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The Harding Foundation 2108-01-44 at a glance

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The Harding Foundation 2108-01-44

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$2.6M
Granted FY2024still arriving
16
Grants FY2024still arriving
8
States reached
$1.0M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0195% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Recreation & Sports$3.7MReligion$1.8MInternational$1.6MPhilanthropy$1.1MEducation$820kArts & Culture$665kCrime & Legal$500kAnimals$268kOther$0
02FY2024 · 16 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k1 grant · $5k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $55k
  • $50k–250k9 grants · $850k
  • $250k+3 grants · $1.7M
$100,000
Median grant
8
States reached
$54M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
The Community Foundation for$1,000,000
The Blessing Projects$400,000
Biblos Foundation$300,000
The Classical Academy De Lafayette Inc$150,000
Holly Dickens Festival$135,000
Memory Layne Global Missions$100,000
Voices for Children Advocacy$100,000
Peace Haven$100,000
City Academy$75,000
The Classical Academy De Lafayette Inc$75,000
Camps Newfound Owatonna Corporation$65,000
Fern Lodge Inc$50,000
ActiveDiscovery Club$25,000
E3 Elevating Education Everywhere Inc$15,000
Holly Area Veterans Resource Center$15,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

show:

Its human-services grants (FY24–24, $115k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 87% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%Memory Layne Global Missions: $100k → 16%Holly Area Veterans Resource Center: $15k → 8%0%20%40%50%more need →
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

ME
WA
MN
MI
WY
PA
CA
CO
MO
MD
TN
HI
OK
FL
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.

83%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$8.5M · 17 repeat orgs$1.7M to everyone else

17 repeat relationships: 10 still active in FY2024, 7 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

17
14

Total granted

$8.5M
$1.5M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+12%
+64%

Still filing today

82%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $195k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’22’23’24
AnimalsReligionRecreation & SportsHuman ServicesEducationArts & CultureOther
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

  • BF
    Biblos Foundation
    4× · 2020–2024 · $1.2M · revenue +6% · 86% of their budget
  • CA
    CLASSICAL ACADEMY DE LAFAYETTE
    4× · 2020–2024 · $525k · revenue +425%
  • PEACE HAVEN ASSOCIATION INC
    3× · 2022–2024 · $465k · revenue +3%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2022 · $543k
  • CF
    Community Foundation of Greater
    one grant, 2023 · $200k
  • RE
    Robert E Weiss Advocacy Center
    one grant, 2022 · $200k
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.

1
Earth Sanctuary Inc

Earth Sanctuary's mission is education and applied learning which includes the recruitment of student leaders through a selective application process, cultivating a wide base of faculty and community mentors to support student learning.

Education
2
Cherry Hills Christian School

Cherry Hills Christian School awakens the educational experience by preparing students to live fully for God in a rapidly changing world, knowing they are His masterpieces, uniquely designed for His purpose.

Education
3
Artesia Classical Academy Inc

In partnership with parents, Artesia Classical Academy equips students to be Christlike disciples and servant-leaders who know and share God's Word.

Education
4
Childrens House International

Children's house international provides ethical adoption services, child focused recruitment, and family support. we support disadvantaged children with humanitarian aid in countries worldwide.

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5
Childcare Worldwide

Childcare Worldwide (CW) transforms children's lives by exposing them to the gospel of Jesus Christ, providing for their physical needs, and sponsoring their education. We connect sponsors with children through Christ-based life centers.…

International
6
St Anne's Episcopal School Inc

St. Anne's Episcopal School is a PK-8 independent school dedicated to fostering academic excellence, character development, and a strong sense of community, guided by our core values of community, curiosity, faith, compassion, and humility.

—
7
Yours Humanly

Yours Humanly (YH) transforms the lives of children in need around the world by providing access to quality education and equitable resources. Through its two flagship initiatives, Coloring Futures and Bridging Gaps, YH has completed 34…

Education
8
Manna University

Manna University is a biblical higher education institution dedicated to educating, equipping, and empowering emerging leaders to change the world.

Education
9
Christian Montessori Academy Inc

Christian Montessori Academy is dedicated to offering a joyful, loving, and supportive learning environment in a Christ-centered atmosphere. CMA currently serves ages 3-15 in our Primary through Middle School classrooms.

Education
10
Global Scholars

Global scholars exists so that christian academics are adequately equipped to have a redemptive influence among their students, colleagues, universities and disciplines, at a reasonable cost.

—
11
Christianity Today International

Christianity Today is a global community inspired by evangelical conviction to advance the stories and ideas of the kingdom of God. Our mission is to elevate the storytellers and sages of the global church.

Religion
12
Animal Care Sanctuary

Animal care sanctuary's lifesaving mission as a no kill organization envisions a community that promotes turning compassion into action for companion animals by: 1.) adopting healthy pet companions into loving homes. 2.) promoting the…

Animals
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Clarion Project Inc; the most unlike its peers is Biblos Foundation. 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

26 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. 26 of the 37 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.

3
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
26/26
Grantees still filing
19/26
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

The Community Foundation for: $3,150,000 · OtherThe Community Foundation forIndividual grant recipient: $542,615 · OtherIndividual grant recipientCommunity Foundation of Greater: $200,000 · OtherRobert E Weiss Advocacy Center: $200,000 · Other+22 more: $1,327,950 · Other+22 moreBiblos Foundation: $1,155,000 · ReligionBiblos FoundationPEACE HAVEN ASSOCIATION INC: $465,000 · ReligionPEACE HAVEN ASSOC…+1 more: $45,000 · ReligionThe Blessing Projects: $1,540,385 · Community ImprovementThe Blessing Pr…COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR PALM BEACH AND MARTIN COUNTIES INC: $850,000 · PhilanthropyCLASSICAL ACADEMY DE LAFAYETTE: $525,000 · EducationCITY ACADEMY INC: $150,000 · EducationCamp Newfound Owatonna Corporation: $290,000 · Recreation & SportsCRYSTAL LAKE CAMPS INC: $175,000 · Recreation & SportsLIFT FOR LIFE ACADEMY INC: $100,000 · Recreation & SportsVOICES FOR CHILDREN ADVOCACY: $300,000 · Crime & Legal
Other$5,420,565Religion$1,665,000Community Improvement$1,540,385Philanthropy$850,000Education$675,000Recreation & Sports$565,000Crime & Legal$300,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetThe Blessing Projects: $1,540,385 over 4y, 64% of budgetBiblos Foundation: $1,155,000 over 4y, 86% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR PALM BEACH AND MARTIN COUNTIES INC: $850,000 over 1y, 3.7% of budgetCLASSICAL ACADEMY DE LAFAYETTE: $525,000 over 4y, 13% of budgetPEACE HAVEN ASSOCIATION INC: $465,000 over 3y, 5.1% of budgetVOICES FOR CHILDREN ADVOCACY: $300,000 over 2y, 7.2% of budgetCamp Newfound Owatonna Corporation: $290,000 over 4y, 7.8% of budgetCRYSTAL LAKE CAMPS INC: $175,000 over 2y, 21% of budgetHOLLY DICKENS FESTIVAL: $165,000 over 2y, 77% of budgetCITY ACADEMY INC: $150,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetTHE GROWHAUS: $125,000 over 2y, 3.4% of budgetCLARION PROJECT INC: $125,000 over 1y, 4.7% of budgetLIFT FOR LIFE ACADEMY INC: $100,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetMEMORY LAYNE GLOBAL MISSIONS: $100,000 over 1y, 14% of budgetAnimal Aid Unlimited: $100,000 over 2y, 2.5% of budgetSKY DOG SANCTUARY INC: $75,000 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetIndian River County Habitat for Humanity Inc: $70,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetMcCarthys Wildlife Sanctuary Inc: $62,950 over 2y, 6.0% of budgetChestnut Hill Benevolent Association: $60,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetFern Lodge Inc: $50,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetE3 ELEVATING EDUCATION EVERYWHERE INC: $45,000 over 3y, 6.6% of budgetACTIVEDISCOVERY CLUB: $25,000 over 1y, 14% of budgetCAMP LEELANAU AND KOHAHNA FOUNDATION INC: $25,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetMERCY FOR ANIMALS INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetHolly Area Veterans Resource Center: $15,000 over 1y, 21% of budgetSAVE THE SEA TURTLES INTERNATIONAL DBA ONE OCEAN CONSERVATION: $10,000 over 1y, 15% of budget
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.

The Isabel FoundationTenacre FoundationTowle Family Foundati…Charles Stewart Hardi…The Thomas and Michel…Charles Stewart Mott …ImpactassetsincMorgan Stanley Global…Jpmorgan Chase Founda…The Pfizer Foundation…Vanguard Charitable E…Donor Advised Charita…
The Isabel FoundationMI19.9× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Isabel Foundation · Tenacre Foundation · Towle Family Foundation · Charles Stewart Harding Foundation · The Thomas and Michele Parsons Family Foundation · Charles Stewart Mott Foundation · Impactassetsinc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc

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 Foundation 2108-01-44 funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Harding Foundation 2108-01-44. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%6%23%51%90%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
    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.

    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 37 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-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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