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Fred G Harrison Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$1.4M
Granted FY2025still arriving
17
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$333k
Largest
01What you fund
0189% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172025.

Recreation & Sports$2.8MEducation$2.4MPublic Safety & Disaster$1.5MAnimals$726kPublic Benefit$532kHousing & Shelter$321kCrime & Legal$176kYouth Development$125kOther$0
02FY2025 · 17 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k6 grants · $14k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $36k
  • $50k–250k7 grants · $695k
  • $250k+2 grants · $619k
$50,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$31M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Individual grant recipient$333,333
Individual grant recipient$286,000
Individual grant recipient$175,000
VETERANS HONOR FLIGHT OF SOUTHERN ILLINOIS$159,145
WILLIAMSON COUNTY SHERIFF'S OFFICE$151,628
Individual grant recipient$58,788
LITTLE EGYPT ARTS ASSOCIATION$50,000
BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF SOUTHERN ILLINOIS$50,000
Individual grant recipient$50,000
Individual grant recipient$21,703
CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTERS OF ILLINOIS$14,700
HONOR WREATHS FOR VETERANS$7,650
HERRIN COMMUNITY PANTRY$1,959
Individual grant recipient$1,000
SYDNEY ATCHISON$1,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY20–20, $35k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%LIGHTHOUSE SHELTER: $35k → 13%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

69%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$6.9M · 17 repeat orgs$3.1M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +40% since the first grant, against +23% for the ones you funded once.

17 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2025, 13 since wound down; 13 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

17
72

Total granted

$6.9M
$2.1M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+40%
+23%

Still filing today

12%
10%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 27% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $999k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Public BenefitEducationPhilanthropyYouth DevelopmentCrime & LegalHuman ServicesOther

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

  • JA
    John A Logan College
    3× · 2022–2024 · $2.0M
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    3× · 2018–2024 · $843k
  • HC
    HERRIN CUSD 4
    3× · 2017–2019 · $750k

Funded once

  • JL
    JOHN LOGAN COLLEGE
    one grant, 2021 · $625k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2021 · $172k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2021 · $150k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Henry County Senior Citizens

Provide services to senior citizens in henry county, illinois.

Human Services
2
Southern Il Central Labor Council

Labor organization

3
Cook County Chamber
Philanthropy
4
Amvets Illinois State Department

Support the activities of the illinois amvets service foundation

5
Southern Illinois Now

Sharing the good in southern illinois and advancing our region as a great place to live, work, and do business.

Community Improvement
6
Central Illinois Board of Realtors

To provide support to realtors and those afffiliated with real estate sales. to facilitate membership in the national association of realtors, to provide a safe, secure way for members of the public to provide access to homes and…

7
Veterans of Foreign Wars Department Harry E Anderson Vfw Post 9545

To support veterans in need and other veteran organizations, sponsor patriotic activities and provided social and recreational activities for mebers and their families

8
Highland Park Chamber of Commerce Inc

Local chamber of commerce

9
Blackhawk Waterways Cvb

Promote tourism in nw illinois

10
Veterans Foundation of Illinois Inc

To promote and fund veteran programs supporting veteran service organizations.

Human Services
11
The Chicago Area Gay and Lesbian Chamber of Commerce

To promote economic opportunities for the lgbt community by being an advocate and resource for all member businesses that encorage equality.

Philanthropy
12
Humane Society of Central Illinois

HSCIs mission is to find loving, forever homes for abused and unwanted pets.

Animals

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Survivor Empowerment Center Inc and the most unlike its peers is Agape Christian High School. 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

12 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 12 of the 102 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
12/12
Grantees still filing
7/12
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

John A Logan College — $1,950,873 · OtherJohn A Logan CollegeIndividual grant recipient — $842,791 · OtherIndividual grant recipientHERRIN CUSD 4 — $750,000 · OtherHERRIN CUSD 4JOHN LOGAN COLLEGE — $625,000 · OtherJOHN LOGAN COLLEGEIndividual grant recipient — $609,446 · OtherIndividual grant recipientANN WEST LINDSEY LIBRARY — $500,000 · OtherCITY OF MARION FIRE DEPARTMENT — $491,563 · OtherIndividual grant recipient — $346,703 · OtherJOHN A LOGAN COLLEGE- MENS BASEBALL — $337,500 · Other+86 more — $3,181,838 · Other+86 moreVETERANS HONOR FLIGHT OF SOUTHERN ILLINOIS — $159,145 · Public BenefitHONOR WREATHS FOR VETERANS — $31,650 · Public BenefitAGAPE CHRISTIAN HIGH SCHOOL — $50,000 · EducationBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF SOUTHERN ILLINOI — $50,000 · Youth DevelopmentTHE LIGHTHOUSE SHELTER — $35,409 · Human ServicesJEWISH FEDERATION OF SOUTHERN ILLINOIS — $30,000 · PhilanthropyCHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTERS OF ILLINOIS — $14,700 · Crime & Legal
Other$9,635,714Public Benefit$190,795Education$50,000Youth Development$50,000Human Services$35,409Philanthropy$30,000Crime & Legal$14,700

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ your 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
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 VETERANS HONOR FLIGHT OF SOUTHERN ILLINOIS
  • Who funds AGAPE CHRISTIAN HIGH SCHOOL
  • Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF SOUTHERN ILLINOI
  • Who funds THE LIGHTHOUSE SHELTER
  • Who funds HONOR WREATHS FOR VETERANS
  • Who funds JEWISH FEDERATION OF SOUTHERN ILLINOIS

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.

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

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 Fred G Harrison 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.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 00%2%8%17%30%your share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    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.

    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Fred G Harrison Foundation?

    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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 102 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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