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Emily & John Harvey Foundation
Its FY2022 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Read this first · the figures below need context
98% of Emily & John Harvey Foundation’s FY2022 grant dollars went to Princeton Area Community Foundation Inc, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2022 names 1 organization directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2021, the last year Emily & John Harvey Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 14 organizations, $41k. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2022.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2021
- Under $10k27 grants · $16k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $25k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| PRINCETON DAY SCHOOL | $25,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,000 |
| PINELANDS PRESERVATION ALLIANCE | $2,000 |
| NEW JERSEY CONSERVATION FOUNDATION | $2,000 |
| PRINCETON AVE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $2,000 |
| INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED STUDY | $1,750 |
| PRINCETON MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| YOUNG AUDIENCES | $500 |
| D&R GREENWAY | $500 |
| HOUSING INITIATIVE PRINCETON | $500 |
| THE PETER GREENE PROGRAM | $300 |
| PRINCETON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA | $300 |
| NEW JERSEY POLICY PERSPECTIVE | $250 |
| MORVEN MUSEUM | $250 |
| WORLD MONUMENTS FUND | $250 |
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 (FY17–17, $250) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 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 +86% since the first grant, against +16% for the ones you funded once.
27 repeat relationships — 22 still active in FY2021, 5 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2021 (too recent to call). Read against FY2021, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.
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 FY2022, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
PRINCETON DAY SCHOOL INC6× · 2017–2022 · $130k · revenue +32%
PINELANDS PRESERVATION ALLIANCE5× · 2017–2021 · $17k · revenue +55%
UNITED STATES NATIONAL COMMITTEE OF THE INTL COUNCIL ON MONUM & SITES2× · 2019–2020 · $15k · revenue +363%
Funded once
- MHMERCER HOUSEone grant, 2020 · $6k
- JMJANET MASON LASTER LIFE FUNDone grant, 2020 · $6k
- HHHEURICH HOUSE MUSEUMone grant, 2017 · $5k
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.
Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…
Princeton ballet society's mission is to nurture a lifelong love of dance and lift the collective spirit through excellent, relevant, and accessible artistic and educational programs, with a focus on classical ballet.
To enrich the communities we serve through a multi-dimensional, world-class performing arts summer festival. We create programs that excite, inform, inspire, and invite discovery and engagement as we aspire to become a nationally…
Fairleigh dickinson university is a center of academic excellence dedicated to the preparation of world citizens through global education. the university strives to provide students with the multi-disciplinary, intercultural, and ethical…
The trustees of the university of pennsylvania (the "university") sees itself as having a public service mission. in such regard, the university aims to provide a rich and diverse educational environment for its students; to pioneer…
To offer accessible, high-quality performing arts education that sparks personal growth and builds inclusive communities. its vision is to transform performing arts education in an inclusive community accessible to all.
To bring quality public television programs and resources to communities throughout new jersey and its tri-state neighbors. its content, both on-air and online, aims to reflect the diverse
The purpose of the school is to promote, advance and sponsor charitable and educational activities.
The Morgan Library & Museum celebrates and shares the history and process of human creativity from antiquity to the present day through the preservation, study, and interpretation of a dynamic and growing collection.
Laws of the state of new jersey. the mission of the organization is to perform choral masterworks and other works of the choral literature with energy, passion, and uncompromising artistic excellence. the organization believes in the power…
Nmoa mission statement is: we welcome everyone with inclusive experiences that spark curiosity and foster community.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Princeton Healthcare System Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Cranbury First Aid Squad Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 52 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
24 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. 24 of the 43 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 Princeton Area Community Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds PRINCETON DAY SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds PINELANDS PRESERVATION ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds NEW JERSEY CONSERVATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds UNITED STATES NATIONAL COMMITTEE OF THE INTL COUNCIL ON MONUM & SITES ↗
- Who funds INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED STUDY - LOUIS BAMBERGER & MRS FELIX FULD FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Princeton Symphony Orchestra Inc ↗
- Who funds New Jersey Policy Perspective ↗
- Who funds The Petey Greene Program Inc ↗
- Who funds PRINCETON HEALTHCARE SYSTEM FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Passage Theatre Company Inc ↗
- Who funds HOMEFRONT INC ↗
- Who funds WORLD MONUMENTS FUND INC ↗
- Who funds ISLES INC ↗
- Who funds LATIN AMERICAN LEGAL DEFENSE AND EDUCATIONAL FUND INC ↗
- Who funds ARTS COUNCIL OF PRINCETON ↗
- Who funds TASK Inc Trenton Area Soup Kitchen Inc ↗
- Who funds THE WISTAR INSTITUTE OF ANATOMY AND BIOLOGY ↗
- Who funds CORPORATION OF HAVERFORD COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds LAWRENCE HOPEWELL TRAIL CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds UIH Family Partners d/b/a The Father Center of New Jersey ↗
- Who funds BRYN MAWR COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds FILM FORUM 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: Princeton Area Community Foundation Inc · Bristol-Myers Squibb Foundation Inc · Curtis W McGraw Foundation · The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation · Citizens Philanthropic Foundation Inc · George H and Estelle M Sands Foundation · Geraldine R Dodge Foundation Inc · Educational Ventures Inc · Pseg Foundation Inc · Community Foundation of New Jersey · Mary Owen Borden Memorial Fund · Pheasant Hill Foundation Inc
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 Emily & John Harvey 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Pinelands Preservation Alliance — 35% of income from government
- The Petey Greene Program Inc — 29% of income from government
- Isles Inc — 21% of income from government
- Passage Theatre Company Inc — 10% of income from government
- Homefront Inc — 9% of income from government
- Institute for Advanced Study - Louis Bamberger & Mrs Felix Fuld Foundation — 7% of income from government
- Arts Council of Princeton — 6% of income from government
- Princeton Symphony Orchestra Inc — 4% of income from government
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.
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