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Hardin Charitable Trust 44-8802409 at a glance

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Hardin Charitable Trust 44-8802409

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$1.5M
Granted FY2025still arriving
2
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$1.0M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0197% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Education$6.7MHealth$3.8MCommunity Improvement$1.0MRecreation & Sports$1.0MReligion$148kHuman Services$80kArts & Culture$30kYouth Development$25kOther$0
02FY2025 · 2 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$1,000,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$3.8M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UNIVERSITY OF MEMPHIS FDN$1,000,000
METHODIST HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION$500,000
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY21–21, $25k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 13%STREETS MINISTRIES INC: $25k → 17%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.
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.

93%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$12M · 8 repeat orgs$915k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +36% since the first grant, against +10% for those funded once.

8 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

8
9

Total granted

$12M
$415k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+36%
+10%

Still filing today

88%
33%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 67% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $500k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthEducationCommunity ImprovementHuman ServicesOther
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

  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF MEMPHIS FOUNDATION
    8× · 2018–2025 · $6.7M · revenue +36%
  • ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC
    2× · 2017–2018 · $3.0M · revenue +145%
  • MR
    MEMPHIS RIVER PARKS PARTNERSHIP INC
    2× · 2019–2020 · $1.0M · revenue +72%

Funded once

  • LB
    Le Bonheur Children's Hospital Foundation
    one grant, 2022 · $200k · revenue +16%
  • SG
    ST GEORGE'S EPISCOPAL CHURCH
    one grant, 2017 · $50k
  • UM
    UNITED METHODIST SR SVCS DESOTO CO
    one grant, 2021 · $50k
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
Methodist Healthcare-Memphis Hospitals

Methodist le bonheur healthcare, in partnership with its medical staffs, will collaborate with patients and their families to be the leader in providing high quality, cost-effective patient-and family-centered care. services will be…

Health
2
Memorial Hermann Medical Group

Memorial hermann health system is a nonprofit, values-driven, community-owned health system dedicated to improving health. our vision is to create healthier communities, now and for generations to come. our values are community,…

Health
3
Methodist Le Bonheur Healthcare Inc

Methodist le bonheur healthcare, in partnership with its medical staffs, will collaborate with patients and their families to be the leader in providing high quality, cost-effective patient and family-centered care. services will be…

Health
4
The Methodist Hospital Foundation

Mission: this organization is part of the methodist hospital, doing business as houston methodist hospital, whose mission is: to provide high quality, cost-effective health care that delivers the best value to the people we serve in a…

Health
5
Mhs Physicians of Texas

Memorial hermann health system is a nonprofit, values-driven, community-owned health system dedicated to improving health. our vision is to create healthier communities, now and for generations to come. our values are community,…

Health
6
Methodist Medical Center

Methodist Medical Center provides quality healthcare, in alignment with Covenant Health's mission to serve the community by improving the quality of life through better health regardless of a patient's ability to pay.

Health
7
Hmh Hospitals Corporation

The organization is committed to providing the full spectrum of life-enhancing care and services to create and sustain healthy, vibrant communities. please refer to schedule h, part vi, question 5 for the organization's community benefit…

Health
8
Indiana University Health Ball Memorial Hospital Foundation Inc

Benefit, perform, and carry out the charitable, educational, and other exempt purposes of indiana university health ball memorial hospital, inc. ("iu health ball memorial hospital") and related organizations, and to support activities…

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9
Pediatric Physician Services Inc

The corporation is organized for charitable, educational and scientific purposes, and to provide healthcare services of pediatric specialty physicians and other personnel to the patients of johns hopkins all children's hospital and…

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10
Mercy Health

Mercy Health will provide assistance, support and direction to all of the health care institutions and activities operated and maintained by its Subsidiaries. The mission of Mercy Health in performing these activities shall be to provide a…

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11
Ut Medical Group Inc

To be a successful physician led, professionally managed medical practice that benefits our patients and our community, while supporting the UT Health Science Center's mission through clinical excellence, financial responsibility and a…

Health
12
Mcphs University

Mcphs university prepares students for careers in health care through teaching, scholarship, research, professional service and community engagement.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Le Bonheur Children's Hospital Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Rhodes College. 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

11 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. 11 of the 18 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
11/11
Grantees still filing
7/11
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

UNIVERSITY OF MEMPHIS FOUNDATION: $6,670,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF MEMPHIS FOUNDATION+1 more: $20,000 · EducationST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $3,020,000 · HealthST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPI…Methodist Healthcare Foundation: $500,000 · HealthMethodist Healthcare FoundationLe Bonheur Children's Hospital Foundation: $200,000 · Health+1 more: $60,000 · HealthHOUSTON LEVEE COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $1,000,000 · Community ImprovementHOUSTON LEVEE COM…MEMPHIS RIVER PARKS PARTNERSHIP INC: $1,000,000 · Community ImprovementMEMPHIS RIVER PAR…ST GEORGE'S EPISCOPAL CHURCH: $50,000 · OtherUNITED METHODIST SR SVCS DESOTO CO: $50,000 · OtherCHURCH HEAL CENTER: $48,000 · OtherHARWOOD CENTER INC: $40,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $20,000 · OtherFACING HISTORY AND OURSELVES: $20,000 · OtherTHE SALVATION ARMY: $20,000 · OtherMEMPHIS BROOKS MUSEUM OF ART: $10,000 · OtherPALMER HOME FOR CHILDREN: $60,000 · Human ServicesSTREETS MINISTRIES INC: $25,000 · Human Services
Education$6,690,000Health$3,780,000Community Improvement$2,000,000Other$258,000Human Services$85,000

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

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetUNIVERSITY OF MEMPHIS FOUNDATION: $6,670,000 over 8y, 2.7% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $3,020,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetHOUSTON LEVEE COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $1,000,000 over 4y, 20% of budgetMEMPHIS RIVER PARKS PARTNERSHIP INC: $1,000,000 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetLe Bonheur Children's Hospital Foundation: $200,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetSIGHT SAVERS OF AMERICA INC: $60,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetPALMER HOME FOR CHILDREN: $60,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetHARWOOD CENTER INC: $40,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetSTREETS MINISTRIES INC: $25,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetRhodes College: $20,000 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 Urban Child Insti…The Kemmons Wilson Fa…Christian Community F…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
The Urban Child InstituteTN13.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 5 of 5Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Urban Child Institute · The Kemmons Wilson Family Foundation · Christian Community Foundation of Memphis · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Hardin Charitable Trust 44-8802409 funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Hardin Charitable Trust 44-8802409. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%6%13%19%25%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–25%
    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.

    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 18 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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