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Harpley Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
Read this first · the figures below need context
100% of Harpley Foundation’s FY2024 grant dollars went to Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2024 names 0 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2020, the last year Harpley Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 7 organizations, $40k. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2020
- Under $10k8 grants · $20k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $20k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| CASS - CENTRAL ARIZONA SHELTER SERVICES | $10,000 |
| ARIZONA HUMANE SOCIETY | $5,000 |
| WALTHAM FIELDS COMMUNITY GARDEN | $5,000 |
| JEANNA GEIGER CRISIS CENTER | $2,500 |
| MYSTIC VALLEY ELDER SERVICES | $2,500 |
| FIREHOUSE CENTER FOR THE ARTS | $1,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,030 |
| UNDERSTANDING DISABILITIES | $1,000 |
| ACTORS STUDIO OF NEWBURYPORT | $1,000 |
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 (FY17–21, $38k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 27% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
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.
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.
15 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2020, 9 since wound down; 12 grantees were first funded in FY2020 (too recent to call). Read against FY2020, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.
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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- CACENTRAL ARIZONA SHELTER SERVICES INC4× · 2017–2020 · $23k · revenue +72%
- MOMission of Deeds Inc4× · 2017–2021 · $15k · revenue +59%
- AHArizona Humane Society3× · 2019–2021 · $13k · revenue +108%
Funded once
- R3READING 375one grant, 2019 · $5k
- CACREATIVE ARTSone grant, 2018 · $3k
- EEMARCone grant, 2017 · $3k
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 compassionately serve pets and the people who love them.
UVHS improves quality of life for people and pets through an innovative animal shelter and adoption center and through services that reduce suffering, support wellness, and foster compassion.
New England Humane Society has four parts to it's mission: Rescue, Heal, Adopt, Educate. Rescue: NEHS attempts to save animals who are in high-kill shelters and are on the verge of being euthanized due to pet over population. We also…
To provide, promote, and advance humane protection, care and treatment of animals thru education of the public and the operation of an animal shelter which cares for, spays and neuters, and places homeless pets in permanent homes.
The mission of the Animal Shelter of Marthas Vineyard is to provide shelter, health care, lover and support to all domestic animals until a permanent home is found for them.
Animal rescue league of new bedford, inc., d/b/a humane society & shelter-southcoast, provides services to reduce the number of homeless pets. the organization provides quarantine services to other rescue organizations bringing animals…
Animal Humane Society (AHS) established in 1878 and incorporated as a nonprofit charitable organization in 1891 works to engage the hearts, hands, and minds of the community to help animals. AHS's vision is to compassionately and…
The austin humane society (ahs) offers comprehensive, humane, life-saving animal services, transforming the lives of animals and those who love them. because we believe homeless animals deserve a chance to thrive in a loving environment,…
Our mission is to provide shelter and compassionate care to our community's animals in need, offer programs that improve thier lives and strengthen the lifelong committment between animals and people.
We focus on keeping pets with the people who love them. the organization has a cage-free adoption center for cats and kittens in brimfield, massachusetts. the organization also provides services and resources for local animals and…
To save the lives of animals through rescue, rehabilitation and adoption; to promote learning, eliminate animal cruelty and be a leader in advancing the highest standards in animal welfare.
As a nonprofit organization, the mission of bristol humane society is to provide accessible resources to ensure that animals are healthy and happy, and the bond between pets and their families is strengthened, allowing every animal to…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Mystic Valley Aging Services Inc and the most unlike its peers is Texas Diaper Bank. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
17 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. 17 of the 34 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 FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL ARIZONA SHELTER SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds Mission of Deeds Inc ↗
- Who funds Arizona Humane Society ↗
- Who funds THE NATURE CONNECTION INC ↗
- Who funds JEANNE GEIGER CRISIS CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds NOTMYKID ↗
- Who funds LOWELL HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds SOCIETY FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF ARTS ↗
- Who funds MERRIMACK RIVER FELINE RESCUE SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds READING COMMUNITY SINGERS INC ↗
- Who funds BREAD & ROSES PRESENTS ↗
- Who funds MYSTIC VALLEY AGING SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds LIVE AND LET LIVE FARM INC ↗
- Who funds Actors Studio of Newburyport Inc ↗
- Who funds GREATER HOUSTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds TEXAS DIAPER BANK ↗
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: Cummings Foundation Grants Inc (Fka Oneworld Boston Inc) · Eastern Bank Foundation · Foundation M · Institution for Savings in Newburyport & Its Vicinity Charitable Foundation Inc · Ge Aerospace Foundation · Enterprise Holdings Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Network for Good · National Philanthropic Trust · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program
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 Harpley Foundation 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Jeanne Geiger Crisis Center Inc — 40% of income from government
- Reading Community Singers Inc — 17% of income from government
- The Nature Connection Inc — 5% of income from government
- Actors Studio of Newburyport Inc — 2% of income from government
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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