· Private foundation
Harken Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k74 grants · $78k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $56k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $116k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MARINE BIOLOGICAL LAB | $66,238 |
| THE 300 COMMITTEE LAND TRUST | $50,000 |
| WOODS HOLE COMMUNITY ASSOC | $25,000 |
| DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS | $10,500 |
| GDMI | $10,000 |
| YMCA CAPE COD | $10,000 |
| ALIGHT | $6,000 |
| MARINE BIOLOGICAL LAB | $5,000 |
| RAVINIA | $5,000 |
| RENSSELAER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE | $5,000 |
| CARE | $4,500 |
| H FRANK CAREY HIGH SCHOOL | $3,500 |
| ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND | $2,500 |
| HABITAT FOR HUMANITY CAPE COD | $2,500 |
| FALMOUTH SERVICE CENTER | $2,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY20–25, $21k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 61% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +23% since the first grant, against +17% for those funded once.
86 repeat relationships: 53 still active in FY2025, 33 since wound down; 25 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, 77% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $57k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- T3THE 300 COMMITTEE LAND TRUST INC5× · 2020–2025 · $180k · revenue +414%
Lake Forest College4× · 2020–2024 · $110k · revenue +50%- TFTHE FREDERICK GUNN SCHOOL INC6× · 2020–2025 · $31k · revenue +54%
Funded once
- FOFRIENDS OF NOBSKA LIGHT INCone grant, 2021 · $20k · revenue +23%
- PAPUENTE A LA SALUD COMUNITORIOone grant, 2020 · $6k
- TCTHE COLLEGE OF HEALTHCAREone grant, 2021 · $4k
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.
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.
Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.
Project drawdown's mission is to drive meaningful climate action by advancing science-based solutions and strategies. project drawdown's work is focused on three pillars: science - advancing science-based climate solutions and strategies;…
The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.
To engage and catalyze global seafood supply chains in rebuilding depleted fish stocks and reducing the environmental impacts of fishing and fish farming.
Advance science, engineering, and innovation throughout the world for the benefit of all. the world's largest multidisciplinary scientific society and a leading publisher of cutting-edge research through its science family of journals,…
Ocean conservancy unites science, people, and policy to protect our ocean, today and for generations to come.
Friends of the earth strives for a more healthy and just world by defendng the environment and human health while advancing social and economic justice by conducting research and education, transforming the economy so it protects the…
The mission of lowell observatory is to pursue the study of astronomy, especially the study of our solar system and its evolution; to conduct pure research in astronomical phenomena; and to maintain quality public education and outreach…
Rainforest trust saves endangered wildlife and protects our planet by creating rainforest reserves through partnerships, community engagement, and donor support.
Our mission is to break down barriers to als research to find effective treatments. by uniting academia, the pharma and biotech industry, government, venture capital, related nonprofits, and the als community, we aim to overcome the…
Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.
The museum's mission statement is: "to discover, interpret, and disseminate - through scientific research and education - knowledge about human cultures, the natural world, and the universe."
How this is measured
126 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. 126 of the 223 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
- Who funds THE 300 COMMITTEE LAND TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds MARINE BIOLOGICAL LABORATORY ↗
- Who funds Lake Forest College ↗
- Who funds GULF OF MAINE INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds THE FREDERICK GUNN SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds WOODS HOLE COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute ↗
- Who funds ALIGHT ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF NOBSKA LIGHT INC ↗
- Who funds SMILE TRAIN INC ↗
- Who funds FALMOUTH SERVICE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds FALMOUTH HOUSING TRUST ↗
- Who funds NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds MISERICORDIA HOME ↗
- Who funds COOPERATIVE FOR ASSISTANCE AND RELIEF EVERYWHERE INC ↗
- Who funds BUZZARDS BAY COALITION ↗
- Who funds PARTNERS IN HEALTH A NONPROFIT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds Feeding America ↗
- Who funds Save The Children Federation Inc ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FARMLAND TRUST ↗
- Who funds THE UNION OF CONCERNED SCIENTISTS INC ↗
- Who funds ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds DEPAUL UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds CAPE ABILITIES INC ↗
- Who funds WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC ↗
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Harken Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Harken Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Association to Preserve Cape Cod Inc: 100% of income from government
- The Samaritans On Cape Cod: 82% of income from government
- Cape Abilities Inc: 81% of income from government
- Mercy Corps: 47% of income from government
- Buzzards Bay Coalition: 37% of income from government
- Save the Children Federation Inc: 30% of income from government
- Greater Boston Food Bank Inc: 22% of income from government
- Marine Biological Laboratory: 20% of income from government
- Trustees of Boston University: 12% of income from government
- New England Aquarium Corporation: 12% of income from government
- Woodwell Climate Research Center Inc: 11% of income from government
- Pine Street Inn Inc: 11% of income from government
- Hubbard Brook Research Foundation: 6% of income from government
- Gosnold Inc: 5% of income from government
- West Falmouth Library Inc: 2% of income from government
- Cradles to Crayons Inc: 2% of income from government
- The Trustees of Reservations: 2% of income from government
- Special Olympics Massachusetts Inc: 1% of income from government
- Massachusetts Audubon Society Inc: 1% of income from government
- Wgbh Educational Foundation: 1% of income from government
- Rosie's Place Inc: 0% of income from government
- Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation: 0% of income from government
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc: 0% of income from government
- Keshet Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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