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Harkey Family Foundation Inc at a glance

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Harkey Family Foundation Inc

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$31k
Granted FY2024still arriving
4
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$15k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Education$2.1MHuman Services$125kYouth Development$62kReligion$25kRecreation & Sports$16kPhilanthropy$11kArts & Culture$11kSocial Science$10kOther$0
02FY2024 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k2 grants · $6k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $25k
$10,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$5.8M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CIRCLE 10 COUNCIL - BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA$15,000
STANFORD UNIVERSITY$10,000
STATE FAIR OF TEXAS$5,000
BROWNWOOD LYRIC THEATRE$1,000
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:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY20–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 86% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST: $11k → 7%STANFORD UNIVERSITY: $20k → 8%ALL-STARS PROJECT INC: $1k → 17%CENTRAL TEXAS JUNIOR GOLF ASSOCIATION: $500 → 10%UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS LAW SCHOOL FOUNDATION: $1k → 10%STATE FAIR OF TEXAS: $5k → 14%BROWNWOOD EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION: $10k → 17%MOUNTAIN RESCUE ASPEN: $1k → 6%STANFORD UNIIVERSITY: $10k → 8%UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SYSTEM: $5k → 10%DALLAS 24-HOUR CLUB: $2k → 14%BROWNWOOD LYRIC THEATRE: $1k → 17%STANFORD UNIVERSITY: $10k → 8%UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS CHANCELLOR'S COUNCIL: $3k → 10%CIRCLE 10 COUNCIL - BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA: $16k → 14%CIRCLE 10 COUNCIL - BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA: $15k → 14%CIRCLE 10 COUNCIL - BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA: $15k → 14%CIRCLE 10 COUNCIL - BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA: $15k → 14%SMU STUDENT FOUNDATION: $3k → 14%BUSH CENTER: $120k → 14%GEORGE W BUSH PRESIDENTIAL CENTER: $50k → 14%HIGHLAND PARK UNITED METHODIST CHURCH: $25k → 14%GEORGE W BUSH PRESIDENTIAL CENTER: $20k → 14%SOUTHERN METHODIST UNIVERSITY: $3k → 14%SOUTHERN METHODIST UNIVERSITY: $3k → 14%RETINA FOUNDATION OF THE SOUTHWEST: $5k → 14%CRYSTAL CHARITY BALL: $5k → 14%DALLAS MUSEUM OF ART: $10k → 14%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.
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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

91%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.2M · 5 repeat orgs$201k to everyone else

5 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

5
15

Total granted

$2.2M
$200k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+18%
+68%

Still filing today

60%
53%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24
EducationArts & CulturePhilanthropyRecreation & SportsPublic Safety & DisasterHealthOther
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

  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN
    4× · 2020–2023 · $2.0M
  • TG
    THE GEORGE W BUSH FOUNDATION
    2× · 2020–2021 · $70k · revenue -15%
  • C1
    CIRCLE 10 COUNCIL - BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA
    4× · 2021–2024 · $61k

Funded once

  • BC
    BUSH CENTER
    one grant, 2023 · $120k
  • HP
    HIGHLAND PARK UNITED METHODIST CHURCH
    one grant, 2020 · $25k
  • BE
    BROWNWOOD EDUCATION FOUNDATION INCgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue +64%
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
William Marsh Rice University

As a leading research university with a distinctive commitment to undergraduate education, Rice University aspires to path breaking research, unsurpassed teaching, and contributions to the betterment of our world. It seeks to fulfill this…

Education
2
The University of TexasTexas a&M Investment Management Company

To generate superior long-term investment returns to support The University of Texas and Texas A&M University systems as they provide world-class teaching, push the boundaries of discovery, and achieve excellence in patient healthcare for…

Education
3
Dallas College Foundation Inc

Dallas college foundation enhances the level of achievement and excellence of dallas college by providing scholarships, eliminating barriers that prevent students from attending and graduating, and supporting innovation.

Education
4
Vanderbilt University

See Disclosure Above.

Education
5
Kimbell Art Foundation
Arts & Culture
6
Trinity University

Trinity university is an independent co-educational university whose mission is excellence in the interrelated areas of teaching, research and services.

Education
7
The Trustees of Princeton University

Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…

Education
8
University of Dallas

The university of dallas is dedicated to the pursuit of wisdom, of truth, and of virtue as the proper and primary ends of education. the university seeks to educate its students so they may develop the intellectual and moral virtues,…

Education
9
Texas a&M Foundation

The texas a&m foundation builds a brighter future for texas a&m university, one relationship at a time, by uniting generosity and vision to raise support and manage endowed gifts.

Education
10
University of Denver

The university of denver (du) is a higher educational institution, providing both undergraduate and graduate degrees - the mission of the university of denver is to promote learning by engaging with students (continued on schedule o)in…

Education
11
Texas Bar Foundation

The Foundation solicits charitable contributions and provides funding to enhance the rule of law and the system of justice in Texas, especially for programs that relate to the administration of justice; ethics in the legal profession;…

Crime & Legal
12
Texas a&M Research Foundation

To facilitate research and development within the texas a&m university system and selected other entities.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is National Philanthropic Trust; the most unlike its peers is State Fair of Texas. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

13 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. 13 of the 23 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
13/13
Grantees still filing
12/13
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN: $2,007,500 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTINBUSH CENTER: $120,000 · OtherBUSH CENTER+9 more: $109,000 · OtherTHE GEORGE W BUSH FOUNDATION: $70,000 · EducationTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $30,000 · EducationSouthern Methodist University: $9,000 · Education+1 more: $1,000 · EducationNATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST: $11,000 · PhilanthropyBROWNWOOD EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 · PhilanthropyTHE CRYSTAL CHARITY BALL: $5,000 · PhilanthropySTATE FAIR OF TEXAS: $15,450 · Recreation & SportsDallas Museum of Art: $9,776 · Arts & CultureALL STARS PROJECT INC: $1,000 · Arts & CultureRETINA FOUNDATION OF THE SOUTHWEST: $5,000 · HealthMountain Rescue Aspen Inc: $1,000 · Public Safety & Disaster
Other$2,236,500Education$110,000Philanthropy$26,000Recreation & Sports$15,450Arts & Culture$10,776Health$5,000Public Safety & Disaster$1,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTHE GEORGE W BUSH FOUNDATION: $70,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $30,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSTATE FAIR OF TEXAS: $15,450 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST: $11,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBROWNWOOD EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 over 1y, 8.5% of budgetDallas Museum of Art: $9,776 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSouthern Methodist University: $9,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CRYSTAL CHARITY BALL: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetRETINA FOUNDATION OF THE SOUTHWEST: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetDALLAS 24 HOUR CLUB INC: $1,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMountain Rescue Aspen Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetThe University of Texas Law School Foundation: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetALL STARS PROJECT INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

National Philanthropi…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
National Philanthropic TrustPA10.7× affinity5 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 Harkey Family Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Harkey Family Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
    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.

    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 23 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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