· Private foundation
George J & Jessica Harris 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 FY2021–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k6 grants · $30k
- $10k–50k8 grants · $170k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $105k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| STAMFORD HOSPITAL FOUNDATION FOR CANCER RESEARCH | $55,000 |
| OPEN DOORS | $50,000 |
| SAFE FUTURES | $30,000 |
| THE FOOD BANK OF LOWER FAIRFIELD COUNTY | $25,000 |
| SILVER SOURCE INC | $25,000 |
| FOUNDATIONS IN EDUCATION | $25,000 |
| KOLBE CATHEDRAL PREPARATORY SCHOOL | $20,000 |
| VISITING NURSE & HOSPICE OF FAIRFIELD COUNTY | $20,000 |
| FAIRFIELD UNIVERSITY QUICK CENTER FOR THE ARTS | $15,000 |
| STAMFORD DOLLARS FOR SCHOLARS | $10,000 |
| ORCHESTRA LUMOS | $5,000 |
| STAMFORD MUSEUM & NATURE CENTER | $5,000 |
| ONE SANDWICH AT A TIME | $5,000 |
| LIV FREE | $5,000 |
| STAMFORD CENTER FOR THE ARTS | $5,000 |
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 (FY21–25, $275k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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.
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.
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 +52% since the first grant, against +22% for the ones you funded once.
17 repeat relationships — 14 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down; 2 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, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $30k 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
- TOTHE OPEN DOOR SHELTER INC5× · 2021–2025 · $260k · revenue +52%
- SFSafe Futures Inc5× · 2021–2025 · $150k · revenue +28%
- VNVISITING NURSE & HOSPICE OF FAIRFIELD COUNTY INC5× · 2021–2025 · $100k · revenue +26%
Funded once
- BKBISHOP KEANRY SCHOOLone grant, 2022 · $20k
- MIMEALS-ON-WHEELS INCone grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue +5%
JUDICIAL WATCH INCone grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue +22%
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.
To establish, organize, maintain and conduct an institution for secondary, undergraduate and graduate education in the state of connecticut, and to perform such other works of education, charity and religion. see schedule o.
Our mission is to run a world-class urban park in the heart of stamford that serves as both an oasis in city life and a vibrant, diverse, green-space that inspires sound environmental practices and learning.
The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
New neighborhoods, inc.'s purpose is to develop, redevelop, own and manage quality housing for low and moderate income persons and families and to work to assist in the planning, re-planning, development and improvement of low and moderate…
Cold spring school challenges children to become self-reliant, curious and resourceful problem solvers with the academic and social skills to engage constructively and ethically in our diverse, changing world.
The mission of island harvest is to end hunger and reduce food waste on long island.
The stamford charter school for excellence prepares young people in stamford, connecticut to compete for admission to and succeed in top public, private and parochial high schools by cultivating their intellectual, artistic, social,…
Foodshare is leading an informed, coordinated response to hunger as part of the overall community effort to alleviate poverty in hartford and tolland counties.
To support salem health, salem health west valley and related organizations.
The mission of the connecticut foodshare is to deliver an informed and equitable response to hunger by mobilizing community partners, volunteers, and supporters.
Social Impact Partners ("SIP") is an innovative nonprofit organization dedicated to closing the opportunity divide in Connecticut by expanding pathways to living wage jobs and economic mobility for all, working with partners across the…
Driven by the belief that access to healthy food is a basic right for all people, feeding westchester leads hunger action programs and mobilizes the resources needed to eradicate hunger in westchester county.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Orchestra Lumos Inc and the most unlike its peers is Friends of Silversource Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
18 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. 18 of the 23 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 OPEN DOOR SHELTER INC ↗
- Who funds Safe Futures Inc ↗
- Who funds THE FOOD BANK OF LOWER FAIRFIELD COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds VISITING NURSE & HOSPICE OF FAIRFIELD COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF SILVERSOURCE INC ↗
- Who funds Foundations in Education Inc ↗
- Who funds INSPIRICA INC ↗
- Who funds STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Stamford Museum & Nature Center Inc ↗
- Who funds RIDGEFIELD ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds STAMFORD CENTER FOR THE ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds ONE SANDWICH AT A TIME ↗
- Who funds ORCHESTRA LUMOS INC ↗
- Who funds SOUNDWATERS INC ↗
- Who funds LIVFREE INC ↗
- Who funds MEALS-ON-WHEELS INC ↗
- Who funds JUDICIAL WATCH INC ↗
- Who funds TURNING POINT USA 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: Fairfield County's Community Foundation Inc · Stamford Rotary Trust Fund · Eversource Energy Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · 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 George J & Jessica Harris 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.
- Inspirica Inc — 30% of income from government
- Stamford Center for the Arts Inc — 18% of income from government
- Safe Futures Inc — 15% of income from government
- The Open Door Shelter Inc — 14% of income from government
- Stamford Museum & Nature Center Inc — 9% of income from government
- Soundwaters Inc — 4% of income from government
- Orchestra Lumos Inc — 1% 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.