Kentucky · Private foundation
The Harshaw 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.
- $845k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 10
- Grants FY2025
- 14
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 71%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $100,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $200,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 5 to 14
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $15M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 71% of the organizations The Harshaw Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 57% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 43% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $431k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 9 | $645k | 33% |
| FY2024 | 14 | $761k | 71% |
| FY2023 | 12 | $668k | 58% |
| FY2022 | 12 | $700k | 67% |
| FY2021 | 8 | $523k | 63% |
| FY2020 | 5 | $370k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Goodwill Industries of Kentucky Inc | $400,000 | 2 | 0% |
| New Directions Housing Corporation | $370,866 | 5 | 1% |
| Metro United Way Inc | $350,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Kentucky Youth Advocates Inc | $325,000 | 4 | 3% |
| The Louisville Orchestra Inc | $315,000 | 3 | 1% |
| Hosparus Inc Hosparus Health | $275,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Portland Christian School System Inc | $150,000 | 1 | 2% |
| The Fuller Center for Housing Inc | $135,600 | 2 | 24% |
| Gilda's Club Kentuckiana Inc | $100,000 | 1 | 3% |
| Bellarmine University Incorporated | $85,000 | 1 | 0% |
Show all 27 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 11 recipients with no EIN on record ($659k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Harshaw Family Foundation supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: The Gheens Foundation Inc · The Community Foundation of Louisville Inc · The Community Foundation of Louisville Corporate Depository Inc · The Community Foundation of Louisville Depository Inc · Republic Bank Foundation Inc · Honorable Order of Kentucky Colonels Inc · Snowy Owl Foundation Inc · LG&E and Ku Foundation Inc · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · V V Cooke Foundation Corporation · Kosair Charities Committee Inc · Cralle Foundation Inc
How this is measured
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About The Harshaw Family Foundation
- How much does The Harshaw Family Foundation give?
- The Harshaw Family Foundation reported 10 grants totaling $845,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 5 and 14 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does The Harshaw Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Philanthropy (20%), Housing & Shelter (19%), Arts & Culture (16%).
- Who are The Harshaw Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Goodwill Industries of Kentucky Inc ($400k), New Directions Housing Corporation ($371k), Metro United Way Inc ($350k).
- Does The Harshaw Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 71% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Harshaw Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Harshaw Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Gheens Foundation Inc, The Community Foundation of Louisville Inc, The Community Foundation of Louisville Corporate Depository Inc.
- Where is The Harshaw Family Foundation based?
- The Harshaw Family Foundation is based in KY.
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