· 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.
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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k5 grants · $13k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $117k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $278k
- $250k+2 grants · $1.3M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| REIMAGINE INC | $1,000,000 |
| CENTER FOR PRACTICAL BIOETHICS | $250,000 |
| PAUSE | $100,000 |
| COALITION TO TRANSFORM ADVANCED CARE (C-TAC) | $77,500 |
| WELLNESS HOUSE | $50,000 |
| PROJECT GUARDIANSHIP | $50,000 |
| END WELL FOUNDATION | $40,000 |
| DUKE DIVINITY SCHOOL | $25,000 |
| HOSPICE FOUNDATION OF AMERICA | $25,000 |
| SOUTHEAST WASHINGTON OFFICE OF AGING AND LONG TERM CARE | $16,660 |
| CENTER FOR PRACTICAL BIOETHICS | $10,000 |
| COALITION TO TRANSFORM ADVANCED CARE (C-TAC) | $5,000 |
| HARMAN CENTER | $2,500 |
| SOUTH CAROLINA NURSES FOUNDATION | $2,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,940 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY18–25, $332k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 30% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 32% of John and Wauna Harman Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +12% since the first grant, against +6% for those funded once.
24 repeat relationships: 10 still active in FY2024, 14 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call). Read against FY2024, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.
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, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $57k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- HFHOSPICE FOUNDATION OF AMERICA INC5× · 2017–2024 · $242k · revenue +51%
Public Health Institute3× · 2019–2022 · $145k · revenue +114%- PSPEACEKEEPER SOCIETY3× · 2020–2022 · $125k · revenue +2%
Funded once
- YPYAKAMA POWERone grant, 2023 · $150k
- RMREEL MEDICINE MEDIAone grant, 2023 · $150k · revenue +6%
- PSPENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY MILTON S Hone grant, 2017 · $90k
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.
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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The mission of the national coalition on health care (nchc) is to support research and analysis, develop and promote policy solutions, build consensus, and engage the public in order to ensure that america has a high quality health system…
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Supporting kaiser permanente organizations which provide high-quality, affordable health care services to improve the health of our members and the communities we serve.
How this is measured
27 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 27 of the 40 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
- Who funds YAKIMA VALLEY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR PRACTICAL BIOETHICS INC ↗
- Who funds Wellness House ↗
- Who funds HOSPICE FOUNDATION OF AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds REEL MEDICINE MEDIA ↗
- Who funds Public Health Institute ↗
- Who funds PEACEKEEPER SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds PLAYERS PHILANTHROPY FUND INC ↗
- Who funds Coalition To Transform Advanced Car ↗
- Who funds MONTGOMERY HOSPICE INC ↗
- Who funds COASTAL HOSPICE ↗
- Who funds COMMONWEAL ↗
- Who funds END WELL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FJC ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR DISASTER PHILANTHROPY INC ↗
- Who funds THE MEMORIAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PROJECT GUARDIANSHIP INC ↗
- Who funds THE GLEANINGS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds DUKE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds HEART TONES INC ↗
- Who funds GRANTMAKERS IN AGING INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL CENTER FOR FAMILY PHILANTHROPY INC ↗
- Who funds MOCKINGBIRD INCUBATOR ↗
- Who funds Northern California Grantmakers ↗
- Who funds SOUTH CAROLINA NURSES FOUNDATI ↗
- Who funds COALITION FOR COMPASSIONATE CARE OF CALIFORNIA ↗
- Who funds PEAK GRANTMAKING INC ↗
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.
Open a dossier: The y C Hohelen and Michael Chiang Foundation · Stupski Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization John and Wauna Harman Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from John and Wauna Harman Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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