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Howard E & Carole E Harkins Charitable Trust

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.

$255k
Granted FY2024still arriving
20
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$25k
Largest
01What you fund
0199% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20202024.

Housing & Shelter$455kReligion$184kYouth Development$180kHealth$170kHuman Services$145kRecreation & Sports$130kFood & Nutrition$100kAnimals$25kOther$0
02FY2024 · 20 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k3 grants · $15k
  • $10k–50k17 grants · $240k
$10,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$2.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Project Renewal of Davenport$25,000
Humility Homes and Services Inc$25,000
Vera French Housing$25,000
Quad Cities Golf Classic Charitable$20,000
Hand in Hand$15,000
Friendly House in Davenport$15,000
Individual grant recipient$15,000
University of Iowa$10,000
Central Community Circle Food Pantr$10,000
Quad Cities Sports Initiative$10,000
Center for Active Seniors Inc$10,000
St Anthony's Church of Davenport$10,000
St Jude's Children's Research Found$10,000
North Scott Food Pantry$10,000
Shriner's Hospital for Children Chi$10,000
02The need
03

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.

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Your human-services grants (FY20–24, $275k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%Project Renewal of Davenport: $50k → 12%Project Renewal of Davenport: $40k → 12%Project Renewal of Davenport: $40k → 12%Project Renewal of Davenport: $25k → 12%Project Renewal of Davenport: $25k → 12%Hand in Hand: $25k → 12%Hand in Hand: $20k → 12%Hand in Hand: $20k → 12%Hand in Hand: $15k → 12%Hand in Hand: $15k → 12%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

97%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.4M · 19 repeat orgs$40k to everyone else

19 repeat relationships — 18 still active in FY2024, 1 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

19
2

Total granted

$1.4M
$15k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+31%
+52%

Still filing today

53%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $25k went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24
Housing & ShelterHuman ServicesFood & NutritionHealthRecreation & SportsCommunity ImprovementOther

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

  • VF
    VERA FRENCH HOUSING CORPORATION
    5× · 2020–2024 · $180k · revenue +111%
  • PR
    PROJECT RENEWAL OF DAVENPORT
    5× · 2020–2024 · $180k · revenue +238%
  • HH
    HUMILITY HOMES AND SERVICES INC
    5× · 2020–2024 · $180k · revenue +74%

Funded once

  • SJ
    St Jude's Childrens Research Founda
    one grant, 2020 · $10k
  • MF
    MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF IOWA INCgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $5k · revenue +52%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Area Residential Care Inc

It is the mission of Area Residential Care to empower people with intellectual disabilities to achieve their highest quality of life.

Human Services
2
Developmental Services of Northwest Kansas Inc

Dsnwk is committed to providing quality community-based services and support to adults and children with developmental disabilites from northwest kansas, regardless of the level of their disabilites.

Human Services
3
Cole County Residential Services Inc

Provide services for individuals with developmental disabilities

Health
4
Community Workshop & Training Center Inc

Our central Illinois organization provides programs and services to adults with disabilities; enriching their quality of life, promoting social change, and optimizing their potential for independence.

Human Services
5
Prairie View Management Inc

Our mission is to provide quality recovery through person-centered guidance.

Health
6
Southeast Iowa Dream Center

The mission of the dream center is to make a difference in our communities by meeting both physical and spiritual needs. we are partnering with local organizations to reinstate serving our community each second saturday of the month and to…

Human Services
7
Cardinal Services Inc of Indiana

The mission of cardinal services, inc. of indiana is to assist and advocate for people with disabilities and challenges to live lives full of dignity, growth, and opportunity.

Education
8
Opportunities Unlimited Inc

A nonprofit organized for the purpose of providing evaluation, training, employment, education, placement and support services to individuals with emotional, physical and developmental disabilities, including people with severe…

Employment
9
Residential Services Inc

Residential Services, Inc. provides living options and related supports to people with intellectual and developmental disabilities of all ages.

Health
10
Family Crisis Centers Inc

Walk with people facing violence, offering safety, support, and hope as they heal and rebuild. with every step forward, we build stronger, more resilient communities.

Human Services
11
Exceptional Persons Inc

Exceptional persons, inc. (epi) is dedicated to connecting people, creating opportunities, and nurturing growth. our mission comes to life through four core service areas: community living, children & family services, employment services,…

Human Services
12
Imagine the Possibilities

Empower people to reach individual achievement across the spectrum of life.

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Empowering Abilities and the most unlike its peers is Center for Active Seniors Inc. 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

11 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 11 of the 23 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
11/11
Grantees still filing
9/11
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Quad Cities Golf Classic Charitable — $105,000 · OtherQuad Cities Golf Classic CharitableFriendly House in Davenport — $95,000 · OtherFriendly House in DavenportPBC Inc — $80,000 · OtherPBC IncSt Anthony's Church of Davenport — $53,832 · OtherSt Anthony's Church of DavenportShriner's Hospital for Children Chi — $50,000 · OtherShriner's Hospital for Children ChiKings Harvest Ministries — $50,000 · OtherKings Harvest MinistriesCenter for Active Seniors Inc — $50,000 · OtherCenter for Active Seniors IncSt Jude's Children's Research Found — $40,000 · OtherSt Jude's Children's Research FoundKings Harvest Pet Rescue — $25,000 · Other+4 more — $51,000 · Other+4 moreVERA FRENCH HOUSING CORPORATION — $180,000 · Housing & ShelterVERA FRENCH HOUSING CORPORAT…HUMILITY HOMES AND SERVICES INC — $180,000 · Housing & ShelterHUMILITY HOMES AND SERVICES …PROJECT RENEWAL OF DAVENPORT — $180,000 · Human ServicesPROJECT RENEWAL OF DA…HAND IN HAND — $95,000 · Human ServicesHAND IN HANDCENTRAL COMMUNITY CIRCLE FOOD PANTR — $50,000 · Food & NutritionNORTH SCOTT FOOD PANTRY — $50,000 · Food & NutritionEMPOWERING ABILITIES — $65,000 · HealthMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF IOWA INC — $5,000 · HealthQUAD-CITIES SPORTS INITIATIVE INC — $25,000 · Recreation & SportsTogether Making a Better Community — $20,000 · Community Improvement
Other$599,832Housing & Shelter$360,000Human Services$275,000Food & Nutrition$100,000Health$70,000Recreation & Sports$25,000Community Improvement$20,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetVERA FRENCH HOUSING CORPORATION — $180,000 over 5y, 8.9% of budgetPROJECT RENEWAL OF DAVENPORT — $180,000 over 5y, 15% of budgetHUMILITY HOMES AND SERVICES INC — $180,000 over 5y, 1.3% of budgetHAND IN HAND — $95,000 over 5y, 2.6% of budgetEMPOWERING ABILITIES — $65,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetCENTRAL COMMUNITY CIRCLE FOOD PANTR — $50,000 over 5y, 19% of budgetNORTH SCOTT FOOD PANTRY — $50,000 over 5y, 18% of budgetCenter for Active Seniors Inc — $50,000 over 5y, 1.0% of budgetQUAD-CITIES SPORTS INITIATIVE INC — $25,000 over 2y, 12% of budgetTogether Making a Better Community — $20,000 over 3y, 2.4% of budgetMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF IOWA INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budget
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 VERA FRENCH HOUSING CORPORATION
  • Who funds PROJECT RENEWAL OF DAVENPORT
  • Who funds HUMILITY HOMES AND SERVICES INC
  • Who funds HAND IN HAND
  • Who funds EMPOWERING ABILITIES
  • Who funds CENTRAL COMMUNITY CIRCLE FOOD PANTR
  • Who funds NORTH SCOTT FOOD PANTRY
  • Who funds Center for Active Seniors Inc
  • Who funds QUAD-CITIES SPORTS INITIATIVE INC
  • Who funds Together Making a Better Community
  • Who funds MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF IOWA INC

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.

Quad Cities Community FoundationIA24× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Quad Cities Community Foundation · United Way Quad Cities · Quad Cities Golf Classic Charitable Foundation · Mary Iva Gittins Knouse Tr Uw · Scott County Regional Authority · The Vonderhaar Family Foundation · Modern Woodmen of America · Harold R Bechtel Charitable Trust · Charities Aid Foundation America · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 Howard E & Carole E Harkins Charitable Trust 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 00%1%5%11%20%your 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
    3report 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, FY2025

    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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 23 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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