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Hrj Charities Inc

Palo Alto, CA · EIN 65-1252760. Reported 63 grants totalling $1,806,129 to 38 organizations across tax years 2021-2024, on Form 990 Schedule I.

38organizations funded
$16,000median reported grant
$1,806,129granted, 2021-2024
27%of grantees funded again the next year
12%of dollars to its largest recipient

Does this grantmaker accept applications?

Its tax return does not say, and we will not guess. Private foundations file Form 990-PF, which asks outright whether they fund only organizations they select themselves -- 78% say yes, and that one answer is what lets the rest of this site tell you which foundations are worth approaching. Grantmaking charities like this one file a regular Form 990 instead, and the IRS never puts the question to them. Anyone claiming to know the answer from the filing is inventing it.

Three things in the filing do bear on it:

  1. What kind of organization it is. For Hrj Charities Inc, by its IRS classification it raises and distributes funds for youth development (NTEE O12).
  2. How spread out its giving is. 38 distinct organizations, with 12% of the dollars going to the largest single recipient. That is genuinely spread out -- the mark of a funder making many independent decisions rather than underwriting one institution.
  3. How much its list changes. 27% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 3 year-to-year transitions. That is below the 57% median for grantmaking charities, and well below the 67% private foundations manage. A list that turns over this much is one a newcomer can realistically join.

How big are its grants?

The median reported grant is $16,000. Half of what it reported fell between $10,000 and $50,000; the smallest was $3,147 and the largest $184,102. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong organization.

Schedule I only reports grants over $5,000. Form 990 requires a charity to list recipients it paid more than that and lets it omit the rest, so every grant-size figure on this page describes the grants it reported, not all of them. Its real median is lower and its real recipient count is higher. This is also why these numbers cannot be compared with the private-foundation figures elsewhere on this site -- Form 990-PF has no reporting floor, so the two are different populations rather than two samples of one.
Under $5,000
1 grant
$5,000 - $10,000
8 grants
$10,000 - $25,000
25 grants
$25,000 - $50,000
13 grants
$50,000 - $100,000
15 grants
$100,000 - $250,000
1 grant

Every organization it funded

This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Recipients are grouped by the EIN the filer reported, not by name, so an organization that was typed differently in two years appears once rather than twice.

OrganizationLocationTotal receivedGrantsYears fundedLast
Harlem Childrens Zone IncNew York, NY$225,000332024
Camp Twin Lakes IncAtlanta, GA$214,102222022
Teach for America IncNew York, NY$200,000332024
Student Sponsor Partnership IncNew York, NY$130,000222023
Ravenswood Education FoundationE Palo Alto, CA$115,000332024
East Palo Alto Academy FoundationPalo Alto, CA$107,500322024
Innocence Project IncNew York, NY$80,000222022
All Stars Helping KidsSanta Clara, CA$60,985332024
Future Citizens FoundationSalinas, CA$57,402332024
Defensive LineCoppell, TX$50,000112024
Duke UniversityDurham, NC$50,000112024
St Jude Childrens Research Hospital IncMemphis, TN$50,000112024
Forever Young FoundationBountiful, UT$40,000332024
President-Board of Trustees Santa Clara CollegeSanta Clara, CA$40,000442024
Liahona Motu FoundationRedwood City, CA$31,989222024
Golden Heart FundSanta Clara, CA$30,625112023
Los Angeles Fire Department Scholarship FundLos Angeles, CA$27,500332024
Eastside College Preparatory School IncE Palo Alto, CA$26,000112023
Partners Fore Golf IncPleasanton, CA$25,750112022
Curegrin FoundationParker, CO$25,000112023
Eat Learn Play FoundationOakland, CA$25,000112022
Howard UniversityWashington, DC$25,000112021
Hearts and Hope Foundation IncDenver, NC$22,500222024
Child Mind Institute IncNew York, NY$20,629222024
WNETNew York, NY$16,000112022
San Mateo County Historical AssociationRedwood City, CA$12,000112022
Basic FundOakland, CA$10,000112022
Boys & Girls Club of the PeninsulaMenlo Park, CA$10,000112021
Broadway Cares-Equity Fights AIDS IncNew York, NY$10,000112021
Harlem Lacrosse and Leadership CorporationNew York, NY$10,000112021
New City Kids IncJersey City, NJ$10,000112021
Stonier Scholarship IncTowson, MD$10,000112023
Summer SearchOakland, CA$10,000112021
University of Nc Chapel Hill Public Health Foundation IncChapel Hill, NC$10,000112022
Boys & Girls Club of Tracy IncTracy, CA$5,000112022
Pivot Ministries IncBridgeport, CT$5,000112022
Stanwich Congregational ChurchGreenwich, CT$5,000112022
Campaign One at a TimeFullerton, CA$3,147112022

15 of 38 (39%) received money in more than one year over the 4 years we hold. Remember the $5,000 floor: an organization funded every year at $3,000 shows up here as never funded at all.

What the money was for

Taken verbatim from the purpose column of its filings, largest first. This is the closest thing to a statement of what it funds, in its own words.

What kind of organizations it funds

By each recipient's own IRS classification, for the 29 of 38 recipients we could match to a registered organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses -- Schedule I reports the recipient's EIN, so this is a lookup rather than a name match.

Education
9 orgs
Recreation & Sports
4 orgs
Youth Development
4 orgs
Philanthropy & Grantmaking
4 orgs
Human Services
2 orgs
Mental Health
2 orgs
Health Care
2 orgs
Arts & Culture
1 org

Giving by year

Tax yearGrants reportedTotalMedian grant
202115$589,102$10,000
202217$236,799$10,000
202315$483,826$25,985
202416$496,402$21,451

Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- Form 990 arrives about a year after the year it covers, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a grantmaker winding down.

Where its money goes

38% of its giving went to organizations in New York. Community foundations and federated funds are usually the most geographically bounded funders there are -- being outside the footprint is normally disqualifying in a way that a weak programme fit is not.

New York
$692K
California
$598K
Georgia
$214K
North Carolina
$82K
Texas
$50K
Tennessee
$50K
Utah
$40K
Colorado
$25K

Down to the city

New York, NY
$692K
Atlanta, GA
$214K
E Palo Alto, CA
$141K
Santa Clara, CA
$132K
Palo Alto, CA
$108K
Salinas, CA
$57K

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Funders that support the same organizations

These grantmakers and private foundations gave to organizations this one also funded. Shared grantees are the strongest signal available 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 Fund28 shared recipientsDonor Advised Charitable Giving Inc26 shared recipientsMorgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc23 shared recipientsAmerican Online Giving Foundation Inc22 shared recipientsGs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund19 shared recipientsNational Philanthropic Trust18 shared recipients

How to approach this grantmaker

  1. Look for a published programme first. Unlike most private foundations, organizations of this kind often do run open, deadlined grant cycles with written guidelines. Its own website is the authority on that; this page is the authority on who it has actually paid.
  2. Check you are its size. The median reported grant is $16,000 -- and because grants under $5,000 need not be reported, it very likely writes smaller cheques than this page can see.
  3. Check you are in its geography. Its giving concentrates in New York.
  4. Read the recipient list for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer and a cheap one to get.

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Where these numbers come from

Everything above is taken from Hrj Charities Inc's own Form 990 Schedule I filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2021-2024). Nothing here is scraped, inferred or estimated.

On its most recent return it told the IRS it made grants to 16 section 501(c)(3) organizations and 0 other organizations. That is the filer's own count for one year; the totals above cover every year we hold.

Address of record on the latest return: 555 Bryant Street 230, Palo Alto, CA, 94301.

EIN 65-1252760 · See the original filings on ProPublica · How we build this

This is history, not an open call. Form 990 is published about a year after the tax year it covers. Nothing on this page is a deadline. It is a record of who this organization has actually funded, which is the best available predictor of who it will fund next.

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