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Harris Family Charitable Foundation at a glance

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Harris Family Charitable Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$114k
Granted FY2025still arriving
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Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$114k
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, FY2017 to 2025.

Arts & Culture$386kAnimals$24kEducation$24kHuman Services$13kHealth$10kCommunity Improvement$10kEnvironment$6kHousing & Shelter$3kOther$0
02FY2025 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$114,156
Median grant
1
States reached
$307k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
COLORADO MODEL RAILROAD MUSEUM$114,156
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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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 97% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%Lincoln Children's Zoo: $10k → 13%Children's of Alabama: $1k → 16%Big BrothersBig Sisters of Kansas City: $1k → 15%AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY: $5k → 8%St Anne's Episcopal School: $3k → 8%Hill Spring Academy: $500 → 9%COLORADO MODEL RAILROAD MUSEUM: $114k → 9%Juvenile Diabetes Research: $2k → 12%Lincoln Children's Zoo: $5k → 13%AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY: $3k → 8%St Anne's Episcopal School: $3k → 8%Colorado Model Railroad Museum: $110k → 9%St Anne's Episcopal School: $6k → 12%Lincoln Children's Zoo: $5k → 13%St Anne's Episcopal School: $1k → 8%COLORADO MODEL RAILROAD MUSEUM: $40k → 9%ST ANNE'S EPISCOPAL SCHOOL: $1k → 12%Lincoln Children's Zoo: $3k → 13%COLORADO MODEL RAILROAD MUSEUM: $19k → 9%ST ANNE'S EPISCOPAL SCHOOL: $1k → 12%Mourning Hope: $3k → 13%COLORADO MODEL RAILROAD MUSEUM: $18k → 9%Denver Botanic Gardens: $3k → 12%MOURNING HOPE: $10k → 13%Colorado Model Railroad Museum: $17k → 9%Denver Botanic Gardens: $3k → 12%Nebraska State Chamber of Commerce: $10k → 13%Colorado Model Railroad Museum: $17k → 9%DENVER BOTANIC GARDENS: $1k → 12%CEDARS HOME: $3k → 13%Colorado Model Railroad Museum: $16k → 9%TINY LIVES FOUNDATION: $1k → 12%Foundation for Lincoln Public Schools: $2k → 13%WILD ANIMAL SANCTUARY: $2k → 9%DENVER ART MUSEUM: $6k → 12%Foundation for Lincoln Public Schools: $2k → 13%DENVER ART MUSEUM: $6k → 12%DENVER ART MUSEUM: $6k → 12%Denver Art Museum: $5k → 12%Denver Art Museum: $5k → 12%Denver Art Museum: $5k → 12%Denver Art Museum: $3k → 12%Denver Kids: $2k → 12%Denver Kids: $1k → 12%Denver Kids: $1k → 12%Denver Kids: $1k → 12%Denver Kids: $1k → 12%Denver Center for Performing Arts: $500 → 12%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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

96%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$457k · 9 repeat orgs$20k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +33% since the first grant, against +19% for those funded once.

9 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

9
9

Total granted

$457k
$20k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+33%
+19%

Still filing today

100%
56%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureHealthAnimalsEnvironmentEducationOther
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

  • CM
    COLORADO MODEL RAILROAD MUSEUM
    8× · 2018–2025 · $352k · revenue +101% · 55% of their budget
  • DA
    DENVER ART MUSEUM
    7× · 2017–2024 · $34k · revenue +7%
  • SA
    St Anne's Episcopal School Inc
    6× · 2017–2023 · $14k · revenue +41%

Funded once

  • NS
    Nebraska State Chamber of Commerce
    one grant, 2017 · $10k
  • CH
    CEDARS HOME
    one grant, 2022 · $3k
  • TW
    THE WILD ANIMAL SANCTUARY
    one grant, 2023 · $2k · 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
Colorado Museum of Natural History

Be a catalyst! Ignite our community's passion for nature and science.

Arts & Culture
2
Lincoln Children's Museum

The lincoln children's museum invites children to create, discover and learn through the power of play.

Arts & Culture
3
The Childrens Museum of Denver Inc

To create extraordinary experiences that champion the wonder and joy of childhood.

Arts & Culture
4
Colorado Legal Services

To provide meaningful access to high quality, civil legal services in the pursuit of justice for as many low income persons and members of vulnerable populations throughout colorado as possible.

Crime & Legal
5
Denver Botanic Gardens Endowment

Protect the financial security and mission of denver botanic gardens.

Environment
6
Colorado Gives Foundation

We connect people, ideas, and nonprofits to make good happen. our vision is that all of jeffco is thriving.

Philanthropy
7
Lincoln Park Zoological Society

Lincoln park zoo is dedicated to connecting people with nature by providing a free, family-oriented wildlife experience in the heart of chicago and by advancing the highest quality of animal care, horticulture, education, science and…

Animals
8
Greater Des Moines Botanical Garden

Exploring, explaining and celebrating the world of plants.

Environment
9
The Denver Foundation

To inspire people and mobilize resources to strengthen our community.

Philanthropy
10
Denver Children's Choir

To provide a challenging environment where children can reach their full potential by enhancing their musical talents, forging diverse meaningful friendships, and sharing their joy of music with others.

Arts & Culture
11
Museum of Arts and Design

To collect, display and interpret objects in craft art and design.

Arts & Culture
12
Aia Colorado

AIA Colorado,is the voice of the architecture profession in Colorado. Through advocacy, leadership development, education and resources for architects, the organization supports architecture professionals in designing a better world where…

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Denver Center for the Performing Arts; the most unlike its peers is Denver Art Museum. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

14 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. 14 of the 18 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
14/14
Grantees still filing
10/14
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

COLORADO MODEL RAILROAD MUSEUM: $351,658 · Arts & CultureCOLORADO MODEL RAILROAD MUSEUMDENVER ART MUSEUM: $34,000 · Arts & CultureDENVER ART MUSEUM+3 more: $16,000 · Arts & CultureSt Anne's Episcopal School Inc: $14,000 · OtherNebraska State Chamber of Commerce: $10,000 · OtherCEDARS HOME: $2,500 · OtherJuvenile Diabetes Research: $1,500 · OtherBig Brothers Big Sisters Kansas City: $1,000 · Other+1 more: $500 · OtherLINCOLN CHILDREN'S ZOO: $22,500 · AnimalsTHE WILD ANIMAL SANCTUARY: $1,500 · AnimalsAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $7,500 · HealthTHE TINY LIVES FOUNDATION: $1,000 · HealthThe Children's Hospital of Alabama: $1,000 · HealthDENVER BOTANIC GARDENS INC: $6,000 · EnvironmentDENVER KIDS INC: $6,000 · Education
Arts & Culture$401,658Other$29,500Animals$24,000Health$9,500Environment$6,000Education$6,000

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 budgetCOLORADO MODEL RAILROAD MUSEUM: $351,658 over 8y, 55% of budgetDENVER ART MUSEUM: $34,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetLINCOLN CHILDREN'S ZOO: $22,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetSt Anne's Episcopal School Inc: $14,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetMOURNING HOPE: $12,500 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $7,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetDENVER BOTANIC GARDENS INC: $6,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetDENVER KIDS INC: $6,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetTHE FOUNDATION FOR LINCOLN PUBLIC SCHOOLS: $3,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE WILD ANIMAL SANCTUARY: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE TINY LIVES FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetThe Children's Hospital of Alabama: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBig Brothers Big Sisters Kansas City: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDENVER CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS: $500 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

National Philanthropi…The Bank of America C…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
National Philanthropic TrustPA11.5× affinity6 shared granteesties to 5 of 5Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · 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 Family Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Harris Family Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%2%8%17%30%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    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

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    How do I get to Harris Family Charitable Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Harris Family Charitable 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 18 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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