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Ben F Harrison Foundation Inc

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.

$93k
Granted FY2025still arriving
7
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$40k
Largest
01What you fund
0193% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20202025.

Education$317kHealth$269kArts & Culture$110kHuman Services$56kRecreation & Sports$38kAnimals$11kHousing & Shelter$10kCrime & Legal$5kOther$0
02FY2025 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k3 grants · $11k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $83k
$10,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$1.8M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Royal Dames of Cancer Research$39,500
Alabama Sports Festival Foundation$20,000
Broward Center$13,000
The Gray Team Inc$10,000
Crohns Colities Foundation$5,000
Lauderdale Yacht Club$3,000
Paws Humane Society Broward Co$2,600
02The need
03

Do your dollars go where the need is?

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

show:

Your human-services grants (FY20–20, $5k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%Hope South Florida: $5k → 13%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge
repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

87%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$733k · 9 repeat orgs$114k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +54% since the first grant, against +32% for the ones you funded once.

9 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

9
7

Total granted

$733k
$79k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+54%
+32%

Still filing today

56%
43%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 62% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $35k went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthEducationHuman ServicesAnimalsOther

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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

  • RD
    ROYAL DAMES OF CANCER RESEARCH INC
    6× · 2020–2025 · $129k · revenue +572%
  • CT
    CHILDREN'S TUMOR FOUNDATION
    2× · 2020–2021 · $125k · revenue +54%
  • LY
    LAUDERDALE YACHT CLUB INC
    2× · 2024–2025 · $8k · revenue +2%

Funded once

  • Nova Southeastern University Incgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $54k · revenue +37%
  • AS
    ALABAMA SPORTS FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue 0%
  • HS
    HOPE SOUTH FLORIDA INC
    one grant, 2020 · $5k · revenue -51%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Florida Research Center for Agricultural Sustainability Inc
Philanthropy
2
University of Miami

See Form 990, Part I, Line 1, Description of Organization Mission.

Education
3
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc

The mission of dfci is to provide expert, compassionate, and equitable care to children, adults, and their families, while advancing the understanding, diagnosis, treatment, cure, and prevention of cancer and related diseases. we train new…

Health
4
Targeting Resistance in Cancer Cooperative
Health
5
Blue Nevus Melanoma Foundation

A foundation to support research for Blue Nevus Melanoma (BNM). BNM is an ultra rare condition and an aggressive form of Melanoma cancer. There is a dire need to develop new treatments and drugs for it as the standard of care for Melanoma…

Health
6
Greater Fort Lauderdale Chamber of Commerce

Founded in 1910, the greater fort lauderdale chamber of commerce is the oldest and largest business organization in broward county and it is apparent that throughout our history we have transitioned to better serve the business community.

7
Miami Children's Health System Inc

Nicklaus Children's Health System is the region's only healthcare system exclusively for children. Our mission is to inspire hope and promote lifelong health by providing the best care to every child. TO PERFORM THE FUNCTIONS OF, OR TO…

Health
8
Baylor Research Institute

To improve the care and well being of our community, nationally and internationally, through innovative clinically relevant research that is consistent with the mission, vision and values of Baylor Scott & White Health (BSWH).

Health
9
Mote Marine Laboratory Inc

The advancement of marine and environmental sciences through scientific research, education and public outreach, leading new discoveries, revitalization and sustainability of our oceans and greater public understanding of our marine…

10
Clinic for the Rehabilitation of Wildlife Inc

The clinic for the rehabilitation of wildlife is a teaching hospital and visitor center dedicated to the saving of wildlife through state-of-the-art veterinary care, research, education, and conservation medicine.

Animals
11
University of Miami
12
Genesis Health Inc

To advance health and well-being of persons requiring rehabilitation through superior outcomes, service, education and research.

Health

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Alabama Sports Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Humane World for Animals 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

10 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 10 of the 19 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/10
Grantees still filing
7/10
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Nova Southern University — $263,000 · OtherNova Southern UniversityBROWARD PERFORMING ARTS FOUNDATION INC — $110,000 · OtherBROWARD PERFORMING ARTS FOUNDATION INCBroward Center — $56,100 · OtherBroward CenterIndividual grant recipient — $30,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientAlabama Sports Festival Foundation — $20,000 · Other+9 more — $53,350 · Other+9 moreROYAL DAMES OF CANCER RESEARCH INC — $128,600 · HealthROYAL DAMES OF CANCER RESEARCH IN…CHILDREN'S TUMOR FOUNDATION — $125,000 · HealthCHILDREN'S TUMOR FOUNDATIONNova Southeastern University Inc — $53,600 · EducationHOPE SOUTH FLORIDA INC — $5,000 · Human ServicesHumane World for Animals Inc — $2,500 · Animals
Other$532,450Health$253,600Education$53,600Human Services$5,000Animals$2,500

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetROYAL DAMES OF CANCER RESEARCH INC — $128,600 over 6y, 12% of budgetCHILDREN'S TUMOR FOUNDATION — $125,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetBROWARD PERFORMING ARTS FOUNDATION INC — $110,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetNova Southeastern University Inc — $53,600 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetALABAMA SPORTS FOUNDATION INC — $10,000 over 1y, 4.0% of budgetLAUDERDALE YACHT CLUB INC — $8,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHOPE SOUTH FLORIDA INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBROWARD SHERIFF'S ADVISORY COUNCIL INC — $3,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetHumane World for Animals Inc — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

  • Who funds ROYAL DAMES OF CANCER RESEARCH INC
  • Who funds CHILDREN'S TUMOR FOUNDATION
  • Who funds BROWARD PERFORMING ARTS FOUNDATION INC
  • Who funds Nova Southeastern University Inc
  • Who funds ALABAMA SPORTS FOUNDATION INC
  • Who funds Grey Team Inc
  • Who funds LAUDERDALE YACHT CLUB INC
  • Who funds HOPE SOUTH FLORIDA INC
  • Who funds BROWARD SHERIFF'S ADVISORY COUNCIL INC
  • Who funds Humane World for Animals Inc

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a set of overlaps that mostly run through you, not between each other.

Amazonsmile FoundationWA2.4× affinity4 shared granteesties to 0 of 0Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization Ben F Harrison Foundation Inc funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 60%1%4%8%15%your share of their income ↑0%6%13%19%25%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 2%
  • Nova Southeastern University Inc2% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
6get no government money at all
1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–25%
typical government reliance, FY2025

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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.

05Through Plinth

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How do I get to Ben F Harrison Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to Ben F Harrison Foundation Inc 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 19 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

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

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