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J Ira and Nicki Harris Family Foundation Inc at a glance

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J Ira and Nicki Harris Family Foundation Inc

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.

$2.5M
Granted FY2024still arriving
40
Grants FY2024still arriving
9
States reached
$1.1M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.

Health$6.2MPhilanthropy$399kEducation$183kInternational$176kArts & Culture$158kReligion$79kFood & Nutrition$40kAnimals$25kOther$0
02FY2024 · 40 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k22 grants · $54k
  • $10k–50k11 grants · $243k
  • $50k–250k5 grants · $403k
  • $250k+2 grants · $1.8M
$5,000
Median grant
9
States reached
$21M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN$1,075,000
NYU LANGONE HEALTH SYSTEM$750,000
JMH FAMILY FOUNDATION$150,000
JACQUELINE HARRIS FAMILY FOUNDATION$100,000
JEWISH FEDERATION OF PALM BEACH COUNTY$52,800
UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN$50,000
HARLEM VILLAGE ACADEMIES$50,000
FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES$41,500
DES MOINES ART CENTER$35,000
CENTRAL SYNAGOGUE$31,000
BIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION$25,000
HORACE MANN SCHOOL$25,000
PROMISE FUND OF FLORIDA INC$25,000
CITYMEALS ON WHEELS$20,000
PALM BEACH CIVIC ASSOCIATION$10,100
02The need
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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 (FY23–24, $17k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 97% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%CHALLENGED ATHLETES FOUNDATION: $3k → 11%RISE FOR AUTISM INC: $500 → 6%BOCA WEST COMMUNITY CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC: $1k → 11%MORSELIFE FOUNDATION INC: $8k → 11%MORSELIFE FOUNDATION INC: $5k → 11%CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION OF PALM BEACH COUNTY: $500 → 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.

Which US states its grants reach

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IL
MI
NY
MA
PA
NJ
CT
RI
CA
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MD
NC
FL
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.
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Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 11% of J Ira and Nicki Harris Family Foundation Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

J Ira and Nicki Harris Family Foundation Inclessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 25% directed abroad (not shown)
How this is measured
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

89%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$6.4M · 19 repeat orgs$755k to everyone else

19 repeat relationships: 19 still active in FY2024, 0 since wound down; 18 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

19
28

Total granted

$6.4M
$367k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+16%
+25%

Still filing today

95%
86%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $388k went to new ones.

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

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24
HealthArts & CultureEducationInternationalPhilanthropyHuman ServicesOther
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

  • UO
    University of Michigan
    5× · 2020–2024 · $4.9M · revenue +139%
  • NL
    NYU LANGONE HEALTH SYSTEM
    2× · 2023–2024 · $1.0M · revenue +33%
  • FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES
    3× · 2019–2024 · $134k · revenue +115%

Funded once

  • UJ
    UNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INCgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $50k · revenue +34%
  • NORTON MUSEUM OF ART INC
    one grant, 2023 · $50k · revenue -40%
  • RH
    ROBIN HOOD FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $50k · revenue +34%
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.

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Institute for Advanced Study - Louis Bamberger & Mrs Felix Fuld Foundation

The institute for advanced study (the institute) is one of the world's leading centers for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. see schedule o.

Science & Tech
2
The Trustees of Princeton University

Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…

Education
3
North Shore University Hospital

North shore university hospital is part of northwell health ("northwell"), which strives to improve the health of the communities it serves and is committed to providing the highest quality clinical care; educating the current and future…

Health
4
Long Island Jewish Medical Center

Long island jewish medical center is part of the northwell health ("northwell"), which strives to improve the health of the communities it serves and is committed to providing the highest quality clinical care; educating the current and…

Health
5
New York University

Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.

Education
6
South Shore University Hospital

South shore university hospital is part of northwell health ("northwell"), which strives to improve the health of the communities it serves and is committed to providing the highest quality clinical care; educating the current and future…

Health
7
Northwell Health Foundation

Northwell health foundation inc. is dedicated toward helping donors, patients, and leaders link their vision and philanthropic support toward helping the underserved and uninsured, advancing the latest frontiers in medical technology and…

Health
8
Lenox Hill Hospital

Lenox hill hospital is part of northwell health ("northwell"), which strives to improve the health of the communities it serves and is committed to providing the highest quality clinical care; educating the current and future generations…

Health
9
Phelps Memorial Hospital Association

Phelps memorial hospital association ("pmha") is part of northwell health, inc ("northwell"), which strives to improve the health of the communities it serves and is committed to providing the highest quality clinical care; educating the…

Health
10
Nyu Langone Hospitals

The board adopted mission statement is: nyu langone hospitals (the "hospital") will operate with new york university's medical schools a health system ("nyu langone health") devoted to excellence in patient care, education and research. in…

Health
11
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
12
Albert Einstein College of Medicine

Committed to exceptional healthcare quality for all and actively engaged with our community, einstein drives scientific discovery and educates compassionate leaders in health and science.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jewish Federation of Palm Beach County Inc; the most unlike its peers is The Society for the Preservation of the Great American Songbook Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network

54 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. 54 of the 67 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
54/54
Grantees still filing
40/54
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

University of Michigan: $4,925,733 · OtherUniversity of Michigan+26 more: $411,100 · Other+26 moreNYU LANGONE HEALTH SYSTEM: $1,006,300 · HealthNYU LANGONE HEALT…PROMISE FUND OF FLORIDA INC: $51,000 · Health+8 more: $50,000 · HealthJEWISH FEDERATION OF PALM BEACH COUNTY INC: $154,300 · PhilanthropyJACQUELINE HARRIS FAMILY FOUNDATION INC: $100,000 · PhilanthropyUNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC: $50,000 · PhilanthropyROBIN HOOD FOUNDATION: $50,000 · PhilanthropyTown of Palm Beach United Way Inc: $40,650 · PhilanthropyFRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES: $133,550 · InternationalBIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION: $25,000 · InternationalISRAEL TENNIS CENTERS FOUNDATION INC: $13,450 · International+2 more: $3,500 · InternationalYESHIVA UNIVERSITY: $40,000 · EducationHorace Mann School: $40,000 · EducationTHE UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA FOUNDATION INC: $20,000 · EducationAMHERST COLLEGE TRUSTEES: $10,000 · EducationBig Shoulders Fund: $10,000 · EducationSUFFIELD ACADEMY: $10,000 · EducationMASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL NURSES ALUMNI ASSOCIATIONS INC: $5,000 · Education+1 more: $500 · EducationNORTON MUSEUM OF ART INC: $50,000 · Arts & CultureRAYMOND F KRAVIS CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS INC: $20,000 · Arts & CultureThe Society of the Four Arts Inc: $20,000 · Arts & CultureThe Preservation Foundation of Palm Beach Inc: $20,000 · Arts & CultureSOLOMON R GUGGENHEIM FOUNDATION: $5,000 · Arts & Culture+5 more: $7,000 · Arts & CultureCITYMEALS-ON-WHEELS: $30,000 · Food & NutritionMEALS ON WHEELS AMERICA: $10,000 · Food & Nutrition
Other$5,336,833Health$1,107,300Philanthropy$394,950International$175,500Education$135,500Arts & Culture$122,000Food & Nutrition$40,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetNYU LANGONE HEALTH SYSTEM: $1,006,300 over 2y, 3.7% of budgetJEWISH FEDERATION OF PALM BEACH COUNTY INC: $154,300 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES: $133,550 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetJACQUELINE HARRIS FAMILY FOUNDATION INC: $100,000 over 1y, 19% of budgetPROMISE FUND OF FLORIDA INC: $51,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetUNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNORTON MUSEUM OF ART INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetROBIN HOOD FOUNDATION: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTown of Palm Beach United Way Inc: $40,650 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetYESHIVA UNIVERSITY: $40,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHorace Mann School: $40,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCITYMEALS-ON-WHEELS: $30,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCHILD MIND INSTITUTE INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ANIMAL MEDICAL CENTER: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPalm Beach Civic Association Inc: $20,100 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetRAYMOND F KRAVIS CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS INC: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Society of the Four Arts Inc: $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetThe Preservation Foundation of Palm Beach Inc: $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA FOUNDATION INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetISRAEL TENNIS CENTERS FOUNDATION INC: $13,450 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMORSELIFE FOUNDATION INC: $12,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetThe Hospital for Special Surgery Fund Inc: $12,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMEALS ON WHEELS AMERICA: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMHERST COLLEGE TRUSTEES: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBig Shoulders Fund: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSUFFIELD ACADEMY: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF THE PHILADELPHIA REGION: $6,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAnn & Robert H Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSOLOMON R GUGGENHEIM FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL NURSES ALUMNI ASSOCIATIONS INC: $5,000 over 1y, 3.9% of budgetPALM BEACH COUNTRY CLUB FOUNDATION INC: $4,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetDana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF HEBREW UNIVERSITY INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBRONX LACROSSE INC CO OTA: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE ROYAL PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA: $2,500 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetALZHEIMER'S DRUG DISCOVERY FOUNDATION: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE AMERICAN IRELAND FUND (DBA THE IRELAND FUNDS AMERICA/THE IRELAND FUNDS): $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHALLENGED ATHLETES INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDETROIT SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BREAST CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD OF SOUTH FLORIDA AND THE TREASURE COAST INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBOCA WEST CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION FKA BOCA WEST COMMUNITY CHARITABLE FOUNDATION: $1,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetThe Palm Beach Police and Fire Foundation Inc: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF BEIT RUTH INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF PALM BEACH COUNTY INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSON'S RESEARCH: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBREAKTHROUGH T1D: $1,000 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.

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.

National Philanthropi…American Endowment Fo…Morgan Stanley Global…Vanguard Charitable E…Fidelity Investments …Donor Advised Charita…Amazonsmile Foundation
National Philanthropic TrustPA8.8× affinity6 shared granteesties to 6 of 6Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: National Philanthropic Trust · American Endowment Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization J Ira and Nicki Harris Family Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from J Ira and Nicki Harris Family Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 140%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 6%
  • Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: 7% of income from government
  • Planned Parenthood of South Florida and the Treasure Coast Inc: 6% of income from government
  • Amherst College Trustees: 0% of income from government
  • Palm Beach Atlantic University Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
14get no government money at all
10report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
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.
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Find your warmest path to J Ira and Nicki Harris Family Foundation Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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 67 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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