California · 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.
- $2.5M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 47
- Grants FY2024
- 43
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 9%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $30,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $375,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 37 to 43
- FY2019 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 9
- Total assets, FY2024
- $17M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 9% of the organizations Robert & Shirley Harris Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 3% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $85k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 40 | $2.4M | 8% |
| FY2023 | 43 | $3.1M | 9% |
| FY2022 | 39 | $1.5M | 8% |
| FY2021 | 37 | $1.6M | 11% |
| FY2020 | 40 | $1.7M | 10% |
| FY2019 | 42 | $1.2M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2019 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Redwood Empire Food Bank | $1,945,000 | 6 | 1% |
| American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches | $1,850,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Americares Foundation Inc | $715,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Medecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc | $510,000 | 6 | 0% |
| World Central Kitchen Inc | $450,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Santa Rosa Junior College Foundation | $365,000 | 5 | 2% |
| Oxfam-America Inc | $355,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Save The Children Federation Inc | $315,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Sonoma Land Trust | $265,000 | 6 | 1% |
| California State Parks Foundation | $255,000 | 6 | 1% |
Show all 45 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 15 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.7M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Robert & Shirley Harris Family Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 45 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
Tap a dot to name the grantee.
How this is measured
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: 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
How this is measured
Compare Robert & Shirley Harris Family Foundation with peer funders
About Robert & Shirley Harris Family Foundation
- How much does Robert & Shirley Harris Family Foundation give?
- Robert & Shirley Harris Family Foundation reported 47 grants totaling $2,478,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 37 and 43 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2023.
- What does Robert & Shirley Harris Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2024, its largest causes are Public Safety & Disaster (20%), Food & Nutrition (17%), International (16%).
- Who are Robert & Shirley Harris Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2019 to FY2024: Redwood Empire Food Bank ($1.9M), American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ($1.9M), Americares Foundation Inc ($715k).
- Does Robert & Shirley Harris Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 9% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Robert & Shirley Harris Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Robert & Shirley Harris Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Sonoma County Community Foundation, The San Francisco Foundation, Marin Community Foundation.
- Where is Robert & Shirley Harris Family Foundation based?
- Robert & Shirley Harris Family Foundation is based in CA.
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