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Norbert H Hardner 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 FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k2 grants · $7k
- $10k–50k12 grants · $203k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $110k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Cathedral Preparatory School | $60,000 |
| Trout Unlimited | $50,000 |
| Homefront Inc | $40,000 |
| Communities In Schools | $25,000 |
| Hyde Square Task Force | $20,000 |
| Sisters Of Saint Joseph Of NW PA | $18,000 |
| Amazon Conservation Team | $15,000 |
| Breakthrough Austin | $15,000 |
| Erie City Mission | $15,000 |
| Georgetown Project | $12,500 |
| Partners In Sustainable Development | $12,100 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| Hands On Hartford | $10,000 |
| Georgetown Area Parkinsons Support | $10,000 |
| Carolyns House Hospice | $5,000 |
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 (FY20–24, $295k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 29% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 6% of Norbert H Hardner Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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 +42% since the first grant, against +19% for the ones you funded once.
18 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2024, 7 since wound down; 5 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, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $47k 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
- HIHOMEFRONT INC5× · 2020–2024 · $210k · revenue +42%
THE HYDE SQUARE TASK FORCE INC5× · 2020–2024 · $100k · revenue +104%- TUTROUT UNLIMITED INC2× · 2022–2024 · $77k · revenue +49%
Funded once
- COCommunity of Caring Incone grant, 2022 · $35k · revenue +19%
- MIMassachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Picower Instituteone grant, 2022 · $25k
- MPMIT Picower Instituteone grant, 2023 · $20k
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.
Handicap international dba humanity & inclusion (hi) works with people with disabilities and people living in situations of vulnerability, including poverty, exclusion, conflict, and disaster.
Gardens for Health International works to provide lasting agricultural solutions to chronic childhood malnutrition
Construction/repair of homes for qualified low-income individuals and families. homes are sold based on fair market value as established by a third-party, independent appraisal with no homebuyer paying more than 30% of their monthly income…
Trickle up helps people in extreme poverty and vulnerability advance their economic and social well-being. we drive large-scale change by partnering with governments, global institutions, and local organizations.
Trenton Health Team's mission is to improve community health and well-being in the community of greater Trenton, New Jersey.
Children's house international provides ethical adoption services, child focused recruitment, and family support. we support disadvantaged children with humanitarian aid in countries worldwide.
The mission of Coming Home is to create a system to end homelessness in Middlesex County by fostering collaborations and public-private partnerships among all stakeholders to ensure that people have a stable place to call home and…
Transform works to ensure that people of all incomes thrive in a world safe from climate chaos.
Home-first offers permanent solutions to homelessness by providing transitional housing and permanent housing, homelessness prevention assitance and support services to strengthen families and build commun
Partnership housing, inc. brings people together to build homes, communities and hope to realize our vision of a world where everyone has a decent place to live.
Partnering with economically disadvantaged individuals and families. Hancock County Habitat For Humanity seeks to eliminate poverty housing and to make decent, affordable shelter a matter of conscience and action.
Habitat for humanity brings people together as volunteers, homeowners, donors, and community members to create strength, stability, and self-reliance through shelter. working with volunteers, families, individuals, corporations,…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Feeding Westchester Inc and the most unlike its peers is Hospice of Central Pennsylvania. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
18 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. 18 of the 30 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 HOMEFRONT INC ↗
- Who funds THE HYDE SQUARE TASK FORCE INC ↗
- Who funds TROUT UNLIMITED INC ↗
- Who funds The Georgetown Project ↗
- Who funds HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH INC ↗
- Who funds Sea Turtle Conservancy ↗
- Who funds BREAKTHROUGH ↗
- Who funds HOSPICE OF CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA ↗
- Who funds Families in Transition ↗
- Who funds PARTNERS IN SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds Community of Caring Inc ↗
- Who funds HANDS ON HARTFORD INC ↗
- Who funds AMAZON CONSERVATION TEAM ↗
- Who funds CITY MISSION OF THE EVANGELICAL CHURCHES OF ERIE ↗
- Who funds WAVE HILL INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds FEEDING WESTCHESTER INC ↗
- Who funds Fueled by Kids Inc ↗
- Who funds SHANKAR SERVICE FOUNDATION 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.
Open a dossier: Ge Aerospace Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · American Endowment Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving 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 Norbert H Hardner 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- The Hyde Square Task Force Inc — 52% of income from government
- Hands On Hartford Inc — 20% of income from government
- Sea Turtle Conservancy — 1% of income from government
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.
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