· Private foundation
Robert & Shirley Harris Family Foundation
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 clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2019–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k6 grants · $27k
- $10k–50k21 grants · $425k
- $50k–250k19 grants · $1.7M
- $250k+1 grant · $375k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Redwood Empire Food Bank | $375,000 |
| American Red Cross | $200,000 |
| Americares | $150,000 |
| World Central Kitchen | $150,000 |
| Doctors Without Borders | $150,000 |
| Santa Rosa East Rotary Foundation | $125,000 |
| Oxfam America | $85,000 |
| Luther Burbank Center for the Arts | $75,000 |
| 10000 Degrees Sonoma County | $70,000 |
| Santa Rosa Junior College Foundatio | $70,000 |
| Save the Children | $70,000 |
| Sonoma Land Trust | $70,000 |
| Peer Health Exchange Inc | $65,000 |
| UC Berkeley Foundation | $61,000 |
| California State Parks Foundation | $60,000 |
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 (FY19–24, $2.1M) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 93% 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.
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.
47 repeat relationships — 37 still active in FY2024, 10 since wound down; 3 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, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $60k 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
- REREDWOOD EMPIRE FOOD BANK6× · 2019–2024 · $1.9M · revenue +80%
- ANAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches6× · 2019–2024 · $1.9M · revenue +39%
AMERICARES FOUNDATION INC6× · 2019–2024 · $715k · revenue +90%
Funded once
- BHBurbank Housing Corporationgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $50k · revenue +610%
- SOSociety of St Vincent de Paul Sonomone grant, 2021 · $50k
PANCREATIC CANCER ACTION NETWORK INCone grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue -46%
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 npr foundation ("foundation") is organized and operated exclusively for the benefit of its sole supported organization, national public radio, inc. ("npr inc."). the foundation supports npr inc. through various activities such as…
The purpose of the water research foundation (wrf) is a definitive research organization to advance the science of all things water to better meet the evolving needs of its subscribers and the water sector. to engage exclusively in…
Friends of the earth strives for a more healthy and just world by defendng the environment and human health while advancing social and economic justice by conducting research and education, transforming the economy so it protects the…
To sustain, restore, and enhance the nation's fish, wildlife, plants, and habitats.
The san diego foundation inspires enduring philanthropy and enables community solutions to improve the quality of life in our region.
The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.
The fsmb serves as the voice for state medical boards, supporting them through education, assessment, research and advocacy while providing services and initiatives that promote patient safety, quality health care and regulatory best…
At the internet society foundation, we focus on funding initiatives that strengthen the internet in function and reach so that it can effectively serve all people. our work advances the vision of the internet society (isoc): the internet…
To drive transformational adaptation to protect communities across the country from higher seas, stronger storms, and more frequent flooding.
The foundation's mission is to improve the oral health of all californians by supporting the dental profession and its efforts to meet community needs.
Food forward fights hunger and prevents food waste by rescuing fresh surplus produce, connecting this abundance with people experiencing food insecurity, and inspiring others to do the same.
Ca fwd drives action to identify solutions that can be taken to scale to meet the challenges the state is facing. the organization is driven by the belief that regional solutions across the state will help ensure economic, environmental,…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Green Beret Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Country Roads Foundation Inc. 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 39 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% 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.
46 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. 46 of the 62 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 REDWOOD EMPIRE FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds AMERICARES FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds SANTA ROSA JUNIOR COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds OXFAM-AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds Save The Children Federation Inc ↗
- Who funds SONOMA LAND TRUST ↗
- Who funds CALIFORNIA STATE PARKS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PEER HEALTH EXCHANGE INC ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE DIOCESE OF SANTA ROSA ↗
- Who funds KQED INC ↗
- Who funds ROTARY CLUB OF SANTA ROSA EASTWEST FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FISHER HOUSE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
- Who funds AUDUBON CANYON RANCH INC ↗
- Who funds SONOMA COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds The Fistula Foundation ↗
- Who funds HUMANE SOCIETY OF SONOMA COUNTY ↗
- Who funds ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds United Policyholders ↗
- Who funds REDWOOD GOSPEL MISSIONS ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SEMPER FI & AMERICA'S FUND ↗
- Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds THE INNOCENCE PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds CAL POLY HUMBOLDT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Burbank Housing Corporation ↗
- Who funds WOUNDED WARRIORS FAMILY SUPPORT INC ↗
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: Sonoma County Community Foundation · The San Francisco Foundation · Marin Community Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Exchange Bank Foundation · Bethlehem Foundation - Agy Main · Redwood Credit Union Community Fund Inc · The Heck Foundation · Sonoma County Vintners Foundation · Tipping Point Community · Bothin Foundation · McNabb 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 Robert & Shirley Harris Family 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.
- National Park Trust Inc — 51% of income from government
- Save the Children Federation Inc — 30% of income from government
- Americares Foundation Inc — 0% of income from government
- Oxfam-America Inc — 0% of income from government
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.