· Private foundation
George and Ruth Harms Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| FULLFIL | $10,000 |
| MANASQUAN PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH | $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 |
| ALLAIRE COMMUNITY FARM | $2,500 |
| AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY | $2,500 |
| ORC FOR ORPHANS | $2,500 |
| OCEAN REEF MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION | $2,300 |
| FELLOWSHIP FOR CHRISTIAN ATHLETES | $1,500 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 8% of George and Ruth Harms Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 64% of the giving stays in NJ; by stated purpose, 61%.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +41% since the first grant, against +14% for those 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
How this is measured
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
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. 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.
Gulf coast strategic investments accepts and manages gifts of complex assets and real estate to deepen gulf coast community foundation's philanthropic impact.
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…
How this is measured
53 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 53 of the 97 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, 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 ORCAT INC ↗
- Who funds TISCH MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS RESEARCH CENTER OF NEW YORK INC ↗
- Who funds THE JT MESTDAGH FOUNDATION ↗
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization George and Ruth Harms Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from George and Ruth Harms Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- 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
How this is measured
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