· 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
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 (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 its grants land in higher-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 16% of Kathryn Nell Harrison Foundation Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 63% of the giving stays in TX; by stated purpose, 58%.
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 +45% since the first grant, against 0% for those 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
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- CRCOMMUNITY RENEWAL INTERNATIONAL INC7× · 2017–2024 · $330k · revenue +45%
SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION6× · 2017–2024 · $140k · revenue +31%- HCHill Country Alliance6× · 2017–2023 · $115k · revenue +256%
Funded once
- CFCommunity Foundation of the TX Hillone grant, 2021 · $25k
- FFFBG FRIENDS OF THE FIELDSone grant, 2022 · $25k
- TGThe GTP Instituteone grant, 2018 · $25k
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.
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
How this is measured
22 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. 22 of the 42 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 COMMUNITY RENEWAL INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
- Who funds SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION ↗
- Who funds Hill Country Alliance ↗
- Who funds ADMIRAL NIMITZ FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HILL COUNTRY COMMUNITY NEEDS COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds GILLESPIE COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds West of the Pecos Museum ↗
- Who funds YELLOWSTONE FOREVER ↗
- Who funds FREDERICKSBURG THEATER COMPANY ↗
- Who funds MOUNTAIN AREA LAND TRUST ↗
- Who funds FREDERICKSBURG FOOD PANTRY INC ↗
- Who funds HILL COUNTRY HISTORICAL FOUNDATION ↗
- 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 HILL COUNTRY SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS ↗
- Who funds McCall Community School 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: 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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Kathryn Nell Harrison Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Kathryn Nell Harrison Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
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