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Harnisch Family Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$3.3M
Granted FY2025still arriving
74
Grants FY2025still arriving
16
States reached
$500k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Arts & Culture$3.9MPhilanthropy$2.5MHealth$1.7MCivil Rights$1.2MSocial Science$1.0MHuman Services$560kPublic Benefit$544kEducation$515kOther$0
02FY2025 · 74 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k24 grants · $90k
  • $10k–50k27 grants · $591k
  • $50k–250k21 grants · $1.9M
  • $250k+2 grants · $750k
$25,000
Median grant
16
States reached
$3.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ABORTION COALITION FOR TELEMEDICINE$500,000
UTAH FILM CENTER$250,000
NATIONAL MS SOCIETY$248,743
PECONIC BAY MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION$150,000
CREATIVE VISIONS FOUNDATION$127,000
YWCA NASHVILLE & MIDDLE TENNESSEE$100,000
PHYSICIANS FOR REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH$100,000
HIGHER HEIGHTS LEADERSHIP FUND$100,000
FILM INDEPENDENT$100,000
SOUTHERN VISION ALLIANCE$100,000
DOWNTOWN COMMUNITY TELEVISION CENTER$100,000
APOLITICALAG FOUNDATION GGMBH$99,750
WOMEN MAKE MOVIES$87,000
CENTER FOR CINEMATIC & EXPERIMENTAL ARTS$75,000
WOMEN DONORS NETWORK$63,272
02The need
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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 (FY17–25, $941k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 99% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%DAILY OVERCOMING VIOLENCE EMBRACING SAFETY NETWORK: $1k → 11%TAKE THE LEAD: $10k → 9%HELLO NEIGHBOR: $11k → 11%FUEL RELIEF FUND: $1k → 11%RSVP OF NORTHEAST KANSAS: $1k → 11%FAMILY VALUES AT WORK: $2k → 17%MAINE HIGHLANDS SENIOR CENTER: $1k → 15%TAKE THE LEAD: $3k → 9%HELLO NEIGHBOR: $8k → 11%PRIDE CENTER SAN ANTONIO: $1k → 16%FOR ALL AGES INC: $1k → 11%CHARIS CIRCLE INC: $2k → 14%HELLO NEIGHBOR: $8k → 11%SHE'S THE FIRST: $5k → 17%RACE2EDUCATION: $109k → 12%WRITING DOWNTOWN: $10k → 13%HELLO NEIGHBOR: $5k → 11%SHE'S THE FIRST: $1k → 17%ELIZABETH CADY STANTON AND SUSAN B ANTHONY STATUE FUND: $1k → 20%SHE SHOULD RUN: $6k → 14%HELLO NEIGHBOR: $5k → 11%IMMIGRANT LEGAL RESOURCE CENTER: $5k → 10%CROWDSOURCING HUMAN RIGHTS: $1k → 14%SHE'S THE FIRST: $1k → 17%NEW SUN RISING: $1k → 11%SHE'S THE FIRST: $1k → 17%RED HOOK INITIATIVE: $7k → 20%SPM DISABILITY JUSTICE FUND: $2k → 10%WOMEN MOVING MILLIONS: $25k → 17%WOMEN MOVING MILLIONS: $25k → 17%WOMEN MOVING MILLIONS: $25k → 17%WOMEN MOVING MILLIONS: $25k → 17%WOMEN MOVING MILLIONS: $20k → 17%WOMEN MOVING MILLIONS: $20k → 17%WOMEN MOVING MILLIONS: $20k → 17%HEALDED WOMEN HEAL: $1k → 14%THE NEW YORK WOMEN'S FOUNDATION: $10k → 17%THE NEW YORK WOMEN'S FOUNDATION: $5k → 17%FOSTERING MEDIA CONNECTIONS: $5k → 14%SILVERLAKE INDEPENDENT JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER: $1k → 14%ABORTION COALITION FOR TELEMEDICINE: $500k → 17%MARLENE MEYERSON JCC MANHATTAN: $1k → 17%HENRY STREET SETTLEMENT: $7k → 17%HENRY STREET SETTLEMENT: $5k → 17%HENRY STREET SETTLEMENT: $4k → 17%HENRY STREET SETTLEMENT: $3k → 17%THE BRIGID ALLIANCE: $25k → 17%YWCA OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $5k → 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.

Which US states its grants reach

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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.

70%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$7.7M · 88 repeat orgs$3.2M to everyone else

88 repeat relationships: 40 still active in FY2025, 48 since wound down; 33 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

88
283

Total granted

$7.7M
$1.5M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+10%
+20%

Still filing today

83%
72%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 48% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.7M went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureHuman ServicesEducationCivil RightsHealthPhilanthropyOther
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

  • UF
    UTAH FILM CENTER
    5× · 2018–2025 · $1.0M · revenue +128%
  • WD
    WOMEN DONORS NETWORK
    9× · 2017–2025 · $844k · revenue +276%
  • WM
    WOMEN MAKE MOVIES INC
    7× · 2017–2025 · $613k · revenue +82%

Funded once

  • EF
    EQUALITY FEDERATION INSTITUTE
    one grant, 2024 · $165k
  • JP
    JEZEBEL PRODUCTIONS INC
    one grant, 2024 · $130k · revenue 0%
  • RI
    Race2Education Inc
    one grant, 2023 · $109k
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.

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The Conversationalist
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2
Breaking Through the Lens

Advocate for gender equality in the film industry.

Arts & Culture
3
New York Foundation for the Arts Inc

Established in 1971, the mission of the new york foundation for the arts (nyfa) is to empower artists in all disciplines, as well as cultural workers, to achieve success on their own terms by providing critical support, resources, and…

Arts & Culture
4
Women Deliver Inc

Women deliver is a global feminist advocacy organization with a clear mission: to ensure that every self-identifying girl and woman has control over her body and life. see organization's full mission statement in schedule o.

Education
5
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
6
Fuller Project for International Reporting Inc

The fuller project is the global newsroom dedicated to groundbreaking reporting that catalyzes positive change for women.

International
7
World Pulse Voices

World Pulse is a global social impact network connecting women from 227 countries to accelerate social change. We provide a safe and supportive online space where women can speak for themselves, make powerful connections, and access the…

Human Services
8
Womens Foreign Policy Group Inc

Founded in 1995 wfpg works to expand the foreign policy dialogue across policital divides and generations and to support women at every stake of their careers. as champions of womens leadership we are proud of our role in expanding the…

International
9
Open Transformation Lab Inc

The missions is to provide information and resources to counter disinformation, propaganda, and offer a window to trusted content about the events that are going on in the Middle East.

Science & Tech
10
Girls for Gender Equity Inc

Girls for gender equity (gge) works intergenerationally, through a black feminist lens, to achieve gender and racial justice by centering the leadership of black girls and gender-expansive young people of color to reshape culture and…

Crime & Legal
11
Center for International Policy Inc

The center for international policy is a woman-led, progressive, independent nonprofit center for research, education, and advocacy working to advance a more peaceful, just, and sustainable u.s. approach to foreign policy. through…

International
12
Moonshot Initiative Inc

Promote gender equity in the film & television industry

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Ms Foundation for Women Inc; the most unlike its peers is Soapbox the Feminist Foundation Inc. 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

335 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 335 of the 420 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)
91
Early backer (in before they grew)
318/335
Grantees still filing
195/335
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

UTAH FILM CENTER: $1,048,881 · Arts & CultureUTAH FILM CENTERWOMEN MAKE MOVIES INC: $612,725 · Arts & CultureWOMEN MAKE MOVIES INCTHE FILM COLLABORATIVE INC: $250,000 · Arts & CultureTHE FILM COLLABORATIVE INCFILM INDEPENDENT: $139,500 · Arts & CultureJEZEBEL PRODUCTIONS INC: $130,000 · Arts & CultureCREATIVE VISIONS FOUNDATION: $127,000 · Arts & Culture+36 more: $1,273,889 · Arts & Culture+36 moreSUNDANCE INSTITUTE: $960,001 · OtherSUNDANCE INSTITUTENATIONAL MS SOCIETY: $498,743 · OtherNATIONAL MS SOCIETYEQUALITY FEDERATION INSTITUTE: $165,000 · OtherYWCA NASHVILLE & MIDDLE TENNESSEE: $162,000 · OtherPECONIC BAY MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION: $150,000 · Other+79 more: $1,759,983 · Other+79 morePHILANTHROPIC VENTURES FOUNDATION: $1,000,000 · PhilanthropyPHILANTHROPIC VENTUR…WOMEN DONORS NETWORK: $844,272 · PhilanthropyWOMEN DONORS NETWORKTHE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE INC: $143,098 · PhilanthropyTHE COMMUNITY FOUNDA…TIDES FOUNDATION: $101,027 · Philanthropy+11 more: $175,105 · Philanthropy+11 moreHigher Heights Leadership Fund: $210,000 · Civil RightsHigher He…Physicians For Reproductive Health: $200,000 · Civil RightsPhysician…The Representation Project: $165,000 · Civil RightsThe Repre…MS FOUNDATION FOR WOMEN INC: $147,500 · Civil RightsMS FOUNDA…Geena Davis Institute on Gender in Media: $90,000 · Civil RightsGeena Dav…THE VOTER PARTICIPATION CENTER: $60,000 · Civil RightsTHE VOTER…UltraViolet Education Fund: $55,000 · Civil RightsDrag Out the Vote: $50,000 · Civil Rights+10 more: $57,884 · Civil Rights+10 moreABORTION COALITION FOR TELEMEDICINE INC: $500,000 · Human ServicesWOMEN MOVING MILLIONS INC: $160,000 · Human ServicesRace2Education Inc: $108,770 · Human ServicesHELLO NEIGHBOR: $35,500 · Human Services+13 more: $121,966 · Human ServicesBook Em: $102,120 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: $75,000 · EducationBARNARD COLLEGE: $45,000 · EducationISABELLA BIRD PTCO: $30,750 · EducationUniversity of Illinois Foundation: $25,000 · EducationCivic Nation: $25,000 · EducationINTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S FORUM INC: $20,000 · EducationAntenna: $20,000 · EducationLONG BEACH STATE FOUNDATION: $15,407 · EducationTHE OAKLAND PUBLIC EDUCATION FUND: $15,000 · Education+7 more: $56,985 · EducationSOUTHERN VISION ALLIANCE: $100,000 · Public BenefitNEO Philanthropy Inc: $80,000 · Public BenefitLUCY BURNS INSTITUTE INC: $71,000 · Public Benefitla victoria foundation corp: $25,000 · Public BenefitSOAPBOX THE FEMINIST FOUNDATION INC: $12,000 · Public BenefitISSUE ONE: $11,000 · Public Benefit+1 more: $5,000 · Public Benefit
Arts & Culture$3,581,995Other$3,695,727Philanthropy$2,263,502Civil Rights$1,035,384Human Services$926,236Education$430,262Public Benefit$304,000

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 budgetUTAH FILM CENTER: $1,048,881 over 5y, 2.2% of budgetPHILANTHROPIC VENTURES FOUNDATION: $1,000,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetWOMEN DONORS NETWORK: $844,272 over 9y, 0.9% of budgetWOMEN MAKE MOVIES INC: $612,725 over 7y, 3.6% of budgetTHE FILM COLLABORATIVE INC: $250,000 over 7y, 1.3% of budgetHigher Heights Leadership Fund: $210,000 over 3y, 11% of budgetPhysicians For Reproductive Health: $200,000 over 3y, 2.4% of budgetThe Representation Project: $165,000 over 2y, 10% of budgetYWCA NASHVILLE & MIDDLE TENNESSEE: $162,000 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetWOMEN MOVING MILLIONS INC: $160,000 over 7y, 1.6% of budgetMS FOUNDATION FOR WOMEN INC: $147,500 over 5y, 0.8% of budgetTHE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE INC: $143,098 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetFILM INDEPENDENT: $139,500 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetTHE 19TH NEWS: $110,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetINTERNATIONAL DOCUMENTARY FOUNDATION INC: $106,000 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetSOUTHERN DOCUMENTARY FUND: $105,000 over 2y, 6.7% of budgetRACHEL'S NETWORK INC: $104,000 over 8y, 1.4% of budgetBook Em: $102,120 over 4y, 6.6% of budgetTIDES FOUNDATION: $101,027 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetDOWNTOWN COMMUNITY TELEVISION CENTER INC: $100,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetGeena Davis Institute on Gender in Media: $90,000 over 2y, 2.4% of budgetNEO Philanthropy Inc: $80,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetEQUAL RIGHTS ADVOCATES: $76,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetNATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY: $75,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: $75,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBold Impact: $72,000 over 2y, 12% of budgetLUCY BURNS INSTITUTE INC: $71,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetCHICKEN & EGG FILMS INC: $66,500 over 5y, 1.2% of budgetUNIONDOCS INC: $65,000 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetEND WELL FOUNDATION: $61,000 over 3y, 4.2% of budgetFILM FATALES NYC INC: $60,000 over 2y, 15% of budgetTHE VOTER PARTICIPATION CENTER: $60,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE CENTER FOR INDEPENDENT DOCUMENTARY INC: $57,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetUltraViolet Education Fund: $55,000 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetFASHION INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY FOUNDATION: $55,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetDrag Out the Vote: $50,000 over 1y, 38% of budgetAFTERIMAGE PUBLIC MEDIA: $50,000 over 2y, 2.6% of budgetTHE TANK LTD: $50,000 over 1y, 3.5% of budgetARISE MEDIA INC: $50,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetBARNARD COLLEGE: $45,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetALLIANCE OF WOMEN DIRECTORS: $45,000 over 1y, 32% of budgetBUFFALO BROADCAST PIONEERS INC AKA BUFFALO BROADCASTERS ASSOCIATIA: $42,850 over 2y, 48% of budgetSTUDENT LEADERSHIP NETWORK INC: $40,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetHELLO NEIGHBOR: $35,500 over 5y, 2.5% of budgetPLAYERS PHILANTHROPY FUND INC: $35,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMISSISSIPPI JOURNALISM AND EDUCATION GROUP: $35,000 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetFILM FORUM INC: $35,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetOUT OF THE BINDERS INC: $35,000 over 1y, 49% 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.

William F Harnisch Fo…The Ford FoundationThe San Francisco Fou…Memorial Foundation I…New York Women's Foun…Perspective Media Ini…Novo FoundationInmaat FoundationAmalgamated Charitabl…Hca Healthcare Founda…Catapult Film FundChicken & Egg Films I…
William F Harnisch Foundation IncNY51.6× affinity23 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: William F Harnisch Foundation Inc · The Ford Foundation · The San Francisco Foundation · Memorial Foundation Inc · New York Women's Foundation Inc · Perspective Media Initiatives Inc · Novo Foundation · Inmaat Foundation · Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc · Hca Healthcare Foundation · Catapult Film Fund · Chicken & Egg Films Inc

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

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 110%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 6%
  • Community Workshops Inc: 39% of income from government
  • Transition Projects Inc: 29% of income from government
  • The Morgan State University Foundation Inc: 7% of income from government
  • Provincetown Film Societyinc: 6% of income from government
  • The Center for Independent Documentary Inc: 6% of income from government
  • Sandy Hook Promise Foundation: 0% of income from government
  • American Repertory Theatre Co Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
11get no government money at all
45report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely 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.
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How do I get to Harnisch Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Harnisch 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 420 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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