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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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k1 grant · $6k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $152k
- $50k–250k5 grants · $567k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| 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 |
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 (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 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 +43% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you 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
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 45% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $400k 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
- UOUNIVERSITY OF NORTHERN IOWA FOUNDATION4× · 2021–2025 · $217k · revenue +43%
- FVFRIENDSHIP VILLAGE FOUNDATION2× · 2022–2023 · $103k · revenue +43% · 78% of their budget
- NINORTH IOWA CULTURAL CENTER & MUSEUM3× · 2020–2023 · $60k · revenue +69%
Funded once
- CLCLEAR LAKE DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATIONone grant, 2024 · $100k · revenue 0%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2022 · $45k
- LCLions Clubs International Foundationone grant, 2022 · $40k
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.
The foundation is organized to further the growth and development of private colleges and universities of higher education in iowa.
Improving the health of the community through healing, caring and teaching.
Improving the health of the community through healing, caring and teaching.
To improve the health of the people and communities we serve.
Improving the health of our communities through philanthropy, service and volunteerism.
The university of iowa facilities corporation acquires and holds property for the benefit and use of the university of 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…
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…
To improve the health of the people and communities we serve.
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…
To provide financial assistance to unity healthcare to help enable it to carry out its exempt function of providing health care to the community.
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…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Memorial Foundation of Allen Hospital and 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.
17 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. 17 of the 32 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 UNIVERSITY OF NORTHERN IOWA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MEMORIAL FOUNDATION OF ALLEN HOSPITAL ↗
- Who funds FRIENDSHIP VILLAGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CLEAR LAKE DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NORTHEAST IOWA FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds IOWA VALLEY HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC ↗
- Who funds NORTH IOWA CULTURAL CENTER & MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds ALLEN MEMORIAL HOSPITAL CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds Clear Lake Arts Council ↗
- Who funds IOWA NATURAL HERITAGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ALLEN COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds CAMP COURAGEOUS OF IOWA ↗
- Who funds Youth Art Team ↗
- Who funds MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF IOWA INC ↗
- Who funds HAWKEYE AREA COMMUNITY ACTION PROGRAM INC ↗
- Who funds WHEATLAND EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICE ↗
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: 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
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 Harman Family Charitable Tr Main 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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.
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