· Private foundation
The Steve & Lana Hardy Foundation
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.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION - MERCATUS CENTER | $30,000 |
| BUFFALO CREEK ART CENTER | $30,000 |
| ATLAS ECONOMIC RESEARCH FOUNDATION (ATLAS NETWORK) | $30,000 |
| COMPETITIVE ENTERPRISE INSTITUTE | $25,000 |
| INSTITUTE FOR JUSTICE | $25,000 |
| REASON FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| CATO INSTITUTE | $25,000 |
| NEVADA POLICY RESEARCH INSTITUTE | $20,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 53% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
10 repeat relationships: 8 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down.
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- NPNEVADA POLICY RESEARCH INSTITUTE9× · 2017–2025 · $266k · revenue +75%
- CECOMPETITIVE ENTERPRISE INSTITUTE9× · 2017–2025 · $225k · revenue +76%
- IFINSTITUTE FOR JUSTICE9× · 2017–2025 · $225k · revenue +57%
Funded once
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.
The american enterprise institute is a community of scholars and supporters committed to expanding liberty, increasing individual opportunity, and strengthening free enterprise. aei pursues these ideals through independent thinking and the…
To advance economic and social liberties and a free enterprise society through strategic litigation, training, communication, activism and research. in addition, the center will train law students, lawyers and policy activists in the…
The mission of independence institute is to empower individuals and to educate citizens,legislators and opinion makers about public policies that enhance personal and economic freedom.
To educate the public on constitutional issues and public policy matters. We are dedicated to the principles of individual liberty, peace through strength, limited government, free enterprise, and the values embodied in the Declaration of…
Iri advances freedom and democracy worldwide by developing political parties, civic institutions, open elections, democratic governance and the rule of law.
The peterson institute for international economics (piie) is an independent nonprofit, nonpartisan research organization dedicated to strengthening prosperity and human welfare in the global economy through expert analysis and practical…
To provide accurate, objective information and analysis on international strategic issues for legislators, diplomats, foreign affairs analysts, international business leaders, economists, the military, defense commentators, journalists,…
The institute for energy research (ier) is a not-for-profit organization that conducts intensive research and analysis on the functions, operations, and government regulation of global energy markets. ier maintains that freely functioning…
Disseminate information and education about pertinent economic, social and governmental topics, via print, web and other media to educate the public about the principles of LIbertarianism.
The open markets institute works to help people relearn how to use competition policy to build stronger democracies, more just and equitable societies, more innovative and sustainable economies, and a more secure and peaceful world.
How this is measured
8 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. 8 of the 10 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 NEVADA POLICY RESEARCH INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds COMPETITIVE ENTERPRISE INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds INSTITUTE FOR JUSTICE ↗
- Who funds CATO INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds THE REASON FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BUFFALO CREEK ART CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Atlas Economic Research Foundation ↗
- Who funds Eisenhower Medical Center ↗
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Steve & Lana Hardy Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Steve & Lana Hardy Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
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