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Harris-Bacor Family Foundation at a glance

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Harris-Bacor 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.

$113k
Granted FY2024still arriving
10
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$24k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2024.

Education$182kInternational$60kPublic Safety & Disaster$55kHousing & Shelter$17kScience & Tech$13kHealth$10kFood & Nutrition$10kArts & Culture$10kOther$0
02FY2024 · 10 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k3 grants · $8k
  • $10k–50k7 grants · $105k
$11,029
Median grant
3
States reached
$1.9M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
PASADENA EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION$24,250
FIRST GEN SCHOLARS$20,000
LIFE LEARNING CONTINUUM$15,000
WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN$15,000
FOUNDATION FOR AFRICAN MEDICINE & EDUCATION$11,029
CALTECH Y$10,000
THE HUNTINGTON LIBRARY ART MUSEUM & BOTANICAL GARDENS$10,000
LEADERSHIP PASADENA$5,150
DONORSCHOOSE$1,961
SHEPHERD'S DOOR DOMESTIC VIOLENCE RESOURCE CENTER$1,021
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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY21–24, $16k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 69% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%TANZANIAN CHILDREN'S FUND: $5k → 8%SEWA INTERNATIONAL: $5k → 16%UNION STATION HOMELESS SERVICES: $5k → 14%SHEPHERD'S DOOR DOMESTIC VIOLENCE RESOURCE CENTER: $1k → 14%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.
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.
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Where the work is directed

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

About 100% of Harris-Bacor Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 75% of the giving stays in CA; by stated purpose, 0%.

Harris-Bacor Family 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.

71%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$265k · 7 repeat orgs$108k to everyone else

7 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2024, 2 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

7
10

Total granted

$265k
$75k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+21%
+26%

Still filing today

71%
60%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 71% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $33k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24
EducationHuman ServicesInternationalPhilanthropyArts & CultureCommunity ImprovementOther
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

  • PE
    PASADENA EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION
    4× · 2021–2024 · $74k · revenue +264%
  • WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC
    4× · 2021–2024 · $55k · revenue +167%
  • FG
    FIRST GEN SCHOLARS
    3× · 2022–2024 · $50k · revenue +21%

Funded once

  • AS
    ARROYO SECO ACADEMY
    one grant, 2021 · $20k
  • SC
    SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA UNIVERSITY OF HEALTH SCIENCESgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue +26%
  • LA
    LOS ANGELES REGIONAL FOOD BANKgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue +50%
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
University of Southern California

The central mission of the university of southern california is the development of human beings and society as a whole through the cultivation and enrichment of the human mind and spirit. the principal means by which our mission is…

Education
2
Occidental College

See schedule othe mission of occidental college is to provide a gifted and diverse group of students with a total educational experience of the highest quality - one that prepares them for leadership in an increasingly complex,…

Education
3
Stem Advantage

Talent is equally distributed, but opportunity is not. STEM Advantage mentors, prepares, and inspires first-generation, low-income, and underserved college students for careers in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM). We level…

Youth Development
4
Los Angeles Pacific University

Los angeles pacific university exists to deliver high quality, accessible christ-centered education to learners everywhere.

Education
5
Puente Learning Center

Puente learning center is recognized for its commitment to its mission, embodied in its name: people united to enrich the neighborhood through education. as an established nonprofit presence in the underserved boyle heights community since…

Education
6
California College of the Arts

California college of the arts educates students to shape culture and society through the practice and critical study of art, architecture, design, and writing. benefitting from its san francisco bay area location, the college prepares…

Education
7
President-Board of Trustees Santa Clara College

Scu is a catholic and jesuit institution that makes student learning its central focus, promotes faculty and staff learning in its various forms, and exhibits organizational learning.

Education
8
Pomona College

Throughout its history, pomona college has educated men and women of exceptional promise. we gather individuals, regardless of financial circumstances, into a small residential community that is strongly rooted in southern california yet…

Education
9
Arcadia University

Arcadia university's pioneering, global, integrated, liberal arts, and professional learning experience cultivates leaders who are intellectually fearless and uniquely prepared for life and work. our highly regarded, values-based learning…

Education
10
Golden Gate University

Golden gate university prepares individuals to lead and serve by providing high quality, practice-based educational programs in law, taxation, business and related professions - as a nonprofit institution - in an innovative and challenging…

Education
11
The International School of San Francisco

Guided by the principles of academic rigor and diversity, the international school of san francisco offers programs of study in french and english to prepare its graduates for a world in which the ability to think critically and to…

Education
12
Crestview Preparatory School

We believe childhood is extraordinary. crestview culitivates academic excellence by nurturing individual potential, empowering students to learn joyfully and discover their unique talents within our caring community that fosters belonging.…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Pasadena Educational Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Henry E Huntington Library and Art Gallery. 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

16 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. 16 of the 22 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
16/16
Grantees still filing
10/16
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $55,283 · InternationalWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INCFOUNDATION FOR AFRICAN MEDICINE AND EDUC: $49,794 · InternationalFOUNDATION FOR AFRICAN MEDICINE…FIRST GEN SCHOLARS: $50,000 · EducationFIRST GEN SCHOLARSLIFE LEARNING CONTINUUM INC: $15,000 · EducationLIFE LEARNING CONTINUUM INCTHE CALTECH Y: $11,000 · EducationTHE CALTECH YSOUTHERN CALIFORNIA UNIVERSITY OF HEALTH SCIENCES: $10,000 · EducationSOUTHERN CALIFORNIA UNIVERSI…The Prentice School: $5,175 · EducationThe Prentice School+1 more: $1,961 · EducationPASADENA EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION: $73,750 · PhilanthropyPASADENA EDUCATIONAL F…ARROYO SECO ACADEMY: $20,000 · OtherARROYO SECO ACADEMYCALTECH Y (LEAP PROJECT AND RISE PROGRAM): $13,230 · OtherCALTECH Y (LEAP PROJE…A WEB OF WELLNES (VIA WELLEVATE): $12,000 · OtherA WEB OF WELLNES (VIA…LOS ANGELES REGIONAL FOOD BANK: $10,000 · OtherLOS ANGELES REGIONAL …BHAGAVAT LIFE (LIFE LEARNING CONTINUUM INC): $5,000 · OtherBHAGAVAT LIFE (LIFE L…GLOBAL GIVING (FOR EL SHADDAI CHARITABLE TRUST): $5,000 · OtherGLOBAL GIVING (FOR EL…SHAH EDUCATION & EXPLORATION FOUNDATION: $5,000 · OtherSHAH EDUCATION & EXPL…UNION STATION HOMELESS SERVICES: $5,000 · Human ServicesSewa International Inc: $5,000 · Human ServicesTHE TANZANIAN CHILDRENS FUND INC: $5,000 · Human ServicesSHEPHERDS DOOR: $1,021 · Human ServicesHENRY E HUNTINGTON LIBRARY AND ART GALLERY: $10,000 · Arts & CultureLEADERSHIP PASADENA INC: $5,150 · Community Improvement
International$105,077Education$93,136Philanthropy$73,750Other$70,230Human Services$16,021Arts & Culture$10,000Community Improvement$5,150

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 budgetPASADENA EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION: $73,750 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $55,283 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetFIRST GEN SCHOLARS: $50,000 over 3y, 5.9% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR AFRICAN MEDICINE AND EDUC: $49,794 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetLIFE LEARNING CONTINUUM INC: $15,000 over 1y, 20% of budgetTHE CALTECH Y: $11,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetSOUTHERN CALIFORNIA UNIVERSITY OF HEALTH SCIENCES: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHENRY E HUNTINGTON LIBRARY AND ART GALLERY: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLOS ANGELES REGIONAL FOOD BANK: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Prentice School: $5,175 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLEADERSHIP PASADENA INC: $5,150 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetUNION STATION HOMELESS SERVICES: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSewa International Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE TANZANIAN CHILDRENS FUND INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetDONORSCHOOSEORG: $1,961 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSHEPHERDS DOOR: $1,021 over 1y, 0.8% 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.

American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Amazonsmile Foundation
American Online Giving Foundation IncDE6.2× affinity4 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%1%5%11%20%funder's share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
    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 Harris-Bacor Family Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Harris-Bacor Family 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 22 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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