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Hartong Family Foundation

Greenwich, CT · EIN 92-2824291. Reported 37 grants totalling $126,066 to 30 organizations across tax years 2023-2024. This foundation did not tell the IRS it funds only preselected organizations.

Yesaccepts unsolicited requests
$500median grant
$126,066granted, 2023-2024
30organizations funded
50%of grantees funded again the next year
$3,696,928assets, latest filing

Does this foundation accept applications?

Yes -- on its own tax return. Form 990-PF asks every private foundation whether it makes grants only to organizations it selects itself. Of the 91,758 foundations in our data that made a grant and answered, 78% said yes -- and applying to those is wasted effort. Hartong Family Foundation did not check that box on its most recent filing, which puts it in the minority that is at least open to being approached.

This is the foundation's own statement to the IRS, not our judgement, and it says nothing about whether they have a form, a deadline, or an appetite for new grantees. Treat it as the reason this foundation is worth your research time, not as an invitation. Many small foundations of this kind have no website and no application process -- a letter of inquiry is the normal first step.

How big are its grants?

The median grant is $500. Half of everything it gave fell between $250 and $5,732; the smallest was $100 and the largest $15,000. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong foundation.

Under $1,000
20 grants
$1,000 - $5,000
5 grants
$5,000 - $10,000
5 grants
$10,000 - $25,000
7 grants

Every organization it funded

This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Years funded is the number of separate tax years in which the organization received money -- more than one means a real relationship rather than a one-off.

OrganizationLocationTotal receivedGrantsYears fundedLast
Fairfield UniversityFairfield, CT$15,000112024
Sacred Heart UniversityFairfield, CT$14,000112024
Quinnipiac UniversityHamden, CT$12,000112024
University of the CumberlandsWilliamsburg, KY$11,529112024
Waterside SchoolStamford, CT$11,000222024
Silver Hill HospitalStamford, CT$10,000112024
West Haven Va Medical CenterWest Haven, CT$10,000112024
Florida State UniversityTallahassee, FL$7,850112024
Lehigh UniversityBethlehem, PA$7,530112024
Mercy UniversityDobbs Ferry, NY$5,732112024
Jimmy Lee Scholarship ProgramPurchase, NY$5,000112024
Syracuse UniversitySyracuse, NY$5,000112024
Cornell UniversityIthaca, NY$2,625112024
United WayVero Beach, FL$2,000222024
Tunnel to Towers FoundationStaten Island, NY$1,100222024
Autism SpeaksWashington, DC$700222024
Doctors Without BordersNew York, NY$700222024
Shriners Hospital for ChildrenTampa, FL$700222024
African Hopeful HorizonsDelray Beach, FL$500112024
Reach PrepStamford, CT$500112023
Stjude's Children's Research HospitalMemphis, TN$500112024
March of DimesTopeka, KS$350222024
United Service OrganizationsWashington, DC$300112023
Veteran Foreign WarsKansas City, MO$300112023
Commemorative Air ForceDallas, TX$250112023
JAZZ24ORGSeattle, WA$250112024
WqxrorgNew York, NY$250112024
St Jude's Children's Research HospitalMemphis, TN$200112023
Disabled American VeteransCincinnati, OH$100112023
Feeding AmericaChicago, IL$100112023

7 of 30 (23%) received money in more than one year over the 2 years we hold.

Measured the way we measure every foundation -- what share of one year's grantees are funded again the next -- this one retains 50%, across 1 year-to-year transition. The median foundation retains about 67%, so this one is less consistent than most. A high number means its list is close to settled and a newcomer has to displace someone; a low one means it is still moving money around, which is where an opening is.

What the money was for

Taken verbatim from the purpose field of its filings. This is the closest thing to a statement of what this foundation cares about, in its own words.

What kind of organizations it funds

By the recipient's own IRS classification, for the 19 grants where we could identify the organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses.

Education
11 grants
Diseases & Disorders
2 grants
Health Care
2 grants
Arts & Culture
1 grant
Food & Nutrition
1 grant
Mental Health
1 grant
International Affairs
1 grant

Giving by year

Tax yearGrantsTotalMedian grant
202314$4,550$200
202423$121,516$5,000

Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- filings arrive about a year late, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a foundation winding down.

Where its money goes

Foundations concentrate geographically far more than their mission statements suggest. 58% of this one's giving went to organizations in Connecticut. If you are outside its footprint, that matters more than how well your programme fits.

Connecticut
$72K
New York
$20K
Kentucky
$12K
Florida
$11K
Pennsylvania
$8K
District of Columbia
$1K
Tennessee
$700
Kansas
$350

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Funders that support the same organizations

These funders gave to organizations this one also funded -- some private foundations, some community foundations and other grantmaking charities. Shared grantees are the strongest available signal that two funders have overlapping priorities, and a funder already backing your peers is a far warmer prospect than one that merely lists your cause.

Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund11 shared recipientsDonor Advised Charitable Giving Inc11 shared recipientsVanguard Charitable Endowment Program10 shared recipientsAmerican Online Giving Foundation Inc10 shared recipientsThe Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc9 shared recipientsEnterprise Holdings Foundation9 shared recipients

How to approach this foundation

  1. Check you are its size. The median grant is $500. Asking for ten times that is the most common way small organizations waste a submission.
  2. Check you are in its geography. Its giving is concentrated in Connecticut.
  3. Read the recipient list above for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer, and a cheap one to get.
  4. Look up the current filing before writing. The 990-PF names the foundation's officers and, where one exists, its application procedure. We link it below.

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Where these numbers come from

Everything above is taken from Hartong Family Foundation's own Form 990-PF filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 2 returns (tax years 2023-2024). Nothing here is scraped, inferred, or estimated.

Address of record on the latest return: 8 Sound Shore Drive Suite 265, Greenwich, CT, 06830. This is the address the foundation gave the IRS; many small foundations file through an accountant or a bank trust department, so it may not be where post to a programme officer should go.

EIN 92-2824291 · See the original filings on ProPublica · How we build this

This is history, not an open call. Foundation returns are published about a year after the tax year ends. Nothing on this page is a deadline. It is a record of who this foundation has actually funded, which is the best available predictor of who it will fund next -- and a much better basis for deciding whether to write to them than a mission statement.

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