· Private foundation
Harper Family Foundation Inc
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 FY2022–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| JAMES MADISON UNIVERSITY | $7,500 |
| GREAT FALLS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL | $5,000 |
| WOMENS CLUB OF GREAT FALLS SCH | $3,277 |
| SECOND STORY | $1,560 |
| BEST BUDDIES INTERNATIONAL | $1,544 |
| ULMAN FOUNDATION | $1,500 |
| FRIENDS OF RIVERBEND PARK | $1,500 |
| KIDS GIVE BACK | $1,030 |
| MARCH OF DIMES | $1,030 |
| STOP HUNGER NOW | $515 |
| GIRL SCOUTS OF AMERICA | $263 |
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 (FY23–24, $3k) land where the poverty rate runs at 6%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +36% since the first grant, against +8% for the ones you funded once.
5 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2024, 1 since wound down; 7 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, 46% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $13k 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
- WCWOMENS CLUB OF GREAT FALLS SCH2× · 2023–2024 · $11k
- GFGREAT FALLS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL3× · 2022–2024 · $9k
- SOSCHOOL OF THEATRICAL DANCE2× · 2022–2023 · $4k · revenue -32%
Funded once
- LLLITTLE LEAGUE BASEBALL INCone grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue -28%
- VCVIRGINIA CONGRESS OF PARENTS GREAT GREAT FALLS ELEMENTARY PTAone grant, 2023 · $3k · revenue -54%
- TLTHE LILABEAN FOUNDATION INCgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $1k · revenue +59%
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.
Beat childhood cancer drives childhood cancer research and raises awareness, making a difference in kids' survival today. our vision is to change the story for the next family by finding viable treatments and ultimately, cures for…
Global kids educates, inspires and mobilizes youth to become global citizens who are positively engaged in the world and are prepared for their future.
The mission of Leading for Kids is to create a society that puts children first and promotes a culture where the health and well-being of all children is the highest priority.
The st. baldrick's foundation is a volunteer and donor powered charity committed to supporting the most promising research to fund cures for childhood cancers and give survivors long and healthy lives.
The Miracle League of San Diego provides children and adults with special needs the opportunity to play baseball in an organized league and strives to be recognized throughout San Diego County as a high-quality safe and inclusive…
DIBS for Kids is on a Mission to help schools provide every child with access to powerful in-home reading experiences, every school night.
The organization's mission is to relentlessly pursue a better world for every child. unicef usa advances the global mission of unicef by rallying the american public to support the world's most vulnerable children. through fundraising,…
The United Leukodystrophy Foundation is dedicated to helping children and adults who have Leukodystrophy and assisting family members, professionals and support services that serve them. The ULF is committed to the identification,…
Children's brain tumor foundation works on improving the treatment, quality of life and the long-term outlook for children and families affected by a brain or spinal cord tumor
National brain tumor society unrelentingly invests in, mobilizes, andunites our community to discover a cure, deliver effective treatments,and advocate for patients and care partners.
Curesearch's mission is to fund & support targeted & innovative cancer research with measurable results, & to be the authoritative source of information & resources for all those affected by children's cancer. see schedule o for…
Promoting pediatric cancer research and developing strategies to resolve key impediments to ongoing and future research.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is March of Dimes Inc and the most unlike its peers is National Multiple Sclerosis Society. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
10 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. 10 of the 18 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 LITTLE LEAGUE BASEBALL INC ↗
- Who funds SCHOOL OF THEATRICAL DANCE ↗
- Who funds ABUSED AND HOMELESS CHILDREN'S REFUGE INC ↗
- Who funds VIRGINIA CONGRESS OF PARENTS GREAT GREAT FALLS ELEMENTARY PTA ↗
- Who funds ULMAN FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Best Buddies International Inc ↗
- Who funds THE LILABEAN FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds MARCH OF DIMES INC ↗
- Who funds Kids Give Back ↗
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.
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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 Harper Family Foundation Inc 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Best Buddies International Inc — 4% 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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