· Private foundation
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k22 grants · $54k
- $10k–50k11 grants · $243k
- $50k–250k5 grants · $403k
- $250k+2 grants · $1.8M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| 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 |
| HARLEM VILLAGE ACADEMIES | $50,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN | $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 |
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 (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 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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 11% of J Ira and Nicki Harris Family Foundation Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.
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 foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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.
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
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $388k 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
- UOUniversity of Michigan5× · 2020–2024 · $4.9M · revenue +139%
- NLNYU LANGONE HEALTH SYSTEM2× · 2023–2024 · $1.0M · revenue +33%
FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES3× · 2019–2024 · $134k · revenue +115%
Funded once
- UJUNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INCgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $50k · revenue +34%
NORTON MUSEUM OF ART INCone grant, 2023 · $50k · revenue -43%- RHROBIN HOOD FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $50k · revenue +34%
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.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jewish Federation of Palm Beach County Inc and 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.
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 39 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 7% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 12% 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.
54 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. 54 of the 67 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 University of Michigan ↗
- Who funds NYU LANGONE HEALTH SYSTEM ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FEDERATION OF PALM BEACH COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES ↗
- Who funds JACQUELINE HARRIS FAMILY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds PROMISE FUND OF FLORIDA INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC ↗
- Who funds NORTON MUSEUM OF ART INC ↗
- Who funds ROBIN HOOD FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Town of Palm Beach United Way Inc ↗
- Who funds YESHIVA UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Horace Mann School ↗
- Who funds CITYMEALS-ON-WHEELS ↗
- Who funds BIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CHILD MIND INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds THE ANIMAL MEDICAL CENTER ↗
- Who funds Palm Beach Civic Association Inc ↗
- Who funds The Society of the Four Arts Inc ↗
- Who funds The Preservation Foundation of Palm Beach Inc ↗
- Who funds THE UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds RAYMOND F KRAVIS CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds ISRAEL TENNIS CENTERS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MORSELIFE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds The Hospital for Special Surgery Fund Inc ↗
- Who funds AMHERST COLLEGE TRUSTEES ↗
- Who funds MEALS ON WHEELS AMERICA ↗
- Who funds SUFFIELD ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds Big Shoulders Fund ↗
- Who funds RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF THE PHILADELPHIA REGION ↗
- Who funds MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL NURSES ALUMNI ASSOCIATIONS INC ↗
- Who funds Ann & Robert H Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago ↗
- Who funds SOLOMON R GUGGENHEIM FOUNDATION ↗
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: 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
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 J Ira and Nicki Harris Family Foundation Inc 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.
- 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
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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