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Harter Family Charitable 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k13 grants · $33k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $71k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| First Congl Church Guilford | $36,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $25,000 |
| Boston Womens Fund | $10,000 |
| Corporate Accountability Intl | $6,000 |
| Neighbor to Neighor Education Fund | $4,000 |
| Yale University | $3,000 |
| Shared Interest | $3,000 |
| First Church in Cambridge UCC | $2,500 |
| Conservation Law Foundation | $2,000 |
| CISPES Education Fund | $2,000 |
| South Africa Partners | $2,000 |
| Sojourners | $2,000 |
| Society for the Future of Hifger Education | $2,000 |
| Benincasa Community Inc | $2,000 |
| Central Atlantic Conference UCC | $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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY20–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 79% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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.
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 +10% since the first grant, against -14% for the ones you funded once.
20 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2024, 12 since wound down; 8 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, 49% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $53k 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
- BWBOSTON WOMEN'S FUND INC5× · 2020–2024 · $50k · revenue ×14
- IDInfact DBA Corporate Accountability4× · 2020–2024 · $38k · revenue +10%
- LCLeMoyne-Owen College3× · 2020–2022 · $12k · revenue +7%
Funded once
- FCFirst Cong'l Church of Guilfordone grant, 2023 · $35k
- FCFirst CongregationalChurch Guilfordone grant, 2022 · $32k
- 1C1st Congregational Guilford CTone grant, 2021 · $28k
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.
A long-term, strategic alliance of labor, community, faith-based, and student organizations working together to build greater economic power for workers and community members through employee rights at work and access to good jobs,…
Serve as a partner, educator, and guide for philanthropy in reimagining practices that advance a thriving and just world.
To protect the rainforest and advance the rights of Indigenous peoples in the Amazon Basin. We partner with Indigenous communities in campaigns for human rights, corporate accountability, and the preservation of the Amazon Basin's…
Working together to create a just and sustainable world through transformative farmer training that nourishes communities and the Earth.
International Rivers protects rivers and defends the rights of communities that depend on them.
Actionaid is an international network building a just, equitable, and sustainable world in solidarity with communities on the frontlines of poverty and injustice. actionaid usa is the u.s. branch of actionaid international, which works in…
Improving the transparency and scientific integrity of climate solutions through open data and tools.
Partnership for Policy Integrity (PFPI) uses data-driven advocacy and litigation to fight for forests, communities and the climate.
Grist is an independent, non profit media organization dedicated to reporting on climate change.
Fund for Justice is a nationally connected social impact research and advocacy organization that works to achieve fundamental, systemic reform by addressing policies and practicies that prevent individuals from reaching their full…
To offer the dignity of fair employment to people living in impoverished communities, who become transformational agents of global forest restoration.
New Roots Institute is a nonprofit empowering the next generation with knowledge and training to end factory farming.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Grassroots International Inc and the most unlike its peers is Conservation Law Foundation Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 46 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) — 10% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 4% 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.
20 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. 20 of the 49 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 BOSTON WOMEN'S FUND INC ↗
- Who funds Infact DBA Corporate Accountability ↗
- Who funds SHARED INTEREST INC ↗
- Who funds LeMoyne-Owen College ↗
- Who funds SOUTH AFRICA PARTNERS INC ↗
- Who funds Sojourners Inc ↗
- Who funds CISPES EDUCATION FUND ↗
- Who funds GRASSROOTS INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
- Who funds TOXICS ACTION CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds A JEWISH VOICE FOR PEACE ↗
- Who funds HAYMARKET PEOPLE'S FUND INC ↗
- Who funds Peace Development Fund ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY PARTNERS IN ACTION INC ↗
- Who funds THE TRUSTEES OF RESERVATIONS ↗
- Who funds BACK BAY MISSION ↗
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: Tides Foundation · Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc · Boston Foundation Inc · Impactassetsinc · American Endowment Foundation · Network for Good · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
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 Harter Family Charitable 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.
- Community Partners in Action Inc — 90% of income from government
- South Africa Partners Inc — 42% of income from government
- Benincasa Community Inc — 4% of income from government
- The Trustees of Reservations — 2% of income from government
- Infact Dba Corporate Accountability — 0% 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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