· Private foundation
Harden 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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k43 grants · $55k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $16k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| NEW YORK SKI EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION | $16,300 |
| ADIRONDACK COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,250 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,250 |
| CAMDEN AREA FOOD PANTRY | $2,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,000 |
| HYANNISPORT CIVIC ASSOCIATION | $2,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,500 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 99% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 12% of Harden Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 0% of the giving stays in TX; by stated purpose, 13%.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
76 repeat relationships: 22 still active in FY2025, 54 since wound down; 21 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 45% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $37k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- CACAMDEN AREA FOOD PANTRY INC8× · 2018–2025 · $44k · revenue +38%
- IGIMAGINE GREATER CAMDEN INC2× · 2018–2019 · $20k · revenue +27% · 66% of their budget
- C1CLUSTER 133× · 2018–2022 · $12k · revenue +8%
Funded once
- CLCamden Little League Incgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $5k · revenue +125%
- CPCAMDEN PUBLIC LIBRARYone grant, 2021 · $5k
- MRMARGERY RADLEY MEMORIAL SCHOLARSHIP (CO CAMDEN ACCESS FEDERAL CREDIT UNIONone grant, 2017 · $5k
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.
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.
To promote humanitarian service and peace in the world.
Community improvement
Youth Athletic Program
Our mission is to promote enjoyment, training, education and advocacy for the sport of cycling to people of all ages, abilities and backgrounds in Northern New York State.
Athletic booster club to support camden high school activities.
Provide youth sports activities
The Albany Knickerbockers Rugby Football Club was established in 1973. Building off a strong foundation begun by the clubs founders, the club eventually advanced to field a competitive Division I Men's side. The success of the club…
The organization promotes athletics in the town of Yorktown, New York. These sports include football, basketball,baseball,softball,lacrosse,cheerleading,wrestling and
To establish, equip, maintain and operate a public park, and picnic and recreation ground in the area known as forest park, in the town of camden, oneida county, new york, for the use, recreation and enjoyment of adults and children in the…
To provide funding for more year-round durable fileds for children living in rye ny in hope of incresing outdoor activity for children of rye
How this is measured
13 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 13 of the 128 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Harden Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Harden Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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