· Private foundation
The Hartwell Foundation Corporation
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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- $50k–250k11 grants · $1.1M
- $250k+3 grants · $2.9M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE SALVATION ARMY | $1,000,000 |
| MERCY CHEFS | $1,000,000 |
| TRAGEDY ASSISTANCE PROGRAM | $900,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA | $200,000 |
| CORNELL UNIVERSITY | $150,000 |
| REGENTS OF UNIVERSITY OF CA | $150,000 |
| AMI KIDS | $125,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN | $100,000 |
| YALE UNIVERSITY | $100,000 |
| DUKE UNIVERSITY | $100,000 |
| BOSTON UNIVERSITY | $50,000 |
| JOHN HOPKINS UNIVERSITY | $50,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CA SAN DIEGO | $50,000 |
| DREXEL UNIVERSITY | $50,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY19–25, $1.1M) land where the poverty rate runs at 20%, 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.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +50% since the first grant, against +32% for those funded once.
27 repeat relationships: 11 still active in FY2025, 16 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 73% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.1M went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- TATRAGEDY ASSISTANCE PROGRAM FOR SURVIVORS INC9× · 2017–2025 · $6.0M · revenue +75%
DUKE UNIVERSITY9× · 2017–2025 · $900k · revenue +51%
Cornell University7× · 2017–2025 · $750k · revenue +59%
Funded once
- CICross International Incone grant, 2022 · $250k · revenue +8%
- MUMEMPHIS UNIVERSITYone grant, 2022 · $110k
- USUT Southwestern Medical Centerone grant, 2018 · $50k
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.
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.
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.
The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.
The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…
Western new england university, a comprehensive private institution with a tradition of excellence in teaching and scholarship and a commitment to service, awards undergraduate, master's, and doctoral degrees in various departments from…
See Form 990, Part I, Line 1, Description of Organization Mission.
Stanford university is one of a select group of american universities that have achieved eminence in both undergraduate and graduate education and research - cont'd sch o.
Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.
The central mission of the university of southern california is the development of human beings and society as a whole through the cultivation and enrichment of the human mind and spirit. the principal means by which our mission is…
Education and Research
Mission strengthened by more than a century and a half of dedication to academic excellence, boston college commits itself to the highest standards of teaching and research in undergraduate, graduate and professional programs and to the…
Organization's mission bentley university believes good business can impact more than the bottom line - it can change the world. bentley is a community of future business leaders who will deliver value in the marketplace and lasting…
The washington university is a co-educational, nondenominational university with a long and distinguished history of teaching, research and (cont'd on schedule o)
How this is measured
22 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. 22 of the 39 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
- Who funds TRAGEDY ASSISTANCE PROGRAM FOR SURVIVORS INC ↗
- Who funds MERCY CHEFS INC ↗
- Who funds DUKE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA ↗
- Who funds Cornell University ↗
- Who funds Northwestern University ↗
- Who funds CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds FRED HUTCHINSON CANCER RESEARCH CENTER ↗
- Who funds DREXEL UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds MEMPHIS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LAND OF THE FREE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Cross International Inc ↗
- Who funds WAYLAND ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds AVON OLD FARMS SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Hobart Shakespeareans ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds MULTIPLI INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
- Who funds ST MARY'S EPISCOPAL SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds Boys Republic ↗
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: National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Hartwell Foundation Corporation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Hartwell Foundation Corporation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Trustees of Boston University: 12% of income from government
How this is measured
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