· Private foundation
Robert E & Janice C Harpenau Founda
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k17 grants · $31k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $64k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SISTER OF ST BENEDICT | $25,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $25,000 |
| ST PIUS CHURCH | $14,000 |
| DERBY COMMUNITY CENTER | $5,000 |
| RILEY CHILDRENS FOUNDATION | $2,000 |
| PERRY COUNTY ON AGING | $2,000 |
| ST BARTHOLOMEW | $2,000 |
| PERRY COUNTY 4H | $2,000 |
| SHUBAEL LITTLE PIONEER VILLAGE | $2,000 |
| SHRINERS HOSPITAL | $2,000 |
| TELL CITY REGIONAL ARTS | $2,000 |
| PERRY COUNTY MUSEUM | $2,000 |
| TROY FELLOWSHIP CHURCH | $1,500 |
| RIVER EDGE ANIMAL SHELTER | $1,500 |
| FREEWILL BAPTIST CHURCH | $1,500 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY19–24, $4k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +40% since the first grant, against +10% for those funded once.
58 repeat relationships: 12 still active in FY2025, 46 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 48% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $49k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
SHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN6× · 2019–2024 · $3k · revenue +126%
WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC5× · 2020–2024 · $2k · revenue +50%
JUDICIAL WATCH INC6× · 2019–2024 · $2k · revenue +40%
Funded once
- SPST PIUSone grant, 2018 · $10k
- IGIndividual grant recipient3× · 2022–2024 · $5k
- JLJOANN LUTGRING FOUNDATIONone grant, 2021 · $5k
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.
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.
Preservation of civil liberties through litigation and public education.
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.
A nonprofit scientific research organization that develops vaccines and antibodies for hiv, tuberculosis, and emerging infectious diseases.
Faith in public life's mission is to advance the moral imperative for a just, inclusive and equitable country that allows each of us to live into our full humanity. we do this by building power and cultures of belongings among diverse…
Engage actively and continuously in medical research, education and training in the practice of medicine in conjunction with the department of family medicine of the indiana university school of medicine and indiana university…
To defend and preserve the individual rights and liberties that the constitution and laws of the united states guarantee everyone in this country.
The american civil liberties union of indiana seeks to promote, protect, and defend the rights, liberties, and freedoms guaranteed to all people in our state by the united states and indiana constitutions.
To serve our communities by provding innovative and compassionate healthcare.
Trusted journalism, inspiring stories and lifelong learning.
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…
As a christian university, we provide education and research opportunities preparing global leaders to partner with local communities.
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.
How this is measured
28 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. 28 of the 118 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
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.
Open a dossier: Vandevere Charitable Foundation · Farrell Family Foundation · Community Foundation Alliance Inc · Sacred Family Causes Foundation · Ebs Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Robert E & Janice C Harpenau Founda funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Robert E & Janice C Harpenau Founda. Bigger dots raise more.
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc: 0% of income from government
- Shriners Hospitals for Children: 0% of income from government
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