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Mark H and Blanche M Harrington Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$1.2M
Granted FY2025still arriving
84
Grants FY2025still arriving
23
States reached
$269k
Largest
01What it funds
0197% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Health$1.4MReligion$591kArts & Culture$459kCivil Rights$381kHuman Services$376kEducation$275kCrime & Legal$205kPublic Benefit$191kOther$0
02FY2025 · 84 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k42 grants · $162k
  • $10k–50k39 grants · $687k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $125k
  • $250k+1 grant · $269k
$10,000
Median grant
23
States reached
$19M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Seattle Childrens Hospital Foundation$269,000
Center for American Liberty$75,000
Christian Legal Society$50,000
Grace Fellowiship Church of Costa Mesa$45,000
WESTERN FOUNDATION WESTERN$45,000
Serve to Lead$40,000
FAMILY RESEARCH COUNCIL$32,500
OLIVE CREST CHILD CARE SERVICES$30,000
AMERICAN CENTER FOR LAW AND JUSTICE$30,000
THE NIXON FOUNDATION$30,000
UNIV OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA$25,000
CrossExamined Org$20,000
CHILDRENS HOSPITAL FOUNDATION$20,000
Voice of the Martyrs$20,000
YOUNG AMERICA'S FOUNDATION$20,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY20–25, $55k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%Hitching Post Ministries: $5k → 11%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $3k → 14%Moms for America Inc: $5k → 14%Pregnancy Care Center of Grants Pass: $4k → 18%DECORATIVE ARTS SOCIETY: $3k → 10%DECORATIVE ARTS SOCIETY: $2k → 10%DECORATIVE ARTS SOCIETY: $2k → 10%DECORATIVE ARTS SOCIETY: $2k → 10%KIDWORKS COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT: $10k → 10%KIDWORKS COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT: $10k → 10%KIDWORKS COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT: $5k → 10%GOLF FORE LIFE SKILLS: $2k → 10%GOLF FORE LIFE SKILLS: $2k → 10%GOLF FORE LIFE SKILLS: $2k → 10%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

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CA
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CO
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AZ
KS
TN
NC
DC
HI
OK
LA
AL
GA
TX
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

90%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$3.8M · 75 repeat orgs$442k to everyone else

75 repeat relationships: 61 still active in FY2025, 14 since wound down; 22 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

75
68

Total granted

$3.8M
$321k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+9%
+31%

Still filing today

55%
49%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $121k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’23’24’25
Arts & CultureHuman ServicesEducationHealthReligionCrime & LegalOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • SC
    Seattle Children's Foundation
    2× · 2020–2025 · $359k · revenue +140%
  • FR
    FAMILY RESEARCH COUNCIL
    4× · 2020–2025 · $270k · revenue +47%
  • ALLIANCE DEFENDING FREEDOM
    2× · 2020–2024 · $183k · revenue +84%

Funded once

  • MONTCLAIR STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INCgraduated
    one grant, 2024 · $25k · revenue +140%
  • SC
    Segerstrom Center for the Artsgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $22k · revenue +145%
  • YT
    Youth Theatre Northwest
    one grant, 2020 · $20k · revenue +18%
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.

04Its field

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.

1
United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

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2
California Dental Association

The california dental association is committed to the success of our members in service to their patients and the public.

Community Improvement
3
Foreign Policy Research Institute

The foreign policy research institute (frpi) is dedicated to producing the highest quality scholarship and nonpartisan policy analysis focused on crucial foreign policy and national security challenges facing the united states. we educate…

International
4
Npr Foundation

The npr foundation ("foundation") is organized and operated exclusively for the benefit of its sole supported organization, national public radio, inc. ("npr inc."). the foundation supports npr inc. through various activities such as…

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5
Dominican University of California

Our institutional mission is to educate and prepare students to be ethical leaders and socially responsible global citizens who incorporate the dominican values of study, reflection, community and service into their lives.

Education
6
Evangel University

Evangel is a comprehensive christian university that is committed to excellence in educating and equipping students to become spirit empowered servants of god who will impact the church and society globally.

Education
7
American Civil Liberties Union Fund of the District of Columbia

Preservation of civil liberties through litigation and public education.

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8
Christianity Today International

Christianity Today is a global community inspired by evangelical conviction to advance the stories and ideas of the kingdom of God. Our mission is to elevate the storytellers and sages of the global church.

Religion
9
Augustana College

Rooted in the liberal arts & sciences & lutheran expression of the christian faith, & is committed to offering a challenging education that develops qualities of mind, spirit, & body necessary for a rewarding life of leadership & service…

Education
10
Pro Publica Inc

Pro publica is an independent, non-profit, pulitzer prize-winning newsroom that produces investigative journalism in the public interest. our work focuses exclusively on truly important stories. [see continuation on schedule o] we produce…

Arts & Culture
11
National Cable Satellite Corporation

Provide the public access to the live gavel-to-gavel proceedings of both houses of the us congress, and other forums where public policy is discussed, debated, and decided - all without editing, commentary or analysis and with a balanced…

Arts & Culture
12
The Rand Corporation

Help improve policy and decision making through research and analysis.

Public Benefit
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Heritage Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Red Bucket Equine Rescue. 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

94 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. 94 of the 167 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
91/94
Grantees still filing
58/94
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CHILDRENS HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $510,000 · OtherCHILDRENS HOSPITAL FOUNDATIONSeattle Children's Foundation: $359,000 · OtherSeattle Children's FoundationNATIONAL FOUNDATION FOR CANCER: $330,000 · OtherNATIONAL FOUNDATION FOR CANCERWESTERN FOUNDATION WESTERN: $265,000 · OtherWESTERN FOUNDATION WESTERNTHE NIXON FOUNDATION: $125,000 · OtherChristian Legal Society: $115,000 · Other+116 more: $1,454,614 · Other+116 moreFAMILY RESEARCH COUNCIL: $270,000 · Human ServicesFAMILY RES…SERVE TO LEAD: $60,000 · Human ServicesSERVE TO L…KIDWORKS COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORP: $25,000 · Human ServicesKIDWORKS C…+6 more: $29,800 · Human Services+6 moreUNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: $55,000 · EducationPRAGER UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $31,000 · EducationTHE RONALD REAGAN PRESIDENTIAL FOUNDATION AND INSTITUTE: $30,000 · EducationTHE BIBLE SEMINARY: $30,000 · EducationMONTCLAIR STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC: $25,000 · EducationSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION: $22,000 · EducationNORTHRISE UNIVERSITY INITIATIVE: $12,200 · EducationThe Master's University and Seminary: $10,000 · Education+2 more: $10,000 · EducationALLIANCE DEFENDING FREEDOM: $182,500 · Civil RightsCourt Appointed Special Advocates: $17,000 · Civil RightsCROSSEXAMINEDORG: $60,000 · ReligionGod's World Publications Inc: $43,000 · ReligionEVERY GENERATION MINISTRIES INC: $23,500 · ReligionInterVarsity Christian FellowshipUSA: $10,000 · ReligionOCEAN INSTITUTE: $5,000 · Religion+2 more: $3,338 · ReligionTHE CENTER FOR AMERICAN LIBERTY: $115,000 · Crime & LegalAmerica First Legal Foundation: $5,000 · Crime & Legal+4 more: $3,500 · Crime & LegalSegerstrom Center for the Arts: $21,500 · Arts & CultureSEATTLE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC: $20,000 · Arts & CultureYouth Theatre Northwest: $20,000 · Arts & CultureKAUAKOKO FOUNDATION: $17,500 · Arts & CultureTHE LAGUNA PLAYHOUSE: $10,000 · Arts & CultureTAUBMAN MUSEUM OF ART: $10,000 · Arts & CultureSOUTH COAST REPERTORY INC: $8,500 · Arts & Culture+4 more: $5,500 · Arts & Culture
Other$3,158,614Human Services$384,800Education$225,200Civil Rights$199,500Religion$144,838Crime & Legal$123,500Arts & Culture$113,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSeattle Children's Foundation: $359,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetFAMILY RESEARCH COUNCIL: $270,000 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetALLIANCE DEFENDING FREEDOM: $182,500 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetTHE CENTER FOR AMERICAN LIBERTY: $115,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetCROSSEXAMINEDORG: $60,000 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetSERVE TO LEAD: $60,000 over 2y, 5.4% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: $55,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetYoung America's Foundation: $51,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetGod's World Publications Inc: $43,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetPennies in Action Foundation: $40,000 over 4y, 6.6% of budgetINFORMED CONSENT ACTION NETWORK: $40,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetNATIONAL ABILITY CENTER: $34,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetAlternatives Pregnancy Center: $31,538 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetPRAGER UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $31,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCHILDREN'S HEALTH DEFENSE: $30,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTHE RONALD REAGAN PRESIDENTIAL FOUNDATION AND INSTITUTE: $30,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BIBLE SEMINARY: $30,000 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetHOAG HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $27,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetKIDWORKS COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORP: $25,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetMONTCLAIR STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetEVERY GENERATION MINISTRIES INC: $23,500 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION: $22,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSegerstrom Center for the Arts: $21,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetRED BUCKET EQUINE RESCUE: $21,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetNATIONS OF COACHES INC: $20,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetSEATTLE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC: $20,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetYouth Theatre Northwest: $20,000 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetNATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMERCER ISLAND SCHOOLS FOUNDATION: $20,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetKAUAKOKO FOUNDATION: $17,500 over 4y, 9.6% of budgetCALIFORNIA STATE PARKS FOUNDATION: $17,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetCourt Appointed Special Advocates: $17,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetNORTHLAKE CHRISTIAN SCHOOL: $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetINDEPENDENT MEDICAL ALLIANCE: $15,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetTEEN LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION: $14,000 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetMOUNTAIN AREA PREGNANCY SERVICES: $14,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetNORTHRISE UNIVERSITY INITIATIVE: $12,200 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetTHE LAGUNA PLAYHOUSE: $10,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetCRYSTAL COVE CONSERVANCY: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetJAARS INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTAUBMAN MUSEUM OF ART: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetLIFE 107 MINISTRIES INC: $9,000 over 2y, 7.9% of budgetDECORATIVE ARTS SOCIETY: $8,800 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetSOUTH COAST REPERTORY INC: $8,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE HERITAGE FOUNDATION: $7,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCATO INSTITUTE: $7,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetJUDICIAL WATCH INC: $7,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUNCONDITIONAL INC: $6,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budget
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 Seattle Children's Foundation ↗
  • Who funds FAMILY RESEARCH COUNCIL ↗
  • Who funds ALLIANCE DEFENDING FREEDOM ↗
  • Who funds THE CENTER FOR AMERICAN LIBERTY ↗
  • Who funds CROSSEXAMINEDORG ↗
  • Who funds SERVE TO LEAD ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA ↗
  • Who funds Young America's Foundation ↗
  • Who funds God's World Publications Inc ↗
  • Who funds Pennies in Action Foundation ↗
  • Who funds INFORMED CONSENT ACTION NETWORK ↗
  • Who funds NATIONAL ABILITY CENTER ↗
  • Who funds Alternatives Pregnancy Center ↗
  • Who funds PRAGER UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds CHILDREN'S HEALTH DEFENSE ↗
  • Who funds THE RONALD REAGAN PRESIDENTIAL FOUNDATION AND INSTITUTE ↗
  • Who funds THE BIBLE SEMINARY ↗
  • Who funds HOAG HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds KIDWORKS COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORP ↗
  • Who funds MONTCLAIR STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds EVERY GENERATION MINISTRIES 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.

Orange County Community FoundationCA33× affinity17 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Orange County Community Foundation · Greater Horizons · Christian Community Foundation Inc · Argyros Family Foundation · Bradley Impact Fund Inc · Donors Trust Inc · Stinehart Family Foundation · The Henkes Foundation · Servant Foundation · Usher Family Foundation · The Devto Support Foundation · California Community 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Mark H and Blanche M Harrington Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Mark H and Blanche M Harrington Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Wounded Warrior Project Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
16report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

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 167 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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