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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 FY2024(still arriving)
20
Grants FY2024
19
Organizations funded FY2023
5%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$10,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$25,000
Organizations funded a year
16 to 19
FY2020 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
3
Total assets, FY2024
$2.3M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 5% of the organizations Howard E & Carole E Harkins Charitable Trust funded were first-time grantees, receiving 6% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $15k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23
HealthRecreation & SportsCommunity ImprovementOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving20$255k10%
FY202319$250k5%
FY202218$310k6%
FY202117$301k18%
FY202016$334kn/a
99% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

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

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 12 grantees
All grantees of Howard E & Carole E Harkins Charitable Trust by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Vera French Housing Corporation$180,00059%
Project Renewal of Davenport$180,000515%
Humility Homes and Services Inc$180,00051%
Hand in Hand$95,00053%
Empowering Abilities$65,00040%
Central Community Circle Food Pantr$50,000519%
North Scott Food Pantry$50,000518%
Center for Active Seniors Inc$50,00051%
Quad-Cities Sports Initiative Inc$25,000212%
Together Making a Better Community$20,00032%
Gigis Playhouse Inc$16,0004n/a
Make-A-Wish Foundation of Iowa Inc$5,00010%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 11 recipients with no EIN on record ($534k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Howard E & Carole E Harkins Charitable Trust supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's 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

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 11.

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.

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

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.

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About Howard E & Carole E Harkins Charitable Trust

How much does Howard E & Carole E Harkins Charitable Trust give?
Howard E & Carole E Harkins Charitable Trust reported 20 grants totaling $255,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 16 and 19 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2023.
What does Howard E & Carole E Harkins Charitable Trust fund?
By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2024, its largest causes are Housing & Shelter (31%), Religion (13%), Youth Development (12%).
Who are Howard E & Carole E Harkins Charitable Trust's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2020 to FY2024: Vera French Housing Corporation ($180k), Project Renewal of Davenport ($180k), Humility Homes and Services Inc ($180k).
Does Howard E & Carole E Harkins Charitable Trust fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 5% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Howard E & Carole E Harkins Charitable Trust accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as Howard E & Carole E Harkins Charitable Trust?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Quad Cities Community Foundation, United Way Quad Cities, Quad Cities Golf Classic Charitable Foundation.
Where is Howard E & Carole E Harkins Charitable Trust based?
Howard E & Carole E Harkins Charitable Trust is based in IA.

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 23 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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