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The Harshaw 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 $10k2 grants · $10k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $101k
- $50k–250k5 grants · $650k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| NEW DIRECTIONS HOUSING CORPORATION | $215,000 |
| GOODWILL INDUSTRIES OF KY | $200,000 |
| LOUISVILLE ORCHESTRA | $100,000 |
| BELLARMINE UNIVERSITY | $85,000 |
| WEST END SCHOOL | $50,000 |
| LOUISVILLE PUBLIC MEDIA | $25,000 |
| SUNRISE CHILDREN'S SERVICES | $20,000 |
| FRIENDS OF METRO ANIMAL SERVICES | $15,500 |
| LOUISVILLE BALLET | $10,000 |
| SPEED ART MUSEUM | $10,000 |
| HEUSER HEARING & LANGUAGE ACADEMY | $10,000 |
| KENTUCKY OPERA | $10,000 |
| KIDS CENTER FOR PEDIATRI THERAPIES | $5,000 |
| JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT | $5,000 |
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 (FY23–23, $275k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 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.
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 +21% since the first grant, against +5% for the ones you funded once.
11 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2024, 7 since wound down; 10 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, 43% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $431k 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
- NDNEW DIRECTIONS HOUSING CORPORATION4× · 2021–2024 · $321k · revenue +36%
- TLTHE LOUISVILLE ORCHESTRA INC3× · 2020–2024 · $315k · revenue +109%
- KYKENTUCKY YOUTH ADVOCATES INC3× · 2020–2022 · $225k · revenue +21%
Funded once
- HIHOSPARUS INC HOSPARUS HEALTHone grant, 2023 · $275k · revenue +5%
- HFHABITAT FOR HUMANITY - LOUISVILLEone grant, 2022 · $150k
- PCPORTLAND CHRISTIAN SCHOOL SYSTEM INCone grant, 2022 · $150k · revenue -8%
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.
To improve the quality of life for all kentuckians through research, education and advocacy on important policy issues facing the commonwealth.
Louisville collegiate school inspires academic excellence, extraordinary character and global citizenship.
To attract, create, and host quality sporting events in the louisville area that increase economic vitality, enhance the quality of life, promote healthy lifestyles, and brand louisville as a great place to live, work, and play.
As an active partner, leader and catalyst, we will assist african americans, other minority groups and the disadvantaged attain social and economic equality and stability through direct services and advocacy.
Engage actively and continuously in medical research, education and training in the practice of medicine in conjunction with the department of family medicine of the indiana university school of medicine and indiana university…
To promote the health and welfare of all infants, children, and adolescents.
Nashville public radio's mission is to be the most trusted & independent nashville voice, connecting our communities through non-partisan journalism, compelling storytelling, civil conversation and music discovery.
Central indiana corporate partnership (cicp) is an alliance of indiana's business and research university leaders coming together to foster long-term prosperity for the region. cicp's mission is to transform the economy of indiana in order…
To provide, in cooperation with public and private schools, equitable access to the highest quality musical opportunities and to foster a life- long love of music for dedicated young musicians. ckyo enriches the lives of its student…
Broadens the perspectives of current and emerging leaders through experiential education that inspires them to advance kentucky.
To support grassroots organizing, leadership development & public education around important public policy. ky coalition seeks to promote active citizen participation in the democratic process.
To provide effective advocacy for the financial services industry both in kentucky and on a national level; to serve as a reliable and responsive source of information and education about areas of interest to the industry; and to provide a…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Community Foundation of Louisville Inc and the most unlike its peers is West End School 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 54 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% 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.
26 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. 26 of the 36 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 METRO UNITED WAY INC ↗
- Who funds NEW DIRECTIONS HOUSING CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds THE LOUISVILLE ORCHESTRA INC ↗
- Who funds THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF LOUISVILLE INC ↗
- Who funds HOSPARUS INC HOSPARUS HEALTH ↗
- Who funds KENTUCKY YOUTH ADVOCATES INC ↗
- Who funds GOODWILL INDUSTRIES OF KENTUCKY INC ↗
- Who funds PORTLAND CHRISTIAN SCHOOL SYSTEM INC ↗
- Who funds THE FULLER CENTER FOR HOUSING INC ↗
- Who funds BELLARMINE UNIVERSITY INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds TREESLOUISVILLE INC ↗
- Who funds THE BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS INC ↗
- Who funds KOSAIR CHARITIES COMMITTEE INC ↗
- Who funds West End School Inc ↗
- Who funds FAMILY SCHOLAR HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds Kentucky Humanities Council Inc ↗
- Who funds KENTUCKY PUBLIC RADIO INC ↗
- Who funds SUNRISE CHILDREN'S SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF METRO ANIMAL SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds KENTUCKY DANCE COUNCIL INC DBA LOUISVILLE BALLET ↗
- Who funds HEUSER HEARING & LANGUAGE ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds THE CONSERVANCY OF SOUTHWEST FLORIDA ↗
- Who funds Youth Golf Coalition Inc dba The First Tee of Louisivlle ↗
- Who funds SPEED ART MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds Cerebral Palsy KIDS Center 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.
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
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 Harshaw 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.
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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