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Hardaway Foundation Incorporated

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$159k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
23
Grants FY2024
19
Organizations funded FY2023
16%
First-time grantees FY2023
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100% of Hardaway Foundation Incorporated’s FY2025 grant dollars went to Community Foundation Of The Chattahoochee Valley Inc, not to grantees.

Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2025 names 0 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2024, the last year Hardaway Foundation Incorporated named its own grantees at scale: 5 organizations, $159k. It is dated, not current.

Organizations named directly on the return

6
’17
7
’18
7
’19
7
’20
8
’21
7
’22
5
’23
5
’24
0
’25

Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.

Median grant, FY2024
$2,500
Largest grant, FY2024
$25,000
Organizations funded a year
19 to 24
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
2
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 16% of the organizations Hardaway Foundation Incorporated funded were first-time grantees, receiving 26% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 74% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $28k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23
EducationArts & CultureEnvironmentRecreation & SportsOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving22$143k23%
FY202319$106k16%
FY202222$124k14%
FY202121$109k24%
FY202024$111k13%
FY201924$86k17%
FY201824$87k38%
FY201722$54kn/a
96% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Philanthropy$1.2MEducation$277kArts & Culture$136kEnvironment$70kReligion$60kHuman Services$36kHealth$35kYouth Development$27kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 12 grantees

Plus 42 recipients with no EIN on record ($368k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Hardaway Foundation Incorporated supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetThe Protestant Episcopal High School in Virginia: $80,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetThe Columbus Museum Inc: $80,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetThe Columbus Botanical Gardens Inc: $70,000 over 7y, 1.5% of budgetColumbus State University Foundation Inc: $55,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetSpringer Opera House Arts Associationinc: $40,000 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetEaster Seals West Georgia Inc: $35,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetBrookstone School Inc: $26,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetMFHA Foundation: $25,000 over 5y, 2.2% of budgetColumbus Philharmonic Guild Inc: $16,000 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetThe Baddour Center Inc: $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetThe United States Sportsmen's Alliance Foundation Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetThe Administrators of the Tulane Educational Fund: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 12.

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 of the Chattahoochee Valley IncGA24× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Community Foundation of the Chattahoochee Valley Inc · Lockwood Partners Foundation Inc · Bradley-Turner Foundation Inc · Jackson-Burgin Foundation Inc · Mildred Miller Fort Foundation Inc · The Jordan Foundation Inc · The Walter Alan Richards Foundation · Jw & Ethel I Woodruff Foundation Inc · Georgia Power Foundation Inc · Crowley Foundation Ann C Patterson - Trustee · Beloco Foundation Inc · Gb & Ca Saunders 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.

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How do I get to Hardaway Foundation Incorporated?

Find your warmest path to Hardaway Foundation Incorporated 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.

About Hardaway Foundation Incorporated

How much does Hardaway Foundation Incorporated give?
Hardaway Foundation Incorporated reported 23 grants totaling $158,626 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 19 and 24 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Hardaway Foundation Incorporated fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Philanthropy (61%), Education (14%), Arts & Culture (7%).
Who are Hardaway Foundation Incorporated's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: The Protestant Episcopal High School in Virginia ($80k), The Columbus Museum Inc ($80k), The Columbus Botanical Gardens Inc ($70k).
Does Hardaway Foundation Incorporated fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 16% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Hardaway Foundation Incorporated accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as Hardaway Foundation Incorporated?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Community Foundation of the Chattahoochee Valley Inc, Lockwood Partners Foundation Inc, Bradley-Turner Foundation Inc.
Where is Hardaway Foundation Incorporated based?
Hardaway Foundation Incorporated is based in GA.

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 55 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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