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Stephen & Julia Harmelin Family Fdn at a glance

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Stephen & Julia Harmelin Family Fdn

$10k
Granted FY2022
2
Grants FY2022
1
States reached
$5k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2022.

Arts & Culture$45kEducation$9kHealth$4kPhilanthropy$3kSocial Science$500Public Benefit$500Housing & Shelter$350Food & Nutrition$250
02FY2022 · 2 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$5,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$4k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
National Constitution Center$5,000
The Barnes Foundation$5,000
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 (FY19–19, $350) land where the poverty rate runs at 22%, against an area that typically sits at 16%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 16%Project Home: $350 → 22%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.

84%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$46k · 3 repeat orgs$9k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +31% since the first grant, against +13% for those funded once.

3 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2022, 1 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

3
11

Total granted

$46k
$9k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+31%
+13%

Still filing today

100%
64%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2022, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22
Arts & CultureHealthRecreation & SportsEducationHuman ServicesFood & NutritionOther
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

  • NC
    NATIONAL CONSTITUTION CENTER
    4× · 2018–2022 · $24k · revenue +182%
  • TB
    THE BARNES FOUNDATION
    4× · 2018–2022 · $22k · revenue -8%
  • BT
    BREAKTHROUGH T1D
    3× · 2018–2020 · $1k · revenue +31%

Funded once

  • TH
    THE HONICKMAN FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2018 · $3k · revenue -11%
  • TC
    The College of Physicians of Phila
    one grant, 2018 · $3k
  • UO
    University of Pittsburgh Birmingham
    one 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.

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 Johns Hopkins Hospital

For more than 125 years, the mission of the johns hopkins hospital has been to lead the world in the diagnosis and treatment of disease and to train tomorrow's great physicians, nurses and scientists. above all, we aim to provide the…

Health
2
Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences Foundation
Philanthropy
3
The William Penn Foundation
—
4
The Charles R Bronfman Prize Foundation
Philanthropy
5
Drexel University

Drexel university fulfills its founder's vision of preparing each new generation of students for productive professional and civic lives while also focusing its collective expertise on solving society's greatest problems. drexel is an…

Education
6
The Pensky Family Foundation
Philanthropy
7
The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Chartered by a unanimous act of congress, the museum is america's national institution for the documentation, study, interpretation, and education of holocaust history and serves as our country's memorial to the victims of the holocaust.…

Arts & Culture
8
Penn Entertainment Foundation
Philanthropy
9
Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute

Sanford burnham prebys medical discovery institute's mission is to advance the biomedical sciences by cultivating the next generation of scientific leaders, providing meaningful opportunities for researchers of all backgrounds to learn,…

Health
10
Philadelphia Health Partnership
Health
11
The Steinman Foundation
—
12
The Goldman Sachs Foundation
Philanthropy
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is National Constitution Center; the most unlike its peers is Pinkwellchick Foundation 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

11 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. 11 of the 15 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
11/11
Grantees still filing
8/11
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

NATIONAL CONSTITUTION CENTER: $23,500 · Arts & CultureNATIONAL CONSTITUTION CENTERTHE BARNES FOUNDATION: $21,500 · Arts & CultureTHE BARNES FOUNDATION+1 more: $300 · Arts & CultureTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $7,500 · EducationTRUSTEES OF TH…Temple University - Of The Commonwealth System of Higher Education: $500 · EducationTemple Univers…THE HONICKMAN FOUNDATION: $3,000 · OtherTHE HONICKMA…The College of Physicians of Phila: $2,500 · OtherThe College …University of Pittsburgh Birmingham: $500 · OtherUniversity o…Harvard Law School Fund: $500 · OtherHarvard Law …The Rendell Center for Civics and C: $500 · OtherThe Rendell …BREAKTHROUGH T1D: $1,100 · HealthPINKWELLCHICK FOUNDATION INC: $250 · HealthPROJECT HOME: $350 · Human ServicesBREAKTHROUGH BIKE CHALLENGE: $250 · Recreation & SportsSHARE FOOD PROGRAM: $250 · Food & Nutrition
Arts & Culture$45,300Education$8,000Other$7,000Health$1,350Human Services$350Recreation & Sports$250Food & Nutrition$250

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 budgetNATIONAL CONSTITUTION CENTER: $23,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetTHE BARNES FOUNDATION: $21,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $7,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBREAKTHROUGH T1D: $1,100 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTemple University - Of The Commonwealth System of Higher Education: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPROJECT HOME: $350 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWEITZMAN NATIONAL MUSEUM OF AMERICAN JEWISH HISTORY: $300 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPINKWELLCHICK FOUNDATION INC: $250 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetBREAKTHROUGH BIKE CHALLENGE: $250 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSHARE FOOD PROGRAM: $250 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 Stephen & Julia Harmelin Family Fdn funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Stephen & Julia Harmelin Family Fdn. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get 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 · 0–20%
    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 15 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 2022, released 2022. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record but names no grant recipient in the published copy, so the figures above are from FY2022, the most recent year this funder’s grantee list reached the public record.

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