Montana · Private foundation
Harris Family 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.
- $290k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 17
- Grants FY2025
- 17
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 0%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $100,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 15 to 30
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 4
- Total assets, FY2025
- $11M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 0% of the organizations Harris Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 16 | $285k | 0% |
| FY2024 | 17 | $308k | 0% |
| FY2023 | 15 | $295k | 13% |
| FY2022 | 17 | $370k | 12% |
| FY2021 | 17 | $300k | 0% |
| FY2020 | 26 | $389k | 27% |
| FY2019 | 30 | $262k | 37% |
| FY2018 | 27 | $232k | 26% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bozeman Field School Inc | $370,000 | 6 | 28% |
| The Field School Inc | $210,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Care for Real | $204,000 | 9 | 1% |
| Pomona College | $191,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Shedd Aquarium Society | $180,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Williams College | $101,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Occidental College | $80,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Lincoln Park Zoological Society | $75,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Westminster Ingleside Presbyterian Foundation | $75,000 | 1 | 2% |
| Ecumenical Ministries of Oregon | $68,500 | 9 | n/a |
Show all 42 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 18 recipients with no EIN on record ($397k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Harris Family Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 35 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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: The Oregon Community Foundation · The Harold & Arlene Schnitzer Care Foundation · OCF Joseph E Weston Public Foundation · Juan Young Trust · The Collins Foundation · Clark Foundation · Rose E Tucker Charitable Trust · Maybelle Clark Macdonald Fund · Meyer Memorial Trust · The Autzen Foundation · Marie Lamfrom Charitable Foundation Trust · M J Murdock Charitable Trust
How this is measured
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About Harris Family Foundation
- How much does Harris Family Foundation give?
- Harris Family Foundation reported 17 grants totaling $290,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 15 and 30 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Harris Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (44%), Food & Nutrition (10%), Animals (10%).
- Who are Harris Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Bozeman Field School Inc ($370k), The Field School Inc ($210k), Care for Real ($204k).
- Does Harris Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Harris Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Harris Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Oregon Community Foundation, The Harold & Arlene Schnitzer Care Foundation, OCF Joseph E Weston Public Foundation.
- Where is Harris Family Foundation based?
- Harris Family Foundation is based in MT.
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