Illinois · Private foundation
Harding Educational and Charitable Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $398k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 43
- Grants FY2025
- 38
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 11%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $25,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 34 to 40
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 9
- Total assets, FY2025
- $4.4M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 11% of the organizations Harding Educational and Charitable Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 7% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $23k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 43 | $398k | 21% |
| FY2024 | 38 | $336k | 11% |
| FY2023 | 40 | $344k | 13% |
| FY2022 | 39 | $362k | 5% |
| FY2021 | 39 | $309k | 10% |
| FY2020 | 36 | $294k | 0% |
| FY2019 | 36 | $283k | 6% |
| FY2018 | 34 | $279k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2018 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Feeding America | $185,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc | $165,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Children's Hospital Corporation | $158,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Landmark on Main Street Inc | $120,000 | 8 | 2% |
| Pine Street Inn Inc | $120,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Rosie's Place Inc | $110,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Port Washington Children's Center | $80,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Fisher House Foundation Inc | $76,000 | 7 | 0% |
| The Wilderness Society | $75,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Massachusetts Audubon Society Inc | $70,000 | 7 | 0% |
Show all 43 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 17 recipients with no EIN on record ($463k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Harding Educational and Charitable Foundation supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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.
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
How this is measured
Compare Harding Educational and Charitable Foundation with peer funders
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About Harding Educational and Charitable Foundation
- How much does Harding Educational and Charitable Foundation give?
- Harding Educational and Charitable Foundation reported 43 grants totaling $398,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 34 and 40 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Harding Educational and Charitable Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (19%), Environment (13%), Youth Development (10%).
- Who are Harding Educational and Charitable Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2018 to FY2025: Feeding America ($185k), Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc ($165k), Children's Hospital Corporation ($158k).
- Does Harding Educational and Charitable Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 11% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Harding Educational and Charitable Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Harding Educational and Charitable Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Peter & Jeri Dejana Foundation, Ge Aerospace Foundation, The Karen and Paul Schaefer Foundation.
- Where is Harding Educational and Charitable Foundation based?
- Harding Educational and Charitable Foundation is based in IL.
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