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Harris Franklin Pearson Private 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.

$5k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
10
Grants FY2025
10
Organizations funded FY2024
10%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$250
Largest grant, FY2025
$2,500
Organizations funded a year
10 to 11
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
2
Total assets, FY2025
$428k
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 10% of the organizations Harris Franklin Pearson Private Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 5% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $250 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
Human ServicesInternationalOther
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 arriving10$5k10%
FY202410$5k10%
FY202310$5k10%
FY202210$5k0%
FY202110$5k0%
FY202010$5k0%
FY201910$5k20%
FY201811$7k9%
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What it funded, over time

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

Arts & Culture$32kEducation$9kHuman Services$5kHealth$2kInternational$250

Top grantees

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

Plus 11 recipients with no EIN on record ($40k), not named here.

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.

Thomas M Helen McKee & John P Ryan Fo John P Ryan Foundation IncTX15.7× affinity5 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Thomas M Helen McKee & John P Ryan Fo John P Ryan Foundation Inc · Bnsf Railway Foundation · Tj Brown & Ca Lupton Foundation · Robert S and Joyce Pate Capper Charitable Foundation · Mary Potishman Lard Trust Walker C Friedman Co Trustee · The Roach Foundation Inc · Garvey Texas Foundation Inc · Amon G Carter Foundation · Textron Charitable Trust Dtd 122353 · National Philanthropic Trust · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · 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.

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About Harris Franklin Pearson Private Foundation

How much does Harris Franklin Pearson Private Foundation give?
Harris Franklin Pearson Private Foundation reported 10 grants totaling $5,375 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 10 and 11 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does Harris Franklin Pearson Private Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (67%), Education (19%), Human Services (10%).
Who are Harris Franklin Pearson Private Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Amon Carter Museum of Western Art ($2k), Van Cliburn Foundation Inc ($2k), Fort Worth Museum of Science and History ($2k).
Does Harris Franklin Pearson Private Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 10% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Harris Franklin Pearson Private 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 Franklin Pearson Private Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Thomas M Helen McKee & John P Ryan Fo John P Ryan Foundation Inc, Bnsf Railway Foundation, Tj Brown & Ca Lupton Foundation.
Where is Harris Franklin Pearson Private Foundation based?
Harris Franklin Pearson Private Foundation is based in TX.

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 17 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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