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The Harry a Fields Foundation at a glance

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The Harry a Fields 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.

$5k
Granted FY2025still arriving
7
Grants FY2025still arriving
5
States reached
$1k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$21kEmployment$13kRecreation & Sports$6kArts & Culture$5kHuman Services$1kReligion$1kEnvironment$350International$100Other$0
02FY2025 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$1,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$82k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CAMBRIDGE IN AMERICA$1,000
AURORA THEATRE INC$1,000
HAWKEN SCHOOL$1,000
HORIZON THEATRE COMPANY INC$1,000
LAKOTA FRIENDS CIRCLE$500
FREE COLUMBIA$500
DRYLANDS AGROECOLOGY RESEARCH FOUNDATION$350
02The need
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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 (FY19–25, $1k) land where the poverty rate runs at 38%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%WILD HORSE BUTTE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $500 → 31%LAKOTA FRIENDS CIRCLE: $500 → 42%LAKOTA FRIENDS CIRCLE: $300 → 42%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

IL
NY
SD
OH
PA
CO
VA
GA
TX
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.

86%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$40k · 7 repeat orgs$6k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +76% since the first grant, against +38% for those funded once.

7 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

7
9

Total granted

$40k
$4k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+76%
+38%

Still filing today

71%
56%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 56% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k 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
Arts & CultureEducationInternationalHuman ServicesEmploymentFood & NutritionOther
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

  • HS
    HAWKEN SCHOOL
    6× · 2017–2025 · $9k · revenue +76%
  • CI
    CAMBRIDGE IN AMERICA
    4× · 2020–2025 · $8k · revenue +89%
  • Foxcroft School
    2× · 2020–2021 · $2k · revenue +98%

Funded once

  • SO
    SCHOOL OF SPIRITUAL PSYCHOLOGY
    one grant, 2017 · $1k
  • AT
    AURORA THEATER ED DEPARTMENT
    one grant, 2024 · $1k
  • AF
    AWARE FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2024 · $500 · revenue 0%
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
Pomona College

Throughout its history, pomona college has educated men and women of exceptional promise. we gather individuals, regardless of financial circumstances, into a small residential community that is strongly rooted in southern california yet…

Education
2
Wake Forest University

Wake Forest University, a 501(c)(3) institution of higher education, is dedicated to the pursuit of excellence in the liberal arts and in graduate and professional education. The organization is comprised of seven constituent parts: Wake…

Education
3
Phillips Exeter Academy

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…

Education
4
Dickinson College

Dickinson college provides a useful, innovative and interdisciplinary education in the liberal arts and sciences to prepare students to lead rich and fulfilling lives of engaged global citizenship

Education
5
Moore College of Art and Design

Moore is dedicated to excellence in art and design. Founded in 1848, Moore is the first and only visual arts college for women in the US. With its undergraduate BFA degree for women and coeducational graduate programs, Moore cultivates…

Education
6
The Trustees of Grinnell College

To educate students in the liberal arts through free inquiry and the open exchange of ideas.when grinnell college framed its charter in the iowa territory of the united states in 1846, it set forth a mission to educate its students "for…

Education
7
Fairleigh Dickinson University

Fairleigh dickinson university is a center of academic excellence dedicated to the preparation of world citizens through global education. the university strives to provide students with the multi-disciplinary, intercultural, and ethical…

Education
8
The School for Global Thinkers

Our mission is to challenge and nurture young women to thrive in future global markets through personalized STEM advanced academics. Through a supportive small school and single-gender environment, project-based learning, and STEM advanced…

Education
9
Hillsdale College

Hillsdale college is a private liberal arts college with approximately 1,500 students. founded in 1844, the college remains, in the words of its articles of association, "grateful to god for the inestimable blessings resulting from the…

Education
10
Institute for Advanced Study - Louis Bamberger & Mrs Felix Fuld Foundation

The institute for advanced study (the institute) is one of the world's leading centers for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. see schedule o.

Science & Tech
11
Albright College

As a diverse community of learners, we cultivate integrity, curiosity, connection and resilience.

Education
12
The Trustees of Mount Holyoke College

Located in south hadley, massachusetts, mount holyoke college is a highly selective, nondenominational, residential, research liberal arts college for women that is gender-diverse and welcomes applications from female, transgender, and…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Hawthorne Valley Association Inc; the most unlike its peers is Aware 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.
04the grantee network

14 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. 14 of the 20 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
14/14
Grantees still filing
10/14
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Individual grant recipient: $12,500 · OtherIndividual grant recipientNETHER PROVIDENCE ATHLETIC ASSOCIATION: $5,500 · OtherNETHER PROVIDENCE ATHLETIC ASSOCIATIONSCHOOL OF SPIRITUAL PSYCHOLOGY: $1,000 · OtherAURORA THEATER ED DEPARTMENT: $1,000 · Other+3 more: $700 · OtherHAWKEN SCHOOL: $9,000 · EducationHAWKEN SCHOOLFoxcroft School: $2,000 · EducationFoxcroft SchoolTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $1,600 · EducationTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF…CAMBRIDGE IN AMERICA: $8,100 · InternationalCAMBRIDGE IN AMERIC…+1 more: $100 · InternationalFREE COLUMBIA INC: $2,100 · Arts & CultureFREE COLU…AURORA THEATRE INC: $1,000 · Arts & CultureAURORA TH…HORIZON THEATRE COMPANY INC: $1,000 · Arts & CultureHORIZON T…+1 more: $100 · Arts & CultureLakota Friends Circle: $800 · Human ServicesWILD HORSE BUTTE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $500 · Human ServicesHAWTHORNE VALLEY ASSOCIATION INC: $500 · EmploymentDrylands Agroecology Research Foundation: $350 · Food & Nutrition
Other$20,700Education$12,600International$8,200Arts & Culture$4,200Human Services$1,300Employment$500Food & Nutrition$350

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetHAWKEN SCHOOL: $9,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetCAMBRIDGE IN AMERICA: $8,100 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetFREE COLUMBIA INC: $2,100 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetFoxcroft School: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $1,600 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAURORA THEATRE INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHORIZON THEATRE COMPANY INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLakota Friends Circle: $800 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetAWARE FOUNDATION INC: $500 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetHAWTHORNE VALLEY ASSOCIATION INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BARACK OBAMA FOUNDATION: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CARTER CENTER INC: $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.

Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Donor Advised Charitable Giving IncCO4.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · 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 Harry a Fields Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Harry a Fields Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get 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
    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.
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    How do I get to The Harry a Fields Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to The Harry a Fields 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 20 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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