· Private foundation
Ron and Chris Harris Charitable Foundation Trust
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 FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k7 grants · $9k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CEDARS HOME FOR CHILDREN FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| BRYAN HEALTH FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| MOURNING HOPE | $1,000 |
| JOSH COLLINGSWORTH FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| CORNHUSKER COUNCIL BOY SCOUTS | $500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $500 |
| WHITE CANE FOUNDATION | $300 |
| LINCOLN LITERACY | $300 |
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 (FY20–24, $45k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% 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.
11 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down; 1 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, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1k 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
- TCTHE CEDARS HOME FOR CHILDREN FOUNDATION5× · 2020–2024 · $45k · revenue +30%
- LLLINCOLN LITERACY COUNCIL3× · 2021–2024 · $1k · revenue +216%
- MTMATT TALBOT KITCHEN & OUTREACH2× · 2020–2021 · $1k · revenue +76%
Funded once
- LCLUX CENTER FOR THE ARTSgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $2k · revenue +79%
- UFUNL FOUNDATIONone grant, 2020 · $1k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2020 · $500
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.
Lincoln college uniquely empowers students to realize their full potential
To provide programs for the residents in the lincoln/central school area.
The lincoln children's museum invites children to create, discover and learn through the power of play.
To provide educational enrichment programs that develop and support youth in overcoming social and economic barriers to achievement. this mission is accomplished through college access and college success programs.
To help young children thrive socially, emotionally and academically through high-quality early childhood education, and in partnership with their families and the community.
To provide traditional educational programs in diverse fields of study, delivered by experienced educators, and leading to outstanding employment opportunities for American and international students
To eliminate multigenerational poverty in lincoln by creating unity and prosperity throughout lincoln while honoring our african-american heritage.
The foundation is dedicated to the development and implementation of the food bank, an organization exempt under code section 501(c)(3).
See schedule othe lincoln university foundation of pennsylvania is a separately incorporated 501(c)(3) organized for the purpose of serving as a supporting organization and foundation to lincoln university of the commonwealth system of…
To provide supplementary support of lincoln christian school's programs and facilites.
The food bank of lincoln, inc. is a nonprofit corporation organized to meet the emergency food needs for the sixteen counties it serves in southeast nebraska.the food bank of lincoln serves as a key organization for receiving, inspecting,…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Junior Achievement of Lincoln Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Madonna Foundation. 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 17 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 THE CEDARS HOME FOR CHILDREN FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Bryan Foundation ↗
- Who funds MOURNING HOPE ↗
- Who funds THE MADONNA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LUX CENTER FOR THE ARTS ↗
- Who funds JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF LINCOLN INC ↗
- Who funds LINCOLN LITERACY COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds MATT TALBOT KITCHEN & OUTREACH ↗
- Who funds FITTING FUTURES ↗
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: Lee and Debbie Stuart Family Foundation · Assurity Life Foundation · Lincoln Community Foundation Inc · Kinder Porter Scott Family Foundation · Rogers Foundation · The Sunderland Foundation · Acklie Charitable Foundation · Duncan Family Trust · United Way of Lincoln and Lancaster County · Abel Foundation · Cooper Foundation · Bnsf Railway 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 Ron and Chris Harris Charitable Foundation Trust 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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