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The Claude and Betty Harris Foundation Inc at a glance

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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 FY2025still arriving
11
Grants FY2025still arriving
5
States reached
$3.0M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0196% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Human Services$23MHealth$20MFood & Nutrition$18MPhilanthropy$11MReligion$5.1MHousing & Shelter$4.7MArts & Culture$1.7MCrime & Legal$510kOther$0
02FY2025 · 11 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$959,710
Median grant
5
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MANNA CENTER$3,000,000
SAMARITAN COMMUNITY CENTER$2,000,000
DON DEBRA HARRIS CHARITABLE TRUST$959,710
GARY HARRIS FAMILY CHARITABLE TRUST$959,710
HARRIS-STANSELL CHARITABLE TRUST$959,710
GAYLA HARRIS KENNETH BIELAK CHARI$959,710
THERESA JOE MOORE CHARITABLE TRUS$959,710
THG FOUNDATION$959,710
D R FAMILY CHARITABLE TRUST$959,710
SOCIETY OF ST ANDREW$959,100
OPEN DOOR MISSION$451,100
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY20–25, $18.0M) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 30% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%EMERGENCY INFANT SERVICES: $125k → 14%FOOD BANK OF NE ARKANSAS: $777k → 17%SAFE ALLIANCE: $75k → 10%BETHANY PLACE: $25k → 6%EMERGENCY INFANT SERVICES: $125k → 14%FOOD BANK OF NE ARKANSAS: $51k → 17%SAFE ALLIANCE: $75k → 10%MERISOMO MINISTRIES BETHANY PLACE: $25k → 6%EMERGENCY INFANT SERVICES: $125k → 14%KIND AT HEART MINISTRIES: $390k → 8%SAFE ALLIANCE: $75k → 10%HILL COUNTRY COMMUNITY MINISTRIES: $150k → 10%JOHN 316 MISSION: $110k → 14%SECOND MILE MISSION: $75k → 8%THE WOMENS HOME: $100k → 16%EMERGENCY INFANT SERVICES: $100k → 14%SECOND MILE MISSION: $75k → 8%HILL COUNTRY COMMUNITY MINISTRIES: $20k → 10%THE WOMENS HOME: $100k → 16%SECOND MILE MISSION: $75k → 8%THE WOMENS HOME: $100k → 16%JOHN 316 MISSION: $20k → 14%KIND AT HEART MINISTRIES: $55k → 8%SECOND MILE MISSION: $75k → 8%KIND AT HEART MINISTRIES: $55k → 8%SECOND MILE MISSION: $10k → 8%SAMARITAN COMMUNITY CENTER: $2.0M → 8%OPEN DOOR MISSION: $1.6M → 16%OPEN DOOR MISSION: $451k → 16%OPEN DOOR MISSION: $440k → 16%OPEN DOOR MISSION: $225k → 16%SAMARITAN COMMUNITY CENTER: $3.4M → 8%OPEN DOOR MISSION: $200k → 16%SAMARITAN COMMUNITY CENTER: $3.3M → 8%SAMARITAN COMMUNITY CENTER: $2.0M → 8%LIFE HOUSTON: $125k → 16%SAMARITAN COMMUNITY CENTER: $354k → 8%LIFE HOUSTON: $125k → 16%LIFE HOUSTON: $125k → 16%SAMARITAN COMMUNITY CENTER: $185k → 8%LIFE HOUSTON: $100k → 16%SEVEN HILLS HOMELESS CENTER: $130k → 14%NWA CHILDRENS SHELTER: $150k → 8%SEVEN HILLS HOMELESS CENTER: $75k → 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

MI
NY
CA
CO
MO
KY
VA
AZ
AR
TN
NC
DC
OK
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.

85%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$85M · 73 repeat orgs$15M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +16% since the first grant, against +4% for those funded once.

73 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2025, 69 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

73
47

Total granted

$85M
$8.1M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+16%
+4%

Still filing today

66%
30%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 49% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6.7M went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesFood & NutritionHousing & ShelterHealthPhilanthropyInternationalOther
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

  • SH
    SAMARITAN HOUSE COMMUNITY CENTER
    5× · 2020–2025 · $11M · revenue +159% · 70% of their budget
  • AC
    ARKANSAS CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL
    3× · 2020–2022 · $6.0M · revenue +49%
  • NA
    NORTHWEST ARKANSAS FOOD BANK
    4× · 2020–2023 · $6.0M · revenue +12%

Funded once

  • JM
    JOYCE MEYER MINISTRIES INC
    one grant, 2020 · $2.9M
  • AC
    ARKANSAS CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2021 · $326k · revenue -25%
  • MANNA FOOD BANK INCgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $300k · revenue +169%
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 Food Bank for Central & Northeast Missouri

The food bank for central & northeast missouri is a regional disaster and hunger relief network that acquires and distributes millions of meals each year to help neighbors get the food they need to thrive. (continued on schedule o)the…

Food & Nutrition
2
Ozarks Food Harvest Inc

Ozarks food harvest's mission is to transform hunger into hope.

Food & Nutrition
3
The Helping Hand of Greater Little Rock Inc

Provide nutrition, assistance and hope to every person seeking support through its ministry. families served-9,016; recipients-36,065; new families-2,556

Human Services
4
Northwest Louisiana Food Bank

Nw la food bank's mission is to be the primary resource for fighting hunger in northwest louisiana.

Food & Nutrition
5
West Alabama Food Bank Inc

Our mission is to help alleviate hunger and food insecurity in west alabama.

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6
Christian Food Bank of Hopkins County Inc

Provide food for the needy

Food & Nutrition
7
Heart of Alabama Food Bank Inc

The food bank operates as a clearing house for the collecting, sorting, storing and distribution of edible food to qualified agencies; who in turn pass the food along to alabama's "food insecure" citizens.

Food & Nutrition
8
Southeast Missouri Food Bank Inc

The mission of the southeast missouri food bank is to promote food recovery; acquire and distribute food and household products; and provide community leadership and education on issues of hunger and poverty in an effort to alleviate…

Food & Nutrition
9
Terre Haute Catholic Charities Foodbank Inc

The mission of Terre Haute Catholic Charities Foodbank is to feed the hungry in Clay, Greene, Knox, Parke, Sullivan, Vermillion and Vigo counties through a network of emergency food distribution member agencies and engage our community in…

Food & Nutrition
10
Food Bank of Central & Eastern Nc Inc

Nourish people. build solutions. empower communities. no one goes hungry.

Food & Nutrition
11
Kansas Foodbank Warehouse Inc

To feed the hungry by soliciting and receiving food and other goods from local, regional and national food companies and other enterprises

Food & Nutrition
12
Harvest Hope Food Bank

Harvest hope is on a mission to eliminate hunger and food insecurity in south carolina. we rescue nutritious food from stores throughout the state and distribute it to food pantries, shelters, and soup kitchens. we operate programs that…

Food & Nutrition
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Peace At Home Family Shelter Inc; the most unlike its peers is The Thg Foundation. 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

62 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. 62 of the 127 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.

7
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
9
Early backer (in before they grew)
62/62
Grantees still filing
38/62
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Individual grant recipient: $12,000,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientUMCOR: $6,414,219 · OtherUMCORNORTHWEST ARKANSAS FOOD BANK: $6,030,517 · OtherNORTHWEST ARKANSAS FOOD BANKWASHINGTON REGIONAL HOSPITAL FOUNDA: $4,878,818 · OtherWASHINGTON REGIONAL HOSPITAL FOUNDAJOYCE MEYER MINISTRIES INC: $2,883,000 · Other+74 more: $23,808,337 · Other+74 moreSAMARITAN HOUSE COMMUNITY CENTER: $11,254,725 · Human ServicesSAMARITAN HOUSE COMMUNI…Open Door Mission: $2,925,000 · Human ServicesOpen Door MissionHILL COUNTRY COMMUNITY MINISTRIES: $1,570,000 · Human ServicesHILL COUNTRY COMMUNITY …THE FOOD BANK OF NORTHEAST ARKANSAS: $828,166 · Human Services+14 more: $3,895,000 · Human Services+14 moreARKANSAS CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL: $6,032,902 · HealthCHARLOTTESVILLE FREE CLINIC: $600,000 · HealthHope Cancer Resources: $575,000 · HealthARKANSAS CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION: $325,600 · Health+3 more: $305,000 · HealthTHE SOCIETY OF ST ANDREW INC: $2,800,000 · Food & NutritionREGIONAL FOOD BANK OF OKLAHOMA INC: $1,270,000 · Food & NutritionFOOD BANK OF THE ROCKIES: $950,000 · Food & NutritionARKANSAS FOODBANK: $700,000 · Food & NutritionCentral Texas Food Bank Inc: $595,000 · Food & NutritionOf One Accord Inc: $310,000 · Food & NutritionMANNA FOOD BANK INC: $300,000 · Food & Nutrition+3 more: $268,000 · Food & NutritionTHE MANNA CENTER: $3,496,000 · PhilanthropyTHE THG FOUNDATION: $300,000 · PhilanthropyHARRIS-STANSELL FAMILY CHARITABLE TRUST: $200,000 · PhilanthropyD & R FAMILY CHARITABLE TRUST: $200,000 · PhilanthropyGARY M HARRIS FAMILY CHARITABLE TRUST: $200,000 · PhilanthropyVOLUNTEER MINISTRY CENTER: $1,750,000 · Housing & ShelterKNOX AREA RESCUE MINISTRIES INC: $900,000 · Housing & ShelterVALLEY RESCUE MISSION: $450,000 · Housing & ShelterInterfaith Outreach Home Inc: $200,000 · Housing & ShelterWATERFRONT RESCUE MISSION INC: $200,000 · Housing & ShelterRescue Ministries of Mid-Michigan: $200,000 · Housing & ShelterWESLEY HOUSE COMMUNITY CENTER CO: $155,000 · Housing & ShelterPATHWAY TO FREEDOM INC: $510,000 · Crime & Legal
Other$56,014,891Human Services$20,472,891Health$7,838,502Food & Nutrition$7,193,000Philanthropy$4,396,000Housing & Shelter$3,855,000Crime & Legal$510,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSAMARITAN HOUSE COMMUNITY CENTER: $11,254,725 over 5y, 70% of budgetARKANSAS CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL: $6,032,902 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetNORTHWEST ARKANSAS FOOD BANK: $6,030,517 over 4y, 14% of budgetTHE MANNA CENTER: $3,496,000 over 6y, 22% of budgetOpen Door Mission: $2,925,000 over 5y, 54% of budgetTHE SOCIETY OF ST ANDREW INC: $2,800,000 over 5y, 4.7% of budgetVOLUNTEER MINISTRY CENTER: $1,750,000 over 4y, 20% of budgetBLUE RIDGE AREA FOOD BANK INC: $1,600,000 over 4y, 1.3% of budgetHILL COUNTRY COMMUNITY MINISTRIES: $1,570,000 over 5y, 29% of budgetREGIONAL FOOD BANK OF OKLAHOMA INC: $1,270,000 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetFOOD BANK OF THE ROCKIES: $950,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetKNOX AREA RESCUE MINISTRIES INC: $900,000 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetTHE FOOD BANK OF NORTHEAST ARKANSAS: $828,166 over 2y, 3.5% of budgetARKANSAS FOODBANK: $700,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetNEW LIFE RANCH INC: $616,167 over 4y, 2.4% of budgetCHARLOTTESVILLE FREE CLINIC: $600,000 over 4y, 4.3% of budgetCentral Texas Food Bank Inc: $595,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetHope Cancer Resources: $575,000 over 3y, 6.2% of budgetPATHWAY TO FREEDOM INC: $510,000 over 4y, 19% of budgetPEACE AT HOME FAMILY SHELTER INC: $500,000 over 3y, 7.6% of budgetKIND AT HEART MINISTRIES INC: $500,000 over 3y, 21% of budgetLOCAL INFANT FORMULA FOR EMERGENCIES: $475,000 over 4y, 14% of budgetEAST FORT BEND HUMAN NEEDS MINISTRY: $475,000 over 4y, 3.7% of budgetEmergency Infant Services Inc: $475,000 over 4y, 3.4% of budgetVALLEY RESCUE MISSION: $450,000 over 3y, 3.8% of budgetEMERALD YOUTH FOUNDATION: $400,000 over 4y, 1.8% of budgetST FRANCIS HOUSE INC: $400,000 over 2y, 4.9% of budgetNORTHWEST ARKANSAS WOMEN'S SHELTER: $400,000 over 4y, 7.4% of budgetARKANSAS CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION: $325,600 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetOf One Accord Inc: $310,000 over 4y, 1.9% of budgetSECOND MILE MISSION CENTER: $310,000 over 5y, 1.6% of budgetTHE THG FOUNDATION: $300,000 over 2y, 69% of budgetMANNA FOOD BANK INC: $300,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetTHE WOMEN'S HOME: $300,000 over 3y, 1.6% of budgetSECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK OF EAST TENNESSEE: $250,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetWILLIAMSON COUNTY CRISIS CENTER: $240,000 over 3y, 2.7% of budgetWELCOMEHEALTH: $235,000 over 4y, 11% of budgetSafe Alliance Inc: $225,000 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetST FRANCIS HOUSE NWA INC: $210,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetSEVEN HILLS HOMELESS CENTER INC: $205,000 over 2y, 7.6% of budgetATLANTA COMMUNITY FOOD BANK INC: $200,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetInterfaith Outreach Home Inc: $200,000 over 2y, 5.1% of budgetWATERFRONT RESCUE MISSION INC: $200,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetHARRIS-STANSELL FAMILY CHARITABLE TRUST: $200,000 over 2y, 41% of budgetRescue Ministries of Mid-Michigan: $200,000 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetD & R FAMILY CHARITABLE TRUST: $200,000 over 2y, 91% of budgetGARY M HARRIS FAMILY CHARITABLE TRUST: $200,000 over 2y, 37% of budgetDIRECT RELIEF: $184,000 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.

  • Who funds SAMARITAN HOUSE COMMUNITY CENTER ↗
  • Who funds ARKANSAS CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL ↗
  • Who funds NORTHWEST ARKANSAS FOOD BANK ↗
  • Who funds THE MANNA CENTER ↗
  • Who funds Open Door Mission ↗
  • Who funds THE SOCIETY OF ST ANDREW INC ↗
  • Who funds VOLUNTEER MINISTRY CENTER ↗
  • Who funds BLUE RIDGE AREA FOOD BANK INC ↗
  • Who funds HILL COUNTRY COMMUNITY MINISTRIES ↗
  • Who funds REGIONAL FOOD BANK OF OKLAHOMA INC ↗
  • Who funds FOOD BANK OF THE ROCKIES ↗
  • Who funds KNOX AREA RESCUE MINISTRIES INC ↗
  • Who funds THE FOOD BANK OF NORTHEAST ARKANSAS ↗
  • Who funds ARKANSAS FOODBANK ↗
  • Who funds NEW LIFE RANCH INC ↗
  • Who funds CHARLOTTESVILLE FREE CLINIC ↗
  • Who funds Central Texas Food Bank Inc ↗
  • Who funds Hope Cancer Resources ↗
  • Who funds PATHWAY TO FREEDOM INC ↗
  • Who funds PEACE AT HOME FAMILY SHELTER INC ↗
  • Who funds KIND AT HEART MINISTRIES INC ↗
  • Who funds LOCAL INFANT FORMULA FOR EMERGENCIES ↗

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.

Arkansas Community Fo…Arvest FoundationWal-Mart FoundationDelta Dental of Arkan…The Schmieding Founda…McKinney C & a Charit…Excellerate Foundatio…Alice L Walton Founda…Roy and Christine Stu…East Tennessee Founda…The Houston Food BankRaymond James Charita…
Arkansas Community Foundation IncAR33.9× affinity16 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Arkansas Community Foundation Inc · Arvest Foundation · Wal-Mart Foundation · Delta Dental of Arkansas Foundation Inc · The Schmieding Foundation · McKinney C & a Charitable Trust · Excellerate Foundation Charitable Support · Alice L Walton Foundation · Roy and Christine Sturgis Charitable And · East Tennessee Foundation · The Houston Food Bank · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 50%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    5get no government money at all
    22report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    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.

    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 127 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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