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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.

$513k
Granted FY2025still arriving
61
Grants FY2025still arriving
11
States reached
$80k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.

Education$534kHealth$376kHousing & Shelter$251kFood & Nutrition$237kRecreation & Sports$64kCrime & Legal$55kHuman Services$41kEnvironment$40kOther$0
02FY2025 · 61 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k42 grants · $107k
  • $10k–50k16 grants · $227k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $180k
$3,200
Median grant
11
States reached
$9.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
LONG ISLAND COALITION FOR THE HOMELESS$80,000
OTTERBEIN UNIVERSITY$50,000
LONG ISLAND CARES INC$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
SAVE THE SOUND INC$10,000
ST CATHERINES SCHOOL FOUNDATION$10,000
MEMORIAL SLOAN-KETTERING CANCER CENTER The Societ$10,000
LONG ISLAND CARES INC$10,000
DENISON UNIVERSITY$10,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its 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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%SHALOM FARMS: $5k → 9%FILLING IN THE BLANKS INC: $2k → 9%LITTLE HANDS VIRGINIA INC: $1k → 9%BUNDLES OF JOY NEW YORK INC: $10k → 9%THE HOSPICE OF DAYTON INC: $3k → 14%BEYOND BOUNDARIES: $15k → 22%BEYOND BOUNDARIES: $5k → 22%BEYOND BOUNDARIES: $3k → 22%BEYOND BOUNDARIES: $20k → 22%LONG ISLAND CARES INC: $50k → 7%BEYOND BOUNDARIES: $20k → 22%LONG ISLAND CARES INC: $50k → 7%LONG ISLAND CARES INC: $30k → 7%LONG ISLAND CARES INC: $25k → 7%LONG ISLAND CARES INC: $15k → 7%LONG ISLAND CARES INC: $10k → 7%LONG ISLAND CARES INC: $10k → 7%LONG ISLAND CARES INC: $10k → 7%LONG ISLAND CARES INC: $10k → 7%CHRISTMAS MAGIC INC: $2k → 7%VETERANS OUT OF THE ROUGH INC: $2k → 7%VETERANS OUT OF THE ROUGH INC: $1k → 7%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

IL
NY
MA
OR
IA
IN
OH
NJ
CT
RI
CA
CO
MO
VA
MD
TN
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
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Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 6% of Hargis Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

Hargis Family Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 2.6% directed abroad (not shown)
How this is measured
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 funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

88%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.5M · 29 repeat orgs$198k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

29
26

Total granted

$1.5M
$133k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+12%
+13%

Still filing today

90%
88%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $65k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’21’22’23’24’25
EducationHealthHuman ServicesAnimalsArts & CultureYouth DevelopmentOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • OU
    Otterbein University
    5× · 2021–2025 · $260k · revenue +5%
  • LI
    LONG ISLAND COALITION FOR THE HOMELESS INC
    4× · 2022–2025 · $250k · revenue +21%
  • LI
    Long Island Cares Inc
    4× · 2022–2025 · $210k · revenue +49%

Funded once

  • TW
    TOGETHER WE RISEgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $25k · revenue +27%
  • MS
    MEMORIAL SLOAN-KETTERING CANCER CENTER
    one grant, 2023 · $23k
  • BO
    BUNDLES OF JOY NEW YORK INC
    one grant, 2024 · $10k · revenue +7%
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
University of New Haven

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…

Education
2
Northeast College of Health Sciences

Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.

Education
3
Stony Brook Ophthalmology University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
4
Stony Brook Internists University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
5
Long Island Community Hospital At Nyu Langone Health

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…

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6
University Associates in Obstetrics and Gynecology University Faculty Pract ice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
7
United States Naval Institute

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.

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8
Stony Brook Surgical Associates University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
9
Stony Brook Childrens Services University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
10
Fordham University

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.

Education
11
Neurology Associates of Stony Brook University Faculty Practice Corp

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
12
Seton Hall University

Seton hall university is a catholic institution of higher education

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The New Canaan Country School Incorporated; 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.
05the grantee network

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

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
10
Early backer (in before they grew)
70/70
Grantees still filing
40/70
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Otterbein University: $260,000 · EducationOtterbein UniversityBLAIR ACADEMY: $150,000 · EducationBLAIR ACADEMYMEDICAL COLLEGE OF VA FOUNDATION: $118,499 · EducationMEDICAL COLLEGE OF VA FOUNDATIONPEO Scholar Awards: $26,000 · EducationBILLION OYSTER PROJECT INC: $25,000 · EducationST CATHERINE'S SCHOOL FOUNDATION: $22,500 · Education+12 more: $57,200 · Education+12 moreLONG ISLAND COALITION FOR THE HOMELESS INC: $250,000 · OtherLONG ISLAND COALITION FOR THE …MEMORIAL SLOAN-KETTERING CANCER CENTER: $22,500 · OtherAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY: $21,000 · OtherMEMORIAL SLOAN-KETTERING CANCER CENTER The Societ: $20,000 · OtherNEW CANAAN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $21,000 · Other+30 more: $124,050 · Other+30 moreLong Island Cares Inc: $210,000 · Human ServicesLong Island Cares I…BEYOND BOUNDARIES: $63,200 · Human ServicesBEYOND BOUNDARIESBUNDLES OF JOY NEW YORK INC: $10,000 · Human Services+6 more: $15,500 · Human ServicesALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC: $63,500 · HealthALZHEIMER'S…The Stamford Hospital: $50,000 · HealthThe Stamfor…HYDROCEPHALUS ASSOCIATION: $30,000 · HealthHYDROCEPHAL…BRIDGEPORT HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 · HealthBRIDGEPORT …MAKING HEADWAY FOUNDATION INC: $7,000 · Health+5 more: $17,000 · Health+5 moreSANDY HOOK PROMISE FOUNDATION: $50,000 · Crime & LegalEVERYTOWN FOR GUN SAFETY SUPPORT FUND INC: $5,000 · Crime & LegalMATHER HOMESTEAD FOUNDATION: $13,000 · Arts & CultureFUND FOR ST PETERS BUILDINGS INC: $10,000 · Arts & CultureMYSTIC SEAPORT MUSEUM INC: $5,000 · Arts & CultureSOUTHWEST OHIO PHILHARMONIC INC: $1,000 · Arts & CultureTOGETHER WE RISE: $25,000 · Recreation & SportsNEW CANAAN MOUNTED TROOP INC: $3,000 · Recreation & Sports
Education$659,199Other$458,550Human Services$298,700Health$177,500Crime & Legal$55,000Arts & Culture$29,000Recreation & Sports$28,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetOtterbein University: $260,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetLONG ISLAND COALITION FOR THE HOMELESS INC: $250,000 over 4y, 2.1% of budgetLong Island Cares Inc: $210,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetBLAIR ACADEMY: $150,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetMEDICAL COLLEGE OF VA FOUNDATION: $118,499 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC: $63,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBEYOND BOUNDARIES: $63,200 over 3y, 4.8% of budgetSANDY HOOK PROMISE FOUNDATION: $50,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetThe Stamford Hospital: $50,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetHYDROCEPHALUS ASSOCIATION: $30,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetPEO Scholar Awards: $26,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetTOGETHER WE RISE: $25,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetBILLION OYSTER PROJECT INC: $25,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetST CATHERINE'S SCHOOL FOUNDATION: $22,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetNEW CANAAN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $21,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetDENISON UNIVERSITY: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMATHER HOMESTEAD FOUNDATION: $13,000 over 4y, 1.2% of budgetAMERICA'S VETDOGS THE VETERANS K-9 CORPS INC: $12,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetOHIO WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY: $11,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFIRST PRESBYTARIAN NURSERY SCHOOL: $11,200 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetPEO Program for Continuing Education: $11,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetBUNDLES OF JOY NEW YORK INC: $10,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetBRIDGEPORT HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCHURCH WORLD SERVICE INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSAVE THE SOUND: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetEDWARDS CENTER INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFUND FOR ST PETERS BUILDINGS INC: $10,000 over 2y, 4.6% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE FARM NORTHPORT INC: $9,000 over 2y, 5.8% of budgetMAKING HEADWAY FOUNDATION INC: $7,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetNEW CANAAN LAND CONSERVATION TRUST INC: $5,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetSHALOM FARMSINC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetJOSLIN DIABETES CENTER INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDIABETES YOUTH FOUNDATION OF INDIANA: $5,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetCIRCLE OF CARE FOR FAMILIES OF CHILDREN WITH CANCER INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetMYSTIC SEAPORT MUSEUM INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVETERANS OUT OF THE ROUGH INC: $3,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetLAB RESCUE OF GREATER RICHMOND: $3,000 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetNEW CANAAN MOUNTED TROOP INC: $3,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetBOLLING HAXALL HOUSE FOUNDATION: $3,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetHOSPICE OF DAYTON INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSTREETWISE PARTNERS INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSociety for the Improvement of Conditions for Stray Animals: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMINDS MATTER OF NYC INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCYRENIUS H BOOTH LIBRARY: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFRIENDS ACADEMY: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE NEW CANAAN COUNTRY SCHOOL INCORPORATED: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGimme Shelter Animal Rescue Inc: $2,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetNORTHPORT CAT RESCUE ASSOCIATION INC: $2,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

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.

The Goldman Sachs Cha…PEO Sisterhood AZ Sta…PEO Sisterhood MI Sta…PEO Sisterhood AR Sta…PEO Sisterhood WA Sta…PEO Sisterhood FL Sta…PEO Sisterhood PA Sta…PEO Sisterhood IL Sta…PEO Sisterhood CA Sta…PEO Sisterhood NV Sta…PEO Sisterhood SD Sta…PEO Sisterhood MT Sta…
The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift FundNY16.8× affinity8 shared granteesties to 0 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Hargis Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Hargis Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 80%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 4%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
8get no government money at all
9report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to Hargis Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Hargis Family Foundation 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 80 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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