNICHOLS SCHOOL OF BUFFALO: $186,410 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetOPERATION SMILE INC: $180,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetOUTSIDE THE BOWL: $90,000 over 1y, 8.7% of budgetISLES INC: $80,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetREFED INC: $75,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetCentral City Concern: $75,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMindful Life Project: $68,500 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetROUNDUP RIVER RANCH: $60,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetHOMEFRONT INC: $60,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetFRIENDS OF ZENGER FARM: $55,000 over 2y, 2.5% of budgetECOTRUST: $50,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetIMPACTASSETSINC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCENTURION MINISTRIES INC: $50,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetOREGON FOOD BANK: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetULTIMATE HAWAIIAN TRAIL RUN FOUNDATION INC: $50,000 over 1y, 5.1% of budgetCLUB DUST: $45,000 over 1y, 15% of budgetFOOD RECOVERY NETWORK INC: $40,000 over 1y, 3.9% of budgetGrowing Gardens: $32,500 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $30,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetURBAN GLEANERS: $30,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetMercy Corps: $30,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetRESPERO MINISTRIES: $25,000 over 1y, 18% of budgetROGUE FARM CORPS: $25,000 over 1y, 5.7% of budgetWAVES OF LOVE INC: $24,000 over 1y, 18% of budgetTHE OREGON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOregon Agricultural Trust: $20,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetClay Street Table: $20,000 over 1y, 8.1% of budgetGUARDIAN SCHOLARS INC: $20,000 over 2y, 3.1% of budgetGLOBALGIVING FOUNDATION INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE IMMIGRANT AND REFUGEE COMMUNITY ORGANIZATION: $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE MANAV FOUNDATION: $16,500 over 1y, 18% of budgetLines for Life: $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFRIENDLY HOUSE INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetWALKING MOUNTAINS: $15,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetOregon Environmental Council: $15,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetHOPE INTERNATIONAL: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFOOD FINDERS INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBALLET THEATRE FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSPOON FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKIDS-HEAL: $10,000 over 1y, 99% of budgetGRACE OF CALVARY MINISTRIES: $9,000 over 1y, 8.0% of budgetTHE MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSON'S RESEARCH: $7,500 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

The Oregon Community …The Collins FoundationMeyer Memorial TrustMarie Lamfrom Charita…Careoregon IncOCF Joseph E Weston P…Lora L and Martin N K…Seeding JusticeJuan Young TrustKaiser Foundation Hos…The Roundhouse Founda…The Autzen Foundation
The Oregon Community FoundationOR22.7× affinity11 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Oregon Community Foundation · The Collins Foundation · Meyer Memorial Trust · Marie Lamfrom Charitable Foundation Trust · Careoregon Inc · OCF Joseph E Weston Public Foundation · Lora L and Martin N Kelley Family Foundation Trust · Seeding Justice · Juan Young Trust · Kaiser Foundation Hospitals · The Roundhouse Foundation · The Autzen 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 Harbourton Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Harbourton Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 80%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 11%
  • Rogue Farm Corps: 91% of income from government
  • Lines for Life: 70% of income from government
  • Mercy Corps: 47% of income from government
  • Friends of Zenger Farm: 28% of income from government
  • Isles Inc: 21% of income from government
  • Oregon Food Bank: 21% of income from government
  • Ecotrust: 14% of income from government
  • Woodwell Climate Research Center Inc: 11% of income from government
  • Central City Concern: 10% of income from government
  • Homefront Inc: 9% of income from government
  • Growing Gardens: 6% of income from government
  • The Immigrant and Refugee Community Organization: 4% of income from government
  • Friendly House Inc: 3% of income from government
  • The Oregon Community Foundation: 2% of income from government
  • Oregon Agricultural Trust: 2% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
8get no government money at all
9report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
2rely on government for over half their income
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 Harbourton Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Harbourton 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 63 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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