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The Robert & Helen Hardman Family Fund #95-290240 at a glance

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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.

$261k
Granted FY2025still arriving
44
Grants FY2025still arriving
7
States reached
$61k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0195% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.

Arts & Culture$548kInternational$212kHuman Services$191kFood & Nutrition$114kCivil Rights$83kPhilanthropy$63kEnvironment$36kEducation$34kOther$0
02FY2025 · 44 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k37 grants · $105k
  • $10k–50k6 grants · $95k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $61k
$2,000
Median grant
7
States reached
$3.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
PARTNERS IN HEALTH$8,000
THE GAY & LESBIAN REVIEW$8,000
FOUNDATION FOR PUERTO RICO$8,000
WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN$7,000
PIE RANCH$6,000
GLOBAL FUND FOR WOMEN$6,000
COMMON CAUSE EDUCATION FUND$6,000
URGENT ACTION FUND$5,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its 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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%BIAMA BRAIN INJURY ASSOCIATION OF MASSACHUSETTS: $2k → 11%SIREN: $5k → 8%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
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.

Which US states its grants reach

ME
NH
NY
MA
OR
CA
DC
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

89%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.2M · 28 repeat orgs$136k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +20% since the first grant, against +7% for those funded once.

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

28
12

Total granted

$1.2M
$103k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+20%
+7%

Still filing today

71%
58%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $33k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureEnvironmentEducationHealthInternationalHuman ServicesOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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 INC
    3× · 2023–2025 · $216k · revenue +23%
  • WM
    WOMEN MAKE MOVIES INC
    3× · 2019–2021 · $183k · revenue +82%
  • MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC
    5× · 2021–2025 · $74k · revenue +20%

Funded once

  • CF
    CENTER FOR LNDEPENDENT DOCUMENTARY
    one grant, 2022 · $81k
  • FC
    FUNDACIN COMUNITARIA DE PUERTO RICO
    one grant, 2022 · $9k
  • SI
    SERVICES IMMIGRANT RIGHTS AND EDUCATION NETWORKgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $5k · revenue +40%
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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2
Native Plant Trust Inc

The organization's mission is to conserve and promote new england's native plants to ensure healthy, biologically diverse landscapes.

Environment
3
The Water Research Foundation

The purpose of the water research foundation (wrf) is a definitive research organization to advance the science of all things water to better meet the evolving needs of its subscribers and the water sector. to engage exclusively in…

Environment
4
Npr Foundation

The npr foundation ("foundation") is organized and operated exclusively for the benefit of its sole supported organization, national public radio, inc. ("npr inc."). the foundation supports npr inc. through various activities such as…

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5
World Resources Institute

Wri is committed to creating change that improves people's lives and ensures the natural world can thrive. (see schedule o)wri's bold vision requires a formula for success we call "count it. change it. scale it.":- count it: our work is…

International
6
National Public Radio Inc

National public radio, inc. ("npr") works collaboratively with member public radio station licensees ("member stations") to create a more informed public, one that is challenged and invigorated by a deeper understanding and appreciation of…

Arts & Culture
7
Ceres Inc

Ceres is a nonprofit advocacy organization working to accelerate the transition to a cleaner, more just, and resilient world. through education and research, we make the business case for action on the most pressing sustainability…

Environment
8
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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.

Education
9
Massachusetts Higher Education Assistance Corporation

The organization's primary exempt purpose is to provide access to and conduct activities in furtherance of higher education.

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10
University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education
11
Environmental Investigation Agency

To establish and promote programs to protect the global climate, forests, wildlife and the natural environment, through research, advocacy, and investigation.

International
12
Wheaton College

Wheaton college provides a transformative liberal arts education, combining theory and practice, for intellectually curious students within a collaborative and vibrant extended community and network that values and strives to create an…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Berkshire Taconic Community Foundation Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

46 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. 46 of the 63 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
46/46
Grantees still filing
22/46
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE CENTER FOR INDEPENDENT DOCUMENTARY INC: $215,997 · Arts & CultureTHE CENTER FOR INDEPENDENT DOCUMENTARY INCWOMEN MAKE MOVIES INC: $182,934 · Arts & CultureWOMEN MAKE MOVIES INCPUENTE DE LA COSTA SUR: $53,548 · Arts & CulturePUENTE DE LA COSTA SURHARVARD GAY & LESBIAN REVIEW INC: $49,324 · Arts & CultureHARVARD GAY & LESBIAN REVIEW INC+5 more: $6,500 · Arts & CultureBOSTON LIVING CENTER: $137,673 · OtherBOSTON LIVING CENTERCENTER FOR LNDEPENDENT DOCUMENTARY: $80,857 · OtherCENTER FOR LNDEPENDENT DOCUMENTARYGREATER BOSTON FOOD BANK INC: $62,023 · OtherGREATER BOSTON FOOD BANK INCGLOBAL FUND FOR WOMEN: $46,000 · OtherGLOBAL FUND FOR WOMENACLU - AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION: $44,031 · OtherACLU - AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNIONCOLUMBIA COLLEGE: $30,232 · OtherCOLUMBIA COLLEGEFUNDACION COMUNITARIA DE PUERTO RICO: $24,000 · Other+27 more: $98,615 · Other+27 moreMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $74,155 · InternationalMEDECINS SANS …MADRE INC: $64,217 · InternationalMADRE INCURGENT ACTION FUND FOR FEMINIST ACTIVISM: $14,733 · InternationalURGENT ACTION …WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $12,000 · InternationalWORLD CENTRAL …PIE RANCH: $49,000 · EmploymentBERKSHIRE TACONIC COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $47,000 · Philanthropy+1 more: $1,000 · PhilanthropyBERKSHIRE NATURAL RESOURCES COUNCIL INC: $6,000 · EnvironmentNATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC: $5,000 · EnvironmentTHE TRUSTEES OF RESERVATIONS: $4,500 · EnvironmentEARTHJUSTICE: $2,000 · EnvironmentHOUSATONIC RIVER INITIATIVE INC: $1,500 · EnvironmentGREAT BARRINGTON LAND CONSERVANCY INC: $1,000 · EnvironmentCLEAN WATER FUND: $1,000 · Environment350ORG: $1,000 · EnvironmentPARTNERS IN HEALTH A NONPROFIT CORPORATION: $13,000 · HealthNORTH ADAMS REGIONAL HOSPITAL: $2,000 · HealthFAIRVIEW HOSPITAL: $1,500 · HealthBERKSHIRE MEDICAL CENTER INC: $1,500 · Health+1 more: $500 · Health
Arts & Culture$508,303Other$523,431International$165,105Employment$49,000Philanthropy$48,000Environment$22,000Health$18,500

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTHE CENTER FOR INDEPENDENT DOCUMENTARY INC: $215,997 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetWOMEN MAKE MOVIES INC: $182,934 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $74,155 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetMADRE INC: $64,217 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetGREATER BOSTON FOOD BANK INC: $62,023 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetPUENTE DE LA COSTA SUR: $53,548 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetHARVARD GAY & LESBIAN REVIEW INC: $49,324 over 7y, 1.7% of budgetPIE RANCH: $49,000 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetBERKSHIRE TACONIC COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $47,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR PUERTO RICO INC: $16,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetURGENT ACTION FUND FOR FEMINIST ACTIVISM: $14,733 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCOLLECTIVE HERITAGE INSTITUTE: $13,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetPARTNERS IN HEALTH A NONPROFIT CORPORATION: $13,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $12,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMON CAUSE EDUCATION FUND: $12,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBERKSHIRE NATURAL RESOURCES COUNCIL INC: $6,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetSERVICES IMMIGRANT RIGHTS AND EDUCATION NETWORK (SIREN): $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetBERKSHIRE INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL CORP: $5,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetNATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMASSACHUSETTS MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART FOUNDATION INC: $4,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF RESERVATIONS: $4,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetWELLS COLLEGE: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNORMAN ROCKWELL MUSEUM AT STOCKBRIDGE INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNORTH ADAMS REGIONAL HOSPITAL: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEARTHJUSTICE: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBRAIN INJURY ASSOCIATION OF MASSACHUSETTS INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPUBLIC CITIZEN FOUNDATION INC: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMAHAIWE PERFORMING ARTS CENTER INC: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFAIRVIEW HOSPITAL: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBERKSHIRE MEDICAL CENTER INC: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSTERLING AND FRANCINE CLARK ART INSTITUTE: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHOUSATONIC RIVER INITIATIVE INC: $1,500 over 2y, 3.2% of budgetREPRODUCTIVE FREEDOM FOR ALL FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGREENAGERS INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE NEWS LITERACY PROJECT INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNEW ENGLAND PUBLIC MEDIA INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNORTHFIELD MOUNT HERMON SCHOOL: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCONSTRUCT INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget350ORG: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE FOOD BANK OF WESTERN MASSACHUSETTS INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPRO PUBLICA INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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.

Berkshire Taconic Com…Shoval FoundationBerkshire Bank Founda…Marin Community Found…Prospect Hill Foundat…Kmd FoundationThe Greater Barringto…The Buchwald Family F…Jane and Jack Fitzpat…Lee Bank Foundation I…Dr Robert C & Tina So…The Feigenbaum Founda…
Berkshire Taconic Community Foundation IncMA23.5× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Robert & Helen Hardman Family Fund #95-290240 funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Robert & Helen Hardman Family Fund #95-290240. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 70%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →median 4%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
7get no government money at all
8report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
2rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
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Find your warmest path to The Robert & Helen Hardman Family Fund #95-290240 through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 63 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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