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The Bob and Gaye Harris Foundation

Its FY2026 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$295k
Granted FY2026(still arriving)
27
Grants FY2026
26
Organizations funded FY2025
50%
First-time grantees FY2025
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Median grant, FY2026
$10,000
Largest grant, FY2026
$40,000
Organizations funded a year
10 to 26
FY2019 to FY2025
States reached, FY2026
5
Total assets, FY2026
$2.5M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2025, 50% of the organizations The Bob and Gaye Harris Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 52% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 48% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $112k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesArts & CultureYouth DevelopmentEducationHealthPublic BenefitOther
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
FY2026still arriving27$295k15%
FY202526$217k50%
FY202415$262k33%
FY202312$447k17%
FY202214$447k21%
FY202111$438k9%
FY202011$63k36%
FY201910$101k30%
98% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Education$1.4MHealth$157kRecreation & Sports$134kArts & Culture$120kReligion$107kYouth Development$72kHuman Services$34kInternational$15kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

ME
OR
IN
NJ
CT
CA
MD
OK
TX

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2026, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
La Reina High School$1,247,0005n/a
Art Trek Inc$140,00058%
Dolores Mission$98,50010n/a
Cystic Fibrosis Foundation$50,000100%
Children's Hospital Los Angeles$50,000100%
Catholic Big Brothers Big Sisters Inc$41,000101%
Homeboy Industries$41,00070%
Southern California Catholic Educational$29,000413%
St Michael School$20,0001n/a
Sisters of Social Service$20,0002n/a
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All grantees of The Bob and Gaye Harris Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
La Reina High School$1,247,0005n/a
Art Trek Inc$140,00058%
Dolores Mission$98,50010n/a
Cystic Fibrosis Foundation$50,000100%
Children's Hospital Los Angeles$50,000100%
Catholic Big Brothers Big Sisters Inc$41,000101%
Homeboy Industries$41,00070%
Southern California Catholic Educational$29,000413%
St Michael School$20,0001n/a
Sisters of Social Service$20,0002n/a
Don Bosco Technical Institute$20,00020%
Mending Kids International dba Mending Kids$20,00040%
St Julie Billart Church$17,0004n/a
Saint John's Health Center Foundation$15,00030%
Dolores Mission School$15,0001n/a
Santa Catalina Island Conservancy$12,00050%
Coast Guard Foundation Inc$11,00020%
Interfaith Neighbors Inc$10,0002n/a
Proyecto Pastoral$10,00020%
Life Centers of Ventura County$10,0001n/a
Santa Cruz Island Foundation$5,0001n/a
Prostate Cancer Foundation$3,0002n/a
Catholic Charities Inc$2,50010%
Angel Flight Inc$1,00012%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 21 recipients with no EIN on record ($433k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Bob and Gaye Harris Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetArt Trek Inc: $140,000 over 5y, 7.7% of budgetCystic Fibrosis Foundation: $50,000 over 10y, 0.0% of budgetChildren's Hospital Los Angeles: $50,000 over 10y, 0.0% of budgetCatholic Big Brothers Big Sisters Inc: $41,000 over 10y, 0.8% of budgetHomeboy Industries: $41,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetSouthern California Catholic Educational: $29,000 over 4y, 13% of budgetDon Bosco Technical Institute: $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMending Kids International dba Mending Kids: $20,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetSaint John's Health Center Foundation: $15,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSanta Catalina Island Conservancy: $12,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCoast Guard Foundation Inc: $11,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetProyecto Pastoral: $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCatholic Charities Inc: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAngel Flight Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 2.2% 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 14.

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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.

Catholic Community Foundation of Los AngelesCA15.6× affinity5 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Catholic Community Foundation of Los Angeles · California Community Foundation · Sempra Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Network for Good · American Endowment Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · American Online Giving 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.

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About The Bob and Gaye Harris Foundation

How much does The Bob and Gaye Harris Foundation give?
The Bob and Gaye Harris Foundation reported 27 grants totaling $294,500 in its FY2026 IRS filing. It funded between 10 and 26 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2025.
What does The Bob and Gaye Harris Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2026, its largest causes are Education (67%), Health (8%), Recreation & Sports (7%).
Who are The Bob and Gaye Harris Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2026: La Reina High School ($1.2M), Art Trek Inc ($140k), Dolores Mission ($99k).
Does The Bob and Gaye Harris Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2025, 50% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does The Bob and Gaye Harris Foundation 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 The Bob and Gaye Harris Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Catholic Community Foundation of Los Angeles, California Community Foundation, Sempra Foundation.
Where is The Bob and Gaye Harris Foundation based?
The Bob and Gaye Harris Foundation 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 46 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 2026, released 2026. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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