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Harman Family Charitable Tr Main at a glance

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Harman Family Charitable Tr Main

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$725k
Granted FY2025still arriving
11
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$217k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0193% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Education$323kPublic Benefit$255kHealth$208kHuman Services$138kReligion$128kArts & Culture$100kCommunity Improvement$100kFood & Nutrition$100kOther$0
02FY2025 · 11 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k1 grant · $6k
  • $10k–50k5 grants · $152k
  • $50k–250k5 grants · $567k
$38,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$13M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Individual grant recipient$216,615
NORTHEAST IOWA FOOD BANK INC$100,000
ST PAULS UCC$100,000
HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INTERNATONAL INC$100,000
ALLEN MEMORIAL HOSPITAL CORPORATION$50,000
MEMORIAL FOUNDATION OF ALLEN HOSPITAL$38,000
UNIVERSITY OF NORTHERN IOWA FOUNDATION$38,000
CEDAR COUNTY LAW ENFORCEMENT CENTER$26,211
CAMP COURAGEOUS OF IOWA$25,000
YOUTH ART TEAM$25,000
NORTH CEDAR COMMUNITY SCHOOL DISTRICT$6,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY20–25, $138k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 93% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%HAWKEYE AREA COMMUNITY ACTION PROGRAM IN: $5k → 9%CAMP COURAGEOUS OF IOWA: $25k → 11%HAWKEYE AREA COMMUNITY ACTION PROGRAM IN: $5k → 9%FRIENDSHIP VILLAGE FOUNDATION: $100k → 17%FRIENDSHIP VILLAGE FOUNDATION: $3k → 17%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
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.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

72%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.7M · 15 repeat orgs$671k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +43% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.

15 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2025, 10 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

15
11

Total granted

$1.7M
$271k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+43%
0%

Still filing today

53%
36%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 45% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $400k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthHuman ServicesEducationArts & CultureEnvironmentFood & NutritionOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF NORTHERN IOWA FOUNDATION
    4× · 2021–2025 · $217k · revenue +43%
  • FV
    FRIENDSHIP VILLAGE FOUNDATION
    2× · 2022–2023 · $103k · revenue +43% · 78% of their budget
  • NI
    NORTH IOWA CULTURAL CENTER & MUSEUM
    3× · 2020–2023 · $60k · revenue +69%

Funded once

  • CL
    CLEAR LAKE DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2024 · $100k · revenue 0%
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2022 · $45k
  • LC
    Lions Clubs International Foundation
    one grant, 2022 · $40k
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Iowa College Foundation

The foundation is organized to further the growth and development of private colleges and universities of higher education in iowa.

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2
Central Iowa Hospital Corporation

Improving the health of the community through healing, caring and teaching.

Health
3
Central Iowa Health System

Improving the health of the community through healing, caring and teaching.

Health
4
Iowa Health System

To improve the health of the people and communities we serve.

Health
5
Iowa Health Foundation

Improving the health of our communities through philanthropy, service and volunteerism.

Health
6
University of Iowa Facilities Corporation

The university of iowa facilities corporation acquires and holds property for the benefit and use of the university of iowa.

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7
United Way of North Central Iowa

Seeking to build a stronger, more caring community by forming partnerships with businesses, community experts, education & health & human service agencies to achieve targeted outcomes & sustained changes in community conditions which will…

Philanthropy
8
Iowa Hospital Association

The iowa hospital association reimagines health care in iowa for life changing outcomes. as the voice and principal advocate for iowa's hospitals, iha provides strategic leadership, resources, and support to ensure its members can…

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9
Iowa Physicians Clinic Medical Foundation

To improve the health of the people and communities we serve.

Health
10
Iowa Credit Union Foundation

Founded in 1995 as the philanthropic arm of the iowa credit union league and guided by the credit union philosophy of "people helping people", the iowa credit union foundation (the foundation) works to champion financial well-being for…

Unclassified
11
Unity Healthcare Foundation

To provide financial assistance to unity healthcare to help enable it to carry out its exempt function of providing health care to the community.

Philanthropy
12
Iowa Renewable Fuels Association

To promote the common business interests of member companies without profit and without the inuring of income to the benefit of any member company or individual. to present the executive, legislative, judicial and regulatory bodies…

Community Improvement
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Memorial Foundation of Allen Hospital; the most unlike its peers is North Iowa Cultural Center & Museum. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

17 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. 17 of the 32 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
17/17
Grantees still filing
9/17
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Individual grant recipient: $747,022 · OtherIndividual grant recipientCITY OF CLEAR LAKE: $250,000 · OtherCITY OF CLEAR LAKEIOWA VALLEY HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC: $100,000 · OtherIOWA VALLEY HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INCST PAULS UCC: $100,000 · OtherST PAULS UCCCLEAR LAKE DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION: $100,000 · OtherCLEAR LAKE DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION+14 more: $306,802 · Other+14 moreUNIVERSITY OF NORTHERN IOWA FOUNDATION: $216,733 · EducationUNIVERSITY …IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $28,733 · EducationIOWA STATE …MEMORIAL FOUNDATION OF ALLEN HOSPITAL: $138,000 · HealthMEMORIAL …ALLEN MEMORIAL HOSPITAL CORPORATION: $50,000 · HealthALLEN MEM…MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF IOWA INC: $15,000 · HealthMAKE-A-WI…+1 more: $5,000 · HealthFRIENDSHIP VILLAGE FOUNDATION: $103,000 · Human ServicesCAMP COURAGEOUS OF IOWA: $25,000 · Human ServicesHAWKEYE AREA COMMUNITY ACTION PROGRAM INC: $10,000 · Human ServicesNORTHEAST IOWA FOOD BANK: $100,000 · Food & NutritionNORTH IOWA CULTURAL CENTER & MUSEUM: $60,000 · Arts & CultureYouth Art Team: $25,000 · Arts & CultureIOWA NATURAL HERITAGE FOUNDATION: $40,000 · Environment
Other$1,603,824Education$245,466Health$208,000Human Services$138,000Food & Nutrition$100,000Arts & Culture$85,000Environment$40,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetUNIVERSITY OF NORTHERN IOWA FOUNDATION: $216,733 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetMEMORIAL FOUNDATION OF ALLEN HOSPITAL: $138,000 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetFRIENDSHIP VILLAGE FOUNDATION: $103,000 over 2y, 78% of budgetNORTHEAST IOWA FOOD BANK: $100,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetIOWA VALLEY HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC: $100,000 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetCLEAR LAKE DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION: $100,000 over 1y, 17% of budgetNORTH IOWA CULTURAL CENTER & MUSEUM: $60,000 over 3y, 2.1% of budgetIOWA NATURAL HERITAGE FOUNDATION: $40,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetClear Lake Arts Council: $40,000 over 5y, 9.8% of budgetIOWA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $28,733 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetALLEN COLLEGE: $25,233 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF IOWA INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetHAWKEYE AREA COMMUNITY ACTION PROGRAM INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWHEATLAND EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICE: $5,000 over 1y, 5.4% of budget
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.

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.

Max and Helen Guernse…Alliant Energy Founda…Delta Dental of Iowa …Community Foundation …The Blackbaud Giving …Vanguard Charitable E…Network for GoodAmerican Endowment Fo…Natl Christian Charit…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …
Max and Helen Guernsey Charitable FoundationIA15.7× affinity5 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Max and Helen Guernsey Charitable Foundation · Alliant Energy Foundation Inc · Delta Dental of Iowa Foundation · Community Foundation of Greater Dubuque · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Network for Good · American Endowment Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Harman Family Charitable Tr Main funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Harman Family Charitable Tr Main. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%23%51%90%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    8report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Harman Family Charitable Tr Main?

    Find your warmest path to Harman Family Charitable Tr Main through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 32 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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