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Massachusetts · Public charity

The Harbus Foundation

Support projects and awarding grants and scholarships to programs involved in journalism, literacy and educational activities surrounding the harvard business school.

$60k
Granted FY2019
3
Grants FY2019
3
Organizations funded FY2019
100%
First-time grantees FY2019
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Median grant, FY2019
$20,000
Largest grant, FY2019
$20,000
Organizations funded a year
3 to 3
FY2017 to FY2019
States reached, FY2019
2
Total assets, FY2019
$1.4M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2019, 100% of the organizations The Harbus Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 100% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2019, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $60k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19
EducationEmploymentYouth DevelopmentArts & CultureHuman Services
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
FY20193$60k100%
FY20183$60k100%
FY20173$50kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2019.

Education$90kYouth Development$40kArts & Culture$40k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2019, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
The Groundtruth Project Inc$20,00010%
Literations Corp$20,00011%
Generation Teach Inc$20,00011%
WGBH Educational Foundation$20,00010%
More Than Words Inc$20,00010%
Enroot Inc$20,00012%
Raising A Reader$20,00011%
Empower Schools Inc$20,00011%
WriteBoston Inc$10,00011%

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Harbus Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetThe Groundtruth Project Inc: $20,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetLiterations Corp: $20,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetGeneration Teach Inc: $20,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetWGBH Educational Foundation: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMore Than Words Inc: $20,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetEnroot Inc: $20,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetRaising A Reader: $20,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetEmpower Schools Inc: $20,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetWriteBoston Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 1.1% 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 9.

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.

Wellington Management…Eastern Bank Foundati…Boston Foundation IncVanguard Charitable E…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Wellington Management FoundationMA13.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 6 of 6Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Wellington Management Foundation · Eastern Bank Foundation · Boston Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving 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 The Harbus Foundation

How much does The Harbus Foundation give?
The Harbus Foundation reported 3 grants totaling $60,000 in its FY2019 IRS filing. It funded between 3 and 3 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2019.
What does The Harbus Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2019, its largest causes are Education (53%), Youth Development (24%), Arts & Culture (24%).
Who are The Harbus Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2019: The Groundtruth Project Inc ($20k), Literations Corp ($20k), Generation Teach Inc ($20k).
Does The Harbus Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2019, 100% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as The Harbus Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Wellington Management Foundation, Eastern Bank Foundation, Boston Foundation Inc.
Where is The Harbus Foundation based?
The Harbus Foundation is based in MA.

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 9 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2019, released 2019. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2020) is on record and reports no grant expense, so the figures above are from FY2019, the most recent year this funder made grants.

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