· Private foundation
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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| CISPES Education Fund | $2,000 |
| South Africa Partners | $2,000 |
| Sojourners | $2,000 |
| Benincasa Community Inc | $2,000 |
| Conservation Law Foundation | $2,000 |
| Society for the Future of Hifger Education | $2,000 |
| Slingshot | $1,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY20–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 79% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +10% since the first grant, against -14% for those 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
How this is measured
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
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.
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.
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.
How this is measured
20 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. 20 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
- 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 Sojourners Inc ↗
- Who funds SOUTH AFRICA PARTNERS 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 COMMUNITY PARTNERS IN ACTION INC ↗
- Who funds Peace Development Fund ↗
- Who funds HAYMARKET PEOPLE'S FUND INC ↗
- Who funds THE TRUSTEES OF RESERVATIONS ↗
- Who funds BACK BAY MISSION ↗
- Who funds BENINCASA COMMUNITY INC ↗
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.
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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Harter Family Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Harter Family Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- 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
How this is measured
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