· Private foundation
Roger and Patty Harness 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
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 96% of ROGER AND PATTY HARNESS FAMILY 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 · FY2023
- Under $10k7 grants · $10k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $25k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| WITTS SPRINGS COMMUNITY VOICES | $15,000 |
| OZARK SHARE AND CARE | $10,000 |
| BOONE COUNTY IMAGINATION LIBRARY | $2,500 |
| THE NATURE CONSERVANCY | $2,500 |
| HOUSE OF HOPE | $2,500 |
| OPERATION UNDERGROUND | $1,000 |
| HOSPICE OF THE HILLS | $500 |
| HARRISON HIGH SCHOOL | $500 |
| NORTH ARKANSAS COLLEGE FOUNDATION | $250 |
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 (FY17–17, $5k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 14%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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 +25% since the first grant, against +24% for the ones you funded once.
13 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2023, 8 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (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 FY2023, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k 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
- RCROTARY CLUB OF HARRISON2× · 2019–2021 · $100k
- HOHOUSE OF HOPE4× · 2017–2023 · $63k
- WSWITTS SPRINGS COMMUNITY VOICES4× · 2019–2023 · $50k
Funded once
- WSWITTS SPRINGS FIRE DEPARTMENTone grant, 2021 · $25k
- CYCONSOLIDATED YOUTHone grant, 2022 · $15k
- BCBOONE COUNTY 4H FOUNDATIONone grant, 2017 · $10k
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.
Habilitation and residential services for adults with developmental disabilities
An instrumentality of north little rock housing authority to provide charitable, educational, and human services specifically related to the development, operations and management of affordable housing.
Promotion of the growth, vitality, and development of northwest arkansas and its people, concentrating on workforce development, regional stewardship, infrastructure, and economic development.
To provide assistance to native americans in training and employment opportunities in the state of arkansas
Providing economic development programs to the city of north little rock, arkansas
Provide support, education and training for Low-Income indivuduals to help become self-sufficient and lead lives of dignity
Acute care hospital, nursing home, rural health clinic, and home health agency
The organization provides training and service assistance to farm development, community education programs, land retention, program management, housing, rural and community development
The organization provides housing assistance, counseling, and education to persons with aids, persons who are hiv positive, and their families and significant others as well as providing related education and training to meet the needs of…
Oregon Wild works to protect and restore Oregon's wildlands, wildlife and waters as an enduring legacy for future generations.
To provide substance abuse counceling and services
Arkansas justice collective is a nonprofit law firm serving survivors of trafficking and child abuse across arkansas and the region.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Ozark Regional Share and Care and the most unlike its peers is American College of Counselors Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
9 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. 9 of the 35 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 BUFFALO RIVER COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds Ozark Regional Share and Care ↗
- Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds INDEPENDENT LIVING INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN COLLEGE OF COUNSELORS INC ↗
- Who funds OZARK ARTS COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds OUR RESCUE ↗
- Who funds HOSPICE OF THE HILLS INC ↗
- Who funds NORTH ARKANSAS COLLEGE FOUNDATION 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 set of overlaps that mostly run through you, not between each other.
Open a dossier: Amazonsmile 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 Roger and Patty Harness 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.
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.