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The Harding-Buller Foundation of Worthington
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
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 57% of THE HARDING-BULLER FOUNDATION OF WORTHINGTON’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k9 grants · $36k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $20k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| HEALTHY WORTHINGTON RESOURCE CTR | $20,000 |
| DREAMS ON HORSEBACK | $5,000 |
| THE OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY | $5,000 |
| VETERAN COMPANION ANIMAL SERVICE | $5,000 |
| FAMILY MENTOR FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| COMPDRUG | $5,000 |
| LINWORTH SCHOOL COMMUNITY GARDEN | $5,000 |
| PEGGY R MCCONNELL ARTS CTR OF WORTH | $2,500 |
| CANCER SUPPORT COMMUNITY CENTRAL OH | $2,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,000 |
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 (FY24–24, $5k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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.
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.
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 +77% since the first grant, against +36% for the ones you funded once.
3 repeat relationships — 1 still active in FY2024, 2 since wound down; 9 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, 36% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $36k 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
- WSWORTHINGTON SDA CHURCH2× · 2020–2021 · $46k
- HWHEALTHY WORTHINGTON RESOURCE CENTER AND FOOD PANTRY INC3× · 2022–2024 · $43k · revenue +77%
- WWORTHINGTONSEVENTHDAYADVENTISTCHURC2× · 2022–2023 · $29k
Funded once
- OSOHIO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $6k · revenue +36%
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.
To improve the lives and health of people with hiv/aids, cancer, and other serious illnesses by preparing and delivering (free of charge) specialized meals and groceries, providing nutritional counseling, and reducing social isolation.
To assist, encourage, promote, and advance the best care, treatment, and rehabilitation of persons afflicted with cancer or related medical conditions.
To promote mental health research in medical developments
Our mission is to help people affected by cancer enhance their health and well-being through participation in a professional program of emotional support, education and hope. all services are offered at no cost to people with cancer and…
Helping all ohioans to reach their fullest health potential.
To offer support to those recovering from addictions
To assist people in achieving self-sufficiency, independence, and healthy lifestyles to the maximum extent possible by providing integrated family-oriented services.
Our mission is to ensure that all people impacted by cancer are empowered by knowledge, strengthened by action, and sustained by community. programs offered are totally free for individuals and families impacted by cancer.
Our mission is to empower, strengthen and sustain those impacted by cancer in our community through education, support and financial assistance.
The mission of the cooperstown food pantry is to address issues of poverty and hunger in otsego county.
Nurturing positive change within individuals and our community through the Human-Animal bond.
Csc uplifts and strengthens people impacted by cancer by providing support, fostering compassionate communities, and breaking down barriers to care.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Veteran Companion Animal Services and the most unlike its peers is Family Mentor Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
8 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. 8 of the 13 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 HEALTHY WORTHINGTON RESOURCE CENTER AND FOOD PANTRY INC ↗
- Who funds OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FAMILY MENTOR FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds VETERAN COMPANION ANIMAL SERVICES ↗
- Who funds COMPDRUG INC ↗
- Who funds DREAMS ON HORSEBACK ↗
- Who funds PEGGY R MCCONNELL ARTS CENTER OF WORTHINGTON ↗
- Who funds CANCER SUPPORT COMMUNITY CENTRAL OHIO ↗
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.
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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 The Harding-Buller Foundation of Worthington 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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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