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Harris Family Foundation Inc

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.

$76k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
14
Grants FY2025
21
Organizations funded FY2024
5%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$5,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$20,000
Organizations funded a year
8 to 24
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
2
Total assets, FY2025
$1.7M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 5% of the organizations Harris Family Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 1% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1000 went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
HealthHuman ServicesEducationReligionHousing & ShelterOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving14$76k7%
FY202421$125k5%
FY202322$185k14%
FY202212$51k17%
FY202122$142k5%
FY202018$57k11%
FY20198$25k0%
FY201824$76k21%
99% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Human Services$192kEducation$176kHealth$173kHousing & Shelter$143kReligion$42kFood & Nutrition$36kInternational$26kYouth Development$17kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

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What it could do for these grantees

Plus 10 recipients with no EIN on record ($243k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Harris Family Foundation Inc supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetWake Forest University: $173,333 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetUnc Health Foundation Inc: $110,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetThe Raleigh Rescue Mission Inc: $90,000 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetFood Bank of Central & Eastern Nc Inc: $34,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetCasa: $29,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetSt Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc: $28,300 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetSharefish Inc: $25,000 over 5y, 7.1% of budgetHenderson County & Thermal Belt Habitat for Humanity: $22,500 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetThe Michael J Fox Foundation for Parkinson's Research: $15,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNorth Carolina Coastal Federation Inc: $10,400 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetAlliance Medical Ministry Inc: $6,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetHaven House Inc: $4,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetThe Green Chair Project: $4,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetFoundation of Hope for Research and Treatment of Mental Illness: $4,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetMerrie-Woode Foundation Inc: $4,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetSociety for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Wake County Inc: $4,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetHope Reins: $3,100 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Colorado Foundation: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSamaritan's Purse: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMeals on Wheels of Wake County Inc: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNational Multiple Sclerosis Society: $1,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetOak City Cares Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBeaufort EMS Inc: $900 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetNourish Up: $600 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetDiaper Train: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBeaufort Historical Association Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 26.

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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.

North Carolina Community FoundationNC29.1× affinity12 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: North Carolina Community Foundation · Triangle Community Foundation Inc · Duke Energy Foundation · W Trent Ragland Jr Foundation · Bell Koonce Burnette Foundation · John William Pope Foundation · United Way of the Greater Triangle Inc · Bell Schaefer Family Foundation · Chaucer Charitable Foundation · A E Finley Foundation Inc · The Leon Levine Foundation · Aj Fletcher 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.

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About Harris Family Foundation Inc

How much does Harris Family Foundation Inc give?
Harris Family Foundation Inc reported 14 grants totaling $75,600 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 8 and 24 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does Harris Family Foundation Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Human Services (23%), Education (21%), Health (21%).
Who are Harris Family Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Wake Forest University ($173k), Unc Health Foundation Inc ($110k), The Raleigh Rescue Mission Inc ($90k).
Does Harris Family Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 5% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Harris Family Foundation Inc 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 Inc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include North Carolina Community Foundation, Triangle Community Foundation Inc, Duke Energy Foundation.
Where is Harris Family Foundation Inc based?
Harris Family Foundation Inc is based in NC.

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 37 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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