How much did THE ROBERT & HELEN HARDMAN FAMILY FUND grant in FY2024?

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 48% of THE ROBERT & HELEN HARDMAN FAMILY FUND’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.

03FY2024 · 21 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k15 grants · $68k
$10k–50k5 grants · $76k
$50k–250k1 grant · $88k

$6,000

Median grant

States reached

$5.4M

Total assets

Largest grants

CENTER FOR INDEPENDENT DOCUMENTARY$87,831
ACLU - AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION$21,031
DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS$17,300
BOSTON LIVING CENTER$16,700
THE GREATER BOSTON FOOD BANK$11,100
MADRE$10,000
PUENTE DE LA COSTA SUR$9,331
BIONEERS$9,000
THE GAY & LESBIAN REVIEW$7,200
COMMON CAUSE EDUCATION FUND$6,000
PIE RANCH$6,000
PARTNERS IN HEALTH$5,000
BERKSHIRE TACONIC COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$5,000
WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN$5,000
URGENT ACTION FUND$5,000

02The need

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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY19–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 15% — the area typically sits at 13%. 79% of your dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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; 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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge

repeat funding

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.

85%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$917k · 23 repeat orgs$157k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +78% since the first grant, against +76% for the ones you funded once.

23 repeat relationships — 13 still active in FY2024, 10 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$917k

$108k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+78%

+76%

Still filing today

52%

50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 79% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $49k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

EnvironmentEducationArts & CultureInternationalEmploymentPhilanthropyOther

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

WM
WOMEN MAKE MOVIES
3× · 2019–2021 · $183k · revenue +63%
CENTER FOR INDEPENDENT DOCUMENTARY
2× · 2023–2024 · $155k · revenue +396%
MADRE
6× · 2019–2024 · $54k · revenue +1%

Funded once

CF
CENTER FOR LNDEPENDENT DOCUMENTARY
one grant, 2022 · $81k
FC
FUNDACIN COMUNITARIA DE PUERTO RICO
one grant, 2022 · $9k
FF
FOUNDATION FOR PUERTO RICO
one grant, 2023 · $8k · revenue -59%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

Boston Food Forest Coalition

At the intersection of racial equity and climate resilience, the boston food forest coalition, a nonprofit community land trust, is a community of neighbors transforming vacant lots into public edible parks placed into permanent community…

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Boston Architectural College

Founded 131 years ago, the boston architectural college is a recognized institution providing excellence in practice-integrated design education to members of diverse communities with students representing 35 countries. the bac offers…

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Berkshire Agricultural Ventures Inc

Berkshire agricultural ventures, inc. supports the berkshire taconic local food economy by providing technical and financial resources to farms and food businesses.

Food & Nutrition

Boston Public Library Fund Inc

The boston public library fund provides financial support to the boston public library.

Education

Berkshire Grown Inc

To support and promote locally based agriculture.

Food & Nutrition

Berkshire Film and Media

The berkshire film and media collaborative (bfmc) creates educational, workforce and production opportunities in the film and media industry as an economic initiative for the western massachusetts region.

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350 New Hampshire

350NH is a multigenerational movement working to advance a just transition to a renewable energy economy and an end to our society's dependence on fossil fuels. We are building the movement for climate justice and working for local and…

Environment

Wildlands Trust Inc

Wildlands trust, inc. protects natural areas throughout southeastern massachusetts for the benefit of wildlife and people. we work to permanently protect and steward important habitats and landscapes that characterize the natural heritage…

Environment

Boston Public Market Association Inc

See schedule o.our mission is to continue to develop and operate a permanent year-round market in boston and to support the farmers, fishers, and entrepreneurs who grow, catch, and produce local food, and to nourish our community with food…

Public Benefit

Massachusetts Business Roundtable Inc

Mbr engages with public and private leaders to develop public policy solutions that enhance massachusetts' long-term competitive position and make it a highly-desirable place to do business within a global economy.

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Boston Harbor Now Inc

Our mission is to ensure that the people of greater boston benefit from a vibrant, resilient, and inclusive waterfront, harbor, and islands; these spaces are equitable, accessible, and adapted to climate change; and to ensure our public,…

Environment

President and Fellows of Harvard College

Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Trustees of Reservations and the most unlike its peers is Berkshire Taconic Community. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

05the grantee network

19 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

19/19

Grantees still filing

16/19

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$530,643Arts & Culture$381,479International$59,217Employment$43,000Philanthropy$42,000Environment$9,000Community Improvement$8,000

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.

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.

Marin Community FoundationCA13.3× affinity4 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Marin Community Foundation · Boston Foundation Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Ge Foundation · Jewish Communal Fund · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving 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 organisation THE ROBERT & HELEN HARDMAN FAMILY FUND 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.

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typical government reliance, FY20–24

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. 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.

05Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: HOUSATONIC RIVER INITIATIVE INC.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

insufficient risk

Limited financial data in public filings.

Track record & reputation

low risk

5 years of Form 990 filings, still active; revenue up 4.0× since.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 043262020 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on HOUSATONIC RIVER INITIATIVE INC, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

Awaiting reportFinancial stability— Runway not derivable from filings.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue grew over the period.
On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 1% of their budget — diversified.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to The Robert & Helen Hardman Family Fund?

Find your warmest path to The Robert & Helen Hardman Family Fund through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

THE ROBERT & HELEN HARDMAN FAMILY FUND

What you funded, over time

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

19 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to The Robert & Helen Hardman Family Fund?

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THE ROBERT & HELEN HARDMAN FAMILY FUND

What you funded, over time

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

19 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to The Robert & Helen Hardman Family Fund?

More from the funding graph