How much did Harris Foundation grant in FY2024?

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 81% of Harris Foundation’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2018

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2019

warm springs

2020

christopher'scatherine'sscholarshipcapital committment

2021

commitment scholarship

2022

commitment scholarship

2023

commitment scholarshipcapital committmentwarm springs

2024

givingcommitment scholarshipcapital committmentwarm springs

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2024 · 39 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k27 grants · $52k
$10k–50k11 grants · $238k
$50k–250k1 grant · $50k

$2,000

Median grant

States reached

$3.9M

Total assets

Largest grants

The Nature Conservancy$50,000
Virginia Foundation for$47,000
Warm Springs Presbyterian Church$31,000
University of Richmond$25,000
VMFA Foundation$25,000
VMFA FOUNDATION$25,000
UVA JEFFERSON SCHOLAR FOUNDATION$25,000
Big Oak Ranch$15,000
Smithsonian Institution$15,000
First Presbyterian Church$10,000
Healthnetwork Foundation$10,000
Bath County Christmas Mother$10,000
Hampden-Sydney College$5,000
Chesapeake Academy Foundation$5,000
Junior Achievement of Richmond$5,000

02The need

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $148k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14% — the area typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge

repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$2.5M · 42 repeat orgs$116k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +60% since the first grant, against +54% for the ones you funded once.

42 repeat relationships — 30 still active in FY2024, 12 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$2.5M

$48k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+60%

+54%

Still filing today

29%

38%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $68k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Human ServicesArts & CultureEducationHealthMembership BenefitPhilanthropyOther

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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

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University of Richmond
8× · 2017–2024 · $210k · revenue +5%
BO
Big Oak Ranch
8× · 2017–2024 · $67k · revenue +105%
HC
Hampden-Sydney College
8× · 2017–2024 · $53k · revenue +79%

Funded once

BC
Bath County Hospital Foundation
one grant, 2017 · $5k
A1
Art 180
one grant, 2017 · $5k · revenue -30%
NC
Norfolk Collegiate School
one grant, 2021 · $5k · revenue +8%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

Washington College

Washington college challenges and inspires emerging citizen leaders to discover lives of purpose and passion.

Education

Hampton University

Hampton university is a comprehensive institution of higher education, dedicated to the promotion of learning, building of character, and the preparation of promising students for positions of leadership and service. its curricular…

Education

The Brookings Institution

To conduct in-depth, independent research that leads to new ideas for solving problems facing society.

Social Science

Baltimore Museum of Art

The baltimore museum of art connects art to baltimore and baltimore to the world, (see sch. o) embodying a commitment to artistic excellence and social equity in every decision from art presentation, interpretation, and collecting, to the…

Arts & Culture

The Collegiate School

See schedule o to create a diverse and inclusive community of learners committed to a challenging and supportive educational experience that will foster the intellectual, moral, emotional, and physical development of each student.

Education

Washington University

The washington university is a co-educational, nondenominational university with a long and distinguished history of teaching, research and (cont'd on schedule o)

Education

Sweet Briar Institute

Sweet briar college challenges and inspires women, forging ethical leaders with the skill, compassion, and vision to create a more just and sustainable world. sweet briar's academic program, at the undergraduate and graduate levels, seeks…

Education

Westminster College

Four-year, undergraduate liberal arts college.

Education

Davidson College

Undergraduate liberal arts education

Education

Goucher College

Goucher College provides an innovative liberal arts education that prepares students with a broad, humane perspective for a life of inquiry, creativity, and critical and analytical thinking.

Education

Paul Smiths College

Higher education: "the real value of a psc education is in the emphasis on not just learning something, but in actually doing it." the paul smith's college community provides a dynamic educational environment which encourages students to…

Education

Hobart and William Smith Colleges

To provide a student-centered environment grounded in the values of equity and service.

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Delivering Good Inc and the most unlike its peers is Young Life. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 27 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 4% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

0.0%0/26

the rest of the field

11%

5,477/50,442

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

05the grantee network

24 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

24/24

Grantees still filing

18/24

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$2,165,096Education$269,000Human Services$147,000Arts & Culture$40,500Health$33,500Membership Benefit$1,000Youth Development$1,000Philanthropy$1,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

The Community Foundation IncVA23.5× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organisation Harris Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

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0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–25%

typical government reliance, FY20–24

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. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.

05Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: Bath County Christmas Mother.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

insufficient risk

Limited financial data in public filings.

Track record & reputation

low risk

8 years of Form 990 filings, still active; revenue up +60% since.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 541791993 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on Bath County Christmas Mother, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

Awaiting reportFinancial stability— Runway not derivable from filings.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2025; revenue grew over the period.
On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 10% of their budget — diversified.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to Harris Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Harris Foundation through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

Harris Foundation

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

24 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Harris Foundation?

More from the funding graph

Harris Foundation

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

24 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Harris Foundation?

More from the funding graph