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Tamara L Harris Foundation Inc

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.

$270k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
7
Grants FY2025
7
Organizations funded FY2024
57%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$30,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$100,000
Organizations funded a year
1 to 9
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
4
Total assets, FY2025
$4.7M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 57% of the organizations Tamara L Harris Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 21% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 79% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $40k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationArts & CultureCommunity ImprovementCivil RightsHousing & ShelterScience & TechOther
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
FY2025still arriving7$270k14%
FY20247$190k57%
FY20233$255k67%
FY20229$265k22%
FY20215$198k0%
FY20207$150k86%
FY20196$251k67%
FY20181$2k100%
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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Arts & Culture$731kCommunity Improvement$400kEducation$238kCivil Rights$185kYouth Development$143kHuman Services$130kHousing & Shelter$70kCrime & Legal$57kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

IL
NY
MA
PA
NJ
CA
DC
FL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 24 grantees

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 6 recipients with no EIN on record ($217k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Tamara L Harris Foundation Inc supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetInstitute for Entrepreneurial Leadership Inc: $400,000 over 3y, 5.7% of budgetWnet: $379,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetThe Second Stage Theatre Inc: $238,500 over 3y, 2.1% of budgetNAACP Legal Defense & Educ Fund Inc: $185,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetFlorida International University Foundation Inc: $155,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetThe Sundari Foundation Inc: $70,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetThe Nasw Foundation Inc: $60,000 over 3y, 2.1% of budgetCorporate Counsel Women of Color: $55,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetCalifornia State University Northridge Foundation: $40,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetGuitars Over Guns Organization Inc: $40,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetGriffith Observatory Foundation: $40,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetThe Museum of Contemporary Art Los Angeles: $40,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMagee-Womens Research Institute and Foundation: $35,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTeach for America Inc: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLos Angeles Philharmonic Association: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWellesley College: $13,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFeeding South Florida Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPublic Media Group of Southern California: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMontclair Kimberley Academy Foundation: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Historymakers: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetThe Partnership for After School Education Inc: $2,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetNew York City Police Foundation Inc: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Montclair Art Museum: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNew York City Ballet Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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 24.

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.

Jpmorgan Chase FoundationNY15.7× affinity7 shared granteesties to 7 of 7Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Tamara L Harris Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to Tamara L Harris Foundation Inc 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 Tamara L Harris Foundation Inc

How much does Tamara L Harris Foundation Inc give?
Tamara L Harris Foundation Inc reported 7 grants totaling $270,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 9 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does Tamara L Harris Foundation Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (36%), Community Improvement (20%), Education (12%).
Who are Tamara L Harris Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Institute for Entrepreneurial Leadership Inc ($400k), Wnet ($380k), The Second Stage Theatre Inc ($239k).
Does Tamara L Harris Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 57% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Tamara L Harris Foundation Inc 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 Tamara L Harris Foundation Inc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Jpmorgan Chase Foundation, Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program, National Philanthropic Trust.
Where is Tamara L Harris Foundation Inc based?
Tamara L Harris Foundation Inc is based in CA.

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 30 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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