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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.

$19k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
8
Grants FY2024
9
Organizations funded FY2023
22%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$1,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$10,000
Organizations funded a year
6 to 9
FY2020 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
1
Total assets, FY2024
$236k
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 22% of the organizations Ron and Chris Harris Charitable Foundation Trust funded were first-time grantees, receiving 5% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’21’22’23
HealthYouth DevelopmentEducationPhilanthropyOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving8$19k13%
FY20239$25k22%
FY20226$13k17%
FY20218$19k50%
FY20209$14kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Human Services$51kHealth$24kPhilanthropy$5kYouth Development$4kEducation$3kArts & Culture$2kPublic Benefit$300

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Plus 8 recipients with no EIN on record ($9k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Ron and Chris Harris Charitable Foundation Trust supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetThe Cedars Home for Children Foundation: $45,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetBryan Foundation: $20,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetMourning Hope: $4,500 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetThe Madonna Foundation: $4,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetLux Center for the Arts: $2,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetJunior Achievement of Lincoln Inc: $1,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetLincoln Literacy Council: $1,300 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetMatt Talbot Kitchen & Outreach: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFitting Futures: $700 over 3y, 0.2% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 9.

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.

Lee and Debbie Stuart Family FoundationNE22.1× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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How do I get to Ron and Chris Harris Charitable Foundation Trust?

Find your warmest path to Ron and Chris Harris Charitable Foundation Trust through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

About Ron and Chris Harris Charitable Foundation Trust

How much does Ron and Chris Harris Charitable Foundation Trust give?
Ron and Chris Harris Charitable Foundation Trust reported 8 grants totaling $18,600 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 6 and 9 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2023.
What does Ron and Chris Harris Charitable Foundation Trust fund?
By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2024, its largest causes are Human Services (57%), Health (27%), Philanthropy (6%).
Who are Ron and Chris Harris Charitable Foundation Trust's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2020 to FY2024: The Cedars Home for Children Foundation ($45k), Bryan Foundation ($20k), Mourning Hope ($5k).
Does Ron and Chris Harris Charitable Foundation Trust fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 22% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Ron and Chris Harris Charitable Foundation Trust 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 Ron and Chris Harris Charitable Foundation Trust?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Lee and Debbie Stuart Family Foundation, Assurity Life Foundation, Lincoln Community Foundation Inc.
Where is Ron and Chris Harris Charitable Foundation Trust based?
Ron and Chris Harris Charitable Foundation Trust is based in NE.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 17 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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