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The Harrington Family 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k9 grants · $33k
- $10k–50k8 grants · $121k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $55k
- $250k+1 grant · $670k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS | $670,000 |
| LAWRENCE SCHOOL | $55,000 |
| BOSTON COLLEGE | $30,000 |
| HORATIO ALGER ASSOCIATION | $25,000 |
| HOLY TRINITY ANGELICAN CHURCH | $13,250 |
| ALS THERAPY DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE | $12,500 |
| FIELDSTONE FARM THERAPEUTIC RIDING CENTER | $10,000 |
| NATIONAL WORLD WAR II MUSEUM | $10,000 |
| HILLSDALE COLLEGE | $10,000 |
| AMERICAN RED CROSS | $10,000 |
| KEYS CHILDREN FOUNDATION | $5,800 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| PROJECT PLACE - CLIMB FOR A CAUSE | $5,000 |
| MILITARY ORDER OF THE PURPLE HEART | $3,620 |
| A SPECIAL WISH FOUNDATION | $3,620 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY20–24, $36k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, 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.
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
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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +37% since the first grant, against +14% for the ones you funded once.
22 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2024, 13 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $56k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- LSLAWRENCE SCHOOL5× · 2020–2024 · $542k · revenue +4%
- HAHORATIO ALGER ASSN OF DISTINGUISHED AMERICANS INC5× · 2020–2024 · $380k · revenue +12%
- WRWESTERN RESERVE ACADEMY4× · 2020–2023 · $195k · revenue +56%
Funded once
- OROCEAN REEF ALL CHARITIESone grant, 2020 · $76k
- HPHASLINGER PEDIATRIC PALLIATIVE CAREone grant, 2020 · $23k
- UJUNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INCone grant, 2022 · $20k · revenue +19%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
The school is dedicated to excellence in the education of girls. our true mission, as reflected in our motto "non scholae sed vitae discimus," is learning & preparation for life.
The institute for advanced study (the institute) is one of the world's leading centers for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. see schedule o.
Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
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).
Dartmouth College educates the most promising students and prepares them for a lifetime of learning and of responsible leadership, through a faculty dedicated to teaching and the creation of knowledge.
Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.
Unite goodness and knowledge and inspire youth from every quarter to lead purposeful lives. [text in quotations is taken from the academy's deed of gift, drafted in 1781] knowledge and goodness "above all, it is expected that the attention…
Seton hall university is a catholic institution of higher education
Western reserve historical society preserves and uses its collections, historic sites, and museums to inspire people to discover the american experience by exploring the tangible history of northeast ohio.
College of the holy cross is a private, jesuit, catholic, liberal arts college (see schedule o).
Education and Research
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Western Reserve Academy and the most unlike its peers is Case Barlow Farm. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 30 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
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 54 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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 LAWRENCE SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds HORATIO ALGER ASSN OF DISTINGUISHED AMERICANS INC ↗
- Who funds WESTERN RESERVE ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF BOSTON COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds OCEAN REEF CHAPEL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds TROUT UNLIMITED INC ↗
- Who funds FIELDSTONE FARM THERAPEUTIC RIDING CENTER ↗
- Who funds OLD TRAIL SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds KENYON COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds HUDSON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HILLSDALE COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds UNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC ↗
- Who funds GRAND TETON NATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FOSTERING HOPE ↗
- Who funds OCEAN REEF CULTURAL CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds ALS THERAPY DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Community Center for the Arts ↗
- Who funds P E R C INC ↗
- Who funds THE NATIONAL WORLD WAR II MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds NEW DIRECTIONS INC ↗
- Who funds KEYS CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds AKRON-CANTON REGIONAL FOODBANK ↗
- Who funds THE HUMAN FUND ↗
- Who funds CLEVELAND PLATFORM TENNIS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds TETON RAPTOR CENTER ↗
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.
Open a dossier: The Cleveland Foundation · The Ron & Lydia Harrington Family Foundation · Hudson Community Foundation · Bicknell Fund · Burton D Morgan Foundation Inc · The Char and Chuck Fowler Family Foundation · Akron Community Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · Murdough Foundation · George and Ruth Harms Foundation · The Hajim Family 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 Harrington 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.
- Als Therapy Development Foundation Inc — 8% of income from government
- Trustees of Boston College — 3% of income from government
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.
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