How much does The Harding Family Foundation give?

The Harding Family Foundation reported 20 grants totaling $174,700 in its FY2026 IRS filing. It funded between 10 and 18 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2025.

What does The Harding Family Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2026, its largest causes are Environment (30%), Health (17%), Philanthropy (14%).

Who are The Harding Family Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2026: The Everglades Foundation Inc ($108k), Colgate University ($83k), Bay Head Yacht Club Foundation ($67k).

Does The Harding Family Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2025, 33% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does The Harding Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

Which funders back the same organizations as The Harding Family Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Community Foundation of New Jersey, The John H and Katherine J Weiland Foundation Inc, George and Ruth Harms Foundation.

Where is The Harding Family Foundation based?

The Harding Family Foundation is based in NJ.

The Harding Family Foundation

The Harding Family Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

The Harding Family Foundation

Its FY2026 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$175k

Granted FY2026still arriving

Grants FY2026still arriving

States reached

$51k

Largest

01What it funds

0196% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Environment$174kHealth$95kPhilanthropy$80kEducation$60kHuman Services$59kArts & Culture$34kFood & Nutrition$27kRecreation & Sports$19kOther$0

02FY2026 · 20 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2026

Under $10k16 grants · $38k
$10k–50k2 grants · $37k
$50k–250k2 grants · $101k

$2,000

Median grant

States reached

$2.7M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
Colgate University	$50,500
Everglades Foundation	$50,000
Ocean Reef Community Foundation	$26,000
Community Foundation of NJ	$10,500
Hudson Farm Foundation	$6,000
Memorial Sloan Kettering	$5,000
Open Space Institute	$5,000
Save Barnegat Bay	$5,000
Parkinson Foundation	$5,000
Individual grant recipient	$2,000
Great Swamp Watershed Association	$2,000
Rain Forest Foundation	$2,000
NJ Highland Coalition	$1,000
Save Our Springs Alliance	$1,000
Sojourner Foundation	$1,000

02The need

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY20–26, $6k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 64% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

How this is measured

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

How this is measured

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.

03Its grantees

repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

91%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$583k · 27 repeat orgs$58k to everyone else

27 repeat relationships: 15 still active in FY2026, 12 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2026 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$583k

$44k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+32%

+71%

Still filing today

81%

63%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2026, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $14k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

EnvironmentHuman ServicesEducationArts & CulturePhilanthropyFood & NutritionOther

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.

Backed again, and grew

THE EVERGLADES FOUNDATION INC
7× · 2017–2026 · $108k · revenue +226%
CU
COLGATE UNIVERSITY
7× · 2017–2026 · $83k · revenue +80%
BH
BAY HEAD YACHT CLUB FOUNDATION
5× · 2018–2025 · $67k · revenue +582%

Funded once

SA
St Andrews School Fund
one grant, 2024 · $10k
TK
The Kent Place Fund
one grant, 2022 · $5k
CF
Corp for NJ Local Media
one grant, 2022 · $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.

04Its field

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.

Hudson River Foundation for Science and Environmental Research Inc

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).

Environment

The Quebec-Labrador Foundation Inc

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…

Philanthropy

Atlantic Coast Conservancy Inc

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…

Environment

Conserve Wildlife Foundation of New Jersey Inc

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.

Animals

Wildcoast

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.…

Environment

Rainforest Trust

Rainforest trust saves endangered wildlife and protects our planet by creating rainforest reserves through partnerships, community engagement, and donor support.

International

World Wildlife Fund Inc

Wwf's mission is to conserve nature and reduce the most pressing threats to the diversity of life on earth. (continued on schedule o)

Environment

Oceana Inc

To advocate for policy changes by governments and corporations in order to preserve ocean life and return the oceans to their former abundance.

Environment

Ocean Conservancy

Ocean conservancy unites science, people, and policy to protect our ocean, today and for generations to come.

Environment

Sea Research Foundation Inc

To inspire people to care for and protect our ocean planet through education and research.

Animals

Conservation Law Foundation Inc

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,…

Environment

Conservation International Foundation

Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.

Environment

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Ocean Reef Community Foundation Inc; 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.

04the grantee network

42 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 42 of the 60 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

41/42

Grantees still filing

28/42

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Environment$248,800Other$234,270Philanthropy$105,500Education$90,000Food & Nutrition$33,000Arts & Culture$27,500Human Services$6,700

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.

Community Foundation of New JerseyNJ24.6× affinity11 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Harding Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Harding Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

16get no government money at all

8report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

typical government reliance, FY20–25

How this is measured

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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

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By state

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