· Private foundation
George and Ruth Harms Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k26 grants · $39k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $76k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $63k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING | $62,500 |
| SAMARITAN CENTER OF THE JERSEY SHORE | $36,367 |
| MANASQUAN PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH | $10,000 |
| FULLFIL | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| OCEAN REEF COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| SAMARITAN'S PURSE | $6,000 |
| MANASQUAN BOARD OF EDUCATION | $5,000 |
| THE EVERGLADES FOUNDATION INC | $3,500 |
| THE KEYS CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION | $3,000 |
| ORC FOR ORPHANS | $2,500 |
| AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY | $2,500 |
| ALLAIRE COMMUNITY FARM | $2,500 |
| OCEAN REEF MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION | $2,300 |
| FELLOWSHIP FOR CHRISTIAN ATHLETES | $1,500 |
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 (FY17–25, $74k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 19% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 8% of George and Ruth Harms Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 64% of the giving stays in NJ; read by stated purpose it is 61% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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 +43% since the first grant, against +16% for the ones you funded once.
44 repeat relationships — 24 still active in FY2025, 20 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
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 FY2025, 52% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $81k 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
- TSTHE SAMARITAN CENTER AT THE JERSEY SHORE8× · 2017–2025 · $174k · revenue +61%
- TFTHE FOODBANK OF MONMOUTH AND OCEAN COUNTIES INC D/B/A FULFILL4× · 2017–2020 · $40k · revenue +63%
- MPMONMOUTH PARK CHARITY FUND INC4× · 2017–2024 · $25k · revenue +20%
Funded once
- OMOCEAN MEDICAL FOUNDATIONone grant, 2021 · $30k
- MPMANASQUEEN PRESBYTERIAN CHURCHone grant, 2023 · $15k
- TPTHE PROTESTANT CONGREGATION OF OCEAN REEF INCone grant, 2024 · $13k
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.
The nmmf's mission is to improve and protect life for marine mammals, humans, and our shared oceans through science, service, and education. our vision is to be the leading laboratory in marine mammal science, where critical questions…
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To inspire people to care for and protect our ocean planet through education and research.
To advocate for policy changes by governments and corporations in order to preserve ocean life and return the oceans to their former abundance.
Organized exclusively for charitable, educational, medical and scientific purposes, including, for such purposes the making of distributions to tidalhealth peninsula regional and tidalhealth nanticoke, not-for-profit, non-stock…
To provide needed food, shelter, clothing, medicine and educational scholarships.
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With its origin in pediatric cancer, the william guy forbeck research foundation promotes advances in cancer research through collaboration
As the only community foundation for the ocean, The Ocean Foundation's 501(c)(3) mission is to improve global ocean health, climate resilience, and the blue economy. We create partnerships to connect people in the communities in which we…
Reef environmental education foundation (reef) was established as a nonprofit organization in 1990. reef conserves marine environments worldwide. our mission is to protect biodiversity and ocean life by actively engaging and inspiring the…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Ocean Reef Community Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Tigger Stavola Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 28 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% 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.
52 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. 52 of the 97 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 THE SAMARITAN CENTER AT THE JERSEY SHORE ↗
- Who funds OCEAN REEF COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE FOODBANK OF MONMOUTH AND OCEAN COUNTIES INC D/B/A FULFILL ↗
- Who funds MONMOUTH PARK CHARITY FUND INC ↗
- Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
- Who funds Chester River Health Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds ALGONQUIN ARTS A NEW JERSEY NONPROFIT C ↗
- Who funds CONSERVATION FORCE INC ↗
- Who funds ALLAIRE COMMUNITY FARM A NJ NONPROFIT CO ↗
- Who funds MONMOUTH MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds GIRL SCOUTS OF THE JERSEY SHORE INC ↗
- Who funds KEYS CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE EVERGLADES FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Foundation of Orthopedics and Complex Spine Inc ↗
- Who funds University of Maryland Medical System Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds GUILD OF OCEAN MEDICAL CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds OCEAN REEF CHAPEL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds OCEAN REEF CULTURAL CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds THE JT MESTDAGH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds TISCH MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS RESEARCH CENTER OF NEW YORK 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: 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
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 George and Ruth Harms 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.
- 180 Turning Lives Around — 61% of income from government
- Interfaith Neighbors Inc — 9% of income from government
- Yellow Ribbon Fund Inc — 0% of income from government
- Washington College — 0% 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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