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Raymond and Grace Harmon Charitable Foundation
Its FY2025 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
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 77% of RAYMOND AND GRACE HARMON CHARITABLE FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k4 grants · $29k
- $10k–50k14 grants · $221k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER OF NE MO | $30,500 |
| LINDENWOOD UNIVERSITY | $21,850 |
| ST JOACHIM & ST ANNE CATHOLIC SCHOOL | $21,148 |
| MESSIAH LUTHERAN CHURCH | $20,000 |
| EMMAUS HOMES INC | $19,047 |
| FACT | $19,000 |
| NEW HOPE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH | $15,180 |
| SSM HEALTH ST JOSEPH HOSPITAL - LAKE ST LOUIS | $13,915 |
| FOSTER ADOPTION SUPPORT TEAM | $10,400 |
| VOLUNTEERS IN MEDICINE CLINIC | $10,192 |
| OASIS FOOD PANTRY | $10,190 |
| EASTER SEALS MIDWEST | $10,000 |
| 10-78 PROJECT | $10,000 |
| REACH ST CHARLES | $10,000 |
| BEV ROY HOPE FOUNDATION | $9,800 |
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 (FY18–25, $217k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 65% 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.
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.
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 +40% since the first grant, against +9% for the ones you funded once.
24 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2025, 16 since wound down; 10 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 45% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $138k 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
- EHEMMAUS HOMES INC6× · 2018–2025 · $119k · revenue +61%
- CHCHILDREN'S HOME SOCIETY OF MISSOURI6× · 2018–2023 · $76k · revenue +2%
- YIYOUTH IN NEED5× · 2019–2025 · $53k · revenue +51%
Funded once
- MSMORNING STAR CHURCHone grant, 2024 · $39k
- LCLEWIS & CLARK BOATHOUSE & MUSEUMone grant, 2020 · $32k
- COCHABAD OF GREATER ST LOUISone grant, 2024 · $26k
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.
Enhance the opportunities and quality of life for children and youth with disabilities. the organization achieves this objective through parent training, emotional support, direct advocacy, community education, self-advocacy and navigation…
Provide support services to developmentally disabled individuals of perry county,missouri through areas of community employment, job preparation, day programs, transportation and personal assistance.
Assist individuals with developmental disabilities in achieving the goal of living in their community of choice with the necessary support
Founded In 2018, Teach St. Louis (formerly St. Louis Teacher Residency) launched to improve teacher quality and retention in St. Louis, a city where 40% of new teachers exit the classroom in their first three years. Teach St. Louis…
High quality, 24/7 support in neighborhood homes for persons with intellectual disabilities. inclusive educational opportunities for people in st. louis. changing the way persons with disabilities are seen and highlighting their…
Provide services for individuals with developmental disabilities
The society enhances independence, empowers individuals and enriches the lives of people who are visually impaired or blind.
Serving individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities in an intentional, faith-based community.
Provide Case Management for people with developmental disabilities such as autism services, respite care, crisis intervention, self directed services, and Medicaid Home and Cummunity Based Waiver programs.
To positively affect the quality of life of people with cerebral palsy and other developmental disabilities through the provision of direct services, community education and by empowering self-advocacy.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is St Louis Arc Inc and the most unlike its peers is Reach St Charles. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 45 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 8% of your grantees by number, and just 5% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% 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.
21 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. 21 of the 63 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 EMMAUS HOMES INC ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S HOME SOCIETY OF MISSOURI ↗
- Who funds YOUTH IN NEED ↗
- Who funds ST LOUIS ARC INC ↗
- Who funds LINDENWOOD EDUCATION SYSTEM ↗
- Who funds BEV ROY HOPE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds TREE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds BOONE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds BIRTHRIGHT ↗
- Who funds GRACE PERIOD INC ↗
- Who funds VOLUNTEERS IN MEDICINE INC ↗
- Who funds REACH ST CHARLES ↗
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: St Louis Community Foundation Inc · United Way of Greater St Louis Inc · Employees Community Fund of the Boeing Company · St Louis Community Foundation · Commerce Bancshares Foundation · Moneta Group Charitable Foundation · East Missouri Foundation · World Wide Technology Foundation · Bjc Health System Dba Bjc Healthcare · Pott Foundation · Youthbridge Community Foundation · Enterprise Holdings Foundation
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 Raymond and Grace Harmon Charitable Foundation 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.
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