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Harvesting Heritage Foundation at a glance

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Harvesting Heritage Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$14k
Granted FY2023
8
Grants FY2023
4
States reached
$5k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0196% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2023.

Arts & Culture$56kHealth$22kRecreation & Sports$21kHuman Services$3kCommunity Improvement$2kScience & Tech$500Other$0
02FY2023 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$1,450
Median grant
4
States reached
$576k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
La Jolla Music Society$5,360
LCS Foundation$3,000
Challenged Athletes Foundation$2,350
Las Patronas$1,450
Cureboundorg$788
Vail Health Foundation$500
Pan-Mass Challenge$500
Individual grant recipient$288
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

show:

Its human-services grants (FY18–23, $40k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%LCS Foundation: $15k → 10%LCS Foundation: $3k → 10%LCS Foundation: $1k → 10%Challenged Athletes Foundation: $8k → 11%Challenged Athletes Foundation: $7k → 11%Challenged Athletes Foundation: $3k → 11%Challenged Athletes Foundation: $2k → 11%Challenged Athletes Foundation: $2k → 11%Challenged Athletes Foundation: $120 → 11%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
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.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$100k · 5 repeat orgs$4k to everyone else

5 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2023, 1 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

5
3

Total granted

$100k
$2k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+5%
+60%

Still filing today

100%
67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23
HealthHuman ServicesArts & CultureEducationOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • CA
    CHALLENGED ATHLETES INC
    6× · 2018–2023 · $21k · revenue +35%
  • LP
    LAS PATRONAS
    2× · 2021–2023 · $3k · revenue +5%
  • C
    CUREBOUND
    2× · 2019–2020 · $725 · revenue +141%

Funded once

  • HA
    Hospitality Action
    one grant, 2021 · $2k
  • NG
    NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC SOCIETYgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $500 · revenue +60%
  • BC
    BLOOD CANCER UNITED INC
    one grant, 2019 · $100 · revenue -9%
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Targeting Resistance in Cancer Cooperative
Health
2
Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute

Sanford burnham prebys medical discovery institute's mission is to advance the biomedical sciences by cultivating the next generation of scientific leaders, providing meaningful opportunities for researchers of all backgrounds to learn,…

Health
3
The Jonsson Cancer Center Foundation

The jonsson cancer center foundation is the single most important vehicle for raising private funds for cancer research at ucla and plays a key role in advancing cancer treatments and care. please see schedule o for additional information.

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4
Addario Lung Cancer Medical Institute

The Addario Lung Cancer Medical Institute ALCMI is dedicated to catalyzing and accelerating the discovery, development and delivery of new and more effective treatment options for lung cancer patients.

Health
5
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc

The mission of dfci is to provide expert, compassionate, and equitable care to children, adults, and their families, while advancing the understanding, diagnosis, treatment, cure, and prevention of cancer and related diseases. we train new…

Health
6
Lung Cancer Research Foundation

The mission of the lung cancer research foundation is to improve lung cancer outcomes by funding research for the prevention, diagnosis, treatment and cure of lung cancer.

Health
7
The Breast Cancer Research Foundation Inc

The mission of the breast cancer research foundation, inc. is to prevent and cure breast cancer by advancing the world's most promising research.

Public Safety & Disaster
8
The V Foundation

We fund game-changing research and all-star scientists to accelerate victory over cancer and save lives.

Health
9
Sanford Consortium for Regenerative Medicine

The sanford consortium is a collaboration among five preeminent life science research institutions formed to enable renowned scientists with expertise in stem cell and regenerative medicine research to collaborate to seek transformative…

Health
10
Pano Koumantaros Cancer Research Fund Inc
Philanthropy
11
La Jolla Institute for Immunology

At la jolla institute for immunology, our scientists focus on understanding how the immune system works in order to promote human health and prevent disease. our discoveries apply to many diseases, ranging from diabetes to heart disease,…

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12
American Society of Clinical Oncology Inc

See schedule o:asco is a professional oncology society committed to conquering cancer through research, education, and promotion of the highest quality patient care.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Vail Health Services Foundation; the most unlike its peers is National Geographic Society. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

9 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 9 of the 12 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/9
Grantees still filing
5/9
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

LA JOLLA MUSIC SOCIETY: $56,210 · Arts & CultureLA JOLLA MUSIC SOCIETYCHALLENGED ATHLETES INC: $21,462 · Human ServicesCHALLENGED ATHLETES INCLCS FOUNDATION: $19,000 · Human ServicesLCS FOUNDATIONLAS PATRONAS: $2,800 · OtherHospitality Action: $1,529 · OtherCureboundorg: $788 · OtherPAN-MASSACHUSETTS CHALLENGE INC: $500 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $288 · OtherCUREBOUND: $725 · HealthVAIL HEALTH SERVICES FOUNDATION: $500 · HealthBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $100 · HealthNATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC SOCIETY: $500 · Education
Arts & Culture$56,210Human Services$40,462Other$5,905Health$1,325Education$500

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetLA JOLLA MUSIC SOCIETY: $56,210 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetCHALLENGED ATHLETES INC: $21,462 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetLCS FOUNDATION: $19,000 over 3y, 2.4% of budgetLAS PATRONAS: $2,800 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetCUREBOUND: $725 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC SOCIETY: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPAN-MASSACHUSETTS CHALLENGE INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVAIL HEALTH SERVICES FOUNDATION: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Harvesting Heritage Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Harvesting Heritage Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Pan-Massachusetts Challenge Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

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 12 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 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2024) is on record but names no grant recipient in the published copy, so the figures above are from FY2023, the most recent year this funder’s grantee list reached the public record.

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The endowment market
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The camps
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By state
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