· Private foundation
Harper 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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Center for Biological Diversity | $1,500 |
| Harwich Conservation Trust | $1,500 |
| Union Theological Seminary | $1,000 |
| Yale University | $1,000 |
| Southern Poverty Law Center | $1,000 |
| El Calvario United Methodist Church | $500 |
| Holy Cross Retreat Center | $500 |
| Habitat for Humanity Cape Cod | $500 |
| Mesilla Community of Hope | $500 |
| Cape Cod Theater | $500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $500 |
| National Park Foundation | $500 |
| No Strings Theater | $500 |
| Mass Audubon Wellfleet Bay Wildlife Sanctuary | $500 |
| The Congregational Library | $500 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY21–21, $500) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +95% since the first grant, against +73% for those funded once.
19 repeat relationships: 16 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down; 2 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, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- SPSOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC5× · 2020–2024 · $4k · revenue +13%
- HCHARWICH CONSERVATION TRUST5× · 2020–2024 · $4k · revenue +338%
- NPNATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION5× · 2020–2024 · $3k · revenue +95%
Funded once
- PIPAYOMET INCone grant, 2023 · $1k · revenue +12%
- SCSouthwest Conference United Church of Christone grant, 2022 · $1k
- FCFIRST CHRISTIAN CHURCHone grant, 2020 · $700
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.
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.
The organization's mission is to conserve and promote new england's native plants to ensure healthy, biologically diverse landscapes.
Npr international operations, inc. ("nprio") supports the international newsgathering activities of national public radio, inc. through bureaus and offices established locally in foreign countries.
The npr foundation ("foundation") is organized and operated exclusively for the benefit of its sole supported organization, national public radio, inc. ("npr inc."). the foundation supports npr inc. through various activities such as…
National public radio, inc. ("npr") works collaboratively with member public radio station licensees ("member stations") to create a more informed public, one that is challenged and invigorated by a deeper understanding and appreciation of…
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.
Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.
Saint anselm is a catholic, benedictine college providing all of its students a distinctive liberal arts education that incorporates opportunities for professional and career preparation. it does so in a learning community that encourages…
Manhattan university is an independent catholic instituion of higher learning that embraces qualified men and women of all faiths, cultures, and traditions. the mission of manhattan university is to provide a contemporary, person-centered…
The center for american progress (cap) is an independent nonpartisan policy institute that is dedicated to improving the lives of all americans through bold, progressive ideas, as well as strong leadership and concerted action. our aim is…
The nmu foundation will establish and foster relationships to generate resources that benefit the strategic goals of northern michigan university.
New york school of interior design provides the most innovative, immersive, and transformative interior design education in the world, demonstrating the impact of professionally designed interiors on the health, happiness, and well-being…
How this is measured
12 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. 12 of the 27 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds HARWICH CONSERVATION TRUST ↗
- Who funds UNION THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds COOPERATIVE METROPOLITAN MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF CAPE COD INC ↗
- Who funds MENARE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds New Mexico State Univ Fdn Inc ↗
- Who funds PAYOMET INC ↗
- Who funds INSTITUTE FOR NONPROFIT PRACTICE INC ↗
- Who funds LAS CRUCES PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NAACP EMPOWERMENT PROGRAMS INC ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Harper Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Harper Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Payomet Inc: 4% of income from government
How this is measured
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