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The Bobbye F Harris Foundation Bobbye F Harris
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2021.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| GORDON CNTY CHAMBER OF COMMERCE | $1,500 |
| ALZHEIMER'S ASSOCIATION | $1,500 |
| NORTH SHORE ANIMAL LEAGUE | $1,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY17–19, $17k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
23 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2021, 21 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2021 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2021, 75% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- TCThe Childrens Advocacy Center3× · 2017–2019 · $35k · revenue +147%
- ANAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches3× · 2017–2019 · $17k · revenue +46%
- GCGordon County Chamber of Commerce Inc5× · 2017–2021 · $10k · revenue +34%
Funded once
- CGCALHOUN GORDON ARTS COUNCIL INCone grant, 2017 · $35k · revenue 0%
- SFSISKIN FOUNDATIONone grant, 2019 · $25k
- BGBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF GORDON MURRAY AND WHITFIELD COUNTIES INCone grant, 2019 · $20k · revenue +5%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
The aspca's mission, as stated by founder henry bergh in 1866, is "to provide effective means for the prevention of cruelty to animals throughout the united states." the aspca was founded on the belief that animals are entitled to kind and…
Prevention of animal cruelty.
Leadership in the prevention, treatment, and cure of cancer through excellence, vision and cost effectiveness in patient care, outreach programs, research, and education.
The american college of surgeons is dedicated to improving the care of the surgical patient and to safeguarding standards of care in an optimal and ethical practice environment.
The american college of radiology (acr) is organized to advance radiology science, practice and access, improve quality and safety, provide continuing education for radiology and allied professionals, and achieve better outcomes through…
Lucky dog animal rescue is a volunteer-powered nonprofit dedicated to rescuing homeless, neglected, and abandoned animals from certain euthanasia and finding them loving forever homes. we educate the community and all pet owners on…
Our mission is to cure leukemia, lymphoma, hodgkin's disease and myeloma, and improve the quality of life of patients and their families.
We champion the health needs of children and families. we are committed to improving children's health by providing the highest-quality, family centered care, advanced through research and education.
East tennessee children's hospital is a free-standing, independent, not-for-profit pediatric health care system which serves the east tennessee region. children's hospital is certified by the state of tennessee as a comprehensive regional…
Located in raleigh, nc, the spca of wake county works in over half the state of north carolina through collaborative partnerships that save pets and help people. significant activities include: decreasing the number of animals entering…
As a leading academic healthcare organization, our mission is to elevate the health status of the communities we serve.(see schedule o for continuation)(continued)-we deliver exceptional healthcare enhanced by research and education-we…
To prevent cruelty to animals, we promote enacting and enforcing good public policies. enacting good laws depends upon electing good lawmakers, and we remind voters which candidates care about and support animal issues.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is March of Dimes Inc and the most unlike its peers is Echota Pet Advocacy & Rescue Group. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 37 years old; the field is 11. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 28% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 19% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
32 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 32 of the 41 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds ANIMAL RESCUE LEAGUE OF NW GEORGIA ↗
- Who funds The Childrens Advocacy Center ↗
- Who funds CALHOUN GORDON ARTS COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF GORDON MURRAY AND WHITFIELD COUNTIES INC ↗
- Who funds CHATTANOOGA ROOM IN THE INN INC ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds CAMP TWIN LAKES INC ↗
- Who funds CHRISTIAN HERITAGE SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds Echota Pet Advocacy & Rescue Group ↗
- Who funds Gordon County Chamber of Commerce Inc ↗
- Who funds TENNESSEE HUMANE ANIMAL LEAGUE INC ↗
- Who funds ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds CHATTANOOGA GIRLS LEADERSHIP ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds ALS UNITED OF GEORGIA INC ↗
- Who funds United Way of Gordon County Inc ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN COMFORT MALTESE RESCUEINC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds American Diabetes Association ↗
- Who funds GEORGIA NORTHWESTERN TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds PANCREATIC CANCER ACTION NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds PILOTS TO THE RESCUE INC ↗
- Who funds EASTER SEALS INC ↗
- Who funds NORTH SHORE ANIMAL LEAGUE AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds SHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds HOMES FOR VETERANS A NJ NON PROFIT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
- Who funds MARCH OF DIMES INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN LUNG ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds MARINE TOYS FOR TOTS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SMILING DOG FARMS ↗
- Who funds CHATT FOUNDATION ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: The Community Foundation of Northwest Georgia Inc · The Clarence E Harris Foundation · Mohawk Carpet Foundation Inc · Robert F Stone Foundation AKA Bobby Stone Foundation · The Community Foundation of Greater Chattanooga Inc · Chattanooga Christian Community Foundation · Georgia Power Foundation Inc · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · American Endowment Foundation · Network for Good · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization The Bobbye F Harris Foundation Bobbye F Harris funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Shriners Hospitals for Children — 0% of income from government
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.
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