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Hardy 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 FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k12 grants · $22k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $36k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS | $13,690 |
| CINCINNATI FIRE MUSEUM | $12,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI-INNOCENCE PROJECT | $10,000 |
| XAVIER UNIVERSITY | $6,000 |
| FIRST STEP HOME | $3,300 |
| AFRICA FIRE MISSION | $2,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,900 |
| FOUNDATION FOR INDIVIDUAL RIGHTS IN EDUCATION | $1,750 |
| INSTITUTE FOR JUSTICE | $1,500 |
| GIVE DIRECTLY | $1,500 |
| LAND TRUST ALLIANCE | $1,000 |
| CINCINNATI PRESERVATION ASSOCIATION | $1,000 |
| FUNERAL SERVICE FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| CHAMCHAMBLISS CENTER FOR CHILDREN | $500 |
| FRIENDS OF MUSIC HALL | $500 |
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 (FY20–24, $14k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +26% since the first grant, against +11% for the ones you funded once.
18 repeat relationships — 14 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1k 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
- CFCINCINNATI FIRE MUSEUM5× · 2020–2024 · $34k · revenue +46%
- CICincinnati Institute of Fine Arts3× · 2020–2022 · $18k · revenue +2%
- XUXAVIER UNIVERSITY3× · 2021–2024 · $13k · revenue +8%
Funded once
- CMCASS - MEALS ON WHEELSone grant, 2020 · $1k
- CYCincinnati Youth Collaborativeone grant, 2023 · $1k · revenue +22%
- CWCINCINNATI WORKSone grant, 2022 · $1k · revenue +11%
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.
Central indiana corporate partnership (cicp) is an alliance of indiana's business and research university leaders coming together to foster long-term prosperity for the region. cicp's mission is to transform the economy of indiana in order…
Cincinnati museum center inspires people of all ages to learn more about our world through science, regional history, and educational, engaging and meaningful experiences.
Engage actively and continuously in medical research, education and training in the practice of medicine in conjunction with the department of family medicine of the indiana university school of medicine and indiana university…
Empowering financial professionals and consumers through world-class advocacy and education.
Finance impacts everyone. as a socially relevant organization, the museum of american finance seeks to improve understanding of the influence of financial institutions and capital markets on the u.s. and global economies, and on…
The common application is a not-for-profit membership organization of over 1,100 colleges and universities across the globe committed to access, equity, and integrity in the college admission process. every year, over 1.5 million students…
Preservation of civil liberties through litigation and public education.
The cleveland institute of music's mission is to empower the world's most talented classical music students to fulfill their dreams and potential.
As a trusted and connected partner, we inspire generous people to invest in a more equitable and vibrant region now and for generations to come.
Through the power of art, we contribute to a more vibrant cincinnati by inspiring its people and connecting our communities.
The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.
The ohio state bar association (the "association") is an unincorporated voluntary non-profit organization. the association was formed to promote justice and advance the interests of the legal profession.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Naacp Legal Defense & Educ Fund Inc and the most unlike its peers is Africa Fire Mission. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
17 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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 17 of the 25 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 CINCINNATI FIRE MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds Cincinnati Institute of Fine Arts ↗
- Who funds XAVIER UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds THE FIRST STEP HOME INC ↗
- Who funds LA SOUPE INC ↗
- Who funds AFRICA FIRE MISSION ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATION FOR INDIVIDUAL RIGHTS AND EXPRESSION INC ↗
- Who funds CINCINNATI PRESERVATION ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds GIVEDIRECTLY INC ↗
- Who funds INSTITUTE FOR JUSTICE ↗
- Who funds FUNERAL SERVICE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF MUSIC HALL ↗
- Who funds CHAMBLISS CENTER FOR CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds Cincinnati Youth Collaborative ↗
- Who funds CINCINNATI WORKS ↗
- Who funds LAND TRUST ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds NAACP LEGAL DEFENSE & EDUC FUND 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: The Greater Cincinnati Foundation · Ge Aerospace Foundation · Ed & Joann Hubert Family Foundation Inc · Marge & Charles J Schott Foundation · Farmer Family Foundation · Carol Ann and Ralph V Haile Jr Foundation · Johnson Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
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 Hardy 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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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