· Private foundation
The Deborah S Harris Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k6 grants · $16k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $30k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| World VisionWomen of Vision | $10,000 |
| Leighton Ford Ministries | $10,000 |
| Edify | $10,000 |
| Transforming Center | $5,000 |
| Healing hands of Joy | $5,000 |
| Renovare | $3,000 |
| The Relatives | $1,000 |
| The ECHO Foundation | $1,000 |
| Golden Isles Leadership Foundation Inc | $500 |
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 (FY23–24, $7k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +13% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
11 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $500 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
- LFLeighton Ford Ministries Inc5× · 2018–2024 · $55k · revenue +326%
- EEdify2× · 2023–2024 · $15k · revenue +11%
- SISPRINGS INC4× · 2018–2022 · $8k · revenue +50%
Funded once
- TSThe Springs Retreat Centerone grant, 2023 · $3k
- WOWELL OF MERCY INCone grant, 2021 · $1k · revenue -4%
- DSDowning Street Foundation DBA Downing House Attn Jerri Carrgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $1k · revenue +32%
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.
Our vision is for churches and Christian organizations to be filled with leaders who place spiritual formation, discernment, and renewal above all other leadership priorities. Our mission is to cultivate vibrant spirituality and attentive…
Leadership Revolution is a ministry founded to develop leaders globally who will spread the gospel and make disciples in their arena of influence.
Restore hope, purpose, passion and relationships among Christian leaders who are making an impact around the world.
Christianity Today is a global community inspired by evangelical conviction to advance the stories and ideas of the kingdom of God. Our mission is to elevate the storytellers and sages of the global church.
Our mission is to multiply the global impact and influence of Christian leaders and pastors throughout their organizations and communities. Our activities involve working with members of the leadership of other exclusively charitable…
To encourage individual renewal, congregational revival, and leadership restoration for the church of Jesus Christ and to His glory.
We help pastors, missionaries, and other leaders go deeper with Jesus in emotional health and loving leadership through providing retreats, spiritual direction, coaching, and resources that integrate Jesus-centered psychology and spiritual…
Compelled by a deep passion for justice and mercy, World Renew joins communities around the world to renew hope, reconcile lives, and restore creation with programs focused on disaster response, community health, economic opportunity, food…
To offer r.e.s.t. to pastors, global workers, and christian leaders: rest. encouragement. safety. transformation.
As part of the body of Christ, to see that every young person in every people group in every nation has the opportunity to make an informed decision to be a follower of Jesus Christ and become a part of the local church.
To help individuals and couples live better lives by understanding, repairing, rebuilding, improving, and strengthening their relationship with God and others.
To help believers who are in need of spiritual, mental, emotional and relational healing experience intimacy with God and one another.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Edify and the most unlike its peers is Springs Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
14 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. 14 of the 18 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 WORLD VISION INC ↗
- Who funds Leighton Ford Ministries Inc ↗
- Who funds Edify ↗
- Who funds THE TRANSFORMING CENTER ↗
- Who funds SPRINGS INC ↗
- Who funds Healing Hands of Joy ↗
- Who funds Echo Foundation ↗
- Who funds The Fistula Foundation ↗
- Who funds Renovare Inc ↗
- Who funds THE RELATIVES INC ↗
- Who funds WELL OF MERCY INC ↗
- Who funds Downing Street Foundation DBA Downing House Attn Jerri Carr ↗
- Who funds REFLECTIONS MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds GOLDEN ISLES LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION INC ↗
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: Foundation for the Carolinas · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
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 Deborah S Harris Foundation 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.
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.