Illinois · Private foundation
Harken Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $250k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 80
- Grants FY2025
- 79
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 39%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $500
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $66,238
- Organizations funded a year
- 49 to 79
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 18
- Total assets, FY2025
- $672k
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 39% of the organizations Harken Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 6% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $15k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 78 | $250k | 32% |
| FY2024 | 79 | $242k | 39% |
| FY2023 | 49 | $273k | 37% |
| FY2022 | 76 | $294k | 51% |
| FY2021 | 70 | $273k | 71% |
| FY2020 | 57 | $108k | 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 FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| The 300 Committee Land Trust Inc | $180,333 | 5 | 4% |
| Marine Biological Laboratory | $145,950 | 3 | 0% |
| Lake Forest College | $109,500 | 4 | 0% |
| Gulf of Maine Institute Inc | $69,091 | 5 | 49% |
| The Frederick Gunn School Inc | $30,500 | 6 | 0% |
| Woods Hole Community Association Inc | $25,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Medecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc | $24,500 | 5 | 0% |
| Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute | $24,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Alight | $21,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Friends of Nobska Light Inc | $20,000 | 1 | 9% |
Show all 127 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 93 recipients with no EIN on record ($601k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Harken Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 118 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
Tap a dot to name the grantee.
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: Cape Cod Foundation Inc · Stanley W Watson Foundation · Mutual Bancorp Foundation Inc Fka Cape Cod 5 Foundation Inc · Martha's Vineyard Bank Charitable Foundation Inc · Cape Cod Five Cents Savings Bank Charitable Foundation Trust · Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago · Josephine and Louise Crane Foundation · Eastern Bank Foundation · George H Lusk Trust · Esther Simon 1952 Charitable Trust Xxxxx8006 · Highland Park Community Foundation · Hermann Foundation Inc
How this is measured
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About Harken Foundation
- How much does Harken Foundation give?
- Harken Foundation reported 80 grants totaling $250,080 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 49 and 79 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does Harken Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Science & Tech (26%), Environment (25%), Education (14%).
- Who are Harken Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: The 300 Committee Land Trust Inc ($180k), Marine Biological Laboratory ($146k), Lake Forest College ($110k).
- Does Harken Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 39% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Harken Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Harken Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Cape Cod Foundation Inc, Stanley W Watson Foundation, Mutual Bancorp Foundation Inc Fka Cape Cod 5 Foundation Inc.
- Where is Harken Foundation based?
- Harken Foundation is based in IL.
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