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The Harjen Charitable Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$500k
Granted FY2024still arriving
11
Grants FY2024still arriving
6
States reached
$150k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
0195% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.

Human Services$900kEducation$666kCivil Rights$375kReligion$336kPublic Benefit$220kArts & Culture$211kHealth$130kInternational$80kOther$0
02FY2024 · 11 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k2 grants · $10k
  • $10k–50k5 grants · $115k
  • $50k–250k4 grants · $375k
$25,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$9.9M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SEMPER FI FUND$150,000
BIRCH WATHEN LENOX SCHOOL$125,000
PALMETTO PROMISE INSTITUTE$50,000
FOUNDATION FOR INDIVIDUAL RIGHTS & EXPRESSION$50,000
MANHATTAN INSTITUTE$30,000
CHABAD OF HAMILTON HEIGHTS$25,000
OPEN TO DEBATE FOUNDATION$25,000
CATO INSTITUTE$25,000
AMERICAN BALLET THEATRE FOUNDATION$10,000
TAPS$5,000
ALEXANDER HAMILTON SOCIETY$5,000
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 (FY18–22, $445k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 87% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%THIRD OPTION FOUNDATION: $25k → 6%THIRD OPTION FOUNDATION: $20k → 6%THIRD OPTION FOUNDATION: $15k → 6%LET GROW: $150k → 17%LET GROW: $130k → 17%LET GROW: $75k → 17%LET GROW: $30k → 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.

Which US states your grants reach

NY
MA
PA
NJ
CA
VA
SC
DC
TX

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.

87%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$2.7M · 27 repeat orgs$394k to everyone else

27 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2024, 20 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

27
16

Total granted

$2.7M
$289k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+35%
+36%

Still filing today

85%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 79% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $105k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationInternationalHealthArts & CulturePhilanthropyPublic BenefitOther

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

  • SF
    SEMPER FI & AMERICA'S FUND
    7× · 2017–2024 · $440k · revenue +56%
  • LG
    LET GROW INC
    4× · 2018–2022 · $385k · revenue +164%
  • TB
    THE BIRCH WATHEN LENOX SCHOOL
    2× · 2023–2024 · $250k · revenue +11%

Funded once

  • MG
    MASSACHUSETTES GENERAL HOSPITAL
    one grant, 2019 · $100k
  • SC
    SUCCESS CHARTER SCHOOL NETWORK
    one grant, 2017 · $50k
  • F
    FJC
    one grant, 2020 · $25k

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
United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

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2
Stony Brook Internists University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
3
Stony Brook Ophthalmology University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
4
American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research

The american enterprise institute is a community of scholars and supporters committed to expanding liberty, increasing individual opportunity, and strengthening free enterprise. aei pursues these ideals through independent thinking and the…

Social Science
5
Stony Brook Surgical Associates University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
6
University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education
7
Stony Brook Urology University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
8
Neurology Associates of Stony Brook University Faculty Practice Corp

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
9
Stony Brook Orthopedic Associates University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
10
University Associates in Obstetrics and Gynecology University Faculty Pract ice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
11
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
12
Foreign Policy Research Institute

The foreign policy research institute (frpi) is dedicated to producing the highest quality scholarship and nonpartisan policy analysis focused on crucial foreign policy and national security challenges facing the united states. we educate…

International

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Federalist Society for Law and Public Policy Studies and the most unlike its peers is New York Physicians Foundation Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 34 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number20%0%<5yr15%8%5–10yr20%16%10–20yr21%27%20–35yr14%35%35–55yr10%14%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value20%0%<5yr15%17%5–10yr20%11%10–20yr21%50%20–35yr14%14%35–55yr10%9%55yr+

The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/38
the rest of the field
12%
6,174/53,198

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.

04the grantee network

35 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. 35 of the 49 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)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
35/35
Grantees still filing
26/35
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

THE BIRCH WATHEN LENOX SCHOOL — $250,000 · EducationTHE BIRCH WATHEN LENOX SCH…DWIGHT-ENGLEWOOD SCHOOL — $215,000 · EducationDWIGHT-ENGLEWOOD SCHOOLYESHIVAT CHOVEVEI TORAH RABBINICAL SCHOOL LTD (FORMERLY THE MEOROT INST) — $100,000 · EducationYESHIVAT CHOVEVEI TORAH RA…HETERODOX ACADEMY — $70,000 · EducationHETERODOX ACADEMYCOLUMBIA GRAMMAR AND PREPARATORY SCHOOL — $31,000 · Education+4 more — $50,000 · Education+4 moreCHABAD AT HAMILTON INC — $150,000 · OtherCHABAD AT HAMILTON INCMASSACHUSETTES GENERAL HOSPITAL — $100,000 · OtherMASSACHUSETTES GENERAL HOSPI…THE FEDERALIST SOCIETY FOR LAW AND PUBLIC POLICY STUDIES — $85,000 · OtherTHE FEDERALIST SOCIETY FOR L…SUCCESS CHARTER SCHOOL NETWORK — $50,000 · OtherSUCCESS CHARTER SCHOOL NETWO…PARK AVENUE SYNAGOGUE INC — $36,000 · OtherNEW YORK PHYSICIANS FOUNDATION INC — $30,000 · OtherSpirit of America Worldwide — $45,000 · OtherSpirit of America Worldwide+21 more — $268,500 · Other+21 moreSEMPER FI & AMERICA'S FUND — $440,000 · HealthSEMPER FI & AMERIC…Palmetto Promise Institute — $50,000 · HealthPalmetto Promise I…+1 more — $15,000 · HealthLET GROW INC — $385,000 · Human ServicesLET GROW INCTHIRD OPTION FOUNDATION — $60,000 · Human ServicesTHIRD OPTION FOU…INSTITUTE FOR FREE SPEECH — $105,000 · Public BenefitINSTITUTE …CATO INSTITUTE — $90,000 · Public BenefitCATO INSTI…MANHATTAN INSTITUTE FOR POLICY RESEARCH INC — $80,000 · Public BenefitMANHATTAN …BALLET THEATRE FOUNDATION INC — $125,000 · Arts & CultureMetropolitan Opera Association Inc — $63,000 · Arts & Culture+1 more — $1,500 · Arts & CultureFOUNDATION FOR INDIVIDUAL RIGHTS AND EXPRESSION INC — $185,000 · Civil Rights
Education$716,000Other$764,500Health$505,000Human Services$445,000Public Benefit$275,000Arts & Culture$189,500Civil Rights$185,000

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 budgetSEMPER FI & AMERICA'S FUND — $440,000 over 7y, 0.4% of budgetLET GROW INC — $385,000 over 4y, 19% of budgetTHE BIRCH WATHEN LENOX SCHOOL — $250,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetDWIGHT-ENGLEWOOD SCHOOL — $215,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR INDIVIDUAL RIGHTS AND EXPRESSION INC — $185,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetBALLET THEATRE FOUNDATION INC — $125,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetINSTITUTE FOR FREE SPEECH — $105,000 over 3y, 1.4% of budgetYESHIVAT CHOVEVEI TORAH RABBINICAL SCHOOL LTD (FORMERLY THE MEOROT INST) — $100,000 over 4y, 1.4% of budgetCATO INSTITUTE — $90,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetTHE FEDERALIST SOCIETY FOR LAW AND PUBLIC POLICY STUDIES — $85,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetMANHATTAN INSTITUTE FOR POLICY RESEARCH INC — $80,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetHETERODOX ACADEMY — $70,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetMetropolitan Opera Association Inc — $63,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHIRD OPTION FOUNDATION — $60,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetPalmetto Promise Institute — $50,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetSpirit of America Worldwide — $45,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetCOLUMBIA GRAMMAR AND PREPARATORY SCHOOL — $31,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetNEW YORK PHYSICIANS FOUNDATION INC — $30,000 over 3y, 25% of budgetOPEN TO DEBATE FOUNDATION — $25,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetTHE PHILANTHROPY ROUNDTABLE — $25,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetFDNY FOUNDATION INC — $23,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetTHE ALEXANDER HAMILTON SOCIETY — $22,500 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetUNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC — $18,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY — $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSEVEN ACRES JEWISH SENIOR CARE SERVICES INC — $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetZETA CHARTER SCHOOLS INC — $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCHILDREN'S AID COLLEGE PREP CHARTER SCHOOL — $10,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE HOPE PROGRAM INC — $6,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetPEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAFTERSCHOOL ALLIANCE — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION — $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE LITERARY CLASSICS OF THE US INC D/B/A LIBRARY OF AMERICA — $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLAWYERS FOR CHILDREN INC — $1,000 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.

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.

Beth and Ravenel Curr…Jewish Communal FundThe New York Communit…The Goldman Sachs Cha…Shuchman Philanthropi…The Achelis & Bodman …Donors Trust IncCombined Jewish Phila…The Margaret and Dani…Vanguard Charitable E…National Philanthropi…Gs Donor Advised Phil…
Beth and Ravenel Curry FoundationPA19.9× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Beth and Ravenel Curry Foundation · Jewish Communal Fund · The New York Community Trust · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · Shuchman Philanthropies Inc · The Achelis & Bodman Foundation Co Manice & Budd LLP · Donors Trust Inc · Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc · The Margaret and Daniel Loeb Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc

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 Harjen Charitable 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
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%4%8%15%your share of their income ↑0%6%13%19%25%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    6report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–25%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25

    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.

    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to The Harjen Charitable Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to The Harjen Charitable Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 49 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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