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Hormel Harris 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 you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| LIFT URBAN PORTLAND | $60,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY19–21, $3k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
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 — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +70% since the first grant, against +8% for the ones you funded once.
11 repeat relationships — 0 still active in FY2025, 11 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
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, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $60k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- LMLINCOLN MUSIC TEACHERS ASSOCIATION8× · 2017–2024 · $90k · revenue +44% · 27% of their budget
- CNCIVIC NEBRASKA6× · 2017–2022 · $86k · revenue +265%
- FHFRIENDSHIP HOME OF LINCOLN INC6× · 2017–2022 · $70k · revenue +103%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2018 · $137k
- NCNEBRASKA CHILDREN & FAMILIES FOUNDATIONone grant, 2021 · $123k · revenue -39%
- TTRUSTLABone grant, 2022 · $60k · revenue -36% · 61% of their budget
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
Portland Public Library is a welcoming cultural center that brings people together and connects them with trusted resources, ideas, experiences, and information. We build a stronger community by inspiring learning, creativity, and…
Oregon Justice Network is an alliance built and staffed by criminal legal system impacted people advocating for the well-being of people affected or at-risk of being affected by carceral systems. Our work centers around restorative…
The oregon center for public policy's mission is to achieve economic justice for all oregonians through research, analysis, and advocacy. ocpp works to change policies that foster economic security and stability for all oregonians. we do…
Next up amplifies the voice and leadership of diverse young people to achieve a more just and equitable oregon.
Pfm operates world-class farmers markets that contribute to the success of local food growers and producers and create vibrant community gatherings. as a trade association, success for our vendors is our primary objective. listening and…
Orla serves as the leading industry advocate, striving to protect, improve and promote oregon hospitality.
Promote economic and social fairness by working in coalition open a broad range of issues and activities in the public arena
We believe that the freedoms of press, speech, assembly, and religion, and the rights to due process, equal protection and privacy, are fundamental to a free people. We advance civil liberties and civil rights by activities that include…
Next up amplifies the voice of diverse youth to achieve a more just oregon
The mission of the urban league of nebraska is to be an empowering voice in the community advocating for economic self-reliance, parity, power, civil rights and equal opportunity for all (see schedule o). the vision of the urban league of…
The mission of the nonprofit association of oregon is to strengthen the collective voice, leadership, and capacity of nonprofits to enrich the lives of all oregonians.
To ensure economic prosperity in the portland region by providing strong leadership, partnership, and programs that encourage business growth and vitality.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Civic Nebraska and the most unlike its peers is All Ages Music Portland dba Friends of Noise. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 25 years old; the field is 21. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 7% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
37 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 37 of the 51 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
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.
- Who funds NEBRASKA CHILDREN & FAMILIES FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LINCOLN MUSIC TEACHERS ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds CIVIC NEBRASKA ↗
- Who funds FRIENDSHIP HOME OF LINCOLN INC ↗
- Who funds MATT TALBOT KITCHEN & OUTREACH ↗
- Who funds CENTERPOINTE INC ↗
- Who funds TRUSTLAB ↗
- Who funds Lift Urban Portland ↗
- Who funds RABBLE MILL ↗
- Who funds LAW ENFORCEMENT ACTION PARTNERSHIP INC ↗
- Who funds WILLARD COMMUNITY CENTER ↗
- Who funds CATLIN GABEL SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds OREGON PROGRESSIVE ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds CHARITABLE PARTNERSHIP FUND ↗
- Who funds Womens Foundation of Oregon ↗
- Who funds BUILT OREGON ↗
- Who funds DUKE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds All Ages Music Portland dba Friends of Noise ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds OPENSKY POLICY INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds MOURNING HOPE ↗
- Who funds City Club of Portland ↗
- Who funds FOOD BANK OF LINCOLN INC ↗
- Who funds PEOPLE'S CITY MISSION ↗
- Who funds SMILE TOGETHER CORP ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT RESOURCES ↗
- Who funds WHITECLAY MAKERSPACE ↗
- Who funds MICRO ENTERPRISE SERVICES OF OREGON ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Cooper Foundation · Lincoln Community Foundation Inc · The Oregon Community Foundation · D F Dillon Foundation · Meyer Memorial Trust · Rogers Foundation · Lee and Debbie Stuart Family Foundation · Abel Foundation · The Sherwood Foundation · James Stuart III Family Foundation · Viking Foundation of Lincoln · The Hampton Family Foundation
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 organization Hormel 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Micro Enterprise Services of Oregon — 5% of income from government
- All Ages Music Portland dba Friends of Noise — 1% of income from government
- Womens Foundation of Oregon — 0% of income from government
- Catlin Gabel School — 0% of income from government
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 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.
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