· Private foundation
John Harding Family 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 FY2018–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k29 grants · $45k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $11k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| KENILWORTH UNION CHURCH | $10,500 |
| TREASURE VALLEY FAMILY YMCA | $5,000 |
| AUTOIMMUNE ASSOCIATION | $2,500 |
| HELEN WOODWARD ANIMAL CENTER | $2,500 |
| RANCHO COASTAL HUMANE SOCIETY | $2,500 |
| METRO MEALS ON WHEELS | $2,000 |
| IDAHO HUMANE SOCIETY | $2,000 |
| IDAHO FOOD BANK | $2,000 |
| PETSMART CHARITIES | $2,000 |
| ENGINEERS WITHOUT BORDERS | $2,000 |
| OCEANA | $2,000 |
| DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS | $2,000 |
| LIVING BEYOND BREAST CANCER | $2,000 |
| NATIONAL PSORIASIS FOUNDATION | $2,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,688 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY21–24, $5k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 53% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
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 +41% since the first grant, against +14% for the ones you funded once.
38 repeat relationships — 26 still active in FY2024, 12 since wound down; 4 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, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k 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
- IHIdaho Humane Society Inc7× · 2018–2024 · $16k · revenue +73%
MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC7× · 2018–2024 · $14k · revenue +89%- LBLIVING BEYOND BREAST CANCER7× · 2018–2024 · $14k · revenue +49%
Funded once
- LLLake Lowell Animal Rescue Incone grant, 2023 · $4k · revenue -4%
- HIHEIFER INTERNATIONALone grant, 2018 · $2k
- MSMEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER - OVARIAN CANCERone grant, 2018 · $2k
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.
Santa barbara humane operates two campuses located in santa barbara and santa maria providing care for community-owned and homeless animals. both campuses offer affordable high quality veterinary care, compassionate behavior training…
The Academy's mission is to enhance member career fulfillment and promote brain health for all.
To bring animals out of crisis and strengthen the bond between people and animals through emergency sheltering, disaster relief services, financial assistance and education. redrover accomplishes its mission by engaging volunteers and…
The SPCA Monterey County's Mission is assuring compassionate treatment of all animals through rescue, rehabilitation, protection and education. The SPCA shelters homeless, neglected, and abused pets, including dogs, cats, horses, exotic…
To prevent cruelty to animals, we promote enacting and enforcing good public policies. enacting good laws depends upon electing good lawmakers, and we remind voters which candidates care about and support animal issues.
Founded in 1877, american humane association, dba american humane society (american humane) is committed to ensuring the safety, welfare and well-being of animals. our leadership programs are first to serve in promoting and nurturing the…
Animal care sanctuary's lifesaving mission as a no kill organization envisions a community that promotes turning compassion into action for companion animals by: 1.) adopting healthy pet companions into loving homes. 2.) promoting the…
Assist banner health complete its mission to make health care easier so life can be better by providing integrated & coordinated care & population health management.
Rainforest trust saves endangered wildlife and protects our planet by creating rainforest reserves through partnerships, community engagement, and donor support.
Nacwa is the national voice of public clean water utilities, shaping water policy, convening a vibrant peer network, and empowering water leaders.
To promote public health, safety, and welfare through the improvement of the quality and quantity of drinking water and the development and furtherance of understanding of the problems relating thereto.
To improve and save lives through compassionate care, community engagement and advocacy for animals.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Petsmart Charities Inc and the most unlike its peers is Henry E Huntington Library and Art Gallery. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 37 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) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% 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.
41 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. 41 of the 77 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 Idaho Humane Society Inc ↗
- Who funds OCEANA INC ↗
- Who funds PETSMART CHARITIES INC ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds LIVING BEYOND BREAST CANCER ↗
- Who funds A SAFE HAVEN FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF BOISE CITY IDAHO ↗
- Who funds IDAHO FOODBANK WAREHOUSE ↗
- Who funds RANCHO COASTAL HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds HELEN WOODWARD ANIMAL CENTER ↗
- Who funds WATERORG ↗
- Who funds PLAY FOR PINK INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN AUTOIMMUNE RELATED DISEASES ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds Lake Lowell Animal Rescue Inc ↗
- Who funds Operation Game On ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL PSORIASIS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds IRVING PARK COMMUNITY FOOD PANTRY ↗
- Who funds SPECIAL OPERATIONS WARRIOR FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds DIRECT RELIEF ↗
- Who funds CUREBOUND ↗
- Who funds MEALS ON WHEELS ↗
- Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATION FOR ANIMAL CARE & EDUCATION ↗
- Who funds THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS ↗
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: Jewish Community Foundation of San Diego · The San Diego Foundation · Sempra Foundation · Enterprise Holdings Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · The Chicago Community Trust · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Verizon Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust
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 John Harding Family 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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.