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Hart Charitable Trust

Its FY2026 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$23k
Granted FY2026still arriving
28
Grants FY2026still arriving
10
States reached
$2k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.

Public Safety & Disaster$12kHealth$6kHousing & Shelter$5kReligion$3kEducation$3kEnvironment$2kHuman Services$2kFood & Nutrition$2kOther$0
02FY2026 · 28 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$600
Median grant
10
States reached
$191k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MIKEROWEWORKS$2,000
CHILDREN WITH HAIR LOSS$2,000
FOOD FOR THOUGHT$2,000
SALVATION ARMY$1,750
HART CHARITABLE TRUST - VARIOUS RECIPIENTS$1,500
COLUMBIA THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY$1,500
PC USA$1,000
SIGNAL SENTERS$1,000
FAMILY PROMISE$750
ROOM IN THE INN$750
RED BANK HIGH SCHOOL$750
HABITAT FOR HUMANITY CHATTANOOGA$700
HOPE HOUSE$700
BRIDGES REFUGEE SERVICES$600
ORANGE GROVE CENTER$600
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 (FY23–26, $8k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 74% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%GRACE RIDES INC: $2k → 11%CHILDREN WITH HAIR LOSS: $2k → 10%LIFE RESOURCE SERVICES OF JACKSON COUNTY: $2k → 16%ORANGE GROVE CENTER: $600 → 12%HOPE HOUSE: $700 → 12%HOPE HOUSE: $500 → 12%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

WA
NY
PA
KY
AZ
TN
NC
LA
AL
GA
TX
FL
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.

16%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$9k · 5 repeat orgs$49k to everyone else

5 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2026, 1 since wound down; 24 grantees were first funded in FY2026 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

5
20

Total granted

$9k
$28k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

0%
0%

Still filing today

60%
55%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2026, 13% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $20k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24’25’26
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24’25’26
Human ServicesHousing & ShelterHealthPhilanthropyEducationInternationalOther
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

  • TS
    THE SPEECH AND HEARING CENTER
    2× · 2024–2025 · $4k · revenue 0%
  • CT
    COLUMBIA THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY
    2× · 2025–2026 · $3k
  • HH
    HOPE HOUSE
    2× · 2025–2026 · $1k · revenue 0%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2022 · $4k
  • PC
    PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH USA A CORP
    one grant, 2025 · $2k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2023 · $2k
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
Michael Dunn Center

To empower individuals living with disabilities and challenges to gain independence

Human Services
2
River Region United Way

The mission of the river region united way is to improve the quality of life in the communities it serves by creating lasting and sustainable changes in the community conditions. in its daily operation, river region united way will unite…

Philanthropy
3
Mental Health Cooperative Inc

Mental health cooperative inc. (mhc) provides integrated health services that include behavioral health care, primary health care, addiction services, and community-based care management. mhc also provides emergency psychiatric services…

Health
4
Southern Tier Community Health Center Network Inc

The organization's mission is to provide compassionate, patient-centered care by supporting thriving rural communities where every person has access to high-quality, community-driven healthcare that promotes physical, oral, mental and…

Health
5
Chatuge Regional Hospital Inc

To provide high quality, cost effective health care and to promote wellness throughout our community.

Health
6
Lifeworks Incorporated

Lifeworks provides education, jobs and homes for persons with developmental disabilities empowering them to lead meaningful lives within the community. our guiding principles ensure that lifeworks staff and volunteers strive to create and…

Human Services
7
Savannah Speech and Hearing Center Inc

To provide comprehensive services to people of all ages with speech, language, and hearing problems regardless of financial status.

Education
8
Health Care for the Homeless Inc

Health care for the homeless works to end homelessness through racially equitable health care, housing and advocacy in partnership with those of us who have experienced it.

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9
Eastern Carolina Human Services Agency Inc

The purpose and function of the organization is to administer programs that provide services to low income families, veterans and military families in the eastern north carolina area that shall enhance their ability to become economically…

Human Services
10
Life Choice Center

To provide christian based outreach to clients by providing services and information free of charge to anyone in a crisis pregnancy situation, with the goal of assisting the client to carry the pregnancy to term and with continued care…

Health
11
Marrakech Inc

Provides person-centered and inclusive services to children and adults with and without disabilities that includes securing employment, connecting to necessary supportive services, accessing housing and participating fully as contributing…

Employment
12
Annandale At Suwanee Inc

To perpetuate a village community to provide progressive life assistance to adults with developmental disabilities so that they can maximize their abilities and maintain their independence in the least restrictive environment.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Signal Centers Inc; the most unlike its peers is Life Resource Services of Jackson County. 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

24 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 24 of the 49 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)
10
Early backer (in before they grew)
24/24
Grantees still filing
13/24
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE SPEECH AND HEARING CENTER: $3,500 · OtherTHE SPEECH AND HEARING CENTERIndividual grant recipient: $3,500 · OtherIndividual grant recipientCOLUMBIA THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY: $3,000 · OtherCOLUMBIA THEOLOGICAL SEMINARYPRESBYTERIAN CHURCH USA A CORP: $2,100 · OtherPRESBYTERIAN CHURCH USA A CORPIndividual grant recipient: $2,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientFOOD FOR THOUGHT: $2,000 · OtherFOOD FOR THOUGHTAMERICAN RED CROSS OF SE TENNESSEE: $2,000 · OtherAMERICAN RED CROSS OF SE TENNESSEESALVATION ARMY: $1,750 · OtherHART CHARITABLE TRUST - VARIOUS RECIPIENTS: $1,500 · OtherWOODINVILLE STOREHOUSE FOOD BANK: $1,500 · Other+21 more: $14,600 · Other+21 moreLIFE RESOURCE SERVICES OF JACKSON COUNTY: $2,000 · Human ServicesLIFE RESOURCE S…GRACE RIDES INC: $2,000 · Human ServicesGRACE RIDES INCCHILDREN WITH HAIR LOSS INC: $2,000 · Human ServicesCHILDREN WITH H…HOPE HOUSE: $1,200 · Human ServicesHOPE HOUSETHE ORANGE GROVE CENTER INC: $600 · Human ServicesTHE ORANGE GROV…Habitat for Humanity of the River Valley: $1,500 · Housing & ShelterBELOVED ASHEVILLE: $1,000 · Housing & ShelterFAMILY PROMISE INC: $750 · Housing & ShelterCHATTANOOGA RESCUE MISSION: $552 · Housing & ShelterUNIVERSITY OF LOUISIANA AT MONROE FOUNDATION: $2,000 · EducationUPPER SARANAC LAKE FOUNDATION INC: $1,000 · EducationMIKEROWEWORKS FOUNDATION: $2,000 · PhilanthropyUnited Way of Madison County Inc: $1,000 · PhilanthropyCHATTANOOGA AUTISM CENTER INC: $500 · HealthWALDENS RIDGE EMERGENCY SERVICE INC: $500 · HealthKARIS COMMUNITY HEALTH: $500 · HealthAmerican Heart Association Inc: $200 · HealthLIVING WATERS FOR THE WORLD: $1,100 · International
Other$37,450Human Services$7,800Housing & Shelter$3,802Education$3,000Philanthropy$3,000Health$1,700International$1,100

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 SPEECH AND HEARING CENTER: $3,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetLIFE RESOURCE SERVICES OF JACKSON COUNTY: $2,000 over 1y, 3.2% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF LOUISIANA AT MONROE FOUNDATION: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGRACE RIDES INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetHabitat for Humanity of the River Valley: $1,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHOPE HOUSE: $1,200 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetLIVING WATERS FOR THE WORLD: $1,100 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetUnited Way of Madison County Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMERCY CARE: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHISTORIC SARANAC LAKE: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $200 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.

Morgan Stanley Global…Shell USA Company Fou…The Blackbaud Giving …Vanguard Charitable E…Natl Christian Charit…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …American Online Givin…Amazonsmile Foundation
Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust IncIN12× affinity8 shared granteesties to 8 of 8Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Shell USA Company Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · 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 Hart Charitable Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Hart Charitable Trust. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    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

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Hart Charitable Trust?

    Find your warmest path to Hart Charitable Trust 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 49 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 2026, released 2026. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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