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Kathryn Nell Harrison 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.

$415k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
7
Grants FY2024
23
Organizations funded FY2023
4%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$20,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$225,000
Organizations funded a year
15 to 23
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
5
Total assets, FY2024
$5.3M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 4% of the organizations Kathryn Nell Harrison Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 2% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23
Arts & CultureHuman ServicesRecreation & SportsAnimalsEducationOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving6$405k33%
FY202323$259k4%
FY202222$265k23%
FY202123$280k17%
FY202022$238k9%
FY201915$135k13%
FY201820$166k25%
FY201720$231kn/a
99% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Arts & Culture$594kEnvironment$430kCommunity Improvement$330kAnimals$165kPhilanthropy$125kFood & Nutrition$115kHuman Services$95kHealth$45kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

ID
MT
CO
VA
MD
DC
LA
TX

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 23 grantees
All grantees of Kathryn Nell Harrison Foundation Inc by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Community Renewal International Inc$330,00076%
Smithsonian Institution$140,00060%
Hill Country Alliance$115,00063%
Admiral Nimitz Foundation$80,00070%
Hill Country Community Needs Council$65,00072%
Gillespie County Historical Society Inc$65,00062%
West of the Pecos Museum$60,00076%
Yellowstone Forever$60,00060%
Fredericksburg Theater Company$55,00062%
Mountain Area Land Trust$55,00061%
Fredericksburg Food Pantry Inc$55,00074%
Hill Country Historical Foundation$55,000594%
Polar Bears International$50,00051%
Hill Country Land Trust Inc$40,00052%
Fredericksburg Dance Company$33,5004n/a
Create Healthy Management$30,00040%
The Grace Center$28,60021%
Fbg Friends of the Fields$25,0001n/a
Bugle Boy Foundation$15,00023%
Fredericksburg Parks Foundation$10,0001n/a
Hill Country Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals$5,00010%
McCall Community School Inc$5,0001n/a
Safe Place of the Permian Basin$1,00010%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 18 recipients with no EIN on record ($600k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Kathryn Nell Harrison Foundation Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 19 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCommunity Renewal International Inc: $330,000 over 7y, 6.4% of budgetSmithsonian Institution: $140,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetHill Country Alliance: $115,000 over 6y, 3.0% of budgetAdmiral Nimitz Foundation: $80,000 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetHill Country Community Needs Council: $65,000 over 7y, 2.1% of budgetGillespie County Historical Society Inc: $65,000 over 6y, 2.0% of budgetWest of the Pecos Museum: $60,000 over 7y, 5.6% of budgetYellowstone Forever: $60,000 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetFredericksburg Theater Company: $55,000 over 6y, 2.0% of budgetMountain Area Land Trust: $55,000 over 6y, 1.3% of budgetFredericksburg Food Pantry Inc: $55,000 over 7y, 4.5% of budgetHill Country Historical Foundation: $55,000 over 5y, 94% of budgetPolar Bears International: $50,000 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetHill Country Land Trust Inc: $40,000 over 5y, 2.3% of budgetCreate Healthy Management: $30,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetThe Grace Center: $28,600 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetBugle Boy Foundation: $15,000 over 2y, 3.2% of budgetHill Country Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals: $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetSafe Place of the Permian Basin: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 19.

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.

Dian Graves Owen FoundationTX19.8× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Dian Graves Owen Foundation · The Community Foundation of the Texas Hill Country Inc · Miramar Charitable Foundation · Shell USA Company Foundation · Adam R Scripps Foundation · Bruno Family Charitable Foundation · Create Healthy Management · The Robert P and Mariana R Scripps Family Foundation Inc · Perry & Ruby Stevens Charitable Foundation · San Antonio Area Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc

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.

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About Kathryn Nell Harrison Foundation Inc

How much does Kathryn Nell Harrison Foundation Inc give?
Kathryn Nell Harrison Foundation Inc reported 7 grants totaling $415,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 15 and 23 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Kathryn Nell Harrison Foundation Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (30%), Environment (22%), Community Improvement (17%).
Who are Kathryn Nell Harrison Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Community Renewal International Inc ($330k), Smithsonian Institution ($140k), Hill Country Alliance ($115k).
Does Kathryn Nell Harrison Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 4% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Kathryn Nell Harrison Foundation Inc 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 Kathryn Nell Harrison Foundation Inc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Dian Graves Owen Foundation, The Community Foundation of the Texas Hill Country Inc, Miramar Charitable Foundation.
Where is Kathryn Nell Harrison Foundation Inc based?
Kathryn Nell Harrison Foundation Inc is based in TX.

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 42 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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