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Sg Harris Foundation at a glance

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Sg Harris Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$37k
Granted FY2025still arriving
15
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0196% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2024 to 2025.

Animals$40kHuman Services$14kReligion$5kFood & Nutrition$4kHousing & Shelter$4kPhilanthropy$3kInternational$500Other$0
02FY2025 · 15 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k14 grants · $27k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
$2,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$819k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
PURRFECT WHISKERS RESCUE$10,000
MARKS HOPE HOUSE INC$4,000
PONCE ANIMAL FOUNDATION$4,000
PURE JOY CAT CAFE$4,000
CHURCH OF ELEVEN 22$2,500
WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT$2,000
COVENANT HOUSE$2,000
SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK$2,000
TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION$2,000
MERCY CHEFS$1,500
SAMADHI WILDLIFE INC$800
CONCERNED CITIZENS FOR ANIMAL WELFARE$800
MERCY SHIPS$500
I DREAM OF WHISKERS LLC$500
OUR LADY OF HOPE - KOC$500
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY24–25, $5k) land where the poverty rate runs at 18%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%MERCY CHEFS: $2k → 20%MERCY CHEFS: $2k → 20%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT: $2k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

86%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$60k · 10 repeat orgs$10k to everyone else

10 repeat relationships: 10 still active in FY2025, 0 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

10
2

Total granted

$60k
$4k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

0%
+345%

Still filing today

70%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $7k went to new ones.

50%100%’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’24’25
AnimalsHuman ServicesPhilanthropyInternationalOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • PW
    PURRFECT WHISKERS RESCUE
    2× · 2024–2025 · $28k · 25% of their budget
  • TP
    THE PONCE ANIMAL FOUNDATION INC
    2× · 2024–2025 · $5k · revenue -15%
  • PJ
    PURE JOY CAT CAFE
    2× · 2024–2025 · $5k · revenue -8%

Funded once

  • VF
    VOLUNTEER FLORIDA FOUNDATION INCgraduated
    one grant, 2024 · $3k · revenue +345%
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2024 · $1k
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Finally Home Rescue
Animals
2
Feeding Homeless Felines Foundation
Animals
3
Care and Helping Animals Survive Emergencies
—
4
A Better Chance International Rescue
—
5
Purrfect Friends Cat Rescue

Cat Rescue

Animals
6
Purple Paws 2nd Chance Rescue
Animals
7
Florida Pointer Rescue Inc

Rescue pointer dogs and treat back to health and f

Animals
8
Starfish Animal Rescue
Animals
9
Pet Rescue Miami Inc
Animals
10
Kiss for Homeless Animals
Animals
11
Pet Helpers
Animals
12
Malcolm to the Rescue
Animals
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Mercy Chefs Inc; the most unlike its peers is Purrfect Whiskers Rescue. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/9
Grantees still filing
3/9
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

PURRFECT WHISKERS RESCUE: $28,000 · AnimalsPURRFECT WHISKERS RESCUETHE PONCE ANIMAL FOUNDATION INC: $5,200 · AnimalsTHE PONCE ANIMAL FOUNDATION INCPURE JOY CAT CAFE: $5,000 · AnimalsPURE JOY CAT CAFECHURCH OF ELEVEN 22: $4,000 · OtherCHURCH OF ELEVEN 22MARKS HOPE HOUSE INC: $4,000 · OtherMARKS HOPE HOUSE INCSECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK OF CENTRAL FLORIDA INC: $3,500 · OtherSECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK OF CE…TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION: $3,000 · OtherTUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATIONOUR LADY OF HOPE - KOC: $1,001 · OtherOUR LADY OF HOPE - KOCIndividual grant recipient: $1,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientSAMADHI WILDLIFE: $800 · OtherCONCERNED CITIZENS FOR ANIMAL WELFARE: $800 · Other+1 more: $500 · OtherWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $3,500 · Human ServicesWOUNDED WARRIOR …COVENANT HOUSE: $3,500 · Human ServicesCOVENANT HOUSEMERCY CHEFS INC: $3,000 · Human ServicesMERCY CHEFS INCVOLUNTEER FLORIDA FOUNDATION INC: $2,500 · PhilanthropyMercy Ships International: $500 · International
Animals$38,200Other$18,601Human Services$10,000Philanthropy$2,500International$500

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetPURRFECT WHISKERS RESCUE: $28,000 over 2y, 25% of budgetTHE PONCE ANIMAL FOUNDATION INC: $5,200 over 2y, 5.3% of budgetPURE JOY CAT CAFE: $5,000 over 2y, 8.4% of budgetWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $3,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCOVENANT HOUSE: $3,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK OF CENTRAL FLORIDA INC: $3,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMERCY CHEFS INC: $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetVOLUNTEER FLORIDA FOUNDATION INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMercy Ships International: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Sg Harris Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Sg Harris Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%2%8%17%30%funder's share of their income ↑0%8%15%22%30%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Volunteer Florida Foundation Inc: 2% of income from government
  • Second Harvest Food Bank of Central Florida Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Wounded Warrior Project Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–30%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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