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St and Margaret D Harris Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

St and Margaret D 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.

$936k
Granted FY2025still arriving
45
Grants FY2025still arriving
11
States reached
$100k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0197% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Education$790kHealth$533kHuman Services$398kReligion$206kHousing & Shelter$205kYouth Development$170kRecreation & Sports$136kFood & Nutrition$98kOther$0
02FY2025 · 45 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k9 grants · $16k
  • $10k–50k31 grants · $598k
  • $50k–250k5 grants · $321k
$15,000
Median grant
11
States reached
$22M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MERCER UNIVERSITY$99,999
UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME$69,227
BOSTON COLLEGE$52,100
GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY$50,000
EAST COBB BAPTIST CHURCH$50,000
COLLECTIVE LEARNING ACADEMY$49,636
AUBURN UNIVERSITY$39,387
MARQUETTE UNIVERSITY$34,706
GEORGIA DEPARTMENT OF FAMILY AND CHILDREN SERVICES$30,000
COLLEGE OF CHARLESTON$29,769
BERMAN CENTER$27,750
GEORGIA MOUNTAIN FOOD BANK$25,000
WE CARE HALL COUNTY$25,000
CLUBHOUSE ATLATNA INC$25,000
MURPHY-HARPST CHILDREN'S CENTER INC$25,000
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY21–25, $155k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%FAMILY PROMISE OF HALL COUNTY: $10k → 12%BERT'S BIG ADVENTURE INC: $10k → 13%FAMILY PROMISE OF HALL COUNTY: $10k → 12%FAMILY PROMISE OF HALL COUNTY: $10k → 12%DRESS FOR SUCCESS ATLANTA: $15k → 13%SHARE THE MAGIC FOUNDATION: $5k → 13%SHARE THE MAGIC FOUNDATION: $5k → 13%NEW AMERICAN PATHWAYS: $15k → 14%NEW AMERICAN PATHWAYS INC: $5k → 14%MOVING IN THE SPIRIT: $20k → 14%MOVING IN THE SPIRIT: $10k → 14%ATLANTA UNION MISSION: $20k → 13%ATLANTA UNION MISSION: $15k → 13%KATE'S CLUB: $5k → 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.

Which US states its grants reach

NH
WI
NY
MA
IN
OH
PA
CA
KY
TN
SC
DC
AL
GA
FL
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.

63%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.7M · 44 repeat orgs$1.0M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +20% since the first grant, against +3% for those funded once.

44 repeat relationships: 26 still active in FY2025, 18 since wound down; 17 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

44
48

Total granted

$1.7M
$647k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+20%
+3%

Still filing today

73%
48%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 57% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $368k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationHuman ServicesHealthReligionFood & NutritionRecreation & SportsOther
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

  • MC
    MURPHY-HARPST CHILDREN'S CENTERS INC
    4× · 2022–2025 · $95k · revenue +67%
  • Cure Childhood Cancer Inc
    4× · 2022–2025 · $95k · revenue +57%
  • CL
    Collective Learning Academy Inc
    2× · 2024–2025 · $92k · revenue +6%

Funded once

  • CC
    CLARK'S CHRISTMAS KIDS (GADFCS)
    one grant, 2022 · $55k
  • HF
    HOPE FOR SOAPTHRIVE BY HOPE
    one grant, 2023 · $50k
  • AA
    ADDICTION ALLIANCE OF GEORGIA
    one grant, 2023 · $50k
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
The Georgia Center for Nonprofits

Our mission is to create thriving communities by helping nonprofits succeed. our work revolves around four primary areas of focus.1. we are a hub for social innovation 2. we are a capacity accelerator for organizations and their people3.…

Community Improvement
2
Children's Healthcare of Atlanta Inc

To make kids better today and healthier tomorrow.

Health
3
Hope Atlanta Inc

Hope atlanta seeks to help georgians avoid homelessness and hunger through a comprehensive approach that equips them with the tools for lifelong stability.our vision is to end hunger and homelessness for every georgian.

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4
Atlanta Committee for Progress Inc

ACP is a group committed to identifying and providing leadership on selected issues important to driving the economic development of the city of Atlanta and for which the ACP's active involvement will make a major difference. The ACP has a…

—
5
Annandale At Suwanee Inc

To perpetuate a village community to provide progressive life assistance to adults with developmental disabilities so that they can maximize their abilities and maintain their independence in the least restrictive environment.

Health
6
Goodwill of the Coastal Empire Inc

Our commitment is to provide the individual support, meaningful training and employment services to people to remove barriers and close skill gaps so that individuals build brighter futures.

Employment
7
Breakthrough Atlanta

Breakthrough atlanta pursues a dual mission: to increase academic opportunity for highly motivated, underserved students and get them into college ready to succeed; and inspire and develop the next generation of teachers and educational…

Education
8
Georgia Center for Opportunity Inc

Georgia Center for Opportunity GCO is an independent, non-partisan think tank dedicated to increasing opportunity and improving the quality of life for all Georgians.

Education
9
Friends School of Atlanta

The school's mission is to provide challenging academics in a diverse environment, drawing on the quaker testimonies, or values, of simplicity, peace, integrity, community, equality and stewardship to empower students to go out into the…

—
10
Morehouse School of Medicine

Leading the creation and advancement of health equity we exist to improve the health and well-being of individuals and communities, increase the diversity of the health professional and scientific workforce, and address primary health care…

Education
11
Girls on the Run Georgia Inc

Girls on the Run Georgia empowers girls with vital social-emotional skills to help them succeed in school, at home, and within friendships. Our programs, Girls on the Run (3rd-5th grade) and Heart & Sole (6th-8th grade) are taught by…

Youth Development
12
The Drake House Inc

To empower women and their children experiencing homelessness to achieve economic independence and long-term stability.

Housing & Shelter
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Atlanta Union Mission Corporation; the most unlike its peers is Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc. 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

68 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. 68 of the 111 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)
10
Early backer (in before they grew)
67/68
Grantees still filing
40/68
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

MURPHY-HARPST CHILDREN'S CENTERS INC: $95,000 · OtherMURPHY-HARPST CHILDREN'S CENTERS INCMARIST SCHOOL INC: $90,000 · OtherMARIST SCHOOL INCEAST COBB BAPTIST CHURCH: $80,000 · OtherEAST COBB BAPTIST CHURCHUNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA: $70,565 · OtherGEORGIA PUBLIC BROADCASTING: $70,000 · OtherGEORGIA DEPARTMENT OF FAMILY AND CHILDREN SERVICES: $60,000 · OtherCLARK'S CHRISTMAS KIDS (GADFCS): $55,000 · OtherHOPE FOR SOAPTHRIVE BY HOPE: $50,000 · OtherADDICTION ALLIANCE OF GEORGIA: $50,000 · OtherWE CARE HALL COUNTY: $50,000 · OtherHOPE THRU SOAP INC: $50,000 · Other+57 more: $739,451 · Other+57 moreTHE CORPORATION OF MERCER UNIVERSITY: $99,999 · EducationTHE CORPORATION OF MERC…Collective Learning Academy Inc: $91,746 · EducationCollective Learning Aca…University of Notre Dame du Lac: $69,227 · EducationUniversity of Notre Dam…GAINESVILLE INDEPENDENT SCHOOL INC AKA LAKEVIEW ACADEMY: $68,250 · EducationGAINESVILLE INDEPENDENT…TRUSTEES OF BOSTON COLLEGE: $62,100 · EducationTRUSTEES OF BOSTON COLL…GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY: $50,000 · EducationGEORGETOWN UNIVERSITYMarquette University: $34,706 · EducationMarquette UniversityTHE BOYCE L ANSLEY SCHOOL INC: $30,000 · EducationMDE SCHOOL OF EAST COBB INC: $25,000 · EducationRAISING EXPECTATIONS INC: $20,000 · Education+4 more: $40,163 · Education+4 moreCure Childhood Cancer Inc: $95,000 · HealthCure Child…SUNSHINE ON A RANNEY DAY INCORPORATED: $60,000 · HealthSUNSHINE O…ATLANTA RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES INC: $40,000 · HealthATLANTA RO…THE ERIC R BEVERLY FAMILY FOUNDATION: $30,000 · HealthTHE ERIC R…CLUBHOUSE ATLANTA INC: $25,000 · HealthCLUBHOUSE …ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $20,075 · HealthST JUDE CH…+2 more: $1,500 · HealthGATEWAY HOUSE INC: $60,000 · Human ServicesGATEWAY H…ATLANTA UNION MISSION CORPORATION: $35,000 · Human ServicesATLANTA U…MOVING IN THE SPIRIT INC: $30,000 · Human ServicesMOVING IN…FAMILY PROMISE OF HALL COUNTY: $30,000 · Human ServicesFAMILY PR…INTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S HOUSE INC: $20,000 · Human ServicesINTERNATI…NEW AMERICAN PATHWAYS INC: $20,000 · Human ServicesNEW AMERI…DRESS FOR SUCCESS ATLANTA INC: $15,000 · Human ServicesDRESS FOR…SHARE THE MAGIC FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 · Human ServicesBERT'S BIG ADVENTURE INC: $10,000 · Human Services+1 more: $5,000 · Human ServicesGEORGIA MOUNTAIN FOOD BANK INC: $50,000 · Food & NutritionLADY TS HOMELESS MINISTRY INC: $30,000 · Food & NutritionSECOND HELPINGS ATLANTA INC: $25,000 · Food & NutritionATLANTA COMMUNITY FOOD BANK INC: $11,000 · Food & NutritionCITY OF REFUGE: $55,000 · ReligionREMERGE INC: $35,000 · ReligionBUCKHEAD CHRISTIAN MINISTRY INC: $5,500 · ReligionIN HIS WAKES INC: $5,000 · ReligionHUGS FOR HARRISON INC: $5,000 · ReligionATLANTA CHILDREN'S SHELTER INCORPORATED: $35,000 · Housing & ShelterInterfaith Outreach Home Inc: $25,000 · Housing & Shelter
Other$1,460,016Education$591,191Health$271,575Human Services$235,000Food & Nutrition$116,000Religion$105,500Housing & Shelter$60,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTHE CORPORATION OF MERCER UNIVERSITY: $99,999 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMURPHY-HARPST CHILDREN'S CENTERS INC: $95,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetCure Childhood Cancer Inc: $95,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetCollective Learning Academy Inc: $91,746 over 2y, 3.9% of budgetUniversity of Notre Dame du Lac: $69,227 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGAINESVILLE INDEPENDENT SCHOOL INC AKA LAKEVIEW ACADEMY: $68,250 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetTRUSTEES OF BOSTON COLLEGE: $62,100 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSUNSHINE ON A RANNEY DAY INCORPORATED: $60,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetGATEWAY HOUSE INC: $60,000 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetCITY OF REFUGE: $55,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetHOPE THRU SOAP INC: $50,000 over 2y, 5.5% of budgetGEORGIA MOUNTAIN FOOD BANK INC: $50,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetGEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCAMP TWIN LAKES INC: $45,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetATLANTA RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES INC: $40,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTHE ATLANTA WOMENS FOUNDATION INC: $40,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetREMERGE INC: $35,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetATLANTA UNION MISSION CORPORATION: $35,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetATLANTA CHILDREN'S SHELTER INCORPORATED: $35,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetMarquette University: $34,706 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BOYCE L ANSLEY SCHOOL INC: $30,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetATLANTA COURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATES INC: $30,000 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetMOVING IN THE SPIRIT INC: $30,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetLADY TS HOMELESS MINISTRY INC: $30,000 over 3y, 7.8% of budgetFAMILY PROMISE OF HALL COUNTY: $30,000 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetBoys & Girls Clubs of Metro Atlanta Inc: $30,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE ERIC R BEVERLY FAMILY FOUNDATION: $30,000 over 1y, 35% of budgetSECOND HELPINGS ATLANTA INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetROBERT W WOODRUFF ARTS CENTER INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNAMI Georgia Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetMDE SCHOOL OF EAST COBB INC: $25,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetInterfaith Outreach Home Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetCOMMUNITY ASSISTANCE CENTER INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $20,075 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetINTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S HOUSE INC: $20,000 over 2y, 3.7% of budgetRAISING EXPECTATIONS INC: $20,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetNEW AMERICAN PATHWAYS INC: $20,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetLiveSafe Resources Inc: $20,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetFURKIDS INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetSONGS FOR KIDS FOUNDATION INC: $15,000 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetBRENAU UNIVERSITY INC: $14,839 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetATLANTA COMMUNITY FOOD BANK INC: $11,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetREACH FOR EXCELLENCE INC: $10,200 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetCHATTAHOOCHEE RIVERKEEPER INC: $10,133 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $10,124 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSHARE THE MAGIC FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetCOVENANT HOUSE GEORGIA INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGeorgia Council on Economic Education: $10,000 over 1y, 0.9% 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.

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.

The Community Foundat…The Imlay Foundation …Georgia Power Foundat…Community Foundation …Tr Uw Charles I BrananBennett Thrasher Foun…Tw Marian W Ottley At…The Waterfall Foundat…Atl Fdn-W Peters MainUnited Way of Greater…Atlanta Community Foo…The Richard C Munroe …
The Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta IncGA43.9× affinity24 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta Inc · The Imlay Foundation Inc · Georgia Power Foundation Inc · Community Foundation for Northeast Georgia · Tr Uw Charles I Branan · Bennett Thrasher Foundation Inc · Tw Marian W Ottley Atlanta Main · The Waterfall Foundation Inc · Atl Fdn-W Peters Main · United Way of Greater Atlanta Inc · Atlanta Community Food Bank Inc · The Richard C Munroe Foundation Inc

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%3%10%23%40%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 7%
  • Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: 7% of income from government
  • Trustees of Boston College: 3% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
20report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
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 111 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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