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The Harbor Oaks Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$38k
Granted FY2024still arriving
22
Grants FY2024still arriving
7
States reached
$5k
Largest
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Environment$50kHousing & Shelter$21kRecreation & Sports$16kArts & Culture$16kCivil Rights$15kHuman Services$12kEmployment$10kEducation$6kOther$0
02FY2024 · 22 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$1,000
Median grant
7
States reached
$347k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
IMMIGRANT AND REFUGEE COMUNITY$5,000
SANTA FE CONSERVATION TRUST$5,000
WILD EARTH GUARDIANS$5,000
DO GOOD MULTNOMAH$2,500
COMMUNITY CYCLING CENTER$2,500
BUZZARDS BAY MUSICFEST INC$2,000
COMMONWEAL CONSERVANCY$2,000
LEWIS & CLARK GRADUATE SCHOOL$2,000
SANTA FE CHILDREN'S MUSEUM$1,000
NORTH BY NORTHEAST COMMUNITY$1,000
THINK NEW MEXICO$1,000
JOIN$1,000
COOKING WITH KIDS INC$1,000
TEACHING PRESCHOOL PARTNERS$1,000
AMIGOS BRAVOS$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.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–24, $16k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 72% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%Driven to Cure Inc: $1k → 8%Driven to Cure Inc: $1k → 8%Driven to Cure Inc: $509 → 8%DRIVEN TO CURE INC: $500 → 8%Think New Mexico: $2k → 12%Driven to Cure Inc: $500 → 8%THINK NEW MEXICO: $1k → 12%Driven to Cure Inc: $500 → 8%JOIN: $2k → 12%Think New Mexico: $1k → 12%JOIN: $1k → 12%JOIN: $1k → 12%Think New Mexico: $1k → 12%Think New Mexico: $600 → 12%Think New Mexico: $600 → 12%JOIN: $1k → 12%Think New Mexico: $600 → 12%Think New Mexico: $600 → 12%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

ME
NY
MA
OR
VA
MD
NM
AL
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.

84%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$138k · 21 repeat orgs$26k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +87% since the first grant, against +8% for those funded once.

21 repeat relationships: 19 still active in FY2024, 2 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

21
11

Total granted

$138k
$19k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+87%
+8%

Still filing today

81%
73%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $7k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EnvironmentHuman ServicesArts & CultureHousing & ShelterEducationYouth DevelopmentOther
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

  • DG
    DO GOOD MULTNOMAH
    8× · 2017–2024 · $17k · revenue ×104
  • SF
    SANTA FE CONSERVATION TRUST
    8× · 2017–2024 · $16k · revenue +228%
  • BB
    BUZZARDS BAY MUSICFEST INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $11k · revenue +355%

Funded once

  • MDRC
    one grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue +8%
  • TC
    THE CAMPBELL INSTITUTEgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $2k · revenue +94%
  • MH
    MISS HALL'S SCHOOL INC
    one grant, 2018 · $1k · revenue -11%
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
Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum

We inspire people to live in harmony with the natural world by fostering love, appreciation, and understanding of the sonoran desert.

Arts & Culture
2
Cuenca Los Ojos

Cuenca los ojos works to preserve and restore the biodiversity of the us/mexican borderlands through land protection, habitat restoration and wildlife reintroduction.

Environment
3
Nature Collective

Nature collective's mission is to drive a passion for nature for all. we think inclusively and diversely when serving those devoid of nature those who remember nature and want to connect back to it and those who have an affinity with…

Environment
4
Sky Island Alliance

We work to connect people, wildlife, and lands across the u.s.-mexico border through the use of science, advocacy, educational activities, community engagement, and on-the-ground conservation initiatives. our main activities include…

Environment
5
CalWild

The California Wilderness Coalition protects the natural landscapes that make California unique, providing clean air and water, a home to wildlife, and a place for recreation and spiritual renewal.

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6
Leadership New Mexico

Strengthening new mexico by educating and connecting diverse leaders through experiential learning programs and activities.

Arts & Culture
7
National Audubon Society Inc

We work towards a future where birds thrive across the americas because audubon is a powerful, diverse, and ever-growing force for conservation. (continued on schedule o).

Environment
8
Cascadia Wildlands

Cascadia wildlands defends and restores cacasia's wild ecosystems in the forests,in the courts, and in the streets. we envision vast old-growth forests, rivers full of wild salmon, wolves howling in the backcountry, a stable climate, and…

Environment
9
Conservation Voters New Mexico Education Fund

Cvnm education fund is a statewide, nonpartisan nonprofit committed to engaging the people of new mexico in our long-standing shared values of protecting our air, land, water, and the health of our communities. we do this by mobilizing…

Civil Rights
10
Mount Washington Observatory

To advance understanding of the natural systems that create earth's weather and climate. it serves this mission by maintaining a weather station on the summit of mount washington, performing weather and climate research, conducting…

Science & Tech
11
California Institute for Biodiversity

Create and publish educational materials, conduct professional development, promote awareness, and sponsor research on the spectacular biological diversity of the State of CA.

Education
12
Santa Fe Watershed Association

To build a thriving, resilient santa fe river watershed through collaboration, stewardship, and education that inspires us all to care for our land, water, and each other.

Environment
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Think New Mexico; the most unlike its peers is Trout Unlimited 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

25 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. 25 of the 34 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)
12
Early backer (in before they grew)
25/25
Grantees still filing
16/25
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

COMMUNITY CYCLING CENTER: $13,500 · OtherCOMMUNITY CYCLING CENTERWILDEARTH GUARDIANS: $10,600 · OtherWILDEARTH GUARDIANSLewis Clark Graduate School of Educ: $10,000 · OtherLewis Clark Graduate School of EducAmigos Bravos Inc: $6,200 · OtherAmigos Bravos IncIMMIGRANT AND REFUGEE COMUNITY: $5,000 · OtherIMMIGRANT AND REFUGEE COMUNITYNORTH BY NORTHEAST COMMUNITY: $3,000 · OtherGarrett Memorial Chapel Trust: $2,500 · OtherField Institute of Taos: $2,250 · Other+10 more: $9,900 · Other+10 moreDO GOOD MULTNOMAH: $16,687 · Housing & ShelterDO GOOD MULTNOMAHCOMMONWEAL CONSERVANCY INC: $8,000 · Housing & ShelterCOMMONWEAL CONSER…SANTA FE CONSERVATION TRUST: $15,535 · EnvironmentSANTA FE CONSERV…SIPPICAN LANDS TRUST INC: $4,500 · EnvironmentSIPPICAN LANDS T…Friends of Trees: $3,000 · EnvironmentFriends of TreesColumbia Riverkeeper: $1,000 · EnvironmentTHINK NEW MEXICO: $6,900 · Human ServicesTHINK NEW MEXI…ASSISTANCE DOGS OF THE WEST: $5,000 · Human ServicesASSISTANCE DOG…JOIN: $4,500 · Human ServicesJOINDRIVEN TO CURE INC: $4,476 · Human ServicesDRIVEN TO CURE…BUZZARDS BAY MUSICFEST INC: $10,500 · Arts & CultureBUZZARDS B…SANTA FE CHILDREN'S MUSEUM INC: $4,000 · Arts & CultureSANTA FE C…CIRCUS CASCADIA: $1,000 · Arts & CultureCIRCUS CAS…MDRC: $10,000 · EmploymentCOOKING WITH KIDS INC: $4,000 · Youth DevelopmentTeaching Preschool Partners: $2,000 · Youth Development
Other$62,950Housing & Shelter$24,687Environment$24,035Human Services$20,876Arts & Culture$15,500Employment$10,000Youth Development$6,000

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 budgetDO GOOD MULTNOMAH: $16,687 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetSANTA FE CONSERVATION TRUST: $15,535 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetWILDEARTH GUARDIANS: $10,600 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetBUZZARDS BAY MUSICFEST INC: $10,500 over 8y, 4.2% of budgetMDRC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMONWEAL CONSERVANCY INC: $8,000 over 4y, 1.3% of budgetTHINK NEW MEXICO: $6,900 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetAmigos Bravos Inc: $6,200 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetASSISTANCE DOGS OF THE WEST: $5,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetSIPPICAN LANDS TRUST INC: $4,500 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetJOIN: $4,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetDRIVEN TO CURE INC: $4,476 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetCOOKING WITH KIDS INC: $4,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetSANTA FE CHILDREN'S MUSEUM INC: $4,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetFriends of Trees: $3,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetField Institute of Taos: $2,250 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetTeaching Preschool Partners: $2,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE CAMPBELL INSTITUTE: $1,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetEQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE: $1,325 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMISS HALL'S SCHOOL INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetColumbia Riverkeeper: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTABOR ACADEMY: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCIRCUS CASCADIA: $1,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetTROUT UNLIMITED INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCAUSA OF OREGON: $325 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 DO GOOD MULTNOMAH ↗
  • Who funds SANTA FE CONSERVATION TRUST ↗
  • Who funds WILDEARTH GUARDIANS ↗
  • Who funds BUZZARDS BAY MUSICFEST INC ↗
  • Who funds MDRC ↗
  • Who funds COMMONWEAL CONSERVANCY INC ↗
  • Who funds THINK NEW MEXICO ↗
  • Who funds Amigos Bravos Inc ↗
  • Who funds ASSISTANCE DOGS OF THE WEST ↗
  • Who funds SIPPICAN LANDS TRUST INC ↗
  • Who funds JOIN ↗
  • Who funds DRIVEN TO CURE INC ↗
  • Who funds COOKING WITH KIDS INC ↗
  • Who funds SANTA FE CHILDREN'S MUSEUM INC ↗
  • Who funds Friends of Trees ↗
  • Who funds Field Institute of Taos ↗
  • Who funds Teaching Preschool Partners ↗
  • Who funds THE CAMPBELL INSTITUTE ↗
  • Who funds EQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE ↗
  • Who funds MISS HALL'S SCHOOL INC ↗
  • Who funds Columbia Riverkeeper ↗
  • Who funds TABOR ACADEMY ↗
  • Who funds CIRCUS CASCADIA ↗
  • Who funds TROUT UNLIMITED INC ↗
  • Who funds CAUSA OF OREGON ↗

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.

Santa Fe Community FoundationNM19.5× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Santa Fe Community Foundation · Meyer Memorial Trust · Los Alamos National Laboratory Foundation · The Frost Foundation · The Oregon Community Foundation · Bolene Charitable Trust · The Taos Community Foundation Inc · Thornburg Foundation · Enterprise Bank & Trust Foundation · The Collins Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust 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 Harbor Oaks Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Harbor Oaks Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 70%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • Friends of Trees: 100% of income from government
  • Join: 4% of income from government
  • Columbia Riverkeeper: 1% of income from government
  • Do Good Multnomah: 0% of income from government
  • The Campbell Institute: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
7get no government money at all
5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely 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 34 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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