Kentucky · Private foundation
The Claude and Betty 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.
- $13M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 11
- Grants FY2025
- 32
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 3%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $959,710
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $3,000,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 32 to 78
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 5
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 3% of the organizations The Claude and Betty Harris Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 3% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $200k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 11 | $13M | 64% |
| FY2024 | 32 | $6.3M | 3% |
| FY2023 | 48 | $19M | 4% |
| FY2022 | 75 | $41M | 41% |
| FY2021 | 78 | $15M | 62% |
| FY2020 | 38 | $5.7M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Samaritan House Community Center | $11,254,725 | 5 | 70% |
| Arkansas Children's Hospital | $6,032,902 | 3 | 1% |
| Northwest Arkansas Food Bank | $6,030,517 | 4 | 14% |
| The Manna Center | $3,496,000 | 6 | 22% |
| Open Door Mission | $2,925,000 | 5 | 54% |
| Joyce Meyer Ministries Inc | $2,883,000 | 1 | n/a |
| The Society of St Andrew Inc | $2,800,000 | 5 | 5% |
| Volunteer Ministry Center | $1,750,000 | 4 | 20% |
| Blue Ridge Area Food Bank Inc | $1,600,000 | 4 | 1% |
| Hill Country Community Ministries | $1,570,000 | 5 | 29% |
Show all 69 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 58 recipients with no EIN on record ($42M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
The Claude and Betty Harris Foundation Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 7 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 61 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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.
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How this is measured
Compare The Claude and Betty Harris Foundation Inc with peer funders
About The Claude and Betty Harris Foundation Inc
- How much does The Claude and Betty Harris Foundation Inc give?
- The Claude and Betty Harris Foundation Inc reported 11 grants totaling $13,128,170 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 32 and 78 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does The Claude and Betty Harris Foundation Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Human Services (23%), Health (20%), Food & Nutrition (18%).
- Who are The Claude and Betty Harris Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Samaritan House Community Center ($11M), Arkansas Children's Hospital ($6.0M), Northwest Arkansas Food Bank ($6.0M).
- Does The Claude and Betty Harris Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 3% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Claude and Betty 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 The Claude and Betty Harris Foundation Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Arkansas Community Foundation Inc, Arvest Foundation, Wal-Mart Foundation.
- Where is The Claude and Betty Harris Foundation Inc based?
- The Claude and Betty Harris Foundation Inc is based in KY.
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