· Private foundation
Mary W Harriman Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k60 grants · $233k
- $10k–50k53 grants · $959k
- $50k–250k9 grants · $585k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BOYS' CLUB OF NEW YORK | $95,000 |
| SCENIC HUDSON INC | $95,000 |
| PALISADES INTERSTATE PARK COMMISSION | $70,000 |
| NORTHERN STAGE COMPANY | $60,000 |
| CENTER FOR DISCOVERY INC | $60,000 |
| GOOD SAMARITAN FDN FOR BETTER HEALTH | $55,000 |
| NEW YORK CITY BALLET INC | $50,000 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD NEW YORK CITY | $50,000 |
| BATES COLLEGE | $50,000 |
| STORM KING ART CENTER | $45,000 |
| METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART | $40,000 |
| ALS ASSOCIATION GREATER NEW YORK CHAPTER | $40,000 |
| NEW YORK UNIVERSITY | $40,000 |
| COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY | $35,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $30,000 |
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 (FY20–24, $114k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 82% 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
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +38% since the first grant, against +11% for those funded once.
130 repeat relationships: 98 still active in FY2024, 32 since wound down; 20 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, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $246k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- SHScenic Hudson Inc4× · 2021–2024 · $380k · revenue +61%
PRESIDENT AND TRUSTEES OF BATES COLLEGE5× · 2020–2024 · $380k · revenue +44%- TBTHE BOYS' CLUB OF NEW YORK5× · 2020–2024 · $310k · revenue +153%
Funded once
- SHSCENIC HUSDON INCone grant, 2020 · $65k
- MHMary Hitchcock Memorial Hospitalone grant, 2023 · $60k · revenue -65%
- NLNYU LIBERAL STUDIES PROGRAMone grant, 2023 · $40k
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 bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.
The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.
Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.
Dartmouth College educates the most promising students and prepares them for a lifetime of learning and of responsible leadership, through a faculty dedicated to teaching and the creation of knowledge.
Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…
Fordham university, the jesuit university of new york, is committed to the discovery of wisdom and the transmission of learning, through research and through education of the highest quality. for more information, see schedule o.
The new york botanical garden is a museum of plants and a scientific research center devoted to the study of plants and their uses. it is the garden's mission to improve public understanding of the natural world, horticulture, and the…
Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.
The mission of rhode island school of design, through its college and museum,is to educate its students and the public in the creation and (see schedule o)appreciation of works of art and design, to discover and transmit knowledge and to…
Education and Research
How this is measured
134 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. 134 of the 196 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 Scenic Hudson Inc ↗
- Who funds PRESIDENT AND TRUSTEES OF BATES COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds THE BOYS' CLUB OF NEW YORK ↗
- Who funds METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART ↗
- Who funds CONCORD ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds NEW YORK CITY BALLET INC ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF GREATER NEW YORK INC ↗
- Who funds ALS UNITED GREATER NEW YORK INC ↗
- Who funds STORM KING ART CENTER ↗
- Who funds THE CENTER FOR DISCOVERY INC ↗
- Who funds MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds Defenders of Wildlife ↗
- Who funds FILM FORUM INC ↗
- Who funds UPPER VALLEY SNOW SPORTS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MYOTONIC DYSTROPHY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds STEPS TO SUCCESS INC ↗
- Who funds LAND TRUST ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK ↗
- Who funds WGBH Educational Foundation ↗
- Who funds Appalachian Mountain Club ↗
- Who funds NORTHERN STAGE COMPANY ↗
- Who funds SUN VALLEY SKI EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds New York-New Jersey Trail Conference Inc ↗
- Who funds HUNTINGTON THEATRE CO INC ↗
- Who funds THE BUSH SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds Orange County Historical Society ↗
- Who funds ROWLAND HALL-ST MARK'S SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds UNITED NEGRO COLLEGE FUND INC ↗
- Who funds Mary Hitchcock Memorial Hospital ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF HARRIMAN STATE PARK INC ↗
- Who funds GOOD SAMARITAN FOUNDATION FOR BETTER HEALTH ↗
- Who funds NEW YORK PUBLIC RADIO ↗
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: Gladys and Roland Harriman Foundation · Mary and Kathleen Harriman Foundation · The Couch Family Foundation · The New York Community Trust · The Vermont Community Foundation · The Bessemer Giving Fund · Barrette Family Fund · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Fidelity Foundation · New Hampshire Charitable Foundation · The Ralph E Ogden Foundation Inc · Boston Foundation Inc
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Mary W Harriman Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Mary W Harriman Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Robert F Kennedy Community Alliance Inc: 41% of income from government
- Massachusetts Historical Society: 22% of income from government
- Toddlers Morning Out: 18% of income from government
- Yale University: 12% of income from government
- The Lord's Place Inc: 12% of income from government
- Steps to Success Inc: 5% of income from government
- Northern Stage Company: 5% of income from government
- Huntington Theatre Co Inc: 4% of income from government
- Montshire Museum of Science Inc: 4% of income from government
- The Trustees of Reservations: 2% of income from government
- Appalachian Mountain Club: 1% of income from government
- University of Hartford: 1% of income from government
- Wgbh Educational Foundation: 1% of income from government
- Friends of Holly Hill Farm Inc: 1% of income from government
- New Hope Charities Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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