· Private foundation
Bill and Helen Harris Charitable Education Trust
Its FY2026 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
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 |
|---|---|
| RADFORD UNIVERSITY | $9,000 |
| GALAX FOUNDATION FOR EXCELLENCE IN | $8,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF VA | $5,000 |
| EAST TN STATE UNIVERSITY | $5,000 |
| LIBERTY UNIVERSITY | $2,000 |
| RADFORD UNIVERSITY CARILION | $1,000 |
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 (FY17–26) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 15%. 60% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 9% of Bill and Helen Harris Charitable Education Trust’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 100% of the giving stays in VA; by stated purpose, 90%.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
8 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2026, 5 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2026 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2026, 63% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $11k went to new ones.
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- TGTHE GALAX FOUNDATION FOR EXCELLENCE IN EDUCATION3× · 2022–2026 · $43k · revenue +83%
- UOUNIVERSITY OF LYNCHBURG3× · 2022–2025 · $19k · revenue -5%
- LULIBERTY UNIVERSITY INC4× · 2022–2026 · $18k · revenue +22%
Funded once
- GFGALAX FOUNDATIONone grant, 2018 · $20k
- VCVIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITYone grant, 2021 · $6k
- GMGRORGE MASON UNIVERSITYone grant, 2017 · $4k
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.
3 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. 3 of the 17 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.
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Bill and Helen Harris Charitable Education Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Bill and Helen Harris Charitable Education Trust. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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