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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.

$820k
Granted FY2024still arriving
19
Grants FY2024still arriving
7
States reached
$245k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0195% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Education$2.9MHealth$782kYouth Development$560kRecreation & Sports$455kPhilanthropy$390kArts & Culture$370kEmployment$250kEnvironment$115kOther$0
02FY2024 · 19 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k6 grants · $22k
  • $10k–50k9 grants · $192k
  • $50k–250k4 grants · $605k
$12,500
Median grant
7
States reached
$8.8M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
Individual grant recipient$5,000
BEAT THE STREETS BAY AREA$5,000
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 (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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%FILL-A-NEED FOUNDATION CORPORATION: $1k → 8%THE PENINSULA BALL FOUNDATION: $1k → 7%THE PENINSULA BALL FOUNDATION: $1k → 7%PENINSULA BALL FOUNDATION: $1k → 8%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
MT
IL
NY
MA
OH
NJ
CT
CA
UT
CO
MD
DC
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.

58%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.3M · 28 repeat orgs$1.6M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +23% since the first grant, against +23% for those funded once.

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

28
36

Total granted

$2.3M
$968k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+23%
+23%

Still filing today

82%
42%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 16% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $659k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationArts & CultureHealthRecreation & SportsPhilanthropyYouth DevelopmentOther
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

  • AD
    ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC
    2× · 2020–2021 · $575k · revenue +13%
  • US
    United States Ski Team Foundation
    8× · 2017–2024 · $345k · revenue +69%
  • BG
    BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF THE PENINSULA
    7× · 2018–2024 · $156k · revenue +180%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2017 · $250k
  • TC
    TIDES CENTER (RAISE WAGES NOW)
    one grant, 2019 · $250k
  • HB
    HARVARD BUSINESS SCHOOL
    one grant, 2017 · $100k
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
Silicon Schools Fund Inc

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…

Education
2
The San Francisco School

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.

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3
San Francisco Girls' School

To educate and inspire girls to become innovators and leaders in stem.

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4
Ucsf Foundation Investment Company

The organization provides professional investment management services for endowed gifts and financial assets entrusted to the ucsf foundation.

Education
5
San Francisco University High School

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.

Education
6
San Francisco Friends School

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…

Education
7
Golden Gate University

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…

Education
8
The International School of San Francisco

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…

Education
9
Uc Santa Barbara Foundation

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…

Education
10
Kqed Inc

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;…

Arts & Culture
11
The Uc Davis Foundation

The mission of the uc davis foundation is to secure, steward and manage private gifts for uc davis.

Education
12
Association of California School Administrators

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.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Tiger Woods Foundation Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

49 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. 49 of the 79 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
9
Early backer (in before they grew)
47/49
Grantees still filing
33/49
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $2,197,000 · EducationTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD…COLLEGE TRACK: $95,350 · Education+9 more: $190,814 · Education+9 moreSTANFORD UNIVERSTIY: $265,000 · OtherSTANFORD UNIVERSTIYIndividual grant recipient: $250,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientTIDES CENTER (RAISE WAGES NOW): $250,000 · OtherTIDES CENTER (RAISE WAGES NOW)EAT LEARN PLAY: $150,000 · OtherEAT LEARN PLAYHARVARD BUSINESS SCHOOL: $100,000 · OtherHARVARD BUSINESS SCHOOLEPA FOUNDATION: $93,750 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $86,700 · OtherNCGA FOUNDATION: $77,503 · OtherCOACHING CORPS: $70,000 · Other+36 more: $449,426 · Other+36 moreALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC: $575,000 · HealthALZHEIMER'S …STANFORD HEALTH CARE: $75,000 · HealthSTANFORD HEA…+2 more: $20,500 · HealthUnited States Ski Team Foundation: $344,700 · Recreation & SportsUnited St…GOLDEN STATE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $137,162 · Recreation & SportsGOLDEN ST…FAIRSPORT INC: $20,000 · Recreation & Sports+2 more: $15,000 · Recreation & SportsEAT LEARN PLAY FOUNDATION: $200,000 · PhilanthropyWHITEFISH COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $72,808 · PhilanthropyTHE DISCOVERY LAND COMPANY FOUNDATION: $55,000 · PhilanthropyTHE BATTERY FOUNDATION: $12,120 · Philanthropy+1 more: $1,040 · PhilanthropySAN FRANCISCO SYMPHONY: $125,000 · Arts & CultureSAN FRANCISCO MUSEUM OF MODERN ART: $100,000 · Arts & CultureStern Grove Festival Association: $75,000 · Arts & CultureFILOLI CENTER: $15,000 · Arts & Culture+2 more: $10,000 · Arts & CultureBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF THE PENINSULA: $156,000 · Youth Development+2 more: $8,000 · Youth Development
Education$2,483,164Other$1,792,379Health$670,500Recreation & Sports$516,862Philanthropy$340,968Arts & Culture$325,000Youth Development$164,000

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 budgetTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $2,197,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC: $575,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetUnited States Ski Team Foundation: $344,700 over 8y, 0.5% of budgetEAT LEARN PLAY FOUNDATION: $200,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF THE PENINSULA: $156,000 over 7y, 0.4% of budgetGOLDEN STATE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $137,162 over 6y, 1.3% of budgetSAN FRANCISCO SYMPHONY: $125,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetSAN FRANCISCO MUSEUM OF MODERN ART: $100,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCOLLEGE TRACK: $95,350 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetNCGA FOUNDATION: $77,503 over 6y, 0.6% of budgetSTANFORD HEALTH CARE: $75,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetStern Grove Festival Association: $75,000 over 7y, 0.7% of budgetWHITEFISH COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $72,808 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetCOACHING CORPS: $70,000 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetTHE DISCOVERY LAND COMPANY FOUNDATION: $55,000 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetTIGER WOODS FOUNDATION INC: $36,814 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetEAST PALO ALTO ACADEMY FOUNDATION: $35,000 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetTRUSTEES OF PHILLIPS ACADEMY: $29,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetLIFEMOVES: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTeach for America Inc: $25,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBREAST CANCER ACTION: $20,175 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES - BAY AREA: $20,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetFAIRSPORT INC: $20,000 over 2y, 2.3% of budgetPENINSULA OPEN SPACE TRUST: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPOSITIVE COACHING ALLIANCE: $15,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetONE MIND: $15,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetFILOLI CENTER: $15,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE BATTERY FOUNDATION: $12,120 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetKIPP BAY AREA SCHOOLS: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSILICON VALLEY EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetKENYON COLLEGE: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWomens Sports Foundation: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTHE MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSON'S RESEARCH: $5,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBRAVEMAKER: $5,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetBeat The Streets Bay Area: $5,000 over 1y, 4.4% of budgetBUSINESSES UNITED IN INVESTING LENDING & DEVELOPMENT: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSTREETCODE ACADEMY: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSAN FRANCISCO FORTY-NINERS ACADEMY: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetSHERIDAN ARTS FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetGPII FOUNDATION CORPORATION: $5,000 over 1y, 3.5% of budgetTHE PENINSULA BALL FOUNDATION: $3,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetEXPERIENCE CAMPS: $3,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWOODSIDE-PORTOLA VALLEY FIRE PROTECTION FOUNDATION INC: $2,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetRAINFOREST CONNECTION: $1,575 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetJust For Kids Foundation Inc: $1,040 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetHOUSING INDUSTRY FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBest Buddies International Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.0% 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 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 RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES - BAY AREA ↗
  • Who funds FAIRSPORT INC ↗
  • Who funds PENINSULA OPEN SPACE TRUST ↗
  • Who funds POSITIVE COACHING ALLIANCE ↗

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.

Silicon Valley Commun…Gs Donor Advised Phil…The San Francisco Fou…Jewish Community Fede…Koret FoundationGordon E and Betty I …Morgan Stanley Global…McNabb FoundationThe David and Lucile …Hrj Charities IncJohn and Marcia Goldm…Taube Foundation for …
Silicon Valley Community FoundationCA35.3× affinity23 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 · 30%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →median 4%
  • Best Buddies International Inc: 4% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get 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 · 0–20%
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.

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 79 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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