Ohio · Private foundation
Hardy Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $58k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 15
- Grants FY2024
- 16
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 13%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $1,750
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $13,690
- Organizations funded a year
- 15 to 18
- FY2020 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 8
- Total assets, FY2024
- $697k
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 13% of the organizations Hardy Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 4% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 15 | $58k | 7% |
| FY2023 | 16 | $48k | 13% |
| FY2022 | 18 | $39k | 6% |
| FY2021 | 17 | $42k | 35% |
| FY2020 | 15 | $25k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 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, FY2020 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cincinnati Fire Museum | $33,723 | 5 | 5% |
| Cincinnati Institute of Fine Arts | $17,600 | 3 | 0% |
| Xavier University | $13,000 | 3 | 0% |
| The First Step Home Inc | $12,550 | 5 | 0% |
| La Soupe Inc | $10,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Africa Fire Mission | $7,300 | 5 | 1% |
| Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression Inc | $5,500 | 4 | 0% |
| Givedirectly Inc | $5,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Cincinnati Preservation Association | $5,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Institute for Justice | $4,750 | 4 | 0% |
Show all 17 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cincinnati Fire Museum | $33,723 | 5 | 5% |
| Cincinnati Institute of Fine Arts | $17,600 | 3 | 0% |
| Xavier University | $13,000 | 3 | 0% |
| The First Step Home Inc | $12,550 | 5 | 0% |
| La Soupe Inc | $10,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Africa Fire Mission | $7,300 | 5 | 1% |
| Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression Inc | $5,500 | 4 | 0% |
| Givedirectly Inc | $5,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Cincinnati Preservation Association | $5,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Institute for Justice | $4,750 | 4 | 0% |
| Funeral Service Foundation Inc | $4,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Chambliss Center for Children | $2,500 | 5 | 0% |
| Friends of Music Hall | $2,500 | 5 | 0% |
| Cincinnati Youth Collaborative | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Land Trust Alliance Inc | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Cincinnati Works | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
| NAACP Legal Defense & Educ Fund Inc | $800 | 1 | 0% |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 8 recipients with no EIN on record ($84k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Hardy 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: 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
How this is measured
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About Hardy Foundation
- How much does Hardy Foundation give?
- Hardy Foundation reported 15 grants totaling $57,640 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 15 and 18 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2023.
- What does Hardy Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (19%), Public Safety & Disaster (15%), Crime & Legal (11%).
- Who are Hardy Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2024: Cincinnati Fire Museum ($34k), Cincinnati Institute of Fine Arts ($18k), Xavier University ($13k).
- Does Hardy Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 13% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Hardy Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Hardy Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Greater Cincinnati Foundation, Ge Aerospace Foundation, Ed & Joann Hubert Family Foundation Inc.
- Where is Hardy Foundation based?
- Hardy Foundation is based in OH.
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