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The Hardy Bunch Foundation at a glance

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The Hardy Bunch Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$54k
Granted FY2024still arriving
14
Grants FY2024still arriving
6
States reached
$42k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0193% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2022 to 2024.

International$132kPhilanthropy$10kEducation$3kHousing & Shelter$2kHealth$1kArts & Culture$1kReligion$800Human Services$515Other$0
02FY2024 · 14 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k13 grants · $13k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $42k
$1,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$723k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
BRIDGES TO MALAWI$41,500
THE MOONCATCHER PROJECT$2,060
UNITED WAY OF TRI COUNTY$2,051
THE WATER PROJECT$1,569
WORLD POSSIBLE$1,500
MOVING WINDMILLS PROJECT$1,276
Individual grant recipient$1,000
PINE STREET INN$1,000
UMASS MEMORIAL OFFICE OF PHILANTHROPHY$1,000
WGBH$506
MIRACLE NETWORK DANCE MARATHON - CHILDREN'S MIRACLE NETWORK HOSPITALS$321
MASSACHUSETTS AUDUBON SOCIETY INC$250
4 JAKES SAKE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION$100
NATIONAL COUNCIL OF NONPROFITS (NCN)$100
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, $1k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%PINE STREET INN: $1k → 16%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

NH
IL
NY
MA
CA
UT
CO
VA
DC
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.
$140k · 6 repeat orgs$14k to everyone else

6 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2024, 0 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

6
8

Total granted

$140k
$8k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+6%
+12%

Still filing today

67%
63%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k went to new ones.

50%100%’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’22’23’24
InternationalHealthPhilanthropyHuman ServicesPublic Safety & DisasterHousing & ShelterOther
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

  • BT
    BRIDGES TO MALAWI
    3× · 2022–2024 · $125k · revenue +6% · 25% of their budget
  • UM
    UMASS MEMORIAL OFFICE OF PHILANTHROPHY
    2× · 2023–2024 · $6k
  • WP
    WORLD POSSIBLE
    2× · 2023–2024 · $3k · revenue +35%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2023 · $3k
  • MT
    MARINE TOYS FOR TOTS FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2023 · $1k · revenue +20%
  • WORLD BICYCLE RELIEF NFP
    one grant, 2023 · $1k · revenue -8%
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
Direct Action for Women Now World-Wide Inc Formerly Indias Daughters Inc
Philanthropy
2
Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition

The mission of the global alliance for improved nutrition (gain) is to improve the consumption of healthier diets for all, especially the most vulnerable, by improving the availability, affordability, desirability, and sustainability of…

Food & Nutrition
3
Management Sciences for Health Inc

(msh) saves lives and improves the health of the world's poorest (see schedule o) and most vulnerable people by closing the gap between knowledge and action in public health.

International
4
Mary's Meals Usa Inc

To raise donations to (i) provide a daily meal in a place of education for children in the world's poorest communities; (ii) occasionally provide relief for those suffering, in any part of the world, as a result of humanitarian crises…

International
5
Land O'lakes VENTURE37

To replace poverty with prosperity by implementing donor-funded projects that provide global humanitarian aid to communities and individuals in developing countries through in-kind, financial and technical assistance.

International
6
Project Milk Mission

Project milk mission is at the forefront of a vital mission - reducing infant mortality rates by championing breastfeeding, with a special focus on supporting low-income african american mothers. through comprehensive services spanning the…

Food & Nutrition
7
Women for Women International

In countries affected by conflict and war, women for women international (women for women) supports the most marginalized women to earn and save money, improve health and well-being, influence decisions in their home and community, and…

International
8
Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation

Partners In Health (PIH) is a non-profit, global health organization that fights social injustice by bringing the benefits of modern medical science first and foremost to the most vulnerable communities worldwide. In Haiti, Malawi, Rwanda,…

Health
9
Project Drawdown

Project drawdown's mission is to drive meaningful climate action by advancing science-based solutions and strategies. project drawdown's work is focused on three pillars: science - advancing science-based climate solutions and strategies;…

Education
10
Charity Global Inc

Charity: water is a non-profit organization bringing clean and safe water to people around the world. continued on schedule o.

Human Services
11
Floresta Usa Incorporated

Plant with purpose, a christian nonprofit organization, reverses deforestation and poverty around the world by transforming the lives of the rural poor. we do this through: - watershed restoration & regenerative agriculture - savings…

International
12
The Malala Fund

We work to ensure all girls can access and complete 12 years of education. by completing 12 years of quality schooling, girls will have the knowledge, skills and confidence they need to reach their full potential, make their own life…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United Way of Tri County Inc; the most unlike its peers is 4 Jakes Sake Charitable 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

16 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. 16 of the 23 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
15/16
Grantees still filing
8/16
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

BRIDGES TO MALAWI: $124,902 · HealthBRIDGES TO MALAWI+2 more: $1,100 · HealthUMASS MEMORIAL OFFICE OF PHILANTHROPHY: $6,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $2,500 · OtherWGBH: $1,006 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $1,000 · OtherHOLY CROSS CATHOLIC CHURCH OF EASTON: $800 · Other+2 more: $521 · OtherWORLD POSSIBLE: $3,175 · InternationalTHE MOONCATCHER PROJECT INC: $3,090 · InternationalMOVING WINDMILLS PROJECT INC: $1,589 · InternationalTHE WATER PROJECT INC: $1,569 · InternationalUNITED WAY OF TRI COUNTY INC: $2,051 · PhilanthropyMARINE TOYS FOR TOTS FOUNDATION: $1,033 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY OF THE BAY AREA: $1,000 · Philanthropy+1 more: $100 · PhilanthropyPINE STREET INN INC: $1,000 · Human ServicesNow I Lay Me Down to Sleep: $515 · Human ServicesWORLD BICYCLE RELIEF NFP: $1,015 · Public Safety & DisasterROSIE'S PLACE INC: $1,000 · Housing & ShelterMASSACHUSETTS AUDUBON SOCIETY INC: $250 · Environment
Health$126,002Other$11,827International$9,423Philanthropy$4,184Human Services$1,515Public Safety & Disaster$1,015Housing & Shelter$1,000Environment$250

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetBRIDGES TO MALAWI: $124,902 over 3y, 25% of budgetWORLD POSSIBLE: $3,175 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetTHE MOONCATCHER PROJECT INC: $3,090 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetUNITED WAY OF TRI COUNTY INC: $2,051 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMOVING WINDMILLS PROJECT INC: $1,589 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetTHE WATER PROJECT INC: $1,569 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMARINE TOYS FOR TOTS FOUNDATION: $1,033 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWORLD BICYCLE RELIEF NFP: $1,015 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetROSIE'S PLACE INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED WAY OF THE BAY AREA: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGARDNER GROUP INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPINE STREET INN INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNow I Lay Me Down to Sleep: $515 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMASSACHUSETTS AUDUBON SOCIETY INC: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNational Council of Nonprofits: $100 over 1y, 0.0% 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 Bank of America C…American Online Givin…Fidelity Investments …Donor Advised Charita…Amazonsmile Foundation
The Bank of America Charitable Foundation IncNC7.5× affinity4 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 Hardy Bunch Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Hardy Bunch Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%2%8%17%30%funder's share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →median 11%
  • United Way of Tri County Inc: 18% of income from government
  • Pine Street Inn Inc: 11% of income from government
  • Massachusetts Audubon Society Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Rosie's Place Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
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 23 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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