· 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2023.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| THE NATURE CONSERVANCY | $2,500 |
| HOUSE OF HOPE | $2,500 |
| BOONE COUNTY IMAGINATION LIBRARY | $2,500 |
| OPERATION UNDERGROUND | $1,000 |
| HOSPICE OF THE HILLS | $500 |
| HARRISON HIGH SCHOOL | $500 |
| NORTH ARKANSAS COLLEGE FOUNDATION | $250 |
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 (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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
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 +25% since the first grant, against +24% for those 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
How this is measured
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
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.
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.
How this is measured
9 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. 9 of the 35 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 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 ↗
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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.
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How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Roger and Patty Harness Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Roger and Patty Harness Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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