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Harlow Foundation Inc Co Carolyn Sanders
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2019–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k7 grants · $27k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| YOUNG CENTER FOR IMMIGRANT CHILDREN | $10,000 |
| World Bicycle FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| EQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE | $10,000 |
| HUMAN OUTREACH PROJECT | $10,000 |
| CHIPS | $10,000 |
| CLOTHES TO KIDS DENVER | $5,000 |
| SOJOURNER FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| THE WILD ANIMAL SANCTUARY | $5,000 |
| HOME AHEAD | $3,000 |
| PROSPECT PARK ALLIANCE | $3,000 |
| SAFE SHELTER OF ST VRAIN VALLEY | $3,000 |
| EVANS SCHOLARS FOUNDATION | $3,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY19–24, $71k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 49% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +106% since the first grant, against +32% for the ones you funded once.
26 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2024, 17 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $11k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
EQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE6× · 2019–2024 · $32k · revenue +125%- TMTHE MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN INC3× · 2019–2021 · $30k · revenue +40%
- HOHUMAN OUTREACH PROJECT5× · 2020–2024 · $23k · revenue +30%
Funded once
- UOUNIVERITY OF WISCONSIN FNDNone grant, 2020 · $30k
- EVEVERYBODY VOTESone grant, 2019 · $5k
THE MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSON'S RESEARCHgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $4k · revenue +39%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
To conduct and support programs and activities aimed at solving some of the world's greatest public health challenges, with a specific focus on enabling health workers to have the greatest possible impact on the health of the people they…
Rainforest trust saves endangered wildlife and protects our planet by creating rainforest reserves through partnerships, community engagement, and donor support.
Building bridges across diverse sectors, and developing innovative technologies and tools for policy makers. a leader in the conflict assessment and early warning field, the fund for peace focuses on the problems of weak and failing…
Partners In Health (PIH) is a non-profit, global health organization that fights social injustice by bringing the benefits of modern medical science first and foremost to the most vulnerable communities worldwide. In Haiti, Malawi, Rwanda,…
Pact is a nonprofit organization that builds evidence-based, data-driven, and community-led solutions for human development (continued in schedule o)
Plant with purpose, a christian nonprofit organization, reverses deforestation and poverty around the world by transforming the lives of the rural poor. we do this through: - watershed restoration & regenerative agriculture - savings…
Save the children is an international nonprofit children's relief and development organization. our mission is to inspire breakthroughs in the way the world treats children and to achieve immediate and lasting change in their lives.
Lincoln park zoo is dedicated to connecting people with nature by providing a free, family-oriented wildlife experience in the heart of chicago and by advancing the highest quality of animal care, horticulture, education, science and…
CITY REPORT, INC. serves the people of New York through independent journalism that answers their information needs and holds the powerful to account.
The children's hospital of philadelphia, the oldest hospital in the united states dedicated exclusively to pediatrics, strives to be the world leader in the advancement of health care for children by integrating excellent patient care,…
The adler planetarium ('adler') is a not-for-profit cultural institution whose mission is to connect people to the universe and each other under the sky we all share. it aspires to be the world's premier center for engaging in astronomy…
To offer the dignity of fair employment to people living in impoverished communities, who become transformational agents of global forest restoration.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Project Kindred Inc and the most unlike its peers is Dale and Patti Shirley Equine Encore Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 37 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 8% of your grantees by number, and just 4% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
27 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 27 of the 41 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds EQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE ↗
- Who funds THE MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN INC ↗
- Who funds HUMAN OUTREACH PROJECT ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY HELP IN PARK SLOPE INC ↗
- Who funds CLOTHES TO KIDS OF DENVER INC ↗
- Who funds THE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND ↗
- Who funds SOJOURNER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds TALL TALES RANCH ↗
- Who funds Mothers Trust Foundation ↗
- Who funds ACADEMIE LAFAYETTE ↗
- Who funds PROSPECT PARK ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds THE GRAND CANYON TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds PROJECT KINDRED INC ↗
- Who funds MIRACLEFEET ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds Dale and Patti Shirley Equine Encore Foundation ↗
- Who funds International Rescue Committee INC ↗
- Who funds BROOKLYN PUBLIC LIBRARY ↗
- Who funds EDNA'S CIRCLE ↗
- Who funds HomeAhead ↗
- Who funds THE WILD ANIMAL SANCTUARY ↗
- Who funds THE MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSON'S RESEARCH ↗
- Who funds MILWAUKEE REPERTORY THEATER INC ↗
- Who funds SOJOURNER FAMILY PEACE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds BROOKLYN BOTANIC GARDEN CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds ALIGHT ↗
- Who funds SAFE SHELTER OF ST VRAIN VALLEY ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: The Pfizer Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Harlow Foundation Inc Co Carolyn Sanders funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.
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