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Lf Harper Family Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$42k
Granted FY2025still arriving
10
Grants FY2025still arriving
5
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What it funds
0184% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$85kReligion$80kFood & Nutrition$59kAnimals$39kYouth Development$20kHealth$16kRecreation & Sports$5kPublic Safety & Disaster$3kOther$0
02FY2025 · 10 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k8 grants · $22k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $20k
$4,500
Median grant
5
States reached
$729k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
WEST JUPITER COMMUNITY GROUP$10,000
GO BEYOND$10,000
FOUNDATION FOR LOVEJOY SCHOOLS$5,000
WATERFALL ACADEMY$5,000
DOMINICAN SISTERS OF PEACE$4,500
UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CE$2,500
BARTON COUNTY EMERGENCY AID ASSOCIATION$1,500
Individual grant recipient$1,500
MAKE-A-WISH$1,200
Individual grant recipient$1,200
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY22–23, $11k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%PAWS 4 LIBERTY INC: $6k → 11%PAWS 4 LIBERTY INC: $5k → 11%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

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NE
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FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

72%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$247k · 21 repeat orgs$97k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +23% since the first grant, against +19% for those funded once.

21 repeat relationships: 8 still active in FY2025, 13 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

21
22

Total granted

$247k
$93k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+23%
+19%

Still filing today

38%
59%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthEducationAnimalsFood & NutritionRecreation & SportsScience & TechOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • WJ
    WEST JUPITER COMMUNITY GROUP INC
    6× · 2019–2025 · $43k · revenue +21%
  • HM
    HEART MINISTRY CENTER
    5× · 2019–2023 · $41k · revenue +195%
  • FF
    FOUNDATION FOR LOVEJOY SCHOOLS
    5× · 2017–2025 · $27k · revenue +24%

Funded once

  • SF
    SAINT FRANCIS FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2018 · $40k
  • FF
    Furry Friends Humane Incgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $10k · revenue +164%
  • LH
    LIVING HUNGRY INC
    one grant, 2020 · $7k · revenue -51%
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.

04Its field

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.

1
The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals

The aspca's mission, as stated by founder henry bergh in 1866, is "to provide effective means for the prevention of cruelty to animals throughout the united states." the aspca was founded on the belief that animals are entitled to kind and…

Animals
2
Jacksonville Humane Society Inc

The jacksonville humane society provides care, comfort and compassion to animals in need while engaging the hearts, hands and minds of our community to bring about an end to the killing of abandoned and orphaned shelter animals.

Animals
3
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center

Leadership in the prevention, treatment, and cure of cancer through excellence, vision and cost effectiveness in patient care, outreach programs, research, and education.

Health
4
Children's Health Care

We champion the health needs of children and families. we are committed to improving children's health by providing the highest-quality, family centered care, advanced through research and education.

Health
5
Kind Keeper Inc

Our mission is to save the lives of homeless pets, promote kindness to animals, and advance the highest standards in animal welfare. Our goal is to create an environment in which all rescued animals are given or found a permanent loving…

Animals
6
Florida's Children First Inc

Organization mission: florida's children first is a non-profit, nonpartisan, independent advocacy organization committed to protecting and advancing the rights of children and youth impacted by the child welfare, juvenile justice, and…

Human Services
7
Animal Wellness Action

To prevent cruelty to animals, we promote enacting and enforcing good public policies. enacting good laws depends upon electing good lawmakers, and we remind voters which candidates care about and support animal issues.

Human Services
8
Variety Children's Hospital

To inspire hope and promote lifelong health by providing the best care to every child.

Health
9
Safe Haven for Cats

The mission of safe haven for cats is to use no-kill principles and education to save cats' lives through rescue, adoption, spay/neuter services and community programs.

Animals
10
Ability Kc

Our mission is to build brighter futures for children and adults with disabilities by providing comprehensive medical, therapeutic, educational, and vocational services.

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11
Cystic Fibrosis Foundation

To cure cf and provide all people with cf the opportunity to lead long, fulfilling lives by funding research and drug development, partnering with the cf community, and advancing high-quality, specialized care.

Health
12
Friends of Animal Adoptions Inc

Friends of animal adoptions, inc. (the organization), is a minnesota non- profit organization whose mission is to prevent cruelty to animals; provide shelter, emergency and other medical care; and to find good adoptive homes for cats,…

Animals
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Enchanted Peach Children's Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Waterfall Academy. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

21 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 21 of the 45 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
21/21
Grantees still filing
14/21
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

SAINT FRANCIS FOUNDATION: $40,000 · OtherSAINT FRANCIS FOUNDATIONDOMINICAN SISTERS OF PEACE: $38,000 · OtherDOMINICAN SISTERS OF PEACEGO BEYOND NEBRASKA: $20,000 · OtherGO BEYOND NEBRASKAIndividual grant recipient: $14,800 · OtherIndividual grant recipientIndividual grant recipient: $13,200 · OtherIndividual grant recipientBARTON COUNTY FOOD BANK: $10,500 · OtherBARTON COUNTY FOOD BANKGREAT BEND HUMANE SOCIETY: $8,000 · Other+22 more: $33,051 · Other+22 moreWEST JUPITER COMMUNITY GROUP INC: $43,000 · EducationWEST JUPITER COMMUNITY GRO…FOUNDATION FOR LOVEJOY SCHOOLS: $27,100 · EducationFOUNDATION FOR LOVEJOY SCH…WATERFALL ACADEMY: $10,000 · EducationWATERFALL ACADEMYHEART MINISTRY CENTER: $41,000 · Food & NutritionHEART MINISTRY …LIVING HUNGRY INC: $7,000 · Food & NutritionLIVING HUNGRY I…Furry Friends Humane Inc: $10,000 · AnimalsBEST FRIENDS ANIMAL SOCIETY: $5,000 · AnimalsKANSAS HUMANE SOCIETY OF WICHITA KANSAS: $2,000 · AnimalsPAWS 4 LIBERTY INC: $11,000 · Human ServicesBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $2,600 · HealthKYMEL INC: $2,000 · HealthAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $500 · Health+2 more: $100 · HealthJUSTIN J WATT FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 · Recreation & Sports+1 more: $150 · Recreation & Sports
Other$177,551Education$80,100Food & Nutrition$48,000Animals$17,000Human Services$11,000Health$5,200Recreation & Sports$5,150

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetWEST JUPITER COMMUNITY GROUP INC: $43,000 over 6y, 0.6% of budgetHEART MINISTRY CENTER: $41,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR LOVEJOY SCHOOLS: $27,100 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetGO BEYOND NEBRASKA: $20,000 over 2y, 3.4% of budgetPAWS 4 LIBERTY INC: $11,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetWATERFALL ACADEMY: $10,000 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetFurry Friends Humane Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetLIVING HUNGRY INC: $7,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBEST FRIENDS ANIMAL SOCIETY: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJUSTIN J WATT FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $2,600 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSMILE TRAIN INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKANSAS HUMANE SOCIETY OF WICHITA KANSAS: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLOGGERHEAD MARINELIFE CENTER INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSPECIAL OLYMPICS KANSAS INC: $150 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetENCHANTED PEACH CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION: $50 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFAMILY CRISIS CENTER INC: $50 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL FEDERATION OF THE BLIND OF FLORIDA INC: $25 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
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 WEST JUPITER COMMUNITY GROUP INC ↗
  • Who funds HEART MINISTRY CENTER ↗
  • Who funds FOUNDATION FOR LOVEJOY SCHOOLS ↗
  • Who funds GO BEYOND NEBRASKA ↗
  • Who funds PAWS 4 LIBERTY INC ↗
  • Who funds WATERFALL ACADEMY ↗
  • Who funds Furry Friends Humane Inc ↗
  • Who funds LIVING HUNGRY INC ↗
  • Who funds BEST FRIENDS ANIMAL SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds JUSTIN J WATT FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds BLOOD CANCER UNITED INC ↗
  • Who funds SMILE TRAIN INC ↗
  • Who funds KYMEL INC ↗
  • Who funds KANSAS HUMANE SOCIETY OF WICHITA KANSAS ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC ↗
  • Who funds LOGGERHEAD MARINELIFE CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds SPECIAL OLYMPICS KANSAS 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.

The Blackbaud Giving FundSC11.3× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Charities Aid Foundation America · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · American Endowment Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Network for Good · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · National Philanthropic Trust · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Lf Harper Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Lf Harper Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →median 2%
  • The National Federation of the Blind: 2% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
6report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

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 45 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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