· 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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k6 grants · $35k
- $10k–50k10 grants · $155k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $100k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Bozeman Field School | $100,000 |
| Occidental College | $25,000 |
| Care for Real | $25,000 |
| Shedd Aquarium | $25,000 |
| Friends of the Children | $20,000 |
| Oregon Food Bank | $10,000 |
| KairosPDX | $10,000 |
| Field Museum | $10,000 |
| Lincoln Park Zoo | $10,000 |
| Pomona College | $10,000 |
| Ecumenical Ministries of Oregon | $10,000 |
| St Luke's Episcopal | $9,000 |
| Immigrant Refugee Community Org | $7,500 |
| Chinese Cultural Museum | $6,000 |
| Oregon Community Foundation | $5,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $217k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +68% since the first grant, against +36% for those funded once.
34 repeat relationships: 16 still active in FY2025, 18 since wound down.
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 FY2025, 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
Backed again, and grew
- BFBozeman Field School Inc6× · 2017–2025 · $370k · revenue +139% · 28% of their budget
- TFTHE FIELD SCHOOL INC4× · 2017–2024 · $210k · revenue +68%
CARE FOR REAL9× · 2017–2025 · $204k · revenue +38%
Funded once
- WIWESTMINSTER INGLESIDE PRESBYTERIAN FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $75k · revenue +53%
- MNMCLAREN NORTHERN MICHIGAN FOUNDATIONone grant, 2017 · $50k · revenue -21%
- WRWomen's Resource Center of Northernone grant, 2019 · $39k
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.
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.
The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
Lewis & clark is a premier private higher education institution offering an exceptional education in an inclusive environment. by fostering critical thinking, innovation, creativity, civic engagement, and leadership, both inside and…
Dartmouth College educates the most promising students and prepares them for a lifetime of learning and of responsible leadership, through a faculty dedicated to teaching and the creation of knowledge.
The Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL) is a world-renowned center for biological discovery and training that is notably affiliated with more than 60 Nobel Prize winners. Research is conducted by full-time faculty as well as hundreds of the…
Education and Research
The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.
At Roger Williams University, students are prepared to be thinkers and doers ready to solve challenging problems with innovative solutions. RWU offers robust offerings of undergraduate, graduate and professional programs across eight…
Depauw university develops leaders the world needs through an uncommon commitment to the liberal arts. depauw's diverse and inclusive learning and living experience, distinctive in its rigorous intellectual engagement and its global and…
Lowell school (the school) provides educational services to approximately 314 students in grades pre-kindergarten through 8th grade. the school strives to create a diverse, equitable, and inclusive learning environment, and offers a…
The peak school seeks to ignite a passion for learning, to develop students of diverse talents and backgrounds who think critically and act with integrity, and to graduate compassionate, confident, capable students who will embrace their…
How this is measured
37 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. 37 of the 61 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 Bozeman Field School Inc ↗
- Who funds THE FIELD SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds CARE FOR REAL ↗
- Who funds POMONA COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds SHEDD AQUARIUM SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds Williams College ↗
- Who funds OCCIDENTAL COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds LINCOLN PARK ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds WESTMINSTER INGLESIDE PRESBYTERIAN FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FIELD MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY ↗
- Who funds OREGON FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds KAIROSPDX ↗
- Who funds MCLAREN NORTHERN MICHIGAN FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PRESIDENT AND TRUSTEES OF BATES COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds CATLIN GABEL SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds TURTLE ISLAND RESTORATION NETWORK ↗
- Who funds Vermont Law School ↗
- Who funds Upper Missouri Waterkeeper Inc ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN RIVERS INC ↗
- Who funds Little Traverse Conservancy Inc ↗
- Who funds THE SEED FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE MUSICAL OFFERING ↗
- Who funds TIP OF THE MITT WATERSHED COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds NAACP LEGAL DEFENSE & EDUC FUND INC ↗
- Who funds PORTLAND CHILDREN'S MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds THE OREGON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds YWCA OF GREATER PORTLAND ↗
- Who funds MUSEUM OF THE ROCKIES INC ↗
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Harris Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Harris Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Save the Children Federation Inc: 30% of income from government
- Oregon Food Bank: 21% of income from government
- Kairospdx: 19% of income from government
- Ywca of Greater Portland: 15% of income from government
- Vermont Law School: 14% of income from government
- The Oregon Community Foundation: 2% of income from government
- Williams College: 0% of income from government
- Catlin Gabel School: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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