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The Deborah S Harris Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

The Deborah S Harris Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$46k
Granted FY2024still arriving
9
Grants FY2024still arriving
6
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.

International$121kReligion$87kEducation$20kPhilanthropy$9kHealth$6kCivil Rights$6kHuman Services$5kYouth Development$500
02FY2024 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k6 grants · $16k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $30k
$5,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$398k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Leighton Ford Ministries$10,000
Edify$10,000
World VisionWomen of Vision$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
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 (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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%Healing hands of Joy: $5k → 10%The Relatives: $1k → 10%The Relatives: $1k → 10%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

WA
IL
MA
IN
PA
CA
CO
NC
GA
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.

95%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$152k · 11 repeat orgs$8k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +13% since the first grant, against 0% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

11
5

Total granted

$152k
$7k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+13%
0%

Still filing today

82%
40%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $500 went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
PhilanthropyReligionHuman ServicesInternationalCivil RightsHealthOther
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

  • LF
    Leighton Ford Ministries Inc
    5× · 2018–2024 · $55k · revenue +392%
  • E
    Edify
    2× · 2023–2024 · $15k · revenue +11%
  • SI
    SPRINGS INC
    4× · 2018–2022 · $8k · revenue +50%

Funded once

  • TS
    The Springs Retreat Center
    one grant, 2023 · $3k
  • WO
    WELL OF MERCY INC
    one grant, 2021 · $1k · revenue -4%
  • DS
    Downing Street Foundation DBA Downing House Attn Jerri Carrgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $1k · revenue +32%
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
Leadership Transformation Inc

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…

Religion
2
Leadership Revolution Inc

Leadership Revolution is a ministry founded to develop leaders globally who will spread the gospel and make disciples in their arena of influence.

Religion
3
Alongside Inc

Restore hope, purpose, passion and relationships among Christian leaders who are making an impact around the world.

Religion
4
Christianity Today International

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.

Religion
5
Lx Ministries Inc

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…

Religion
6
Strategic Renewal International

To encourage individual renewal, congregational revival, and leadership restoration for the church of Jesus Christ and to His glory.

Religion
7
Soul Shepherding

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…

Religion
8
World Renew

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…

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9
Life Impact Inc

To offer r.e.s.t. to pastors, global workers, and christian leaders: rest. encouragement. safety. transformation.

Religion
10
Youth for Christ International Ministries

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.

Religion
11
Flourish Ministries Inc

To help individuals and couples live better lives by understanding, repairing, rebuilding, improving, and strengthening their relationship with God and others.

Human Services
12
Center for Transformation Training

To help believers who are in need of spiritual, mental, emotional and relational healing experience intimacy with God and one another.

Religion
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Edify; 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.
04the grantee network

14 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. 14 of the 18 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
13/14
Grantees still filing
9/14
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

WORLD VISION INC: $95,000 · InternationalWORLD VISION INCEdify: $15,000 · InternationalEdifyLeighton Ford Ministries Inc: $55,000 · ReligionLeighton Ford Ministries IncTHE TRANSFORMING CENTER: $10,000 · ReligionTHE TRANSFORMING CENTERTHE TRANSFORMING CENTER - SCHOLARSHIP FUND: $20,000 · OtherTHE TRANSFORMING CENT…World VisionWomen of Vision: $20,000 · OtherWorld VisionWomen of …Renovare Inc: $4,000 · OtherRenovare IncThe Springs Retreat Center: $3,000 · OtherThe Springs Retreat C…+2 more: $2,000 · OtherSPRINGS INC: $8,000 · PhilanthropyDowning Street Foundation DBA Downing House Attn Jerri Carr: $1,000 · PhilanthropyREFLECTIONS MINISTRIES INC: $1,000 · PhilanthropyHealing Hands of Joy: $6,000 · Human ServicesTHE RELATIVES INC: $2,000 · Human ServicesEcho Foundation: $6,000 · Civil RightsThe Fistula Foundation: $6,000 · HealthGOLDEN ISLES LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION INC: $500 · Recreation & Sports
International$110,000Religion$65,000Other$49,000Philanthropy$10,000Human Services$8,000Civil Rights$6,000Health$6,000Recreation & Sports$500

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 budgetWORLD VISION INC: $95,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetLeighton Ford Ministries Inc: $55,000 over 5y, 3.7% of budgetEdify: $15,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE TRANSFORMING CENTER: $10,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetSPRINGS INC: $8,000 over 4y, 2.0% of budgetEcho Foundation: $6,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetHealing Hands of Joy: $6,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetThe Fistula Foundation: $6,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetRenovare Inc: $4,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE RELATIVES INC: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWELL OF MERCY INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetDowning Street Foundation DBA Downing House Attn Jerri Carr: $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetGOLDEN ISLES LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION INC: $500 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

Foundation for the Ca…Natl Christian Charit…National Philanthropi…Donor Advised Charita…Vanguard Charitable E…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Foundation for the CarolinasNC14.8× affinity5 shared granteesties to 6 of 6Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
    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 18 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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