· Private foundation
Dorothy Harmsen and Bill Harmsen Sr Charitable Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2018–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k1 grant · $2k
- $10k–50k12 grants · $160k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $225k
- $250k+1 grant · $450k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| STEELE CHILDRENS RESEARCH CENTERUA FOUN | $450,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA FOUNDATION | $100,000 |
| HABITAT FOR HUMANITY TUCSON | $75,000 |
| HABITAT FOR HUMANITY METRO DENVER | $50,000 |
| NOURISH | $20,000 |
| YOUTH ON THEIR OWN | $20,000 |
| PROJECT ANGEL HEART | $15,000 |
| DUMB FRIENDS LEAGUE | $15,000 |
| COMMUNITY FOOD BANK OF SOUTHERN AZ | $15,000 |
| COLORADO COALITION FOR THE HOMELESS | $15,000 |
| BAG IT | $10,000 |
| BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB | $10,000 |
| JUVENILE DIABETES RESEARCH FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| DENVER RESCUE MISSION | $10,000 |
| HUMANE SOCIETY OF SOUTHERN AZ | $10,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY18–24, $228k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +59% since the first grant, against -18% for the ones you funded once.
22 repeat relationships — 15 still active in FY2024, 7 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
University of Arizona Foundation7× · 2018–2024 · $1.3M · revenue +19%- HFHabitat for Humanity Tucson Inc6× · 2018–2024 · $340k · revenue +177%
- HFHABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF METRO DENVER INC7× · 2018–2024 · $200k · revenue +56%
Funded once
- MGMETAPHORSE GROWTH AND HEALING CENTERone grant, 2023 · $50k
- HFHABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF THE SAN JUAone grant, 2018 · $15k
- ACARIZONA'S CHILDREN ASSOCIATIONone grant, 2019 · $10k · revenue -65%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
Assist banner health complete its mission to make health care easier so life can be better by providing integrated & coordinated care & population health management.
United Food Bank unites communities to alleviate hunger.
Develop solutions to end hunger through food banking, public policy and innovation.
To lead, serve and collaborate to mobilize enduring philanthropy for a better arizona.
To connect, support and inform efforts to improve the health of individuals and communities in arizona.
Banner health's nonprofit mission is "making health care easier, so life can be better".
Bringing arizonans together to create a stronger and brighter future for our state.
Bringing together diverse voices to advance health and healthcare in arizona.
Established in 2006, the banner alzheimer's foundation (baf) secures and stewards charitable gifts to advance the mission of banner alzheimer's institute (bai), including groundbreaking research initiatives and pioneering prevention…
To provide food to all in need through community partnerships and hunger relief programs. Our vision is a hunger-free Larimer County.
Impact of southern arizona is a private non-profit volunteer based organization which empowers southern arizonans with the resources required to pursue a stabilized and enhanced quality of life.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Food Bank of the Rockies and the most unlike its peers is Blood Cancer United Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
22 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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 22 of the 30 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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 University of Arizona Foundation ↗
- Who funds Habitat for Humanity Tucson Inc ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF METRO DENVER INC ↗
- Who funds NOURISH ↗
- Who funds BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF SOUTHERN ARIZONA INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds YOUTH ON THEIR OWN ↗
- Who funds PROJECT ANGEL HEART ↗
- Who funds Community Food Bank Inc ↗
- Who funds DENVER DUMB FRIENDS LEAGUE ↗
- Who funds Banner Health Foundation ↗
- Who funds DENVER RESCUE MISSION ↗
- Who funds BREAKTHROUGH T1D ↗
- Who funds Bag It ↗
- Who funds SAFEHOUSE DENVER INC ↗
- Who funds ARIZONA'S CHILDREN ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds NORTHERN COLORADO FRIENDS OF FERALS ↗
- Who funds LITERACY CONNECTS ↗
- Who funds Southern AZ Research Science & Eng FDN ↗
- Who funds FOOD BANK OF THE ROCKIES ↗
- Who funds CHILD & FAMILY RESOURCES INC ↗
- Who funds Arizona Citizens for the Arts ↗
- Who funds BLOOD CANCER UNITED 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 tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Arizona Community Foundation · Connie Hillman Family Foundation · United Way of Tucson and Southern Arizona Inc · Community Foundation for Southern Arizona · Angel Charity for Children Inc · The Hs Lopez Family Foundation · The Stocker Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
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 Dorothy Harmsen and Bill Harmsen Sr Charitable Foundation 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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.