How much did GEORGE J & JESSICA HARRIS FOUNDATION grant in FY2024?

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 62% of GEORGE J & JESSICA HARRIS FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2021

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2022

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2023

education

2024

education

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2024 · 15 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k4 grants · $20k
$10k–50k9 grants · $175k
$50k–250k2 grants · $110k

$15,000

Median grant

States reached

$6.4M

Total assets

Largest grants

OPEN DOORS$55,000
STAMFORD HOSPITAL FOUNDATION FOR CANCER RESEARCH$55,000
SAFE FUTURES$30,000
THE FOOD BANK OF LOWER FAIRFIELD COUNTY$25,000
SILVER SOURCE INC$25,000
FOUNDATIONS IN EDUCATION$25,000
VISITING NURSE & HOSPICE OF FAIRFIELD COUNTY$20,000
FAIRFIELD UNIVERSITY QUICK CENTER FOR THE ARTS$15,000
STAMFORD MUSEUM & NATURE CENTER$15,000
LIV FREE$10,000
INSPIRICA$10,000
ORCHESTRA LUMOS$5,000
STAMFORD CENTER FOR THE ARTS$5,000
SOUNDWATERS$5,000
ONE SANDWICH AT A TIME$5,000

02The need

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 (FY21–24, $140k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9% — the area typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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 line in 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, United Way ALICE — 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.

95%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$1.2M · 17 repeat orgs$60k to everyone else

17 repeat relationships — 14 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$1.2M

$50k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+38%

+141%

Still filing today

65%

75%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Arts & CultureHuman ServicesFood & NutritionEducationPhilanthropyHealthOther

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

SF
SAFE FUTURES
4× · 2021–2024 · $120k · revenue +68%
FI
FOUNDATIONS IN EDUCATION
2× · 2023–2024 · $49k · revenue +83%
VN
VISITING NURSE & HOSPICE OF FAIRFIELD COUNTY
2× · 2023–2024 · $40k · revenue +27%

Funded once

BK
BISHOP KEANRY SCHOOL
one grant, 2022 · $20k
MO
MEALS ON WHEELS
one grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue +3%
TP
TURNING POINT USAgraduated
one grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue +655%

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.

Stamford Health Inc

Stamford health, inc. is a supporting organization whose mission is to support its affiliate organizations: the stamford hospital and shmg.

Health

Fine Arts Radio Inc

Fine Arts Radio, Inc. is a 501(c)(3) non-profit dedicated to supporting classical and classic music in Connecticut and New York

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Connecticut Farmland Trust Inc

Protect Connecticuts farmland for agricultural use by purchasing and accepting donations of agricultural conservation easements

Food & Nutrition

Stamford Partnership Inc

The stamford partnership is a public/private partnership working to enhance the quality of life for those who live and work in stamford connecticut

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New Haven Works Inc

New haven works connects new haven residents to good jobs and employers to qualified pre-screened candidates.

Education

The Stamford Hospital

Together with our physicians we provide a broad range of high-quality health and wellness services focused on the needs of our communities.

Health

United Way of Connecticut Inc

The mission of united way of connecticut is to help the people of connecticut to thrive through trusted partnerships and innovative solutions.

Philanthropy

Statewide Legal Services of Connecticut Inc

Statewide Legal Services of Connecticut Inc. SLS empowers low-income people in Connecticut to obtain justice by providing tools to address their civil legal needs. SLS provides its clients with high volume brief or in-depth legal advice…

Crime & Legal

Cfa Society of Stamford Inc

The CFA Society Stamford mission is to serve the financial community and our CFA Charterholder members. We are a local chapter that is affiliated with the CFA Institute and share a common goal to promote the highest standards of ethics…

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Neighborhood Studios of Fairfield County Inc

Neighborhood Studios transforms the lives of Bridgeport children through arts education and empowers them to make a difference in their community.

Arts & Culture

At Home in Greenwich Inc

Provides greenwich residents professional guidance to meet life's challenges and live confidently in their own homes as they grow old.

Human Services

Land Conservancy of Ridgefield Inc

The Land Conservancy of Ridgefield, Inc. ("the Land Conservancy"), founded in 1967, preserves and protects, for the general benefit of the public, Ridgefield, Connecticut's natural resources including land and water resources, the plant…

Environment

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Stamford Museum & Nature Center Inc and the most unlike its peers is Judicial Watch Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

05the grantee network

14 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

14/14

Grantees still filing

11/14

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$775,000Human Services$140,000Food & Nutrition$100,000Arts & Culture$73,000Philanthropy$49,000Health$40,000Education$35,000

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.

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.

Fairfield County's Community FoundationCT17.8× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Fairfield County's Community Foundation · Stamford Rotary Trust Fund · New Canaan Community Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · 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 organisation 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.

2024

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6get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%

typical government reliance, FY20–24

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. 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

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: ONE SANDWICH AT A TIME.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

insufficient risk

Limited financial data in public filings.

Track record & reputation

low risk

8 years of Form 990 filings, still active; revenue up 3.2× since.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 453328728 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on ONE SANDWICH AT A TIME, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

Awaiting reportFinancial stability— Runway not derivable from filings.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue grew over the period.
On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 8% of their budget — diversified.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

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How do I get to George J & Jessica Harris Foundation?

Find your warmest path to George J & Jessica Harris Foundation through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

GEORGE J & JESSICA HARRIS FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

14 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to George J & Jessica Harris Foundation?

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GEORGE J & JESSICA HARRIS FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

14 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to George J & Jessica Harris Foundation?

More from the funding graph