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Harding Rock Fund

To support the tides foundation.

$39k
Granted FY2023
1
Grants FY2023
1
States reached
$39k
Largest

Read this first · the figures below need context

100% of Harding Rock Fund’s FY2023 grant dollars went to Tides Foundation, not to grantees.

Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2023 names 0 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it.

Organizations named directly on the return

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

01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20202023.

Public Benefit$360kPhilanthropy$199kCivil Rights$175k
02FY2023 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$39,245
Median grant
1
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
TIDES FOUNDATION$39,245
02The need
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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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY20–23) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 63% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%ACCELERATE CHANGE INC: $25k → 16%CENTER FOR COMMON GROUND: $100k → 10%TIDES FOUNDATION: $60k → 10%PRIORITIES USA FOUNDATION: $20k → 14%LABOR NEIGHBOR RESEARCH AND TRAINING CENTER INC: $50k → 23%VOTEORG: $70k → 10%TIDES FOUNDATION: $39k → 10%THE VOTER PARTICIPATION CENTER: $150k → 14%NEW VENTURE FUND: $100k → 14%HOPEWELL FUND: $100k → 14%THE VOTER PARTICIPATION CENTER: $20k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

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.

03Your field

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.

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Democracy Works Inc

The organization's mission is to leverage web-technologies to improve civic engagement and voter education.

Civil Rights
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Voteamerica

The mission of voteamerica is to strengthen united states democracy by increasing voter turnout.

Civil Rights
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Verified Voting Foundation

Strengthen democracy for all voters by promoting the responsible use of technology in all elections.

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Priorities Usa

Priorities usa exists to activate & empower americans. through digital communications investments & state-of-the-art research, we fight to mobilize every american possible on the issues that matter to them while ensuring the democratic…

Civil Rights
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Npr Foundation

The npr foundation ("foundation") is organized and operated exclusively for the benefit of its sole supported organization, national public radio, inc. ("npr inc."). the foundation supports npr inc. through various activities such as…

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Upturn Inc

Upturn advances equity and justice in the design, governance, and use of technology.

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American Policy Ventures Foundation F/K/a American Policy Ventures Inc

American policy ventures foundation is dedicated to reducing polarization and fostering cross-partisan problem-solving on important issues.

Public Benefit
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Register America

The organization is founded for social welfare purposes, including assisting with voter registration and advocating for policies which lead to increased voter registration in the united states.

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Discourse Labs Inc

Discourse labs provides research-backed tools and resources for productive public dialogue. we believe people should have the tools, technology, and skills to engage in productive public dialogue using credible information.

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Indivisible Civics

The mission of indivisible civics is to build civic leadership to empower a grassroots movement that's advancing progressive values and policies. it educates and builds the capacity of grassroots activists with organizing support,…

Civil Rights
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Democracy Forward

See schedule o.this organization seeks to build collective power to defend and advance a vibrant democracy that benefits all people.

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Pew Research Center

Pew Research Center is a nonpartisan "fact tank" that informs the public about the issues, attitudes and trends shaping America and the world. Pew Research Center generates a foundation of facts that enriches the public dialogue and…

Social Science

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Accelerate Change Inc and the most unlike its peers is Labor Neighbor Research & Training Center. 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

9 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
9/9
Grantees still filing
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Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

THE VOTER PARTICIPATION CENTER — $170,000 · Civil RightsTHE VOTER PARTICIPATION CENTERVOTEORG — $70,000 · Civil RightsVOTEORGACCELERATE CHANGE INC — $25,000 · Civil RightsACCELERATE CHANGE INCPRIORITIES USA FOUNDATION — $20,000 · Civil RightsPRIORITIES USA FOUNDATIONHOPEWELL FUND — $100,000 · PhilanthropyHOPEWELL FUNDTIDES FOUNDATION — $99,245 · PhilanthropyTIDES FOUNDATIONCenter for Common Ground — $100,000 · Public BenefitCenter for Comm…NEW VENTURE FUND — $100,000 · EnvironmentNEW VENTURE FUN…Labor Neighbor Research & Training Center — $50,000 · Community Improvement
Civil Rights$285,000Philanthropy$199,245Public Benefit$100,000Environment$100,000Community Improvement$50,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetTHE VOTER PARTICIPATION CENTER — $170,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetHOPEWELL FUND — $100,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCenter for Common Ground — $100,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetNEW VENTURE FUND — $100,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTIDES FOUNDATION — $99,245 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetVOTEORG — $70,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetPRIORITIES USA FOUNDATION — $20,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budget
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.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization Harding Rock Fund 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

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no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get 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 · 0–5%
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    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.

    04Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Harding Rock Fund?

    Find your warmest path to Harding Rock Fund 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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 9 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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