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Dorothy Harmsen and Bill Harmsen Sr Charitable Foundation at a glance

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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.

$837k
Granted FY2024still arriving
17
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$450k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.

Health$1.5MHousing & Shelter$660kEducation$360kHuman Services$278kYouth Development$145kAnimals$135kFood & Nutrition$100kCommunity Improvement$93kOther$0
02FY2024 · 17 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k1 grant · $2k
  • $10k–50k12 grants · $160k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $225k
  • $250k+1 grant · $450k
$15,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$6.7M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%DENVER RESCUE MISSION: $10k → 12%DENVER RESCUE MISSION: $10k → 12%DENVER RESCUE MISSION: $10k → 12%DENVER RESCUE MISSION: $10k → 12%DENVER RESCUE MISSION: $10k → 12%DENVER RESCUE MISSION: $10k → 12%DENVER RESCUE MISSION: $10k → 12%SAFEHOUSE DENVER INC: $10k → 12%SAFEHOUSE DENVER INC: $10k → 12%SAFEHOUSE DENVER INC: $10k → 12%SAFEHOUSE DENVER INC: $10k → 12%SAFEHOUSE DENVER INC: $8k → 12%CHILD AND FAMILY RESOURCES INC: $8k → 15%YOUTH ON THEIR OWN: $20k → 15%YOUTH ON THEIR OWN: $15k → 15%YOUTH ON THEIR OWN: $15k → 15%YOUTH ON THEIR OWN: $15k → 15%YOUTH ON THEIR OWN: $10k → 15%YOUTH ON THEIR OWN: $10k → 15%YOUTH ON THEIR OWN: $8k → 15%ARIZONAS CHILDREN ASSOCIATION: $10k → 15%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

97%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$3.2M · 22 repeat orgs$105k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +59% since the first grant, against -18% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

22
7

Total granted

$3.2M
$103k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+59%
-18%

Still filing today

77%
71%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
HealthHuman ServicesEducationFood & NutritionAnimalsHousing & ShelterOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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 Foundation
    7× · 2018–2024 · $1.3M · revenue +19%
  • HF
    Habitat for Humanity Tucson Inc
    6× · 2018–2024 · $340k · revenue +177%
  • HF
    HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF METRO DENVER INC
    7× · 2018–2024 · $200k · revenue +56%

Funded once

  • MG
    METAPHORSE GROWTH AND HEALING CENTER
    one grant, 2023 · $50k
  • HF
    HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF THE SAN JUA
    one grant, 2018 · $15k
  • AC
    ARIZONA'S CHILDREN ASSOCIATION
    one grant, 2019 · $10k · revenue -63%
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.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Banner -University Medical Group

Assist banner health complete its mission to make health care easier so life can be better by providing integrated & coordinated care & population health management.

Health
2
United Food Bank

United Food Bank unites communities to alleviate hunger.

Food & Nutrition
3
Arizona Food Bank Network

Develop solutions to end hunger through food banking, public policy and innovation.

Food & Nutrition
4
Arizona Community Foundation

To lead, serve and collaborate to mobilize enduring philanthropy for a better arizona.

Philanthropy
5
Vitalyst Health Foundation

To connect, support and inform efforts to improve the health of individuals and communities in arizona.

Health
6
Banner Health

Banner health's nonprofit mission is "making health care easier, so life can be better".

Health
7
Center for the Future of Arizona

Bringing arizonans together to create a stronger and brighter future for our state.

Community Improvement
8
Arizona Healthiest State Foundation
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9
Arizona Hospital & Healthcare Association

Bringing together diverse voices to advance health and healthcare in arizona.

—
10
Banner Alzheimer's Foundation

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…

Health
11
The Food Bank for Larimer County

To provide food to all in need through community partnerships and hunger relief programs. Our vision is a hunger-free Larimer County.

Food & Nutrition
12
Impact of Southern Arizona

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.

Community Improvement
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Food Bank of the Rockies; 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.
04the grantee network

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

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 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
22/22
Grantees still filing
18/22
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

University of Arizona Foundation: $1,255,000 · EducationUniversity of Arizona Foundation+2 more: $20,000 · EducationARRUPE JESUIT HIGH SCHOOL: $250,000 · OtherARRUPE JESUIT HIGH SCHOOLHABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF METRO DENVER INC: $200,000 · OtherHABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF METRO D…COLORADO COALITION FOR THE HOMELESS: $105,000 · OtherCOLORADO COALITION FOR THE HOME…BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF SOUTHERN ARIZONA INCORPORATED: $95,000 · OtherBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF SOU…BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB: $50,000 · OtherBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBMETAPHORSE GROWTH AND HEALING CENTER: $50,000 · OtherMETAPHORSE GROWTH AND HEALING C…DENVER DUMB FRIENDS LEAGUE: $75,000 · OtherDENVER DUMB FRIENDS LEAGUE+6 more: $82,000 · Other+6 moreHabitat for Humanity Tucson Inc: $340,000 · Housing & ShelterHabitat for…NOURISH: $110,000 · HealthNOURISHBanner Health Foundation: $75,000 · HealthBanner Heal…BREAKTHROUGH T1D: $70,000 · HealthBREAKTHROUG…Bag It: $65,000 · HealthBag It+1 more: $5,000 · HealthYOUTH ON THEIR OWN: $92,500 · Human ServicesDENVER RESCUE MISSION: $70,000 · Human ServicesSAFEHOUSE DENVER INC: $47,500 · Human ServicesARIZONA'S CHILDREN ASSOCIATION: $10,000 · Human Services+1 more: $7,500 · Human ServicesCommunity Food Bank Inc: $90,000 · Food & NutritionFOOD BANK OF THE ROCKIES: $10,000 · Food & NutritionPROJECT ANGEL HEART: $92,500 · Community Improvement
Education$1,275,000Other$907,000Housing & Shelter$340,000Health$325,000Human Services$227,500Food & Nutrition$100,000Community Improvement$92,500

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetUniversity of Arizona Foundation: $1,255,000 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetHabitat for Humanity Tucson Inc: $340,000 over 6y, 0.8% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF METRO DENVER INC: $200,000 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetNOURISH: $110,000 over 7y, 17% of budgetBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF SOUTHERN ARIZONA INCORPORATED: $95,000 over 6y, 4.1% of budgetYOUTH ON THEIR OWN: $92,500 over 7y, 0.4% of budgetPROJECT ANGEL HEART: $92,500 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetCommunity Food Bank Inc: $90,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetDENVER DUMB FRIENDS LEAGUE: $75,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetBanner Health Foundation: $75,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetDENVER RESCUE MISSION: $70,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetBREAKTHROUGH T1D: $70,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetBag It: $65,000 over 7y, 3.4% of budgetSAFEHOUSE DENVER INC: $47,500 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetARIZONA'S CHILDREN ASSOCIATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNORTHERN COLORADO FRIENDS OF FERALS: $10,000 over 2y, 4.3% of budgetLITERACY CONNECTS: $10,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetSouthern AZ Research Science & Eng FDN: $10,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetFOOD BANK OF THE ROCKIES: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHILD & FAMILY RESOURCES INC: $7,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetArizona Citizens for the Arts: $5,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

  • 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 ↗

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Arizona Community Fou…Connie Hillman Family…United Way of Tucson …Community Foundation …Angel Charity for Chi…The Hs Lopez Family F…The Stocker FoundationThe Bank of America C…American Online Givin…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Arizona Community FoundationAZ18.8× affinity7 shared granteesties to 10 of 10Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Dorothy Harmsen and Bill Harmsen Sr Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Dorothy Harmsen and Bill Harmsen Sr Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%5%11%20%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    7report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 30 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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