How much did HARPER FAMILY FOUNDATION grant in FY2025?

HARPER FAMILY FOUNDATION reported 2 grants totaling $137,502 in its FY2025 IRS filing.

Where is HARPER FAMILY FOUNDATION based?

HARPER FAMILY FOUNDATION is based in SC.

HARPER FAMILY FOUNDATION

Foundation Dossiers

· Private foundation

HARPER FAMILY FOUNDATION

This foundation does not accept unsolicited requests — it funds preselected organizations.

$138k

Granted FY2025

Grants

Communities

$69k

Largest

01What you fund

0190% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2025.

Philanthropy$2.4MArts & Culture$41kHealth$36kEducation$31kHuman Services$21kEnvironment$21kHousing & Shelter$3kAnimals$1kOther$273k

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2018

laurens museumdirection ministrieschurchcancerarts

2019

churchministriesarts

2020

charleston

2021

childrencharleston

2022

charleston

2023

charlestonmuseum

2025

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Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2025 · 2 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$68,751

Median grant

States reached

Total assets

Largest grants

LANE LEGARE HARPER FOUNDATION$68,751
GREENVILLE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$68,751

02The need

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY18–22, $17k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11% — the area typically sits at 11%. 24% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge

repeat funding

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.

95%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$2.7M · 36 repeat orgs$130k to everyone else

36 repeat relationships — 1 still active in FY2025, 35 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$2.7M

$61k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+23%

+55%

Still filing today

58%

59%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 50% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $69k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Arts & CulturePhilanthropyEnvironmentEducationHealthHuman ServicesOther

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

CF
COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GREENVILLE
4× · 2020–2023 · $1.2M · revenue +145%
CS
CANCER SURVIVORS PARK ALLIANCE
4× · 2017–2020 · $25k · revenue +12%
GA
GREENVILLE ARTS FESTIVAL
7× · 2017–2023 · $17k · revenue +59%

Funded once

PF
PAST FOUNDATIONgraduated
one grant, 2017 · $11k · revenue +182%
GS
GREENVILLE SYMPHONY ASSOCIATIONgraduated
one grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue +31%
GI
GREEN INFRASTRUCTURE CENTER INCgraduated
one grant, 2019 · $5k · revenue +395%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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 South Carolina Historical Society

The schs mission is to expand, preserve, and make accessible our invaluable collection, and to encourage interest and pride in the rich history of our state.

Arts & Culture

College of Charleston Foundation

To promote education, research, and development programs for the exclusive benefit of the college of charleston

Education

Foundation for the Carolinas

Foundation for the carolinas is a non-profit community foundation serving donors and a broad range of charitable purposes in north and south carolina through grantmaking and civic leadership.

Philanthropy

Carolina Art Association

The mission of the gibbes museum of art is to enhance lives through art by engaging people of every background and experience with art and artists of enduring quality; collect and preserve the art that touches charleston; and provide…

Arts & Culture

Charleston Waterkeeper

Charleston waterkeeper's mission it to protect and restore charleston's waterways for our community and future generations. we do that through an effective mix of boots-on-the-water stewardship and data-driven advocacy designed to protect…

Environment

North Carolina Biotechnology Center

To provide long-term economic and societal benefits to north carolina through support of biotechnology research, business, education and strategic policy statewide.

Science & Tech

Green Hill Center for North Carolina Art

The mission of green hill center for nc art is to promote the visual arts of north carolina by engaging a broad community of artists, adults and children through dynamic exhibitions and educational programs while providing a platform for…

Arts & Culture

Clemson University Research Foundation

To support research, technology transfer, and related activities at and for the benefit of clemson university. to generate research funding opportunities for clemson university to support research initiatives that advance university…

Education

Charleston Symphony Orchestra

The charleston symphony's mission is to inspire and engage the community through exceptional musical performances and educational programs.

Arts & Culture

South Carolina National Heritage

The organization's primary mission is a grassroots initiative that advances sustainable development of natural, cultural, and historic resources for enhanced quality of life and economic revitalization of communities in south carolina.

Arts & Culture

Columbia College

Columbia college provides educational opportunities that develop students' capacity for critical thought and expression, life-long learning, acceptance of personal responsibilty, and commitment to service and social justice.

Education

Central Carolina Community

We promote, facilitate and increase philanthropy to create a sustainable impact within our community through responsible giving.

Philanthropy

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Greenville Tech Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Charleston Museum. 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.

the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side

Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 39 years old; the field is 13. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

The field is 25% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

0.0%0/36

the rest of the field

11%

646/5,735

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.

05the grantee network

34 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

34/34

Grantees still filing

26/34

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Philanthropy$2,424,204Other$276,507Arts & Culture$41,000Health$36,000Education$31,200Human Services$21,000Environment$20,500

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.

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.

Prisma Health-UpstateSC26.7× affinity10 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Prisma Health-Upstate · Prisma Health · Charity Ball Board of Greenville · John I Smith Charities Inc · Scsymmes Foundation · Daniel-Mickel Foundation · Dabo's All in Team Foundation · Yeargin Foundation · Charles Timmons Foundation · United Way of Greenville County Inc · Hayne Hipp Foundation · St Francis Hospital Inc

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 organisation HARPER 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.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

typical government reliance, FY20–24

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. 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.

05Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: LANE LEGARE HARPER FOUNDATION.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

low risk

~7 months of operating runway; revenue contracted over 2 filed years.

Track record & reputation

medium risk

2 years of Form 990 filings, still active.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 883289637 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on LANE LEGARE HARPER FOUNDATION, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

On trackFinancial stability— Roughly 7 months of cash on hand.
WatchSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue contracted over the period.
WatchReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 94% of their budget — load-bearing; a dependency Plinth would track.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to Harper Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Harper Family Foundation through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

HARPER FAMILY FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

34 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Harper Family Foundation?

More from the funding graph

HARPER FAMILY FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

34 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Harper Family Foundation?

More from the funding graph