How much did THE HARMAN CAIN FAMILY FOUNDATION grant in FY2023?

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 48% of THE HARMAN CAIN FAMILY FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2018

openbookdreamcasahope

2019

—

2020

child

2021

children

2022

children

2023

childrenliteracy labtheater

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2023 · 28 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2023

Under $10k25 grants · $110k
$10k–50k3 grants · $43k

$5,000

Median grant

States reached

$2.8M

Total assets

Largest grants

WELLESLEY COLLEGE$15,000
SITAR ARTS CENTER$15,000
NATIONAL GALLERY OF ART$12,500
SHAKESPEARE THEATER$6,179
GREATER DC DIAPER BANK$5,000
LITERACY LAB$5,000
CENTER FOR ADOPTION SUPPORT$5,000
WANDA ALLSTON FOUNDATION$5,000
ST ANN'S CENTER FOR CHILDREN$5,000
COURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADV FOR CHILDREN OF DC$5,000
LIFE PIECES TO MASTERPIECES$5,000
RAW ART WORKS$5,000
READING PARTNERS$5,000
GALA INC HISPANIC THEATER$5,000
PATHS FOR FAMILIES$5,000

02The need

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–23, $106k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13% — the area typically sits at 7%. 98% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge

repeat funding

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.

88%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$1.1M · 57 repeat orgs$148k to everyone else

57 repeat relationships — 25 still active in FY2023, 32 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$1.1M

$138k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+61%

+74%

Still filing today

51%

44%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

EducationHuman ServicesPhilanthropyArts & CultureHealthYouth DevelopmentOther

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

SC
SKIDMORE COLLEGE
5× · 2017–2022 · $104k · revenue +20%
NG
NATIONAL GALLERY OF ART
7× · 2017–2023 · $80k · revenue +14%
SA
SITAR ARTS CENTER
7× · 2017–2023 · $49k · revenue +99%

Funded once

CF
CATALOGUE FOR PHILANTHROPY
one grant, 2020 · $20k · revenue -1%
GW
GREATER WASHINGTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION
one grant, 2017 · $7k · revenue +3%
BW
BISHOP WALKER SCHOOL
one grant, 2020 · $5k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

Educare Dc

To eliminate the opportunity gap with high-quality early learning for children prenatal to age 5.

Human Services

Dc Policy Center

The d.c. policy center is a non-partisan, independent think tank focused on advancing policies for a vibrant and growing economy in the district of columbia. the d.c. policy center provides objective, targeted, and high-quality data…

Public Benefit

Women Giving Back Inc

Women Giving Back (WGB) supports vulnerable families in the Greater Washington DC area by providing quality clothing and other essentials at no cost assisted by a caring and committed community.

Employment

Out & Equal

Social Science

Thrive Dc

Thrive dc works to prevent and end homelessness by providing vulnerable individuals with a comprehensive range of services to help stabilize their lives.

Food & Nutrition

Hepatitis B Initiative of Washington Dc

Prevention of liver diseases caused by viral hepatitis through collaborative partnerships, culturally and linguistically appropriate viral hepatitis outreach, education, screening, vaccination and linkage to care and patient navigation…

Health

The Dc Central Kitchen Inc

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The Young Center for Immigrant

Protect and advance the rights and best interests of immigrant children.

Human Services

North Capitol Collaborative Inc

The mission is to protect and care for children, strengthen families and build thriving communities.

Human Services

Dc Preparatory Academy

Dc prep is a network of public charter schools serving pk3-8th grade students in washington, dc.

Education

Dc Greens Inc

DC Greens advances health equity by building a just and resilient food system.

Community Improvement

Pathways to Housing Dc

Human Services

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Homeless Children's Playtime Project and the most unlike its peers is National Gallery of Art. 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 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

0.0%0/54

the rest of the field

12%

3,565/29,108

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.

05the grantee network

52 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

50/52

Grantees still filing

41/52

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$615,679Education$190,633Arts & Culture$151,500Human Services$131,500Health$61,500Philanthropy$37,050Youth Development$17,500

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.

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.

The Morris and Gwendolyn CafritzDC69.1× affinity31 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz · Greater Washington Community Foundation · Nora Roberts Foundation · United Way of the National Capital Area · Lainoff Family Foundation Inc · William S Abell Foundation Inc · Humanities Council of Washington DC · John Edward Fowler Memorial Foundation · Dimick Foundation · Eugene & Agnes E Meyer Foundation · Venable Foundation Inc · Redskin Foundation Inc

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 organisation 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

6get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%

typical government reliance, FY20–24

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. 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.

05Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: FAMILY & YOUTH INITIATIVE.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

low risk

~7 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 7 filed years.

Track record & reputation

low risk

7 years of Form 990 filings, still active; revenue up 4.1× since.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 383828204 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on FAMILY & YOUTH INITIATIVE, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

On trackFinancial stability— Roughly 7 months of cash on hand.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue grew over the period.
On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 4% of their budget — diversified.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

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How do I get to The Harman Cain Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Harman Cain Family Foundation through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

THE HARMAN CAIN FAMILY FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

52 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to The Harman Cain Family Foundation?

More from the funding graph

THE HARMAN CAIN FAMILY FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

52 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to The Harman Cain Family Foundation?

More from the funding graph