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Harnish 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 FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k1 grant · $5k
- $10k–50k18 grants · $434k
- $50k–250k40 grants · $3.8M
- $250k+3 grants · $780k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CHILD BRIDGE | $280,000 |
| CAMP KOREY | $250,000 |
| HABITAT FOR HUMANITY - SEATTLEKING COUNTY | $250,000 |
| EASTSIDE ACADEMY | $230,000 |
| UPLIFT NORTHWEST | $225,000 |
| CRISTO REY JESUIT SEATTLE HIGH SCHOOL | $200,000 |
| SUMMIT COMMUNITY CENTER | $186,500 |
| VINE MAPLE PLACE | $185,000 |
| FARESTART | $175,000 |
| OUTDOORS FOR ALL | $150,000 |
| LANDON'S LEGACY FOUNDATION | $150,000 |
| NW SCHOOL FOR DEAF AND HARD OF HEARING | $140,000 |
| COMPASS HOUSING ALLIANCE | $101,000 |
| SEMPER FI & AMERICAS FUND | $100,000 |
| TREEHOUSE | $100,000 |
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 (FY20–24, $3.5M) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% 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.
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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 6% of Harnish Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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.
50 repeat relationships — 32 still active in FY2024, 18 since wound down; 30 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, 60% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2.0M 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
- CKCAMP KOREY3× · 2020–2024 · $1.4M · revenue +9%
- HFHABITAT FOR HUMANITY SEATTLE-KING COUNTY4× · 2020–2024 · $1.1M · revenue +541%
- MPMaris Place2× · 2020–2021 · $1.0M · revenue +80%
Funded once
- FPFAMILY PROMISE OF YELLOWSTONE VALLEYone grant, 2023 · $200k · revenue -61%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2020 · $150k
- JWJUBILEE WOMEN'S CENTERone grant, 2022 · $125k · revenue +7%
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.
Network services has been serving homeless families in the puget sound area since 1990, with a focus on families with children. network services aims to break the cycle of homelessness by providing assistance to families with children to…
To empower families experiencing housing insecurity through intervention, prevention,and stabilization services.
We help families experiencing homelessness find lasting independence and security.
Family Promise of Spokane (FPS) equips families with minor children and the community to end the cycle of homelessness in Spokane County Washington. FPS provides homelessness prevention, shelter, and stable housing programs.
Provail's mission is to support people with disabilities to fulfill their life choices.
Transitions works to end poverty and homelessness for women and children in Spokane, Washington.
Friendship Place is a leader in the Washington, DC, metro area in developing solutions to homelessness that have measurable results and a lasting impact. Friendship Place's mission is to empower people who are experiencing or at risk of…
The organization operates primarily on the Southern Kenai Peninsula and its operations include the following:Community Mental Health - Counseling, evaluation, consultation and crisis mental health services for Adults and…
Building changes advances equitable responses to homelessness in washington state, with a focus on children, youth, and families. we work at the intersection of housing, education, and health systems, partnering with communities and public…
Provide a safe, healing, and restorative community that empowers long-term transformation through human connection for those recovering from the trauma of homelessness, addictions, and mental health challenges.
At Solid Ground, we work passionately to end poverty and build a more equitable community. Our services support people experiencing poverty by helping them achieve stability and expand their skills to realize their dreams. And that's just…
Supporting children and families through individual, community-based services. We provide behavioral health services to severely emotionally disturbed children (ages 2 to 24) and their families.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Olive Crest and the most unlike its peers is Bacon Family Foundation. 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 24 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
85 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. 85 of the 101 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 CAMP KOREY ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY SEATTLE-KING COUNTY ↗
- Who funds Maris Place ↗
- Who funds EASTSIDE ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds MONTANA RESCUE MISSION ↗
- Who funds ADAPTIVE PERFORMANCE CENTER ↗
- Who funds LifeWire ↗
- Who funds UPLIFT NORTHWEST ↗
- Who funds LANDONS LEGACY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FARESTART ↗
- Who funds VISION HOUSE ↗
- Who funds HOMES FOR OUR TROOPS INC ↗
- Who funds SUMMIT COMMUNITY CENTER ↗
- Who funds RAINIER SCHOLARS ↗
- Who funds Outdoors for all Foundation ↗
- Who funds Eagle Mount ↗
- Who funds CHILD BRIDGE INC ↗
- Who funds LOVE AND SONSHINE MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds NO MORE UNDER ↗
- Who funds RECOVERY CAFE ↗
- Who funds VINE MAPLE PLACE ↗
- Who funds FAMILY PROMISE OF GALLATIN VALLEY INC ↗
- Who funds Cristo Rey Jesuit Seattle High School ↗
- Who funds FAMILY PROMISE OF YELLOWSTONE VALLEY ↗
- Who funds DOWNTOWN SOUP KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF ALASKA & WASHINGTON ↗
- Who funds WARRIORS & QUIET WATERS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN - SEATTLE ↗
- Who funds JUBILEE WOMEN'S CENTER ↗
- Who funds SEMPER FI & AMERICA'S FUND ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY LEADERSHIP & DEVELOPMENT INC ↗
- Who funds SIBLING STRONG ↗
- Who funds SUMMER SEARCH ↗
- Who funds COMPASS HOUSING ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds TREEHOUSE ↗
- Who funds CANCER LIFELINE ↗
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: The Norcliffe Foundation · Moccasin Lake Foundation · Puget Sound Energy Foundation · Seattle Foundation · M J Murdock Charitable Trust · United Way of King County · Ellison Foundation · Liberty Mutual Foundation Inc · Medina Foundation · Washington Federal Foundation · Windermere Foundation · Employees Community Fund of the Boeing Company
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 Harnish 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.
- Project Healing Waters Fly Fishing Inc — 46% 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.
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