· Private foundation
The Harman Cain Family Foundation
Its FY2023 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2023.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2023
- Under $10k25 grants · $110k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $43k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SITAR ARTS CENTER | $15,000 |
| WELLESLEY COLLEGE | $15,000 |
| NATIONAL GALLERY OF ART | $12,500 |
| SHAKESPEARE THEATER | $6,179 |
| LIFE PIECES TO MASTERPIECES | $5,000 |
| SCAN OF NORTHERN VIRGINIA | $5,000 |
| HEALTHY BABIES PROJECT | $5,000 |
| RAW ART WORKS | $5,000 |
| GREATER DC DIAPER BANK | $5,000 |
| THE LITERACY LAB | $5,000 |
| JUBILEE JUMPSTART | $5,000 |
| PATHS FOR FAMILIES | $5,000 |
| GALA INC HISPANIC THEATER | $5,000 |
| HOMELESS CHILDREN'S PLAYTIME PROJECT | $5,000 |
| RAINBOW FAMILIES | $5,000 |
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 (FY17–23, $132k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 97% 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 +41% since the first grant, against +34% for the ones you funded once.
55 repeat relationships — 25 still active in FY2023, 30 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (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 FY2023, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k 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
- SCSKIDMORE COLLEGE5× · 2017–2022 · $104k · revenue +34%
- NGNational Gallery of Art7× · 2017–2023 · $80k · revenue +29%
- TSTHE SHAKESPEARE THEATRE4× · 2020–2023 · $66k · revenue +53%
Funded once
- SLSPUR LOCAL INCgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $20k · revenue +56%
- STSHAKESPEARE THEATERone grant, 2019 · $10k
- PGPRINCE GEORGE'Sone grant, 2020 · $5k
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.
Global kids educates, inspires and mobilizes youth to become global citizens who are positively engaged in the world and are prepared for their future.
The mission of dc bilingual public charter school is to create a learning community that ensures high academic achievement for all students in both spanish and english, develops leadership, and values all cultures.
To create and advance high quality, diverse educational communities that teach children the foundations of life-long learning and social responsibility.
Ingenuity prep public charter school was formed to prepare students to succeed in college and beyond as impactful civiic leaders.
Our mission is to dramatically improve the early career outcomes of dc youth and young adults of color by creating innovative programs and by mobilizing employers, educators, and city leaders to create a local, diverse talent pipeline. our…
Two rivers mission: to nurture a diverse group of students to become lifelong, active participants in their own education, develop a sense of self and community, and become responsible and compassionate members of society.
Dc prep's mission is to bridge the educational divide in washington, dc by increasing the number of students from underserved communities with the academic preparation and personal character to succeed in competitive high schools and…
Kipp dc is the largest public charter school network in washington, d.c., serving more than 7,300 students from prek-12th grade. we are dedicated to supporting students who have historically lacked access to high-quality educational…
Cultivating inclusive communities through relationships, innovation and high-quality services.
Capitol Hill Day School is a co-educational independent school serving students from pre-kindergarten through 8th grade. Capitol Hill Day School deeply engages a diverse community of students in connecting the classroom with the larger…
The mission of the nonprofit, nonpartisan close up foundation is to empower young people for a lifetime of active citizenship through civic education programs, professional development for educators, and classroom resources.
The mission of the george washington university (gw) is to educate individuals in liberal arts, languages, sciences, learned professions, and other courses and subjects of study, and to conduct scholarly research and publish the findings…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Open City Advocates and the most unlike its peers is Kids R First. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 23 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
73 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. 73 of the 106 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 SKIDMORE COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds National Gallery of Art ↗
- Who funds THE SHAKESPEARE THEATRE ↗
- Who funds SITAR ARTS CENTER ↗
- Who funds RAW ART WORKS INC ↗
- Who funds Wellesley College ↗
- Who funds HOMELESS CHILDREN'S PLAYTIME PROJECT ↗
- Who funds GREATER DC DIAPER BANK ↗
- Who funds READING PARTNERS ↗
- Who funds Jubilee Jumpstart ↗
- Who funds HEALTHY BABIES PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds FAMILY AND YOUTH INITIATIVE INC ↗
- Who funds HOPE HOUSE ↗
- Who funds THE LITERACY LAB ↗
- Who funds WANDA ALSTON FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds LIBERTY'S PROMISE ↗
- Who funds SPUR LOCAL INC ↗
- Who funds SCAN OF NORTHERN VIRGINIA INC ↗
- Who funds THE POTOMAC CONSERVANCY INC ↗
- Who funds JOSEPH'S HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds HER Resiliency Center ↗
- Who funds DUMBARTON ARTS AND EDUCATION INC ↗
- Who funds BRIGHT BEGINNINGS INC ↗
- Who funds ADOPTIONS TOGETHER INC DBA AS PATHS FOR FAMILIES ↗
- Who funds CASA RUBY INC ↗
- Who funds DC127 Inc ↗
- Who funds BUILDING BRIDGES ACROSS THE RIVER 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: Greater Washington Community Foundation · The Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation · United Way of the National Capital Area · Clark-Winchcole Foundation · Philip L Graham Fund co Graham Holdings Company · Sidgmore Family Foundation · John Edward Fowler Memorial Foundation · Redskin Foundation Inc George Preston Marshall Foundation · Richard E & Nancy P Marriott Foundation · Humanities Council of Washington DC · Lainoff Family Foundation Inc · Clark Charitable Foundation Inc Dba a James & Alice B Clark 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 Harman Cain Family 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.
- Save the Children Federation Inc — 30% of income from government
- Trustees of Tufts College — 13% of income from government
- Raw Art Works Inc — 7% of income from government
- A Wider Circle Inc — 6% of income from government
- First Generation College Bound Inc — 6% of income from government
- Wellesley College — 1% of income from government
- Yellow Ribbon Fund Inc — 0% of income from government
- Adoptions Together Inc Dba As Paths for Families — 0% of income from government
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.