· Private foundation
The Harden Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ST MARY'S FOOD BANK | $4,000 |
| YAVAPAI FOOD BANK | $3,500 |
| DMARC FOOD PANTRY | $3,500 |
| SALVATION ARMY | $3,000 |
| PHOENIX RESCUE LEAGUE | $3,000 |
| BALLET ARIZONA | $2,000 |
| AGAPE HOUSE | $1,500 |
| HOSPICE OF THE VALLEY | $1,000 |
| THE FREE STORE | $1,000 |
| CHILDREN & FAMILIES OF IOWA | $1,000 |
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 (FY21–25, $28k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 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
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 100% of The Harden Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 71% of the giving stays in AZ; by stated purpose, 0%.
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 +26% since the first grant, against +6% for those funded once.
10 repeat relationships: 7 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down; 3 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, 77% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- SMST MARY'S FOOD BANK ALLIANCE6× · 2020–2025 · $21k · revenue +31%
- PGPHOENIX GOSPEL MISSION4× · 2020–2024 · $15k · revenue +26%
- HOHospice of the Valley5× · 2021–2025 · $10k · revenue +33%
Funded once
FOOD BANK OF CENTRAL & EASTERN NC INCone grant, 2024 · $3k · revenue +6%- CFCHILDREN & FAMILY URBAN MOVEMENTone grant, 2021 · $2k
AMERICAN FOUNDATION FOR SUICIDE PREVENTIONone grant, 2023 · $2k · revenue -9%
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.
United Food Bank unites communities to alleviate hunger.
Develop solutions to end hunger through food banking, public policy and innovation.
To end hunger in san francisco and marin counties by soliciting food donations nationally, distributing this food to qualifying public service agencies and neighborhood pantries, advocating for improved government food programs, and…
Impact of southern arizona is a private non-profit volunteer based organization which empowers southern arizonans with the resources required to pursue a stabilized and enhanced quality of life.
The food bank for central & northeast missouri is a regional disaster and hunger relief network that acquires and distributes millions of meals each year to help neighbors get the food they need to thrive. (continued on schedule o)the…
To provide food to all in need through community partnerships and hunger relief programs. Our vision is a hunger-free Larimer County.
Our mission is to solve hunger in central pennsylvania by ensuring that everyone struggling with hunger has access to enough wholesome food every day. we will achieve this bold goal with the help of our generous donors, volunteers and…
To ensure our communities are healthy and hunger-free today, tomorrow, and always.
None
To end hunger and transform the health of our community by providing nourishment to those in need by acquiring and distributing safe nutritious food via local agencies and by providing education to solve hunger and nutritional problems in…
Food bank of the rockies ignites the power of community to nourish people facing food insecurity.
The maryland food bank is a nonprofit hunger-relief organization dedicated to feeding people, strengthening communities, and ending hunger for more marylanders.
How this is measured
9 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. 9 of the 18 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.
- Who funds ST MARY'S FOOD BANK ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds PHOENIX GOSPEL MISSION ↗
- Who funds Hospice of the Valley ↗
- Who funds Yavapai Food Bank Inc ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN AND FAMILIES OF IOWA ↗
- Who funds BALLET ARIZONA ↗
- Who funds FREESTORE FOODBANK INC ↗
- Who funds FOOD BANK OF CENTRAL & EASTERN NC INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FOUNDATION FOR SUICIDE PREVENTION ↗
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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.
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How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Harden Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Harden Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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