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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.

$4k
Granted FY2021
3
Grants FY2021
3
States reached
$2k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2021.

Animals$64kArts & Culture$35kCrime & Legal$35kEducation$33kPhilanthropy$30kHealth$25kHousing & Shelter$21kYouth Development$20kOther$0
02FY2021 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$1,500
Median grant
3
States reached
$1.6M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ALZHEIMER'S ASSOCIATION$1,500
GORDON CNTY CHAMBER OF COMMERCE$1,500
NORTH SHORE ANIMAL LEAGUE$1,000
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.

show:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $10k → 14%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $5k → 14%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $2k → 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

IL
NY
NJ
CA
VA
MD
AZ
TN
DC
AL
GA
TX
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.

50%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$159k · 23 repeat orgs$156k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

23
17

Total granted

$159k
$155k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+33%
+65%

Still filing today

74%
76%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2021, 75% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21
HealthAnimalsPhilanthropyHousing & ShelterCrime & LegalHuman ServicesOther
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

  • TC
    The Childrens Advocacy Center
    3× · 2017–2019 · $35k · revenue +90%
  • AN
    American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches
    3× · 2017–2019 · $17k · revenue +46%
  • GC
    Gordon County Chamber of Commerce Inc
    5× · 2017–2021 · $10k · revenue +34%

Funded once

  • CG
    CALHOUN GORDON ARTS COUNCIL INC
    one grant, 2017 · $35k · revenue 0%
  • SF
    SISKIN FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2019 · $25k
  • BG
    BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF GORDON MURRAY AND WHITFIELD COUNTIES INC
    one grant, 2019 · $20k · revenue +5%
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 American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals

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…

Animals
2
Cherokee County Humane Society

Prevention of animal cruelty.

Animals
3
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center

Leadership in the prevention, treatment, and cure of cancer through excellence, vision and cost effectiveness in patient care, outreach programs, research, and education.

Health
4
American College of Surgeons

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.

Education
5
American College of Radiology

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…

Health
6
Lucky Dog Animal Rescue

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…

Animals
7
Blood Cancer United Inc

Our mission is to cure leukemia, lymphoma, hodgkin's disease and myeloma, and improve the quality of life of patients and their families.

Health
8
Children's Health Care

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.

Health
9
East Tennessee Children's Hospital Association Inc

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…

Health
10
Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Wake County Inc

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…

Animals
11
Cedars-Sinai Medical Center

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…

Health
12
Animal Wellness Action

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.

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is March of Dimes Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

32 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. 32 of the 41 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)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
31/32
Grantees still filing
21/32
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CALHOUN GORDON ARTS COUNCIL INC: $35,000 · OtherCALHOUN GORDON ARTS COUNCIL INCSISKIN FOUNDATION: $25,000 · OtherSISKIN FOUNDATIONCALHOUN HIGH SCHOOL: $15,000 · OtherCALHOUN HIGH SCHOOLCHRISTIAN HERITAGE SCHOOL: $10,000 · OtherCHRISTIAN HERITAGE SCHOOLEchota Pet Advocacy & Rescue Group: $10,000 · OtherEchota Pet Advocacy & Rescue GroupGordon County Chamber of Commerce Inc: $9,500 · OtherGordon County Chamber of Commerce IncTHE SALVATION ARMY: $6,000 · OtherCAMP TWIN LAKES INC: $15,000 · OtherCAMP TWIN LAKES INC+12 more: $25,410 · Other+12 moreANIMAL RESCUE LEAGUE OF NW GEORGIA: $36,000 · AnimalsANIMAL RESCUE LEA…TENNESSEE HUMANE ANIMAL LEAGUE INC: $6,000 · AnimalsTENNESSEE HUMANE …SOUTHERN COMFORT MALTESE RESCUEINC: $4,000 · AnimalsSOUTHERN COMFORT …+3 more: $2,725 · Animals+3 moreThe Childrens Advocacy Center: $35,000 · Crime & LegalThe Children…ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC: $5,500 · HealthALS UNITED OF GEORGIA INC: $5,000 · HealthAmerican Diabetes Association: $3,000 · HealthAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $3,000 · HealthPANCREATIC CANCER ACTION NETWORK INC: $1,500 · HealthAMERICAN LUNG ASSOCIATION: $1,000 · HealthAmerican Heart Association Inc: $1,000 · HealthSHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN: $1,000 · HealthMARCH OF DIMES INC: $1,000 · Health+1 more: $500 · HealthCHATTANOOGA ROOM IN THE INN INC: $20,000 · Housing & ShelterHOMES FOR VETERANS A NJ NON PROFIT CORPORATION: $1,000 · Housing & ShelterBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF GORDON MURRAY AND WHITFIELD COUNTIES INC: $20,000 · Youth DevelopmentAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $17,000 · Human Services
Other$150,910Animals$48,725Crime & Legal$35,000Health$22,500Housing & Shelter$21,000Youth Development$20,000Human Services$17,000

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 budgetANIMAL RESCUE LEAGUE OF NW GEORGIA: $36,000 over 4y, 23% of budgetCALHOUN GORDON ARTS COUNCIL INC: $35,000 over 1y, 5.8% of budgetThe Childrens Advocacy Center: $35,000 over 3y, 8.7% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF GORDON MURRAY AND WHITFIELD COUNTIES INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $17,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCAMP TWIN LAKES INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCHRISTIAN HERITAGE SCHOOL: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetEchota Pet Advocacy & Rescue Group: $10,000 over 1y, 84% of budgetGordon County Chamber of Commerce Inc: $9,500 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetTENNESSEE HUMANE ANIMAL LEAGUE INC: $6,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC: $5,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCHATTANOOGA GIRLS LEADERSHIP ACADEMY: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetALS UNITED OF GEORGIA INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetUnited Way of Gordon County Inc: $4,500 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetAmerican Diabetes Association: $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetGEORGIA NORTHWESTERN TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $3,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetPANCREATIC CANCER ACTION NETWORK INC: $1,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPILOTS TO THE RESCUE INC: $1,125 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNORTH SHORE ANIMAL LEAGUE AMERICA INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN LUNG ASSOCIATION: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetEASTER SEALS INC: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMARCH OF DIMES INC: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMARINE TOYS FOR TOTS FOUNDATION: $710 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSMILING DOG FARMS: $600 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHATT FOUNDATION: $500 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.

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 Clarence E Harris…Mohawk Carpet Foundat…Robert F Stone Founda…The Community Foundat…Chattanooga Christian…Georgia Power Foundat…Raymond James Charita…The Blackbaud Giving …American Endowment Fo…Network for GoodNatl Christian Charit…
The Community Foundation of Northwest Georgia IncGA15.6× affinity5 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 The Bobbye F Harris Foundation Bobbye F Harris funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Bobbye F Harris Foundation Bobbye F Harris. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%2%6%14%25%funder's share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Shriners Hospitals for Children: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
6report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
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.
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Find your warmest path to The Bobbye F Harris Foundation Bobbye F Harris 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.

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 41 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 2021, released 2021. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2024) is on record and reports no grant expense, so the figures above are from FY2021, the most recent year this funder made grants.

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