· 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| JOSH COLLINGSWORTH FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| MOURNING HOPE | $1,000 |
| CORNHUSKER COUNCIL BOY SCOUTS | $500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $500 |
| LINCOLN LITERACY | $300 |
| WHITE CANE FOUNDATION | $300 |
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 (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 its grants land in higher-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.
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
How this is measured
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
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.
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,…
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 17 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 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 ↗
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: 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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Ron and Chris Harris Charitable Foundation Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Ron and Chris Harris Charitable Foundation Trust. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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