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Fred G Harrison Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$1.4M
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
17
Grants FY2025
15
Organizations funded FY2024
67%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$50,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$333,333
Organizations funded a year
7 to 19
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
1
Total assets, FY2025
$31M
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 67% of the organizations Fred G Harrison Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 16% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $210k 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
EducationHuman ServicesPublic BenefitPhilanthropyOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving17$1.4M76%
FY202415$1.3M67%
FY20237$1.3M71%
FY202211$1.2M82%
FY202114$1.1M93%
FY202016$1.0M50%
FY201918$1.1M89%
FY201819$850k79%
89% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Recreation & Sports$2.8MEducation$2.4MPublic Safety & Disaster$1.5MAnimals$726kPublic Benefit$532kHousing & Shelter$321kCrime & Legal$176kYouth Development$125kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

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All grantees of Fred G Harrison Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Veterans Honor Flight of Southern Illinois$159,145126%
Agape Christian High School$50,00019%
Boys and Girls Clubs of Southern Illinoi$50,000110%
Little Egypt Arts Association$50,0001n/a
The Lighthouse Shelter$35,409110%
Honor Wreaths for Veterans$31,65059%
Jewish Federation of Southern Illinois$30,00016%
Benevolent & Protective Order of Elks Lodge 800$23,032112%
Children's Advocacy Centers of Illinois$14,70010%
Survivor Empowerment Center Inc$10,00010%
Southern Illinois Wellness$9,860112%
Herrin Community Pantry$3,45924%
Herrin Chamber of Commerce$2,49111%
Williamson County Historical Society$1,7321n/a
Southern Illinois Worship Center$1,0001n/a

Plus 87 recipients with no EIN on record ($9.5M), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Fred G Harrison Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 12 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetVeterans Honor Flight of Southern Illinois: $159,145 over 1y, 26% of budgetAgape Christian High School: $50,000 over 1y, 9.4% of budgetBoys and Girls Clubs of Southern Illinoi: $50,000 over 1y, 9.7% of budgetThe Lighthouse Shelter: $35,409 over 1y, 10% of budgetHonor Wreaths for Veterans: $31,650 over 5y, 9.3% of budgetJewish Federation of Southern Illinois: $30,000 over 1y, 5.7% of budgetBenevolent & Protective Order of Elks Lodge 800: $23,032 over 1y, 12% of budgetChildren's Advocacy Centers of Illinois: $14,700 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSurvivor Empowerment Center Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetSouthern Illinois Wellness: $9,860 over 1y, 12% of budgetHerrin Community Pantry: $3,459 over 2y, 4.0% of budgetHerrin Chamber of Commerce: $2,491 over 1y, 1.2% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 12.

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.

Watermark Auto Group FoundationDE15.7× affinity5 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Watermark Auto Group Foundation · Southern Illinois Hospital Services · 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.

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Find your warmest path to Fred G Harrison Foundation 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.

About Fred G Harrison Foundation

How much does Fred G Harrison Foundation give?
Fred G Harrison Foundation reported 17 grants totaling $1,363,906 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 7 and 19 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does Fred G Harrison Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Recreation & Sports (28%), Education (24%), Public Safety & Disaster (15%).
Who are Fred G Harrison Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Veterans Honor Flight of Southern Illinois ($159k), Agape Christian High School ($50k), Boys and Girls Clubs of Southern Illinoi ($50k).
Does Fred G Harrison Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 67% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Fred G Harrison Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as Fred G Harrison Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Watermark Auto Group Foundation, Southern Illinois Hospital Services, Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund.
Where is Fred G Harrison Foundation based?
Fred G Harrison Foundation is based in IL.

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 102 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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