New Jersey · Private foundation
George and Ruth Harms Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $177k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 32
- Grants FY2025
- 34
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 24%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $1,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $62,500
- Organizations funded a year
- 8 to 34
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 11
- Total assets, FY2025
- $176k
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 24% of the organizations George and Ruth Harms Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 21% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 79% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $33k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 31 | $167k | 23% |
| FY2024 | 34 | $160k | 24% |
| FY2023 | 30 | $80k | 23% |
| FY2022 | 26 | $59k | 65% |
| FY2021 | 17 | $69k | 53% |
| FY2020 | 8 | $20k | 25% |
| FY2019 | 23 | $96k | 35% |
| FY2018 | 17 | $92k | 47% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Samaritan Center at the Jersey Shore | $173,752 | 8 | 10% |
| The Foodbank of Monmouth and Ocean Counties Inc D/B/A Fulfill | $40,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Monmouth Park Charity Fund Inc | $24,650 | 4 | 6% |
| Samaritan's Purse | $23,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Chester River Health Foundation Inc | $20,490 | 6 | 1% |
| Algonquin Arts a New Jersey Nonprofit C | $20,470 | 4 | 1% |
| Conservation Force Inc | $18,000 | 5 | 1% |
| Allaire Community Farm a Nj Nonprofit Co | $16,380 | 6 | 1% |
| Monmouth Medical Center Foundation Inc | $14,395 | 7 | 0% |
| Girl Scouts of the Jersey Shore Inc | $13,710 | 3 | 0% |
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What it could do for these grantees
Plus 41 recipients with no EIN on record ($372k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
George and Ruth Harms Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 48 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: Manasquan Bank Charitable Foundation Inc · New Jersey Natural Gas Company Charity Inc · Oceanfirst Foundation · The Ansell Grimm & Aaron Foundation Inc · The Hajim Family Foundation · Community Foundation of New Jersey · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · The Holmes Family Foundation Inc · The Jay and Linda Grunin Foundation D/B/A Grunin Foundation · Investors Foundation Inc · The John H and Katherine J Weiland Foundation Inc · John a & Marlene L Boll Foundation
How this is measured
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About George and Ruth Harms Foundation
- How much does George and Ruth Harms Foundation give?
- George and Ruth Harms Foundation reported 32 grants totaling $177,367 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 8 and 34 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does George and Ruth Harms Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (39%), Recreation & Sports (13%), Religion (9%).
- Who are George and Ruth Harms Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: The Samaritan Center at the Jersey Shore ($174k), The Foodbank of Monmouth and Ocean Counties Inc D/B/A Fulfill ($40k), Monmouth Park Charity Fund Inc ($25k).
- Does George and Ruth Harms Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 24% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does George and Ruth Harms Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as George and Ruth Harms Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Manasquan Bank Charitable Foundation Inc, New Jersey Natural Gas Company Charity Inc, Oceanfirst Foundation.
- Where is George and Ruth Harms Foundation based?
- George and Ruth Harms Foundation is based in NJ.
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