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The Harding Family Foundation
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 you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k14 grants · $27k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $93k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Ocean Reef Community Foundation | $26,000 |
| The Everglades Foundation | $25,000 |
| Bay Head Yacht Club Foundation | $15,520 |
| Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer | $15,000 |
| Save Barnegat Bay | $11,000 |
| Hudson Farm Foundation | $6,000 |
| Ocean Reef Cultural Center | $5,000 |
| Open Space Institute | $2,500 |
| Rainforest Foundation | $2,000 |
| New Jersey Conservation Foundation | $2,000 |
| Great Swamp Watershed Association | $2,000 |
| New Jersey Audubon | $1,000 |
| Preservation Fund | $1,000 |
| Surfrider Foundation | $1,000 |
| Coral Restoration Foundation | $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 (FY20–25, $5k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 60% 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.
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.
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 +37% since the first grant, against +32% for the ones you funded once.
22 repeat relationships — 12 still active in FY2025, 10 since wound down; 6 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, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k 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
- BHBAY HEAD YACHT CLUB FOUNDATION5× · 2018–2025 · $67k · revenue +582%
THE EVERGLADES FOUNDATION INC6× · 2017–2025 · $58k · revenue +226%- OROCEAN REEF CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION INC5× · 2017–2022 · $50k · revenue +410%
Funded once
- SASt Andrews School Fundone grant, 2024 · $10k
- TKThe Kent Place Fundone grant, 2022 · $5k
- CFCorp for NJ Local Mediaone grant, 2022 · $5k
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.
The mission of the hudson river foundation is to inspire and inform action through science and engaging people to enhance the hudson river, estuary, and watershed (see schedule o).
The program mission of the quebec-labrador foundation u.s. is defined by a regional component (new england and eastern canada), and an international component, which ties our regional model to a global conservation network. qlf's program…
Conserve wildlife foundation of new jersey works to preserve rare and at-risk wildlife in new jersey through field science, habitat restoration, education, and public engagement.
The mission of the atlantic coast conservancy is to provide 21st century solutions and sound scientific applications for conservation of critical natural resources in the face of a changing climate, focusing on the southeasthern united…
Rainforest trust saves endangered wildlife and protects our planet by creating rainforest reserves through partnerships, community engagement, and donor support.
Wwf's mission is to conserve nature and reduce the most pressing threats to the diversity of life on earth. (continued on schedule o)
The mission of wildcoast is to conserve coastal and marine ecosystems and address climate change through natural solutions. our staff is dedicated to conserving threatened and endangered coastlines and wildlife in california and mexico.…
The northeastern regional association of coastal and ocean observing systems' (neracoos) mission is to produce, integrate and communicate high- quality information that helps ensure safety, economic and environmental resilience, and…
To advocate for policy changes by governments and corporations in order to preserve ocean life and return the oceans to their former abundance.
Ocean conservancy unites science, people, and policy to protect our ocean, today and for generations to come.
Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.
Conservation law foundation, inc. (clf) protects new england's environment for the benefit of all people and future generations. we use the law, science, and markets to create solutions that preserve and restore our natural resources,…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Open Space Institute Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Preservation Fund. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 37 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
42 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. 42 of the 56 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 BAY HEAD YACHT CLUB FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds OCEAN REEF COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE EVERGLADES FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds OCEAN REEF MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds OCEAN REEF CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds COLGATE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds SAVE BARNEGAT BAY INC ↗
- Who funds HUDSON FARM FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds OCEAN REEF CULTURAL CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF NEW JERSEY ↗
- Who funds New Jersey Audubon Society ↗
- Who funds Great Swamp Watershed Association ↗
- Who funds KENT PLACE SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds THE GARDEN CLUB OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds RAINFOREST FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds NEW JERSEY CONSERVATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds OPEN SPACE INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds SOJOURNER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NEW JERSEY HIGHLANDS COALITION ↗
- Who funds THE CORAL RESTORATION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE WILLOWWOOD FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds OCEAN COUNTY COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SOJOURNER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds The Preservation Fund ↗
- Who funds ONE WEST 54TH STREET FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Save Our Springs Alliance Inc ↗
- Who funds FAMILY PEACE CENTER ↗
- Who funds PROJECT SELF-SUFFICIENCY OF SUSSEX COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds WOMENONE LTD ↗
- Who funds ORCAT 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: Community Foundation of New Jersey · The John H and Katherine J Weiland Foundation Inc · George and Ruth Harms Foundation · Fm Kirby Foundation Inc · Ej Grassmann Trust · The Cleveland Foundation · Jewish Communal Fund · Baird Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust
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 Family 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.
- Chesapeake Conservancy Inc — 27% of income from government
- Florida Keys Childrens Shelter Inc — 19% of income from government
- The Coral Restoration Foundation Inc — 16% of income from government
- Plaid House Inc — 9% of income from government
- Paper Mill Playhouse — 9% of income from government
- Soundwaters Inc — 4% of income from government
- New Jersey Audubon Society — 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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