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Harlan Foundation

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.

$26k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
18
Grants FY2024
19
Organizations funded FY2023
5%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$1,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$5,500
Organizations funded a year
4 to 19
FY2018 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
5
Total assets, FY2024
$274k
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 5% of the organizations Harlan Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 7% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’20’21’22’23
AnimalsHuman ServicesOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving18$26k17%
FY202319$36k5%
FY20224$10k50%
FY202117$31k24%
FY202013$16k8%
FY201918$15k22%
FY201818$20kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.

Animals$52kYouth Development$28kInternational$25kFood & Nutrition$23kReligion$8kHuman Services$8kRecreation & Sports$6kPhilanthropy$3kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2018 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Hopewell Humane Society Inc$21,78269%
Hopewell Food Pantry$11,70060%
Medecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc$10,00060%
Lalmba Association$8,00060%
Sixth Mt Zion Baptist Church$7,0006n/a
Cooperative for Assistance and Relief Everywhere Inc$6,90060%
New Hope Rescue$6,0006n/a
Feed More Inc$5,90060%
Chesterfield Food Bank Outreach Center$5,00010%
The James House InterventionPrevention Services Inc$3,00020%
Show all 16 grantees

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 17 recipients with no EIN on record ($63k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Harlan Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetHopewell Humane Society Inc: $21,782 over 6y, 9.3% of budgetHopewell Food Pantry: $11,700 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetMedecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc: $10,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetLalmba Association: $8,000 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetCooperative for Assistance and Relief Everywhere Inc: $6,900 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetFeed More Inc: $5,900 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetChesterfield Food Bank Outreach Center: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThe James House InterventionPrevention Services Inc: $3,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetHumane World for Animals Inc: $2,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetRichmond Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals: $2,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetJuniper Wildlife Refuge Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetHistoric Hopewell Foundation Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetRecover Hope Inc: $350 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetTri-River Habitat for Humanity Inc: $350 over 2y, 0.5% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 14.

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 Cameron FoundationVA15.7× affinity5 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Cameron Foundation · Network for Good · American Online Giving Foundation 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.

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About Harlan Foundation

How much does Harlan Foundation give?
Harlan Foundation reported 18 grants totaling $25,900 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 4 and 19 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2023.
What does Harlan Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2024, its largest causes are Animals (33%), Youth Development (18%), International (16%).
Who are Harlan Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2018 to FY2024: Hopewell Humane Society Inc ($22k), Hopewell Food Pantry ($12k), Medecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc ($10k).
Does Harlan Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 5% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Harlan Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as Harlan Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Cameron Foundation, Network for Good, American Online Giving Foundation Inc.
Where is Harlan Foundation based?
Harlan Foundation is based in VA.

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 34 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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