· Private foundation
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k6 grants · $22k
- $10k–50k9 grants · $192k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $605k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| STANFORD UNIVERSTIY | $245,000 |
| EAT LEARN PLAY FOUNDATION | $200,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $86,700 |
| EPA FOUNDATION | $73,750 |
| Individual grant recipient | $40,000 |
| SACRED HEART SCHOOLS | $35,000 |
| US SKI AND SNOWBOARD FOUNDATION | $28,000 |
| WHITEFISH COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $26,000 |
| STANFORD UNIVERSTIY | $20,000 |
| WARRIORS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $12,500 |
| 100 HOLE HIKE | $10,526 |
| STANFORD ARTS | $10,000 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF THE PENINSULA | $10,000 |
| GPII FOUNDATION CORPORATION | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $4k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
28 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2024, 24 since wound down; 12 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 16% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $659k 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
- ADALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC2× · 2020–2021 · $575k · revenue +13%
- USUnited States Ski Team Foundation8× · 2017–2024 · $345k · revenue +69%
- BGBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF THE PENINSULA7× · 2018–2024 · $156k · revenue +180%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2017 · $250k
- TCTIDES CENTER (RAISE WAGES NOW)one grant, 2019 · $250k
- HBHARVARD BUSINESS SCHOOLone grant, 2017 · $100k
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 mission of the silicon schools fund is to improve education through supporting the launch of excellent new schools, improving academic instruction in existing schools, and by funding some of the boldest innovations in education…
A private school that cultivates and celebrates the intellectual, imaginative, and humanitarian promise of each student in a community that practices mutual respect, embraces diversity, and inspires passion for learning.
To educate and inspire girls to become innovators and leaders in stem.
The organization provides professional investment management services for endowed gifts and financial assets entrusted to the ucsf foundation.
At san franicisco university high school, we engage our community of diverse voices in a transformational experience that embraces the spirited pursuit of learning and empowers purpose larger than self.
At san francisco friends school, students learn in a community grounded in the quaker values of reflection, integrity, peaceful problem-solving and stewardship. our teachers challenge students with a dynamic curriculum that inspires…
Golden gate university prepares individuals to lead and serve by providing high quality, practice-based educational programs in law, taxation, business and related professions - as a nonprofit institution - in an innovative and challenging…
Guided by the principles of academic rigor and diversity, the international school of san francisco offers programs of study in french and english to prepare its graduates for a world in which the ability to think critically and to…
The uc santa barbara foundation actively works to further the goals of the university of california, santa barbara. the foundation seeks to maintain and nurture the university's quality and distinction. on behalf of the campus, the…
See schedule okqed serves the people of northern california with a community-supported alternative to commercial media, providing the knowledge needed to make informed decisions; convening community dialogue; bringing the arts to everyone;…
The mission of the uc davis foundation is to secure, steward and manage private gifts for uc davis.
The association serves its members by creating resources that enable california school administrators to develop and apply creative leadership and management skills and in turn, improve the educational process for all students.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Tiger Woods Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Fill-a-Need Foundation Corporation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 30 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
49 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. 49 of the 79 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 THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds United States Ski Team Foundation ↗
- Who funds EAT LEARN PLAY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF THE PENINSULA ↗
- Who funds GOLDEN STATE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SAN FRANCISCO SYMPHONY ↗
- Who funds SAN FRANCISCO MUSEUM OF MODERN ART ↗
- Who funds COLLEGE TRACK ↗
- Who funds NCGA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds STANFORD HEALTH CARE ↗
- Who funds Stern Grove Festival Association ↗
- Who funds WHITEFISH COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds COACHING CORPS ↗
- Who funds THE DISCOVERY LAND COMPANY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds TIGER WOODS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds EAST PALO ALTO ACADEMY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF PHILLIPS ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds WINDMILL SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds LIFEMOVES ↗
- Who funds Teach for America Inc ↗
- Who funds BREAST CANCER ACTION ↗
- Who funds FAIRSPORT INC ↗
- Who funds PENINSULA OPEN SPACE TRUST ↗
- Who funds RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES - BAY AREA ↗
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: Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · The San Francisco Foundation · Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma · Koret Foundation · Gordon E and Betty I Moore Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · McNabb Foundation · The David and Lucile Packard Foundation · Hrj Charities Inc · John and Marcia Goldman Foundation · Taube Foundation for Jewish Life and Culture
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 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Best Buddies International Inc — 4% of income from government
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.