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Harman Family Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$2.2M
Granted FY2024still arriving
125
Grants FY2024still arriving
13
States reached
$100k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Arts & Culture$4.2MEducation$3.3MYouth Development$2.0MPhilanthropy$642kInternational$564kHuman Services$490kCrime & Legal$451kEmployment$417kOther$0
02FY2024 · 125 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k43 grants · $114k
  • $10k–50k80 grants · $1.9M
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $192k
$15,000
Median grant
13
States reached
$36M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SHAKESPEARE THEATRE CO$100,000
SPUR LOCAL$92,000
THE BELL$45,000
CITYTUTOR$40,000
Individual grant recipient$40,000
HETRICK-MARTIN INSTITUTE$40,000
YEAR UP$40,000
ARAB-AMERICAN FMLY SUPPRT CTR$40,000
COMM IN SCHOOLS OF WA DC$35,000
INNER-CITY ARTS$35,000
BARUCH COLLEGE FUND$35,000
LINCOLN CENTER THEATER$35,000
LIFE PIECES TO MASTERPIECES$35,000
ASPEN INSTITUTE$35,000
NEW FUTURES$35,000
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY20–24, $742k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 91% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%MEDFIELD FOOD CUPBOARD: $2k → 7%MEDFIELD FOOD CUPBOARD: $1k → 7%MEDFIELD FOOD CUPBOARD: $1k → 7%REACH INCORPORATED: $20k → 10%THE ARTHUR PROJECT: $25k → 17%THE ARTHUR PROJECT: $25k → 17%THE ARTHUR PROJECT: $25k → 17%THE ARTHUR PROJECT: $20k → 17%THE BARKER ADOPTION FOUNDATION: $4k → 8%THE BARKER ADOPTION FOUNDATION: $4k → 8%THE BARKER ADOPTION FOUNDATION: $4k → 8%THE BARKER ADOPTION FOUNDATION: $4k → 8%THE PEOPLE CONCERN: $5k → 14%FUTURE LINK: $25k → 8%CHILDREN'S AID SOCIETY: $25k → 17%CHILDREN'S AID SOCIETY: $2k → 17%CHILDREN'S AID SOCIETY: $2k → 17%CHILDREN'S AID SOCIETY: $1k → 17%CHILDREN'S AID SOCIETY: $1k → 17%CHILDREN'S AID SOCIETY: $1k → 17%HETRICK-MARTIN INSTITUTE: $50k → 17%FOR LOVE OF CHILDREN (FLOC): $30k → 14%FOR LOVE OF CHILDREN (FLOC): $30k → 14%HETRICK-MARTIN INSTITUTE: $50k → 17%FOR LOVE OF CHILDREN (FLOC): $30k → 14%HETRICK-MARTIN INSTITUTE: $50k → 17%HETRICK-MARTIN INSTITUTE: $40k → 17%HETRICK-MARTIN INSTITUTE: $40k → 17%WOMEN'S REFUGEE COMMISSION: $1k → 17%HARLEM CHILDREN'S ZONE: $5k → 17%GIRLS WHO CODE: $500 → 17%GIRLS WHO CODE: $500 → 17%GIRLS WHO CODE: $500 → 17%GIRLS WHO CODE: $500 → 17%GIRLS WHO CODE: $500 → 17%NEW FUTURES: $35k → 14%ACCESS YOUTH: $40k → 14%ACCESS YOUTH: $33k → 14%NEW FUTURES: $20k → 14%ACCESS YOUTH: $30k → 14%ACCESS YOUTH: $30k → 14%ACCESS YOUTH: $28k → 14%DC AFFORDABLE LAW FIRM: $1k → 14%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.

Which US states its grants reach

WA
IL
NY
MA
OR
NJ
CT
CA
VA
MD
DC
AL
TX
FL
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.

86%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$11M · 133 repeat orgs$1.9M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +38% since the first grant, against +15% for those funded once.

133 repeat relationships: 82 still active in FY2024, 51 since wound down; 39 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

133
88

Total granted

$11M
$1.3M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+38%
+15%

Still filing today

85%
51%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 72% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $627k went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureEducationInternationalHuman ServicesHealthCivil RightsOther
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

  • TS
    THE SHAKESPEARE THEATRE
    4× · 2020–2024 · $1.6M · revenue +53%
  • SL
    SPUR LOCAL INC
    4× · 2020–2024 · $309k · revenue +56%
  • IA
    INNER-CITY ARTS
    5× · 2020–2024 · $259k · revenue +44%

Funded once

  • CF
    CATALOGUE FOR PHILANTHROPY GREATR WA DC
    one grant, 2021 · $98k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2022 · $53k
  • JF
    JOHN F KENNEDY CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTSgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $50k · revenue +116%
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
The George Washington University

The mission of the george washington university (gw) is to educate individuals in liberal arts, languages, sciences, learned professions, and other courses and subjects of study, and to conduct scholarly research and publish the findings…

Education
2
The New York Opportunity Network Inc Dba the Opportunity Network

The opportunity network ignites the drive, curiosity, and agency of underrepresented students on their paths to and through college and into thriving careers, powered by our commitment to access and community.

Education
3
Open Markets Institute

The open markets institute works to help people relearn how to use competition policy to build stronger democracies, more just and equitable societies, more innovative and sustainable economies, and a more secure and peaceful world.

Education
4
Columbia College Chicago

The organization's mission is to educate students for creative occupations in diverse fields of arts and media.

Education
5
Albright College

As a diverse community of learners, we cultivate integrity, curiosity, connection and resilience.

Education
6
Manhattanville University

To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.

Education
7
School in the Square Public Charter School

School in the square ("s2") engages, educates and empowers adolescents to respond mindfully and creatively to life's opportunities and challenges. s2 is a place where students, families and educators are seen, heard, and inspired and where…

Education
8
City Year Inc

City year helps students and schools succeed, while preparing the next generation of civically engaged leaders who can work across lines of difference. partnering with teachers, teams of city year americorps members cultivate learning…

Unclassified
9
Manhattan Institute for Policy Research Inc

The manhattan institute is a community of scholars, journalists, activists, and civic leaders dedicated to advancing opportunity, individual liberty, and the rule of law in america and its great cities.

Public Benefit
10
Council for Court Excellence

Council for court excellence's (cce's) mission is to bring people together to conduct research, educate, and advocate to make d.c.'s unique legal systems more just, equitable, and accountable to the community.

—
11
University of New Haven

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…

Education
12
City Report Inc

CITY REPORT, INC. serves the people of New York through independent journalism that answers their information needs and holds the powerful to account.

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Accelerate Change Inc; the most unlike its peers is Medfield Food Cupboard. 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

179 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. 179 of the 265 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)
35
Early backer (in before they grew)
176/179
Grantees still filing
127/179
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE SHAKESPEARE THEATRE: $1,610,000 · Arts & CultureTHE SHAKESPEARE THEATREINNER-CITY ARTS: $258,786 · Arts & CultureINNER-CITY ARTSLIFE PIECES TO MASTERPIECES: $197,500 · Arts & CultureTHE DREAMYARD PROJECT INC: $195,000 · Arts & CultureTHE VIVIAN BEAUMONT THEATERINC D/B/A LINCOLN CENTER THEATER: $190,000 · Arts & CultureSTEM FROM DANCE INC: $160,000 · Arts & CultureYOUTH COMMUNICATION NY CENTER INC: $150,000 · Arts & CultureDC YOUTH ORCHESTRA PROGRAM: $150,000 · Arts & Culture+22 more: $1,388,500 · Arts & Culture+22 moreTHE DOOR - A CENTER OF ALTERNATIVES INC: $200,000 · OtherTHE BELL: $170,000 · OtherHORTON'S KIDS INC: $162,500 · OtherLEGAL OUTREACH INC: $160,000 · OtherTHE ASPEN INSTITUTE INC: $195,000 · OtherTHE ARAB-AMERICAN FAMILY SUPPORT CENTER INC: $195,000 · Other+104 more: $3,383,428 · Other+104 moreYEAR UP INC: $230,000 · EducationYEAR UP INCMOTT HAVEN ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL: $210,000 · EducationMOTT HAVEN ACADEMY …GIRLS WRITE NOW INC: $165,000 · EducationGIRLS WRITE NOW INCTHE BARUCH COLLEGE FUND: $155,000 · EducationTHE BARUCH COLLEGE …CITYSCHOOLS COLLABORATIVE: $150,000 · EducationCITYSCHOOLS COLLABO…ONE WORLD EDUCATION: $140,000 · EducationONE WORLD EDUCATIONCOMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF THE NATION'S CAPITAL INC: $135,000 · EducationCOMMUNITIES IN SCHO…EDUCATORS FOR EXCELLENCE INC: $120,000 · EducationCOLLEGIATE DIRECTIONS INC: $120,000 · EducationMONUMENT ACADEMY INC: $115,000 · EducationFree Minds Book Club & Writing Workshop: $106,000 · EducationFLANBWAYAN HAITIAN LITERACY PROJECT INC: $105,000 · EducationLATINO STUDENT FUND: $100,000 · EducationSPARK THE JOURNEY: $90,000 · EducationGENERATION HOPE: $85,000 · Education+8 more: $247,300 · Education+8 moreTHE HETRICK-MARTIN INSTITUTE INC: $230,000 · Human ServicesACCESS INC: $160,000 · Human ServicesTHE ARTHUR PROJECT: $95,000 · Human ServicesFOR LOVE OF CHILDREN: $90,000 · Human ServicesNEW FUTURES: $55,000 · Human ServicesTHE CHILDREN'S AID SOCIETY: $32,000 · Human ServicesFUTURE LINK INC: $25,000 · Human Services+5 more: $56,000 · Human ServicesInternational Rescue Committee INC: $210,000 · InternationalWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $85,500 · InternationalFREEDOM HOUSE: $66,500 · InternationalSEEDS OF PEACE INC: $40,500 · InternationalHUMAN RIGHTS WATCH INC: $30,000 · InternationalASHOKA: $27,000 · InternationalECPAT-USA INC: $26,100 · InternationalCOUNCIL ON FOREIGN RELATIONS INC: $25,200 · InternationalINTERNATIONAL MEDICAL CORPS: $25,000 · InternationalFREE THE SLAVES: $25,000 · InternationalMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $25,000 · International+4 more: $59,075 · InternationalSPUR LOCAL INC: $308,500 · PhilanthropyGREATER WASHINGTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $100,000 · PhilanthropyBROOKLYN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $56,150 · PhilanthropyCALIFORNIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $50,000 · PhilanthropyUNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC: $30,000 · PhilanthropyTHE NEW YORK COMMUNITY TRUST: $25,000 · Philanthropy826DC INC: $137,500 · Youth DevelopmentTECH KIDS UNLIMITED INC: $130,000 · Youth DevelopmentKID POWER INC: $115,000 · Youth DevelopmentPROJECT CREATE: $110,000 · Youth Development
Arts & Culture$4,299,786Other$4,465,928Education$2,273,300Human Services$743,000International$644,875Philanthropy$569,650Youth Development$492,500

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTHE SHAKESPEARE THEATRE: $1,610,000 over 4y, 9.8% of budgetSPUR LOCAL INC: $308,500 over 4y, 13% of budgetINNER-CITY ARTS: $258,786 over 5y, 1.6% of budgetTHE HETRICK-MARTIN INSTITUTE INC: $230,000 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetYEAR UP INC: $230,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetInternational Rescue Committee INC: $210,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMOTT HAVEN ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL: $210,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetTHE DOOR - A CENTER OF ALTERNATIVES INC: $200,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetLIFE PIECES TO MASTERPIECES: $197,500 over 5y, 2.9% of budgetTHE ARAB-AMERICAN FAMILY SUPPORT CENTER INC: $195,000 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetTHE ASPEN INSTITUTE INC: $195,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHE DREAMYARD PROJECT INC: $195,000 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetTHE VIVIAN BEAUMONT THEATERINC D/B/A LINCOLN CENTER THEATER: $190,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetGIRLS WRITE NOW INC: $165,000 over 5y, 3.1% of budgetHORTON'S KIDS INC: $162,500 over 5y, 1.1% of budgetSTEM FROM DANCE INC: $160,000 over 5y, 3.1% of budgetACCESS INC: $160,000 over 5y, 2.9% of budgetLEGAL OUTREACH INC: $160,000 over 5y, 1.3% of budgetTHE BARUCH COLLEGE FUND: $155,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetYOUTH COMMUNICATION NY CENTER INC: $150,000 over 5y, 2.4% of budgetDC YOUTH ORCHESTRA PROGRAM: $150,000 over 5y, 2.9% of budgetCITYSCHOOLS COLLABORATIVE: $150,000 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetSITAR ARTS CENTER: $141,000 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetONE WORLD EDUCATION: $140,000 over 5y, 3.2% of budget826DC INC: $137,500 over 5y, 4.2% of budgetRAW ART WORKS INC: $135,000 over 5y, 1.1% of budgetCOMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF THE NATION'S CAPITAL INC: $135,000 over 4y, 2.0% of budgetMULTICULTURAL CAREER INTERN PROGRAM: $135,000 over 5y, 1.4% of budgetThe Knowledge House Fellowship Inc: $135,000 over 5y, 1.1% of budgetTECH KIDS UNLIMITED INC: $130,000 over 4y, 4.2% of budgetLOS ANGELES PHILHARMONIC ASSOCIATION: $125,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetEDUCATORS FOR EXCELLENCE INC: $120,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetHIGHER ACHIEVEMENT PROGRAM INC: $120,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetCOLLEGIATE DIRECTIONS INC: $120,000 over 5y, 1.6% of budgetKID POWER INC: $115,000 over 4y, 5.1% of budgetProject STEP Inc: $115,000 over 5y, 3.1% of budgetMONUMENT ACADEMY INC: $115,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetPROJECT CREATE: $110,000 over 5y, 2.6% of budgetFree Minds Book Club & Writing Workshop: $106,000 over 4y, 2.1% of budgetFLANBWAYAN HAITIAN LITERACY PROJECT INC: $105,000 over 4y, 13% of budgetVIBE THEATER EXPERIENCE INC: $100,000 over 4y, 6.6% of budgetLATINO STUDENT FUND: $100,000 over 4y, 2.9% of budgetGREATER WASHINGTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $100,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE THEATRE LAB INC: $95,000 over 4y, 2.2% of budgetTHE WASHINGTON BALLET: $95,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetTHE ARTHUR PROJECT: $95,000 over 4y, 3.2% of budgetFOR LOVE OF CHILDREN: $90,000 over 3y, 1.8% of budgetBCT BROOKLYN CHILDREN'S THEATRE INC: $90,000 over 3y, 5.5% 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.

  • Who funds THE SHAKESPEARE THEATRE ↗
  • Who funds SPUR LOCAL INC ↗
  • Who funds INNER-CITY ARTS ↗
  • Who funds THE HETRICK-MARTIN INSTITUTE INC ↗
  • Who funds YEAR UP INC ↗
  • Who funds International Rescue Committee INC ↗
  • Who funds MOTT HAVEN ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds THE DOOR - A CENTER OF ALTERNATIVES INC ↗
  • Who funds LIFE PIECES TO MASTERPIECES ↗
  • Who funds THE ARAB-AMERICAN FAMILY SUPPORT CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds THE ASPEN INSTITUTE INC ↗
  • Who funds THE DREAMYARD PROJECT INC ↗
  • Who funds THE VIVIAN BEAUMONT THEATERINC D/B/A LINCOLN CENTER THEATER ↗
  • Who funds GIRLS WRITE NOW INC ↗
  • Who funds HORTON'S KIDS INC ↗
  • Who funds STEM FROM DANCE INC ↗
  • Who funds ACCESS INC ↗
  • Who funds LEGAL OUTREACH INC ↗
  • Who funds THE BARUCH COLLEGE FUND ↗
  • Who funds YOUTH COMMUNICATION NY CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds DC YOUTH ORCHESTRA PROGRAM ↗
  • Who funds CITYSCHOOLS COLLABORATIVE ↗
  • Who funds SITAR ARTS CENTER ↗
  • Who funds ONE WORLD EDUCATION ↗
  • Who funds 826DC INC ↗
  • Who funds RAW ART WORKS INC ↗
  • Who funds COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF THE NATION'S CAPITAL INC ↗
  • Who funds MULTICULTURAL CAREER INTERN PROGRAM ↗
  • Who funds The Knowledge House Fellowship Inc ↗
  • Who funds TECH KIDS UNLIMITED INC ↗
  • Who funds LOS ANGELES PHILHARMONIC ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds EDUCATORS FOR EXCELLENCE INC ↗
  • Who funds HIGHER ACHIEVEMENT PROGRAM INC ↗
  • Who funds COLLEGIATE DIRECTIONS INC ↗
  • Who funds KID POWER INC ↗
  • Who funds Project STEP Inc ↗
  • Who funds MONUMENT ACADEMY 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.

The Morris and Gwendo…Greater Washington Co…Philip L Graham Fund …Dimick Foundation Joh…United Way of the Nat…John Edward Fowler Me…Clark-Winchcole Found…Nora Roberts Foundati…Hattie M Strong Found…Max & Victoria Dreyfu…Jack Kent Cooke Found…Humanities Council of…
The Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz FoundationDC84.7× affinity42 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation · Greater Washington Community Foundation · Philip L Graham Fund co Graham Holdings Company · Dimick Foundation John M Lynham Jr Trustee · United Way of the National Capital Area · John Edward Fowler Memorial Foundation · Clark-Winchcole Foundation · Nora Roberts Foundation · Hattie M Strong Foundation · Max & Victoria Dreyfus Foundation Inc · Jack Kent Cooke Foundation · Humanities Council of Washington DC

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 Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Harman Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 70%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 4%
  • World Arts Focus: 100% of income from government
  • Save the Children Federation Inc: 30% of income from government
  • Casaprince George's County Inc: 17% of income from government
  • Imagination Stage Inc: 13% of income from government
  • Raw Art Works Inc: 7% of income from government
  • Medfield Food Cupboard: 6% of income from government
  • Zumix Inc: 5% of income from government
  • Silk Road Project Inc: 4% of income from government
  • Best Buddies International Inc: 4% of income from government
  • Action Youth Media Inc: 3% of income from government
  • The Theater Offensive Inc: 2% of income from government
  • The Trustees of Reservations: 2% of income from government
  • Massachusetts Audubon Society Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Manna Food Center Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Year Up Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
7get no government money at all
54report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
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

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to Harman Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Harman Family Foundation 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 265 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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