· Private foundation
George J & Jessica Harris 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, FY2021 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| FOUNDATIONS IN EDUCATION | $25,000 |
| SILVER SOURCE INC | $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 |
| STAMFORD CENTER FOR THE ARTS | $5,000 |
| SOUNDWATERS | $5,000 |
| ORCHESTRA LUMOS | $5,000 |
| LIV FREE | $5,000 |
| STAMFORD MUSEUM & NATURE CENTER | $5,000 |
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 (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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
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 +52% since the first grant, against +22% for those 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
How this is measured
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 +27%
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%
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.
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.
How this is measured
18 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. 18 of the 23 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 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 ↗
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: 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization George J & Jessica Harris Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from George J & Jessica Harris Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- 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
How this is measured
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