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Hargis Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2021–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k42 grants · $107k
- $10k–50k16 grants · $227k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $180k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| LONG ISLAND COALITION FOR THE HOMELESS | $80,000 |
| LONG ISLAND CARES INC | $50,000 |
| OTTERBEIN UNIVERSITY | $50,000 |
| MEDICAL COLLEGE OF VIRGINIA FOUNDATION | $33,333 |
| ALZHEIMERS DISEASE AND RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATI | $23,500 |
| SANDY HOOK PROMISE FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| MEDICAL COLLEGE OF VIRGINIA FOUNDATION | $18,500 |
| BEYOND BOUNDARIES | $15,200 |
| BLAIR ACADEMY | $15,000 |
| NEW CANAAN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC | $11,000 |
| MEMORIAL SLOAN-KETTERING CANCER CENTER The Societ | $10,000 |
| CHURCH WORLD SERVICE INC | $10,000 |
| LONG ISLAND CARES INC | $10,000 |
| LONG ISLAND CARES INC | $10,000 |
| HYDROCEPHALUS ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED | $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 (FY22–25, $299k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 28% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 6% of Hargis Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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 +12% since the first grant, against +10% for the ones you funded once.
29 repeat relationships — 27 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down; 24 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $65k 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
- OUOtterbein University5× · 2021–2025 · $260k · revenue +5%
- LILONG ISLAND COALITION FOR THE HOMELESS INC4× · 2022–2025 · $250k · revenue +21%
- LILong Island Cares Inc4× · 2022–2025 · $210k · revenue +49%
Funded once
- TWTOGETHER WE RISEgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $25k · revenue +27%
- MSMEMORIAL SLOAN-KETTERING CANCER CENTERone grant, 2023 · $23k
- BOBUNDLES OF JOY NEW YORK INCone grant, 2024 · $10k · revenue +7%
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 University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
The goals and objectives of the corporation are as follows:(a) to operate and maintain a nonsectarian, general hospital at one or more locations for the furnishing of inpatient, ambulatory, restorative, preventative and emergency medical…
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Fordham university, the jesuit university of new york, is committed to the discovery of wisdom and the transmission of learning, through research and through education of the highest quality. for more information, see schedule o.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Seton hall university is a catholic institution of higher education
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The New Canaan Country School Incorporated and the most unlike its peers is Lab Rescue of Greater Richmond. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 36 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) — 1% 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.
70 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. 70 of the 80 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 Otterbein University ↗
- Who funds LONG ISLAND COALITION FOR THE HOMELESS INC ↗
- Who funds Long Island Cares Inc ↗
- Who funds BLAIR ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds MEDICAL COLLEGE OF VA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds BEYOND BOUNDARIES ↗
- Who funds SANDY HOOK PROMISE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds The Stamford Hospital ↗
- Who funds HYDROCEPHALUS ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds PEO Scholar Awards ↗
- Who funds TOGETHER WE RISE ↗
- Who funds BILLION OYSTER PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds ST CATHERINE'S SCHOOL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NEW CANAAN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds DENISON UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds MATHER HOMESTEAD FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds AMERICA'S VETDOGS THE VETERANS K-9 CORPS INC ↗
- Who funds OHIO WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds FIRST PRESBYTARIAN NURSERY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds PEO Program for Continuing Education ↗
- Who funds BUNDLES OF JOY NEW YORK INC ↗
- Who funds CHURCH WORLD SERVICE INC ↗
- Who funds FUND FOR ST PETERS BUILDINGS INC ↗
- Who funds EDWARDS CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds BRIDGEPORT HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SAVE THE SOUND ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE FARM NORTHPORT INC ↗
- Who funds MAKING HEADWAY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds EVERYTOWN FOR GUN SAFETY SUPPORT FUND INC ↗
- Who funds CIRCLE OF CARE FOR FAMILIES OF CHILDREN WITH CANCER INC ↗
- Who funds MYSTIC SEAPORT MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds DIABETES YOUTH FOUNDATION OF INDIANA ↗
- Who funds EPISCOPAL CHARITIES OF THE DIOCESE OF NEW YORK ↗
- Who funds JOSLIN DIABETES CENTER 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 Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · PEO Sisterhood AZ State Chapter · PEO Sisterhood MI State Chapter · PEO Sisterhood AR State Chapter · PEO Sisterhood WA State Chapter · PEO Sisterhood FL State Chapter · PEO Sisterhood PA State Chapter · PEO Sisterhood IL State Chapter · PEO Sisterhood CA State Chapter · PEO Sisterhood NV State Chapter · PEO Sisterhood SD State Chapter · PEO Sisterhood MT State Chapter
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 Hargis Family 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.
- Edwards Center Inc — 79% of income from government
- Save the Sound — 37% of income from government
- Joslin Diabetes Center Inc — 35% of income from government
- Mystic Seaport Museum Inc — 5% of income from government
- Mather Homestead Foundation — 4% of income from government
- Sandy Hook Promise Foundation — 0% of income from government
- Cyrenius H Booth Library — 0% of income from government
- The Stamford Hospital — 0% of income from government
- New Canaan Mounted Troop Inc — 0% of income from government
- Blair Academy — 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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