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Harlow Foundation Inc Co Carolyn Sanders at a glance

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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.

$77k
Granted FY2024still arriving
12
Grants FY2024still arriving
6
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.

Human Services$88kInternational$71kEducation$58kCrime & Legal$35kArts & Culture$33kHealth$33kEnvironment$30kAnimals$21kOther$0
02FY2024 · 12 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k7 grants · $27k
  • $10k–50k5 grants · $50k
$5,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$771k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
HUMAN OUTREACH PROJECT$10,000
World Bicycle FOUNDATION$10,000
YOUNG CENTER FOR IMMIGRANT CHILDREN$10,000
CHIPS$10,000
EQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE$10,000
SOJOURNER FOUNDATION$5,000
THE WILD ANIMAL SANCTUARY$5,000
CLOTHES TO KIDS DENVER$5,000
PROSPECT PARK ALLIANCE$3,000
EVANS SCHOLARS FOUNDATION$3,000
SAFE SHELTER OF ST VRAIN VALLEY$3,000
HOME AHEAD$3,000
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:

Its 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. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 11%Academie Lafayette: $3k → 15%HUMAN OUTREACH PROJECT: $10k → 8%Academie Lafayette: $3k → 15%HUMAN OUTREACH PROJECT: $4k → 8%THE MOTHERS TRUST FOUNDATION: $3k → 8%Academie Lafayette: $3k → 15%HUMAN OUTREACH PROJECT: $3k → 8%THE MOTHERS TRUST FOUNDATION: $3k → 8%Academie Lafayette: $3k → 15%HUMAN OUTREACH PROJECT: $3k → 8%MOTHERS TRUST FOUNDATION: $3k → 8%HUMAN OUTREACH PROJECT: $3k → 8%THE MOTHERS TRUST FOUNDATION: $3k → 8%THE MOTHERS TRUST FOUNDATION: $2k → 8%CHIPS: $10k → 20%CHIPS: $4k → 20%SOJOURNER FAMILY PEACE CENTER: $3k → 17%CHIPS: $3k → 20%CHIPS: $3k → 20%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.

Which US states its grants reach

MN
IL
WI
NY
CT
UT
CO
MO
VA
MD
AZ
NC
DC
AL
GA
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.

82%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$352k · 26 repeat orgs$75k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +106% since the first grant, against +32% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

26
12

Total granted

$352k
$64k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+106%
+32%

Still filing today

77%
42%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $11k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesHealthEnvironmentInternationalEducationAnimalsOther
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

  • EQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE
    6× · 2019–2024 · $32k · revenue +108%
  • TM
    THE MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN INC
    3× · 2019–2021 · $30k · revenue +40%
  • HO
    HUMAN OUTREACH PROJECT
    5× · 2020–2024 · $23k · revenue +30%

Funded once

  • UO
    UNIVERITY OF WISCONSIN FNDN
    one grant, 2020 · $30k
  • EV
    EVERYBODY VOTES
    one grant, 2019 · $5k
  • THE MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSON'S RESEARCHgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $4k · revenue +95%
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
Project Hope - the People-to-People Health Foundation Inc

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…

International
2
Rainforest Trust

Rainforest trust saves endangered wildlife and protects our planet by creating rainforest reserves through partnerships, community engagement, and donor support.

International
3
The Fund for Peace Inc

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…

International
4
Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation

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,…

Health
5
Pact Inc

Pact is a nonprofit organization that builds evidence-based, data-driven, and community-led solutions for human development (continued in schedule o)

International
6
Floresta Usa Incorporated

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…

International
7
Save the Children Federation Inc

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.

International
8
Lincoln Park Zoological Society

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…

Animals
9
City Report Inc

CITY REPORT, INC. serves the people of New York through independent journalism that answers their information needs and holds the powerful to account.

Arts & Culture
10
The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia

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,…

Health
11
The Adler Planetarium

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…

Arts & Culture
12
Eden Peopleplanet

To offer the dignity of fair employment to people living in impoverished communities, who become transformational agents of global forest restoration.

International
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Project Kindred Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

27 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. 27 of the 41 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)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
27/27
Grantees still filing
22/27
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

UNIVERITY OF WISCONSIN FNDN: $30,000 · OtherUNIVERITY OF WISCONSIN FNDNWorld Bicycle FOUNDATION: $27,500 · OtherWorld Bicycle FOUNDATIONYOUNG CENTER FOR IMMIGRANT CHILDREN: $19,500 · OtherYOUNG CENTER FOR IMMIGRANT CHILDRENHMONG YOUTH EDUCATION PROJECT: $11,000 · OtherHMONG YOUTH EDUCATION PROJECTTHE WILD LIFE SANCTUARY: $8,500 · OtherFRIENDS OF IBBA GIRLS SCHOOL: $7,000 · OtherCBR YOUTH CONNECT: $7,000 · OtherSOJOURNER FOUNDATION: $14,500 · OtherSOJOURNER FOUNDATIONDale and Patti Shirley Equine Encore Foundation: $7,500 · OtherPROSPECT PARK ALLIANCE INC: $12,000 · OtherPROSPECT PARK ALLIANCE INCPROJECT KINDRED INC: $9,000 · Other+11 more: $37,000 · Other+11 moreHUMAN OUTREACH PROJECT: $22,500 · Human ServicesHUMAN OUTREACH PROJECTCOMMUNITY HELP IN PARK SLOPE INC: $19,500 · Human ServicesCOMMUNITY HELP IN PARK …CLOTHES TO KIDS OF DENVER INC: $17,500 · Human ServicesCLOTHES TO KIDS OF DENV…Mothers Trust Foundation: $13,500 · Human ServicesMothers Trust Foundatio…ACADEMIE LAFAYETTE: $12,000 · Human ServicesACADEMIE LAFAYETTESOJOURNER FAMILY PEACE CENTER INC: $3,000 · Human ServicesTHE MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN INC: $30,000 · EducationTHE MEDIC…BROOKLYN PUBLIC LIBRARY: $6,000 · EducationBROOKLYN …TALL TALES RANCH: $14,500 · HealthMIRACLEFEET: $9,000 · HealthEDNA'S CIRCLE: $5,000 · HealthTHE MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSON'S RESEARCH: $4,000 · HealthEQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE: $32,000 · Civil RightsTHE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND: $16,000 · EnvironmentTHE GRAND CANYON TRUST INC: $11,000 · EnvironmentBROOKLYN BOTANIC GARDEN CORPORATION: $3,000 · EnvironmentMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $9,000 · InternationalInternational Rescue Committee INC: $6,000 · InternationalALIGHT: $3,000 · International
Other$190,500Human Services$88,000Education$36,000Health$32,500Civil Rights$32,000Environment$30,000International$18,000

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 budgetEQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE: $32,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN INC: $30,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetHUMAN OUTREACH PROJECT: $22,500 over 5y, 1.9% of budgetCOMMUNITY HELP IN PARK SLOPE INC: $19,500 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetCLOTHES TO KIDS OF DENVER INC: $17,500 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetTHE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND: $16,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSOJOURNER FOUNDATION: $14,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetTALL TALES RANCH: $14,500 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetMothers Trust Foundation: $13,500 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetACADEMIE LAFAYETTE: $12,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetPROSPECT PARK ALLIANCE INC: $12,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE GRAND CANYON TRUST INC: $11,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetMIRACLEFEET: $9,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $9,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPROJECT KINDRED INC: $9,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetDale and Patti Shirley Equine Encore Foundation: $7,500 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetInternational Rescue Committee INC: $6,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBROOKLYN PUBLIC LIBRARY: $6,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetEDNA'S CIRCLE: $5,000 over 2y, 2.7% of budgetTHE WILD ANIMAL SANCTUARY: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHomeAhead: $5,000 over 2y, 2.5% of budgetTHE MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSON'S RESEARCH: $4,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSOJOURNER FAMILY PEACE CENTER INC: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMILWAUKEE REPERTORY THEATER INC: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSAFE SHELTER OF ST VRAIN VALLEY: $3,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetBROOKLYN BOTANIC GARDEN CORPORATION: $3,000 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.

The Pfizer Foundation…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
The Pfizer Foundation IncNY9.4× affinity4 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Pfizer Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · 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 Harlow Foundation Inc Co Carolyn Sanders funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Harlow Foundation Inc Co Carolyn Sanders. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    9report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
    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.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Harlow Foundation Inc Co Carolyn Sanders?

    Find your warmest path to Harlow Foundation Inc Co Carolyn Sanders through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 41 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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