· Private foundation
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- $10k–50k5 grants · $90k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $325k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Community Renewal Intl | $225,000 |
| Brite Dream Fund | $100,000 |
| Smithsonian Institution | $40,000 |
| Selah Bamberger Ranch Preserve | $20,000 |
| Fredericksburg Parks Foundation | $10,000 |
| Global Impact | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
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 (FY21–23, $29k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% 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 16% of Kathryn Nell Harrison 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. Read by recipient address, 63% of the giving stays in TX; read by stated purpose it is 58% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +45% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
28 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2024, 24 since wound down; 2 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, 73% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $110k 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
- CRCOMMUNITY RENEWAL INTERNATIONAL INC7× · 2017–2024 · $330k · revenue +45%
SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION6× · 2017–2024 · $140k · revenue +34%- HCHill Country Alliance6× · 2017–2023 · $115k · revenue +256%
Funded once
- FFFBG FRIENDS OF THE FIELDSone grant, 2022 · $25k
- CFCommunity Foundation of the TX Hillone grant, 2021 · $25k
- TGThe GTP Instituteone grant, 2018 · $25k
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.
The Coastal Prairie Conservancy (CPC) works to sustain a resilient Texas by preserving coastal prairies, wetlands, farms, and ranches to benefit people and wildlife forever. Continued on Schedule OCPC conserves land, restores and enhances…
Hill country conservancy preserves vital natural resources through conservation, community collaboration, and engagement to sustain our region now and forever.
Promotion/production of live theatre
The witte museum inspires people to shape the future of texas through transformative and relevant experiences in nature, science and culture.
Hill country family services operates at the intersection of urgent need and lasting change. we foster mental and physical wellness, stability and independence for individuals and families who are in crisis.
To enhance breeders' ability to raise and promote cattle
We acquire properties to be donated to the National Park Service and state entities and advocate for protection of Big Thicket natural resources.
Hill country daily bread ministries is a faith based ministry whose mission is to help unite and equip the hill country community with food, resources and training necessary to transform our communities and the lives of those in poverty…
The mission of the Houston Museum of Natural Science shall be to preserve and advance the general knowledge of natural science; to enhance in individuals the knowledge of and delight in natural science and related subjects; and to maintain…
- to promote conservation and preservation of the area within the cibolo creek watershed- to serve as a regional environmental center of northern bexar county and kendall county- to provide educational programs on the area's ecosystems- to…
Museum has a mission to create opportunties for everyone to experience art that broadens understanding of the past, fosters community connections to the present, and creates diverse possbilities for the future.
Texas cave management is an organization that works with members and partners to acquire and manage caves and karst. we actively work to conserve caves promote research and provide responsible recreational access
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Hill Country Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals and the most unlike its peers is Hill Country Historical Foundation. 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 28 years old; the field is 13. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 27% startups (under 5 years old) — 10% of your grantees by number, and just 4% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% 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.
22 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. 22 of the 42 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 COMMUNITY RENEWAL INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
- Who funds SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION ↗
- Who funds Hill Country Alliance ↗
- Who funds ADMIRAL NIMITZ FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GILLESPIE COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds HILL COUNTRY COMMUNITY NEEDS COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds West of the Pecos Museum ↗
- Who funds YELLOWSTONE FOREVER ↗
- Who funds MOUNTAIN AREA LAND TRUST ↗
- Who funds FREDERICKSBURG THEATER COMPANY ↗
- Who funds HILL COUNTRY HISTORICAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FREDERICKSBURG FOOD PANTRY INC ↗
- Who funds POLAR BEARS INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds HILL COUNTRY LAND TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds Create Healthy Management ↗
- Who funds THE GRACE CENTER ↗
- Who funds FBG FRIENDS OF THE FIELDS ↗
- Who funds BUGLE BOY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Global Impact ↗
- Who funds McCall Community School Inc ↗
- Who funds HILL COUNTRY SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS ↗
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: 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
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 Kathryn Nell Harrison 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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.