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The Ron & Lydia Harrington Family Foundation at a glance

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The Ron & Lydia Harrington 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.

$1.3M
Granted FY2024still arriving
15
Grants FY2024still arriving
4
States reached
$830k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2023 to 2024.

Education$2.3MHealth$13kReligion$12kEnvironment$8kPhilanthropy$5kArts & Culture$3kCommunity Improvement$3kFood & Nutrition$2kOther$0
02FY2024 · 15 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k10 grants · $36k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $31k
  • $250k+2 grants · $1.2M
$5,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$82k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
WESTERN RESERVE ACADEMY$830,000
OLD TRAIL SCHOOL$358,334
HOLY TRINITY ANGLICAN CHURCH$11,250
KENYON COLLEGE$10,000
UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS CENTER FOR ORTHOPEDICS$10,000
TROUT UNLIMITED$7,500
HOLDERNESS SCHOOL$7,500
GRAND TETON NATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION$5,000
LAWRENCE SCHOOL$5,000
CENTER FOR THE ARTS$2,500
CLEVELAND NEIGHBORHOOD PROGRESS$2,500
NEW DIRECTIONS$2,500
BEN CURTIS FAMILY FOUNDATION$1,500
TETON RAPTOR CENTER$1,500
AKRON-CANTON REGIONAL FOOD BANK$100
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:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY23–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 98% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%KENYON COLLEGE: $10k → 12%BEN CURTIS FAMILY FOUNDATION: $2k → 12%AKRON-CANTON REGIONAL FOOD BANK: $100 → 13%UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS CENTER FOR ORTHOPEDICS: $10k → 17%TROUT UNLIMITED: $8k → 7%TETON RAPTOR CENTER: $2k → 5%HOLDERNESS SCHOOL: $8k → 10%WESTERN RESERVE ACADEMY: $830k → 13%CLEVELAND NEIGHBORHOOD PROGRESS: $3k → 17%GRAND TETON NATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION: $5k → 5%HOLDERNESS SCHOOL: $5k → 10%WESTERN RESERVE ACADEMY: $780k → 13%LAWRENCE SCHOOL: $5k → 17%CENTER FOR THE ARTS: $3k → 5%HOLY TRINITY ANGLICAN CHURCH: $11k → 13%NEW DIRECTIONS: $3k → 17%HOLY TRINITY ANGLICAN CHURCH: $1k → 13%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.
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.

98%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.3M · 4 repeat orgs$48k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +7% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.

4 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2024, 0 since wound down; 11 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

4
11

Total granted

$2.3M
$48k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+7%
0%

Still filing today

75%
82%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $48k went to new ones.

50%100%’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’23’24
EducationAnimalsPhilanthropyArts & CultureCommunity ImprovementFood & NutritionOther
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

  • WR
    WESTERN RESERVE ACADEMY
    2× · 2023–2024 · $1.6M · revenue +8%
  • OT
    OLD TRAIL SCHOOL
    2× · 2023–2024 · $692k · revenue +6%
  • HS
    HOLDERNESS SCHOOL
    2× · 2023–2024 · $13k · revenue +7%

Funded once

  • KENYON COLLEGE
    one grant, 2024 · $10k · revenue -12%
  • UH
    UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS CENTER FOR ORTHOPEDICS
    one grant, 2024 · $10k
  • TU
    TROUT UNLIMITED INCgraduated
    one grant, 2024 · $8k · revenue +31%
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
President and Trustees of Bates College

Bates is a college of the liberal arts and sciences, and is a coeducational, nonsectarian, residential college with special commitments to academic rigor, and to assuring in all of its efforts the dignity of each individual, and access to…

Education
3
Wilson College

Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.

Education
4
Hampshire Country School

Hampshire country school is a place of possibilities for high-ability, neurodiverse students enrolling in later elementary or middle school who have not found success in traditional educational environments. hampshire country school offers…

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5
West Creek Conservancy

Our mission is to enrich the lives of all people in northeast ohio by conserving natural habitats, restoring the ecological value of our region's lands and waters, and expanding opportunities to connect people from all cultures to…

Environment
6
Carleton College

See schedule o.founded in 1866, carleton college is a private, coeducational liberal arts college of 2,007 students located in the historic river town of northfield, minnesota. nationally recognized as the nation's top college for…

Education
7
West Nottingham Academy

To inspire and educate students to become socially aware leaders and innovators who positively impact their communities around the world

Education
8
Creekside Charter Management

To cultivate student success through mindful perseverance, critical thinking, resourcefulness and advanced knowledge that will prepare students for high levels of success in school, work, and life, while honoring the individuality and…

Education
9
The Peak School

The peak school seeks to ignite a passion for learning, to develop students of diverse talents and backgrounds who think critically and act with integrity, and to graduate compassionate, confident, capable students who will embrace their…

Education
10
Lake Forest Academy

Lake forest academy strives to embody in its practices - and to cultivate in its students -excellence of character, scholarship, citizenship, and responsibility.

Education
11
Trustees of Lawrence Academy At Groton Ma Corp

Lawrence academy recognizes you for who you are, inspires you to take responsibility for who you want to become, supports you as you learn, and empowers you to take action for the greater good.

Education
12
Lowell School

Lowell school (the school) provides educational services to approximately 314 students in grades pre-kindergarten through 8th grade. the school strives to create a diverse, equitable, and inclusive learning environment, and offers a…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Western Reserve Academy; the most unlike its peers is Ben Curtis Family Foundation. 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

13 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 13 of the 15 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
12/13
Grantees still filing
6/13
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

WESTERN RESERVE ACADEMY: $1,610,000 · EducationWESTERN RESERVE ACADEMYOLD TRAIL SCHOOL: $691,668 · EducationOLD TRAIL SCHOOL+2 more: $22,500 · EducationHOLY TRINITY ANGLICAN CHURCH: $12,250 · OtherUNIVERSITY HOSPITALS CENTER FOR ORTHOPEDICS: $10,000 · OtherLAWRENCE SCHOOL: $5,000 · OtherNEW DIRECTIONS INC: $2,500 · OtherTETON RAPTOR CENTER: $1,500 · OtherBEN CURTIS FAMILY FOUNDATION: $1,500 · OtherTROUT UNLIMITED INC: $7,500 · AnimalsGRAND TETON NATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION: $5,000 · PhilanthropyCommunity Center for the Arts: $2,500 · Arts & CultureNEIGHBORHOOD PROGRESS INC: $2,500 · Community ImprovementAKRON-CANTON REGIONAL FOODBANK: $100 · Food & Nutrition
Education$2,324,168Other$32,750Animals$7,500Philanthropy$5,000Arts & Culture$2,500Community Improvement$2,500Food & Nutrition$100

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetWESTERN RESERVE ACADEMY: $1,610,000 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetOLD TRAIL SCHOOL: $691,668 over 2y, 3.0% of budgetHOLDERNESS SCHOOL: $12,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetKENYON COLLEGE: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTROUT UNLIMITED INC: $7,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLAWRENCE SCHOOL: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGRAND TETON NATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCommunity Center for the Arts: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNEIGHBORHOOD PROGRESS INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTETON RAPTOR CENTER: $1,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBEN CURTIS FAMILY FOUNDATION: $1,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetAKRON-CANTON REGIONAL FOODBANK: $100 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.

The Harrington Family…Hudson Community Foun…The Cleveland Foundat…Gs Donor Advised Phil…Morgan Stanley Global…Charities Aid Foundat…National Philanthropi…The Bank of America C…Vanguard Charitable E…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
The Harrington Family FoundationFL20× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Harrington Family Foundation · Hudson Community Foundation · The Cleveland Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Charities Aid Foundation America · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 Ron & Lydia Harrington Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Ron & Lydia Harrington Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    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.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to The Ron & Lydia Harrington Family Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to The Ron & Lydia Harrington Family Foundation 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 15 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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