· Private foundation
Harding Educational and Charitable Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k21 grants · $65k
- $10k–50k22 grants · $333k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| GREATER BOSTON FOOD BANK | $25,000 |
| BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF BOSTON | $25,000 |
| BOSTON HARBOR NOW | $25,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $20,000 |
| CHILDRENS HOSPITAL BOSTON | $20,000 |
| DANA FARBER CANCER INSTITUTE INC | $20,000 |
| SCIENCE CLUB FOR GIRLS | $20,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $15,000 |
| THE TRUSTEES OF RESERVATIONS | $15,000 |
| LANDMARK ON MAIN STREET INC | $15,000 |
| PINE STREET INN | $15,000 |
| MONMOUTH COUNTY SPCA (MCSPCA) | $15,000 |
| ADIRONDACK COUNCIL | $12,000 |
| A PLACE FOR ACE | $10,797 |
| ROSIE'S PLACE | $10,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY18–25, $235k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 60% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
50 repeat relationships — 34 still active in FY2025, 16 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $64k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
Feeding America6× · 2018–2023 · $185k · revenue +77%
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc8× · 2018–2025 · $165k · revenue +98%- CHChildren's Hospital Corporation8× · 2018–2025 · $158k · revenue +57%
Funded once
- SJST JUDES HOSPITAL FOR CHILDRENone grant, 2022 · $10k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
The museum's mission statement is: "to discover, interpret, and disseminate - through scientific research and education - knowledge about human cultures, the natural world, and the universe."
The wildlands trust works throughout southeastern massachusetts to conserve and permanently protect native habitats, farmland, and lands of high ecologic and scenic value that serve to keep our communities healthy and our residents…
The new york botanical garden is a museum of plants and a scientific research center devoted to the study of plants and their uses. it is the garden's mission to improve public understanding of the natural world, horticulture, and the…
The governors island corporation, doing business as the trust for governors island, is the 501(c)(3) not-for-profit organization created by the city of new york and charged with the planning, redevelopment and ongoing operations of 150…
It is the mission of the seacoast science center to spark curiosity, enhance understanding, and inspire conservation of our blue planet. the center's programming and exhibits encourage visitors and other program participants to recognize…
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
Western new england university, a comprehensive private institution with a tradition of excellence in teaching and scholarship and a commitment to service, awards undergraduate, master's, and doctoral degrees in various departments from…
The wildlife society's mission is to inspire, empower, and enable wildlife professionals to sustain wildlife populations and habitats through science-based management and conservation.
Dutchess land conservancy (dlc) is dedicated to preserving the scenic, agricultural and environmental resources of dutchess county, new york, and the surrounding area. dlc, as a private non-profit land conservation organization, carries…
Operate a state-of-the-art, world-class genomic research center that creates and uses advanced genomics to understand the genetic basis of disease. for more information, see schedule o.
Wwf's mission is to conserve nature and reduce the most pressing threats to the diversity of life on earth. (continued on schedule o)
Our mission is to spark people's curiosity to explore, steward, and find peace and joy in nature. in service to this, norman bird sanctuary inspires, builds, and engages a community of stewards who preserve, protect, enjoy, and learn from…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Trustees of Reservations and the most unlike its peers is Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 48 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
41 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 41 of the 60 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds Feeding America ↗
- Who funds Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc ↗
- Who funds Children's Hospital Corporation ↗
- Who funds LANDMARK ON MAIN STREET INC ↗
- Who funds PINE STREET INN INC ↗
- Who funds ROSIE'S PLACE INC ↗
- Who funds PORT WASHINGTON CHILDREN'S CENTER ↗
- Who funds FISHER HOUSE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE WILDERNESS SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds MASSACHUSETTS AUDUBON SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds SHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL WILDLIFE FEDERATION ↗
- Who funds ENOUGH ABUSE INC ↗
- Who funds BOSTON HARBOR NOW INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF BOSTON INC ↗
- Who funds THE ADIRONDACK COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds THE COMMUNITY CHEST OF PORT WASHINGTON NY INC ↗
- Who funds SCIENCE CLUB FOR GIRLS INC ↗
- Who funds THE TRUSTEES OF RESERVATIONS ↗
- Who funds THE FAY SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds PORT WASHINGTON YOUTH COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds ADIRONDACK EXPLORER INC ↗
- Who funds MONMOUTH COUNTY SPCA ↗
- Who funds GRASSROOTS ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION INC ↗
- Who funds ANDREW MCMORRIS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds NORTH SHORE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ↗
- Who funds Child Care Council of Nassau Inc ↗
- Who funds VAGABOND SCHOOL OF THE DRAMA INC ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Peter & Jeri Dejana Foundation · Ge Aerospace Foundation · The Karen and Paul Schaefer Foundation · The Pamela and Laurence Tarica Foundation · Cummings Foundation Grants Inc (Fka Oneworld Boston Inc) · The New York Community Trust · T Rowe Price Program for Charitable Giving Inc · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Charities Aid Foundation America · Duke Energy Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Harding Educational and Charitable Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Boston Harbor Now Inc — 45% of income from government
- Pine Street Inn Inc — 11% of income from government
- Children's Hospital Corporation — 10% of income from government
- Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc — 7% of income from government
- Citysprouts Inc — 6% of income from government
- Boys & Girls Clubs of Boston Inc — 2% of income from government
- The Trustees of Reservations — 2% of income from government
- Massachusetts Audubon Society Inc — 1% of income from government
- Rosie's Place Inc — 0% of income from government
- Shriners Hospitals for Children — 0% of income from government
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.
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