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John H Harmon Jr and Jane H Harmon Foundation

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.

$36k
Granted FY2024still arriving
28
Grants FY2024still arriving
10
States reached
$5k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
0181% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2024.

Health$25kArts & Culture$15kEducation$12kHuman Services$12kEnvironment$11kFood & Nutrition$8kYouth Development$7kHousing & Shelter$6kReligion$4kOther$31k
02FY2024 · 28 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$1,000
Median grant
10
States reached
$562k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
GUNNISON HINSDALE YOUTH SERVICES INC$5,000
CANCER WELLNESS CENTER$3,000
THERE WITH CARE$2,000
COLORADO OUTDOOR EDUCATION CENTER$2,000
BENAROYA RESEARCH INSTITUTE AT VIRGINIA MASON$2,000
FRACTURED ATLAS INC$2,000
BREAKTHROUGH T1D$2,000
CATCH INC - COMMUNITY ACTION TOGETHER FOR CHILDREN$2,000
CRESTED BUTTE COMMUNITY SCHOOL$1,000
NORTHERN ILLINOIS FOOD BANK$1,000
TRUSTEES OF THE SMITH COLLEGE$1,000
LIVING JOURNEYS$1,000
GUNNISON COUNTRY FOOD PANTRY$1,000
MOTHERS TR FOUNDATION$1,000
CRESTED BUTTE MOUNTAIN EDUCATIONAL RADIO INC$1,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY18–24, $12k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 83% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%OUTREACH HOUSE: $1k → 7%MOTHERS TR FOUNDATION: $1k → 8%FAMILY SERVICE CENTER OF WILMETTE GLENVIEW NORTHBR: $500 → 14%GUNNISON COUNTRY FOOD PANTRY: $1k → 10%GUNNISON COUNTRY FOOD PANTRY: $700 → 10%EMERGENCY FAMILY ASSISTANCE ASSOCIATION INC: $1k → 12%EMERGENCY FAMILY ASSISTANCE ASSOCIATION INC: $750 → 12%EMERGENCY FAMILY ASSISTANCE ASSOCIATION INC: $500 → 12%EMERGENCY FAMILY ASSISTANCE ASSOCIATION INC: $500 → 12%EMERGENCY FAMILY ASSISTANCE ASSOCIATION INC: $500 → 12%THERE WITH CARE: $2k → 12%THERE WITH CARE: $1k → 12%THERE WITH CARE: $500 → 12%THERE WITH CARE: $500 → 12%THERE WITH CARE: $500 → 12%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

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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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

73%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$94k · 25 repeat orgs$34k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +48% since the first grant, against +25% for the ones you funded once.

25 repeat relationships — 13 still active in FY2024, 12 since wound down; 15 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

25
18

Total granted

$94k
$18k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+48%
+25%

Still filing today

80%
83%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 54% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $17k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
HealthHuman ServicesArts & CultureFood & NutritionEnvironmentHousing & ShelterOther

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

  • NS
    NORTH SUBURBAN YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION
    8× · 2017–2024 · $9k · revenue +29%
  • CW
    CANCER WELLNESS CENTER
    6× · 2019–2024 · $8k · revenue +53%
  • TT
    THE TRUSTEES OF THE SMITH COLLEGE
    8× · 2017–2024 · $8k · revenue +52%

Funded once

  • SL
    St Leonard's Ministriesgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $3k · revenue +34%
  • TF
    The Food Bank for Larimer County
    one grant, 2023 · $2k · revenue +19%
  • TJ
    THE JOFFREY BALLETgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $2k · revenue +50%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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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The Food Bank for Central & Northeast Missouri

The food bank for central & northeast missouri is a regional disaster and hunger relief network that acquires and distributes millions of meals each year to help neighbors get the food they need to thrive. (continued on schedule o)the…

Food & Nutrition
2
Food Bank of the Rockies

Food bank of the rockies ignites the power of community to nourish people facing food insecurity.

Food & Nutrition
3
Midwest Dairy Association

Midwest dairy works with others to give consumers an excellent dairy experience increasing sales, fostering innovation, and inspiring consumer confidence of dairy products and practices.

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4
Great Plains Food Bank

End hunger together.

Food & Nutrition
5
Nourishing Hope

Nourishing hope provides food, mental health support, and social services to help all our neighbors thrive.

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6
Goodwill Industries of North Central Wisconsin Inc

Eliminating barriers to employment by providing pathways for those who are underserved, underrepresented and disadvantaged who have a goal of building skills that lead to sustained employment and improved financial stability.

Human Services
7
United Food Bank

United Food Bank unites communities to alleviate hunger.

Food & Nutrition
8
Chicago's Green City Market Program

Green city market is securing the future of food by deepening support for sustainable farmers, educating our community, and expanding access to locally-grown food.

Food & Nutrition
9
Colorado Nonprofit Association

Colorado nonprofit association strengthens colorado's nonprofits through education, connection and advocacy.

Community Improvement
10
The Global FoodBanking Network

To nourish the world's hungry through uniting and advancing food banks.

International
11
The Open Door

The open door is a leading hunger-relief organization serving dakota county, minnesota, where food insecurity is a growing challenge. the open door is dedicated to ending local hunger by providing access to healthy, fresh, and nutritious…

Food & Nutrition
12
Colorado Gives Foundation

We connect people, ideas, and nonprofits to make good happen. our vision is that all of jeffco is thriving.

Philanthropy

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Northern Illinois Food Bank and the most unlike its peers is Benaroya Research Institute At Virginia. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 34 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%0%<5yr14%10%5–10yr19%10%10–20yr16%34%20–35yr13%26%35–55yr16%20%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%0%<5yr14%2%5–10yr19%15%10–20yr16%29%20–35yr13%23%35–55yr16%31%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/53
the rest of the field
13%
240,396/1,819,512

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.

04the grantee network

49 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. 49 of the 59 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
49/49
Grantees still filing
35/49
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

CANCER WELLNESS CENTER — $8,450 · HealthCANCER WELLNESS CENTE…BENAROYA RESEARCH INSTITUTE AT VIRGINIA — $7,500 · HealthBENAROYA RESEARCH INS…BREAKTHROUGH T1D — $4,750 · HealthBREAKTHROUGH T1DLIVING JOURNEYS — $2,500 · HealthLIVING JOURNEYSHELP OF DOOR COUNTY INC — $1,000 · Health+1 more — $750 · HealthNORTH SUBURBAN YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION — $9,000 · OtherNORTH SUBURBAN YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSO…TIM EGGERT MEMORIAL FOUNDATION — $3,500 · OtherTIM EGGERT MEMORIAL FOUNDATIONCATCH INC - COMMUNITY ACTION TOGETHER FOR CHILDREN — $2,500 · OtherGUNNISON HINSDALE YOUTH SERVICES — $5,000 · OtherGUNNISON HINSDALE YOUTH SERVICESBOULDER SHELTER FOR THE HOMELESS INC — $3,200 · OtherBOULDER SHELTER FOR THE HOMELESS INCSt Leonard's Ministries — $3,000 · OtherSt Leonard's MinistriesDOOR COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC — $2,592 · OtherDOOR COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INCUNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF — $1,750 · Other+23 more — $16,992 · Other+23 moreNORTH SHORE MUSIC ALLIANCE INC — $8,000 · Arts & CultureNORTH SHORE M…WRITE ON DOOR COUNTY INC — $2,500 · Arts & CultureWRITE ON DOOR…FRACTURED ATLAS INC — $2,000 · Arts & CultureFRACTURED ATL…THE JOFFREY BALLET — $1,700 · Arts & CultureTHE JOFFREY B…CRESTED BUTTE MOUNTAIN EDUCATIONAL RADIO — $1,000 · Arts & CultureCRESTED BUTTE…THE TRUSTEES OF THE SMITH COLLEGE — $8,000 · EducationTHE TRUSTE…Friends of Boulder Community School of Integrated — $4,000 · EducationFriends of…THERE WITH CARE — $4,500 · Human ServicesTHERE WITH…EMERGENCY FAMILY ASSISTANCE ASSOCIATION — $3,250 · Human ServicesEMERGENCY …GUNNISON COUNTRY FOOD PANTRY INC — $1,700 · Human ServicesGUNNISON C…Mothers Trust Foundation — $1,000 · Human ServicesMothers Tr…THE OUTREACH HOUSE — $1,000 · Human ServicesTHE OUTREA…THE FAMILY SERVICE CENTER OF WILMETTE GLENVIEW NORTHBROOK AND KENILWORTH — $500 · Human ServicesColorado Outdoor Education Center Inc — $4,950 · EnvironmentColorado …GROWING GARDENS OF BOULDER COUNTY — $4,250 · EnvironmentGROWING G…THORNE ECOLOGICAL INSTITUTE — $1,000 · EnvironmentTHORNE EC…OCEAN CONSERVANCY — $500 · EnvironmentMOUNTAIN ROOTS FOOD PROJECT — $3,000 · Food & NutritionThe Food Bank for Larimer County — $2,450 · Food & NutritionNORTHFIELD TOWNSHIP FOOD PANTRY — $1,000 · Food & NutritionNORTHERN ILLINOIS FOOD BANK — $1,000 · Food & NutritionGREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY — $750 · Food & Nutrition
Health$24,950Other$47,534Arts & Culture$15,200Education$12,000Human Services$11,950Environment$10,700Food & Nutrition$8,200

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetNORTH SUBURBAN YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION — $9,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetCANCER WELLNESS CENTER — $8,450 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF THE SMITH COLLEGE — $8,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetNORTH SHORE MUSIC ALLIANCE INC — $8,000 over 8y, 1.1% of budgetBENAROYA RESEARCH INSTITUTE AT VIRGINIA — $7,500 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetGUNNISON HINSDALE YOUTH SERVICES — $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetColorado Outdoor Education Center Inc — $4,950 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetBREAKTHROUGH T1D — $4,750 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHERE WITH CARE — $4,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetGROWING GARDENS OF BOULDER COUNTY — $4,250 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetEMERGENCY FAMILY ASSISTANCE ASSOCIATION — $3,250 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetBOULDER SHELTER FOR THE HOMELESS INC — $3,200 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSt Leonard's Ministries — $3,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMOUNTAIN ROOTS FOOD PROJECT — $3,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetDOOR COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC — $2,592 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWRITE ON DOOR COUNTY INC — $2,500 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetLIVING JOURNEYS — $2,500 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetThe Food Bank for Larimer County — $2,450 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFRACTURED ATLAS INC — $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF — $1,750 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE JOFFREY BALLET — $1,700 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGUNNISON COUNTRY FOOD PANTRY INC — $1,700 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetNew Life Centers of Chicagoland — $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMothers Trust Foundation — $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCHICAGO COALITION TO END HOMELESSNESS — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCRESTED BUTTE MOUNTAIN EDUCATIONAL RADIO — $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetJOHN AUSTIN CHELEY FOUNDATION INC — $1,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE OUTREACH HOUSE — $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHELP OF DOOR COUNTY INC — $1,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHORNE ECOLOGICAL INSTITUTE — $1,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetWINGS PROGRAM INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCatholic Charities of the Archdiocese of Chicago — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNORTHFIELD TOWNSHIP FOOD PANTRY — $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNORTHERN ILLINOIS FOOD BANK — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCRESTED BUTTE STATE OF MIND — $750 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetGirl Scouts of Greater Chicago and Northwest Indiana — $750 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY — $750 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE THRESHOLDS — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLAKESHORE CAP INC OF WISCONSIN — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBLOODWATER MISSION INC — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOCEAN CONSERVANCY — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetIllinois Assistive Technology Program — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDOOR COUNTY SECRET SANTA — $500 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetRAINFOREST ALLIANCE INC — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE FAMILY SERVICE CENTER OF WILMETTE GLENVIEW NORTHBROOK AND KENILWORTH — $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWATERORG — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE MAJESTIC — $450 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCRESTED BUTTE NORDIC COUNCIL — $271 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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.

Colorado Gives Founda…Community Foundation …The Chicago Community…Dea Family FoundationDr Scholl FoundationLutsey Family Foundat…Helios FoundationFirst Bank Chicago Fo…Door County Community…Greater Houston Commu…Rocky Mountain Health…Give N Kind
Colorado Gives FoundationCO21.5× affinity10 shared granteesties to 9 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Colorado Gives Foundation · Community Foundation of the Gunnison Valley · The Chicago Community Trust · Dea Family Foundation · Dr Scholl Foundation · Lutsey Family Foundation · Helios Foundation · First Bank Chicago Foundation · Door County Community Foundation Inc · Greater Houston Community Foundation · Rocky Mountain Health Foundation · Give N Kind

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 John H Harmon Jr and Jane H Harmon 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • The Trustees of the Smith College — 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
21report 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

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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How do I get to John H Harmon Jr and Jane H Harmon Foundation?

Find your warmest path to John H Harmon Jr and Jane H Harmon Foundation 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 59 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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