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The Hardymon 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.

$1.3M
Granted FY2025still arriving
9
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$1.0M
Largest
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172025.

Education$9.6MHealth$1.3MRecreation & Sports$118kHuman Services$30kCivil Rights$5kPublic Benefit$5kYouth Development$4kArts & Culture$3kOther$0
02FY2025 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k7 grants · $11k
  • $250k+2 grants · $1.3M
$2,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$1.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY$1,015,000
UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI$295,000
GEORGIA TECH ATHELIC ASSOCIATION$2,746
PASCALE'S PALS$2,000
RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE$2,000
COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF CENTRAL MISSOURI$2,000
TRUE NORTH$1,000
TOLTON CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOOL$500
THE DAY DREAMS FOUNDATION$500
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY19–25, $14k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%PASCALE'S PALS: $2k → 17%PASCALE'S PALS: $2k → 17%PASCALE'S PALS: $2k → 17%PASCALE'S PALS: $2k → 17%PASCALE'S PALS: $2k → 17%PASCALE'S PALS: $2k → 17%PASCALE'S PALS: $2k → 17%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

97%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$11M · 12 repeat orgs$312k to everyone else

12 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

12
6

Total granted

$11M
$309k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+44%
+49%

Still filing today

42%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationHuman ServicesYouth DevelopmentArts & CultureOther

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

  • TW
    The Westminster Schools Inc
    5× · 2017–2021 · $250k · revenue +43%
  • CI
    COLUMBIA INDEPENDENT SCHOOL INC
    7× · 2017–2023 · $14k · revenue +44%
  • TN
    TRUE NORTH OF COLUMBIA INC
    7× · 2019–2025 · $7k · revenue +66%

Funded once

  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI- TIGER SCHOLARSHIP FUND
    one grant, 2017 · $166k
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI- VARIOUS EXPANSION GIFT FUND
    one grant, 2017 · $133k
  • TG
    THE GEORGE W BUSH FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $5k · revenue +49%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Columbia College

Columbia college improves lives by providing quality education to both traditional and nontraditional students, helping them achieve their true potential.

Education
2
Columbia College

Columbia college provides educational opportunities that develop students' capacity for critical thought and expression, life-long learning, acceptance of personal responsibilty, and commitment to service and social justice.

Education
3
Columbia College Chicago

The organization's mission is to educate students for creative occupations in diverse fields of arts and media.

Education
4
Capitol Hill Day School

Capitol Hill Day School is a co-educational independent school serving students from pre-kindergarten through 8th grade. Capitol Hill Day School deeply engages a diverse community of students in connecting the classroom with the larger…

Education
5
Point Park University

Provides innovative education in a dynamic urban setting. dedicated to academic excellence and community engagement,we prepare students of diverse backgrounds with the knowledge, skill,and experience to lead meaningful lives as informed…

6
The George Washington University

The mission of the george washington university (gw) is to educate individuals in liberal arts, languages, sciences, learned professions, and other courses and subjects of study, and to conduct scholarly research and publish the findings…

Education
7
Columbia Grammar and Preparatory School

To provide a continuous education program for boys and girls from preschool through high school.

Education
8
Furman University

The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.

Education
9
The Seed Public Charter School of Washington Dc

The seed public charter school of washington, dc is a public college-preparatory boarding school whose primary mission is to provide an outstanding intensive educational program that prepares children, both academically and socially, for…

Education
10
George Fox University

George fox university, a christ centered community, prepares students spiritually, academically, and professionally to think with clarity, act with integrity, and serve with passion.

Education
11
Westminster College

The mission of westminster college is to help students develop competencies, commitments, and characteristics which have distinguished human beings at their best. see continuation on schedule o.the liberal arts tradition is the foundation…

Education
12
Dunwoody College of Technology

Dunwoody college changes lives by building opportunities for graduates to have successful careers, to develop into leaders and entrepreneurs, and to engage in "the better performance of life's duties." quote is from the last will and…

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is George Mason University Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Mareck Center for Dance. 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

10 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 10 of the 20 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
10/10
Grantees still filing
7/10
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY — $8,862,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKYUNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI — $1,563,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI+8 more — $319,700 · OtherThe Westminster Schools Inc — $250,000 · EducationCOLUMBIA INDEPENDENT SCHOOL INC — $14,000 · Education+3 more — $9,746 · EducationPASCALE'S PALS INC — $14,000 · Human ServicesTRUE NORTH OF COLUMBIA INC — $7,000 · Human ServicesDAY DREAMS FOUNDATION — $3,000 · Youth DevelopmentMareck Center for Dance — $2,500 · Arts & CultureCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF CENTRAL MO — $2,000 · Philanthropy
Other$10,744,700Education$273,746Human Services$21,000Youth Development$3,000Arts & Culture$2,500Philanthropy$2,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetThe Westminster Schools Inc — $250,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetPASCALE'S PALS INC — $14,000 over 7y, 1.5% of budgetCOLUMBIA INDEPENDENT SCHOOL INC — $14,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetTRUE NORTH OF COLUMBIA INC — $7,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetTHE GEORGE W BUSH FOUNDATION — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDAY DREAMS FOUNDATION — $3,000 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetGEORGIA TECH ATHLETIC ASSOCIATION INC — $2,746 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMareck Center for Dance — $2,500 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetGEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC — $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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 The Westminster Schools Inc
  • Who funds PASCALE'S PALS INC
  • Who funds COLUMBIA INDEPENDENT SCHOOL INC
  • Who funds TRUE NORTH OF COLUMBIA INC
  • Who funds THE GEORGE W BUSH FOUNDATION
  • Who funds DAY DREAMS FOUNDATION
  • Who funds GEORGIA TECH ATHLETIC ASSOCIATION INC
  • Who funds Mareck Center for Dance
  • Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF CENTRAL MO
  • Who funds GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION 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.

Veterans United FoundationMO15.5× affinity5 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Veterans United Foundation · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 Hardymon 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get 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, FY2025

    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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 20 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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