· Private foundation
The Robert & Helen Hardman Family Fund #95-290240
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 you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2019–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k37 grants · $105k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $95k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $61k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CENTER FOR INDEPENDENT DOCUMENTARY | $61,000 |
| ACLU - AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION | $23,000 |
| DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS | $20,000 |
| THE BOSTON LIVING CENTER | $17,000 |
| THE GREATER BOSTON FOOD BANK | $15,000 |
| MADRE | $10,000 |
| PUENTE DE LA COSTA SUR | $10,000 |
| THE GAY & LESBIAN REVIEW | $8,000 |
| FOUNDATION FOR PUERTO RICO | $8,000 |
| PARTNERS IN HEALTH | $8,000 |
| WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN | $7,000 |
| GLOBAL FUND FOR WOMEN | $6,000 |
| COMMON CAUSE EDUCATION FUND | $6,000 |
| PIE RANCH | $6,000 |
| NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL | $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 (FY19–24, $7k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 29% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
28 repeat relationships — 21 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down; 22 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, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $33k 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
THE CENTER FOR INDEPENDENT DOCUMENTARY INC3× · 2023–2025 · $216k · revenue +41%- WMWOMEN MAKE MOVIES INC3× · 2019–2021 · $183k · revenue +82%
MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC5× · 2021–2025 · $74k · revenue +20%
Funded once
- CFCENTER FOR LNDEPENDENT DOCUMENTARYone grant, 2022 · $81k
- FCFUNDACIN COMUNITARIA DE PUERTO RICOone grant, 2022 · $9k
- SISERVICES IMMIGRANT RIGHTS AND EDUCATION NETWORKgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $5k · revenue +40%
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.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Berkshire Taconic Community Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Harvard Gay & Lesbian Review Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 34 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
46 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. 46 of the 63 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 THE CENTER FOR INDEPENDENT DOCUMENTARY INC ↗
- Who funds WOMEN MAKE MOVIES INC ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds MADRE INC ↗
- Who funds GREATER BOSTON FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds PUENTE DE LA COSTA SUR ↗
- Who funds HARVARD GAY & LESBIAN REVIEW INC ↗
- Who funds PIE RANCH ↗
- Who funds BERKSHIRE TACONIC COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATION FOR PUERTO RICO INC ↗
- Who funds URGENT ACTION FUND FOR FEMINIST ACTIVISM ↗
- Who funds COLLECTIVE HERITAGE INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds PARTNERS IN HEALTH A NONPROFIT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds COMMON CAUSE EDUCATION FUND ↗
- Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds BERKSHIRE NATURAL RESOURCES COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds SERVICES IMMIGRANT RIGHTS AND EDUCATION NETWORK (SIREN) ↗
- Who funds BERKSHIRE INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL CORP ↗
- Who funds NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds MASSACHUSETTS MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE TRUSTEES OF RESERVATIONS ↗
- Who funds NORTH ADAMS REGIONAL HOSPITAL ↗
- Who funds NORMAN ROCKWELL MUSEUM AT STOCKBRIDGE INC ↗
- Who funds WELLS COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds EARTHJUSTICE ↗
- Who funds BRAIN INJURY ASSOCIATION OF MASSACHUSETTS INC ↗
- Who funds PUBLIC CITIZEN FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MAHAIWE PERFORMING ARTS CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds BERKSHIRE MEDICAL CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds FAIRVIEW HOSPITAL ↗
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: Berkshire Taconic Community Foundation Inc · Shoval Foundation · Berkshire Bank Foundation Inc · Marin Community Foundation · Prospect Hill Foundation Inc · Kmd Foundation · The Greater Barrington Foundation Inc Dba the Barrington Foundation · The Buchwald Family Foundation · Jane and Jack Fitzpatrick Trust · Lee Bank Foundation Inc · Dr Robert C & Tina Sohn Foundation · The Feigenbaum 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 Robert & Helen Hardman Family Fund #95-290240 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.
- Housatonic River Initiative Inc — 79% of income from government
- Brain Injury Association of Massachusetts Inc — 74% of income from government
- Greater Boston Food Bank Inc — 22% of income from government
- Trustees of Boston University — 12% of income from government
- Greenagers Inc — 7% of income from government
- The Center for Independent Documentary Inc — 6% of income from government
- Construct Inc — 4% of income from government
- Berkshire Medical Center Inc — 4% of income from government
- Fairview Hospital — 3% of income from government
- Berkshire Taconic Community Foundation Inc — 2% of income from government
- The Trustees of Reservations — 2% of income from government
- Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center Inc — 2% of income from government
- Berkshire Natural Resources Council Inc — 1% of income from government
- Norman Rockwell Museum at Stockbridge Inc — 1% of income from government
- New England Public Media Inc — 0% of income from government
- Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation — 0% of income from government
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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