California · Private foundation
John and Wauna Harman 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.
- $1.7M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 16
- Grants FY2024
- 14
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 21%
- First-time grantees FY2023
Read this first · the figures below need context
67% of John and Wauna Harman Foundation’s FY2025 grant dollars went to Yakima Valley Community Foundation, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2025 names 8 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2024, the last year John and Wauna Harman Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 9 organizations, $2M. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
- Median grant, FY2024
- $25,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $1,000,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 9 to 16
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 7
- Total assets, FY2024
- $3.3M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 21% of the organizations John and Wauna Harman Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 39% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 61% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $310k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 14 | $1.7M | 36% |
| FY2023 | 14 | $788k | 21% |
| FY2022 | 16 | $816k | 19% |
| FY2021 | 14 | $596k | 21% |
| FY2020 | 14 | $461k | 29% |
| FY2019 | 14 | $338k | 21% |
| FY2018 | 11 | $285k | 45% |
| FY2017 | 9 | $367k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Center for Practical Bioethics Inc | $671,839 | 7 | 23% |
| Wellness House | $575,845 | 9 | 28% |
| Hospice Foundation of America Inc | $241,563 | 5 | 3% |
| Southeast Washington Office of Aging and Long Term Care Advisory | $188,771 | 8 | n/a |
| Yakama Power | $150,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Reel Medicine Media | $150,000 | 1 | 22% |
| Public Health Institute | $145,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Peacekeeper Society | $125,000 | 3 | 9% |
| Coalition To Transform Advanced Car | $125,000 | 4 | 6% |
| Montgomery Hospice Inc | $111,500 | 2 | 0% |
Show all 26 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 11 recipients with no EIN on record ($3.3M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
John and Wauna Harman Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 23 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
Tap a dot to name the grantee.
How this is measured
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.
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How this is measured
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About John and Wauna Harman Foundation
- How much does John and Wauna Harman Foundation give?
- John and Wauna Harman Foundation reported 16 grants totaling $1,657,100 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 9 and 16 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does John and Wauna Harman Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (41%), Philanthropy (29%), Community Improvement (22%).
- Who are John and Wauna Harman Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Center for Practical Bioethics Inc ($672k), Wellness House ($576k), Hospice Foundation of America Inc ($242k).
- Does John and Wauna Harman Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 21% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does John and Wauna Harman 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 John and Wauna Harman Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The y C Hohelen and Michael Chiang Foundation, Stupski Foundation, Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc.
- Where is John and Wauna Harman Foundation based?
- John and Wauna Harman Foundation is based in CA.
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