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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.

$5.0M
Granted FY2024still arriving
62
Grants FY2024still arriving
7
States reached
$280k
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, FY2020 to 2024.

Housing & Shelter$4.3MHuman Services$3.1MHealth$2.8MEducation$1.5MYouth Development$1.2MEmployment$1.2MArts & Culture$1.0MRecreation & Sports$950kOther$0
02FY2024 · 62 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k1 grant · $5k
  • $10k–50k18 grants · $434k
  • $50k–250k40 grants · $3.8M
  • $250k+3 grants · $780k
$50,000
Median grant
7
States reached
$99M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CHILD BRIDGE$280,000
HABITAT FOR HUMANITY - SEATTLEKING COUNTY$250,000
CAMP KOREY$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
LANDON'S LEGACY FOUNDATION$150,000
OUTDOORS FOR ALL$150,000
NW SCHOOL FOR DEAF AND HARD OF HEARING$140,000
COMPASS HOUSING ALLIANCE$101,000
MAKE A WISH ALASKA & WASHINGTON$100,000
BEACON HILL$100,000
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, $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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%CHILD BRIDGE: $280k → 18%UPLIFT NORTHWEST: $225k → 9%FOSTERFUL: $50k → 9%PUYALLUP FOOD BANK: $25k → 9%SIBLING STRONG: $53k → 10%EILEEN & CALLIE'S PLACE: $20k → 12%Uplift Northwest: $100k → 9%PARKVIEW SERVICES: $20k → 9%VETERANS RITES: $50k → 9%SIBLING STRONG: $40k → 10%UPLIFT NORTHWEST: $100k → 9%VETERANS RITES: $25k → 9%SIBLING STRONG: $25k → 10%FAMILY PROMISE OF SKAGIT VALLEY: $30k → 11%DOG TAG BUDDIES: $50k → 9%THE COMMIT FOUNDATION: $30k → 10%FAMILY PROMISE OF GALLATIN VALLEY: $125k → 10%Uplift Northwest: $60k → 9%Millionair Club Charity: $50k → 9%LIFEWIRE: $350k → 9%LifeWire: $100k → 9%LifeWire: $100k → 9%VISION HOUSE: $262k → 9%Bellevue Lifespring: $50k → 9%Vision House: $100k → 9%Vision House: $50k → 9%Bellevue Life Spring: $50k → 9%Vision House: $30k → 9%VISION HOUSE: $30k → 9%Vision House: $30k → 9%THE MOCKINGBIRD SOCIETY: $50k → 9%VINE MAPLE PLACE: $185k → 9%VINE MAPLE PLACE: $50k → 9%EILEEN & CALLIE'S PLACE: $20k → 9%SUMMIT COMMUNITY CENTER: $250k → 9%ATWORK: $10k → 9%SUMMIT COMMUNITY CENTER: $187k → 9%ELIZABETH GREGORY HOME: $50k → 9%FAMILY LAW CASA: $50k → 9%AMARA: $50k → 9%ELIZABETH GREGORY HOME: $25k → 9%FAMILY LAW CASA: $50k → 9%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

AK
WA
MT
MI
MA
NJ
CA
MD
AR
TX
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.
04

Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 6% of Harnish Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

Harnish Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
How this is measured
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 funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

81%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$14M · 50 repeat orgs$3.4M to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

50
21

Total granted

$14M
$1.4M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+31%
+58%

Still filing today

92%
71%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 60% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2.0M 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
Human ServicesHealthEducationHousing & ShelterYouth DevelopmentFood & NutritionOther
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

  • CK
    CAMP KOREY
    3× · 2020–2024 · $1.4M · revenue +9%
  • HF
    HABITAT FOR HUMANITY SEATTLE-KING COUNTY
    4× · 2020–2024 · $1.1M · revenue +541%
  • MP
    Maris Place
    2× · 2020–2021 · $1.0M · revenue +80%

Funded once

  • FP
    FAMILY PROMISE OF YELLOWSTONE VALLEY
    one grant, 2023 · $200k · revenue -61%
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2020 · $150k
  • JW
    JUBILEE WOMEN'S CENTER
    one grant, 2022 · $125k · revenue +7%
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
Network Services

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…

Human Services
2
Family Promise of Pierce County

To empower families experiencing housing insecurity through intervention, prevention,and stabilization services.

Housing & Shelter
3
Family Promise - Salt Lake

We help families experiencing homelessness find lasting independence and security.

Housing & Shelter
4
Family Promise of Spokane

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.

Religion
5
Provail

Provail's mission is to support people with disabilities to fulfill their life choices.

Health
6
Transitions

Transitions works to end poverty and homelessness for women and children in Spokane, Washington.

Human Services
7
Friendship Place

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…

Housing & Shelter
8
South Peninsula Behavioral Health Services Inc

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…

Health
9
Building Changes

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…

Health
10
Recovery Cafe Skagit

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.

Education
11
Solid Ground Washington

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…

Housing & Shelter
12
Denali Family Services

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.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Olive Crest; 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.
05the grantee network

85 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. 85 of the 101 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.

4
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
19
Early backer (in before they grew)
85/85
Grantees still filing
53/85
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

HABITAT FOR HUMANITY SEATTLE-KING COUNTY: $1,100,000 · OtherHABITAT FOR HUMANITY SEATTLE-KING COUNT…MONTANA RESCUE MISSION: $750,000 · OtherMONTANA RESCUE MISSIONADAPTIVE PERFORMANCE CENTER: $640,000 · OtherADAPTIVE PERFORMANCE CENTERNW SCHOOL FOR DEAF AND HARD-OF-HEARING CHILDREN: $355,000 · OtherNW SCHOOL FOR DEAF AND HARD-OF-HEARING …Outdoors for all Foundation: $350,000 · OtherOutdoors for all FoundationEagle Mount: $315,000 · OtherLOVE AND SONSHINE MINISTRIES: $275,000 · OtherNO MORE UNDER: $240,000 · Other+33 more: $2,231,407 · Other+33 moreLifeWire: $550,000 · Human ServicesLifeWireUPLIFT NORTHWEST: $535,000 · Human ServicesUPLIFT NORTHWESTLANDONS LEGACY FOUNDATION: $525,000 · Human ServicesLANDONS LEGACY FOUNDATIONVISION HOUSE: $502,000 · Human ServicesVISION HOUSESUMMIT COMMUNITY CENTER: $436,500 · Human ServicesSUMMIT COMMUNITY CENTERCHILD BRIDGE INC: $280,000 · Human ServicesCHILD BRIDGE INCVINE MAPLE PLACE: $235,000 · Human ServicesVINE MAPLE PLACEFAMILY PROMISE OF GALLATIN VALLEY INC: $225,000 · Human Services+16 more: $942,500 · Human Services+16 moreCAMP KOREY: $1,350,000 · Youth DevelopmentCAMP KOREYMaris Place: $1,000,000 · Youth DevelopmentMaris PlaceFRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN - SEATTLE: $145,000 · Youth DevelopmentFRIENDS OF THE C…TREEHOUSE: $100,000 · Youth Development+1 more: $15,000 · Youth DevelopmentEASTSIDE ACADEMY: $800,000 · EducationEASTSIDE AC…RAINIER SCHOLARS: $375,000 · EducationRAINIER SCH…Cristo Rey Jesuit Seattle High School: $200,000 · EducationCristo Rey …Jubilee REACH: $100,000 · EducationJubilee REA…Northwest School for Hearing-Impaired Children: $65,000 · EducationACADEMY FOR PRECISION LEARNING: $60,000 · Education+4 more: $130,000 · Education+4 moreRECOVERY CAFE: $240,000 · HealthFAMILY PROMISE OF YELLOWSTONE VALLEY: $200,000 · HealthMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF ALASKA & WASHINGTON: $150,000 · HealthWARRIORS & QUIET WATERS FOUNDATION INC: $150,000 · HealthSEMPER FI & AMERICA'S FUND: $125,000 · HealthOLIVE CREST: $100,000 · HealthCANCER LIFELINE: $100,000 · HealthHORSES SPIRITS HEALING INC: $80,750 · HealthVeterans Navigation Network: $50,000 · HealthPROJECT HEALING WATERS FLY FISHING INC: $50,000 · Health+1 more: $20,000 · HealthHOMES FOR OUR TROOPS INC: $500,000 · Housing & ShelterJUBILEE WOMEN'S CENTER: $125,000 · Housing & ShelterCOMPASS HOUSING ALLIANCE: $101,000 · Housing & ShelterBEACON HILL: $100,000 · Housing & ShelterNEXT CHAPTER FOUNDATION: $80,750 · Housing & ShelterNEW PHOEBE HOUSE: $75,000 · Housing & ShelterCOMMUNITY HOMES INC: $75,000 · Housing & Shelter+1 more: $8,442 · Housing & ShelterFARESTART: $525,000 · EmploymentSUMMER SEARCH: $102,000 · Employment
Other$6,256,407Human Services$4,231,000Youth Development$2,610,000Education$1,730,000Health$1,265,750Housing & Shelter$1,065,192Employment$627,000

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 budgetCAMP KOREY: $1,350,000 over 3y, 23% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY SEATTLE-KING COUNTY: $1,100,000 over 4y, 3.3% of budgetEASTSIDE ACADEMY: $800,000 over 4y, 10% of budgetMONTANA RESCUE MISSION: $750,000 over 2y, 7.4% of budgetADAPTIVE PERFORMANCE CENTER: $640,000 over 4y, 47% of budgetLifeWire: $550,000 over 3y, 5.5% of budgetUPLIFT NORTHWEST: $535,000 over 4y, 2.0% of budgetFARESTART: $525,000 over 5y, 1.2% of budgetLANDONS LEGACY FOUNDATION: $525,000 over 2y, 43% of budgetVISION HOUSE: $502,000 over 4y, 4.3% of budgetHOMES FOR OUR TROOPS INC: $500,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetSUMMIT COMMUNITY CENTER: $436,500 over 2y, 13% of budgetRAINIER SCHOLARS: $375,000 over 5y, 2.4% of budgetOutdoors for all Foundation: $350,000 over 3y, 4.8% of budgetEagle Mount: $315,000 over 5y, 2.7% of budgetCHILD BRIDGE INC: $280,000 over 1y, 7.1% of budgetLOVE AND SONSHINE MINISTRIES: $275,000 over 3y, 22% of budgetNO MORE UNDER: $240,000 over 4y, 60% of budgetRECOVERY CAFE: $240,000 over 3y, 2.3% of budgetVINE MAPLE PLACE: $235,000 over 2y, 2.6% of budgetFAMILY PROMISE OF GALLATIN VALLEY INC: $225,000 over 2y, 3.3% of budgetFAMILY PROMISE OF YELLOWSTONE VALLEY: $200,000 over 1y, 14% of budgetDOWNTOWN SOUP KITCHEN INC: $200,000 over 2y, 6.9% of budgetMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF ALASKA & WASHINGTON: $150,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetWARRIORS & QUIET WATERS FOUNDATION INC: $150,000 over 3y, 1.4% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN - SEATTLE: $145,000 over 2y, 3.8% of budgetSEMPER FI & AMERICA'S FUND: $125,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetJUBILEE WOMEN'S CENTER: $125,000 over 1y, 6.3% of budgetCOMMUNITY LEADERSHIP & DEVELOPMENT INC: $120,000 over 2y, 2.6% of budgetSIBLING STRONG: $117,500 over 3y, 25% of budgetSUMMER SEARCH: $102,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetCOMPASS HOUSING ALLIANCE: $101,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetJubilee REACH: $100,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetOLIVE CREST: $100,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetBEACON HILL: $100,000 over 1y, 7.8% of budgetTREEHOUSE: $100,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetFAMILY LAW CASA OF KING COUNTY: $100,000 over 2y, 5.2% of budgetOVERLAKE SERVICE LEAGUE: $100,000 over 1y, 3.8% of budgetCANCER LIFELINE: $100,000 over 2y, 3.3% of budgetSeattle Police Foundation: $95,000 over 3y, 1.4% of budgetTHE BAR X PROJECT INC: $85,000 over 3y, 26% of budgetNEXT CHAPTER FOUNDATION: $80,750 over 2y, 3.8% of budgetHORSES SPIRITS HEALING INC: $80,750 over 4y, 14% of budgetBIG SKY BRAVERY FOUNDATION: $80,407 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetNEW PHOEBE HOUSE: $75,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetChildrens Center at Burke Gilman Gardens: $75,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetBELLEVUE BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS INC: $75,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetElizabeth Home: $75,000 over 2y, 3.7% 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.

The Norcliffe Foundat…Moccasin Lake Foundat…Puget Sound Energy Fo…Seattle FoundationM J Murdock Charitabl…United Way of King Co…Ellison FoundationLiberty Mutual Founda…Medina FoundationWashington Federal Fo…Windermere FoundationEmployees Community F…
The Norcliffe FoundationWA70.5× affinity35 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 46%
  • Project Healing Waters Fly Fishing Inc: 46% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
35report 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.
05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to Harnish Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Harnish 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 101 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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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home