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Harris Family Farm Foundation at a glance

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Harris Family Farm 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.

$85k
Granted FY2024still arriving
16
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$14k
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 2024.

Food & Nutrition$244kHuman Services$39kReligion$34kHousing & Shelter$20k
02FY2024 · 16 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k15 grants · $71k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $14k
$5,038
Median grant
1
States reached
$10k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
FEEDING AMERICA OF WEST MICHIGAN$13,852
ANOINTED IMPACT MINISTRIES FOOD PANTRY$7,871
RIVER VALLEY SENIOR CENTER$7,242
GOD'S ABUNDANT PANTRY AT ANDREWS UNIVERSITY$7,242
REDBUD AREA MINISTRIES$6,297
HARBOR COUNTRY EMERGENCY FOOD PANTRY$5,667
HARBOR COUNTRY MISSION$5,667
ST MARY'S CHRISTIAN SERVICE CENTER$5,038
NEW HEIGHTS COMMUNITY FOOD NETWORK$5,038
MEALS ON WHEELS OF SOUTHWEST MICHIGAN$5,038
CARING CUPBOARDWOODLAND SHORES BAPTIST CHURCH$4,093
NEIGHBOR BY NEIGHBOR$3,463
LAKE MICHIGAN COLLEGE FOOD PANTRY$3,149
BARODA BIBLE CHURCH$2,834
BENTON HARBOR HIGH SCHOOL$1,889
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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Its human-services grants (FY17–24, $60k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%RIVER VALLEY SENIOR CENTER: $8k → 15%RIVER VALLEY SENIOR CENTER: $7k → 15%RIVER VALLEY SENIOR CENTER: $7k → 15%RIVER VALLEY SENIOR CENTER: $4k → 15%RIVER VALLEY SENIOR CENTER: $3k → 15%RIVER VALLEY SENIOR CENTER: $2k → 15%RIVER VALLEY SENIOR CENTER: $1k → 15%HARBOR COUNTRY MISSION: $1k → 15%NEIGHBOR BY NEIGHBOR: $3k → 15%NEIGHBOR BY NEIGHBOR: $2k → 15%NEIGHBOR BY NEIGHBOR: $954 → 15%HARBOR COUNTRY MISSION: $6k → 15%HARBOR COUNTRY MISSION: $5k → 15%HARBOR COUNTRY MISSION: $3k → 15%HARBOR COUNTRY MISSION: $3k → 15%HARBOR COUNTRY MISSION: $1k → 15%HARBOR COUNTRY MISSION: $883 → 15%HARBOR COUNTRY MISSION: $672 → 15%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.

94%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$319k · 13 repeat orgs$19k to everyone else

13 repeat relationships: 11 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

13
1

Total granted

$319k
$853

Still filing today

38%
0%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 79% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $18k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesFood & NutritionOther
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

  • AI
    ANOINTED IMPACT MINISTRIES FOOD PANTRY
    6× · 2019–2024 · $41k
  • FA
    FEEDING AMERICA OF WEST MICHIGAN
    8× · 2017–2024 · $41k
  • RA
    REDBUD AREA MINISTRIES
    8× · 2017–2024 · $34k

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2022 · $853
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
04the grantee network

5 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. 5 of the 19 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)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
5/5
Grantees still filing
3/5
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ANOINTED IMPACT MINISTRIES FOOD PANTRY: $40,956 · OtherANOINTED IMPACT MINISTRIES FOOD PANTRYFEEDING AMERICA OF WEST MICHIGAN: $40,527 · OtherFEEDING AMERICA OF WEST MICHIGANREDBUD AREA MINISTRIES: $34,400 · OtherREDBUD AREA MINISTRIESST MARY'S CHRISTIAN SERVICE CENTER: $26,934 · OtherST MARY'S CHRISTIAN SERVICE CENTERMEALS ON WHEELS OF SOUTHWEST MICHIGAN: $26,287 · OtherMEALS ON WHEELS OF SOUTHWEST MICHIGANFIRST CHURCH OF GOD COMMUNITY FOOD NETWORK: $17,175 · OtherFIRST CHURCH OF GOD COMMUNITY FOOD NETWORKCARING CUPBOARDWOODLAND SHORES BAPTIST CHURCH: $17,116 · OtherCARING CUPBOARDWOODLAND SHORES BAPTIST CHURCHBARODA BIBLE CHURCH: $8,682 · Other+6 more: $19,116 · Other+6 moreRIVER VALLEY SENIOR CENTER INC: $32,928 · Human ServicesRIVER VALLEY SENIOR …HARBOR COUNTRY MISSION: $20,186 · Human ServicesHARBOR COUNTRY MISSI…Neighbor by Neighbor: $6,550 · Human ServicesNeighbor by NeighborHARBOR COUNTRY EMERGENCY FOOD PANTRY INC: $25,379 · Food & NutritionHARBOR COUNTRY …GOD'S ABUNDANT PANTRY: $21,477 · Food & NutritionGOD'S ABUNDANT …
Other$231,193Human Services$59,664Food & Nutrition$46,856

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%grantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetRIVER VALLEY SENIOR CENTER INC: $32,928 over 7y, 1.9% of budgetHARBOR COUNTRY EMERGENCY FOOD PANTRY INC: $25,379 over 8y, 11% of budgetGOD'S ABUNDANT PANTRY: $21,477 over 5y, 5.5% of budgetHARBOR COUNTRY MISSION: $20,186 over 8y, 1.6% of budgetNeighbor by Neighbor: $6,550 over 3y, 0.4% 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.

  • Who funds RIVER VALLEY SENIOR CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds HARBOR COUNTRY EMERGENCY FOOD PANTRY INC ↗
  • Who funds GOD'S ABUNDANT PANTRY ↗
  • Who funds HARBOR COUNTRY MISSION ↗
  • Who funds Neighbor by Neighbor ↗

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.

Berrien Community Fou…Feeding America West …Amazonsmile Foundation
Berrien Community Foundation IncMI15.7× affinity5 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Berrien Community Foundation Inc · Feeding America West Michigan · 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 Farm Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Harris Family Farm Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%4%8%15%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
    1report 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

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Harris Family Farm Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Harris Family Farm 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 19 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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