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The Harman Family Foundation co Richard Harman

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$500
Granted FY2024still arriving
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Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$500
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
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01What it funds
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What it funded, over time

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

Religion$99kArts & Culture$74kPhilanthropy$22kInternational$20kEducation$14kPublic Benefit$6kCivil Rights$3kHealth$2kOther$0
02FY2024 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$500
Median grant
1
States reached
$310k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
NYC Fine Arts$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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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 95% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%Grace Foundation: $500 → 11%AMERICAN FRIENDS OF ISRAEL MUSEUM: $3k → 17%US HOLOCAUST MUSEUM: $18k → 14%National Council Jewish Women St Lo: $1k → 11%THE CONSERVATIVE SYNAGOGUE: $3k → 9%Community Foodbank of NJ: $735 → 10%Washington Lee School of Law: $2k → 12%AMERICAN FRIENDS OF ISRAEL MUSEUM: $500 → 17%US Holocost Memorial Museum: $5k → 14%The Conservative Synogogue: $3k → 9%Washington and Lee Univ: $2k → 12%AMERICAN FRIENDS OF ISRAEL MUSEUM: $500 → 17%THE WASHINGTON INSTITUTE: $10k → 14%The Conservative Synogogue: $3k → 9%The Jewish Education Project: $4k → 17%THE WASHINGTON INSTITUTE: $10k → 14%The Conservative Synagogue: $2k → 9%MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDTION: $500 → 17%National Council of Jewish Women: $1k → 14%MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDTION: $500 → 17%Naral Pro Choice America Foundation: $500 → 14%UJA Foundation: $20k → 17%UJA Federation New York: $11k → 17%UNITED JEWISH APPEAL FEDERATION OF NEW YORK: $10k → 17%New York Presbyterian: $1k → 17%Central Park Conservancy: $1k → 17%JEWISH WOMEN'S FOUNDATION OF NY: $500 → 17%LINCOLN CENTER THEATER: $3k → 17%LINCOLN CENTER THEATER: $1k → 17%NATIONAL COUNCIL OF JEWISH WOMEN: $1k → 17%Congregation Rodeph Shalom: $10k → 17%New York Philharmonic: $1k → 17%Congregation Rodeph Shalom: $10k → 17%RICHARD TUCKER MUSIC FOUNDATION: $15k → 17%RICHARD TUCKER MUSIC FOUNDATION: $7k → 17%Richard Tucker Music Foundation: $5k → 17%Thiirteen: $1k → 17%AMERICAN FRIENDS OF ISRAEL PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA: $3k → 17%NEW YORK PRESBYTERIAN HOSPITAL: $1k → 17%Richard Tucker Music Foundation: $8k → 17%AMERICAN FRIENDS OF ISRAEL PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA: $3k → 17%Congregation Rodeph Shalom: $25k → 17%Congregation Rodeph Shalom: $12k → 17%FRIENDS OF RODEPH SHOLOM SCHOOL: $10k → 17%CONGREGATION RODEPH SHOLOM: $7k → 17%Congregation Rodeph Shalom: $5k → 17%NYC Police Foundation: $1k → 17%MANHATTAN THEATRE CLUB: $1k → 17%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.
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.

67%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$163k · 9 repeat orgs$81k to everyone else

9 repeat relationships: 0 still active in FY2024, 9 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

9
23

Total granted

$163k
$80k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+22%
+25%

Still filing today

56%
48%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $500 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
Arts & CultureEducationInternationalPhilanthropyRecreation & SportsReligionOther
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

  • UJ
    UNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC
    2× · 2018–2019 · $21k · revenue +22%
  • WI
    WASHINGTON INSTITUTE FOR NEAR EAST POLICY
    2× · 2017–2018 · $20k · revenue +51%
  • TV
    THE VIVIAN BEAUMONT THEATERINC D/B/A LINCOLN CENTER THEATER
    2× · 2017–2018 · $4k · revenue +59%

Funded once

  • UF
    UJA Foundation
    one grant, 2021 · $20k
  • TU
    The United States Holocaust Memorial Museumgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $18k · revenue +25%
  • FO
    FRIENDS OF RODEPH SHOLOM SCHOOL INC
    one grant, 2017 · $10k · revenue -17%
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.

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The Jewish Museum

The mission of the jewish museum is to collect, preserve, exhibit and interpret art and jewish culture. see schedule o for more information.

Arts & Culture
2
Institute for Advanced Study - Louis Bamberger & Mrs Felix Fuld Foundation

The institute for advanced study (the institute) is one of the world's leading centers for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. see schedule o.

Science & Tech
3
Museum of Jewish Heritage a Living Memorial to the Holocaust

The museum of jewish heritage - a living memorial to the holocaust is new york's contribution to the global responsibility to never forget. see schedule o for additional information.

Arts & Culture
4
New York University

Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.

Education
5
New York Public Radio

To make the mind more curious, the heart more open, and the spirit more joyful through excellent audio programming that is deeply rooted in new york.

Arts & Culture
6
Jewish Community Relations Council of New York

Jcrc-ny builds relationships to advance the values, interests and security of the new york jewish community and to create a more interconnected new york for all.

Civil Rights
7
The Trustees of Princeton University

Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…

Education
8
Foundation for Jewish Philanthropies Inc

See schedule othe organization is a not-for-profit, public charity established in 1911 to provide for the quality and continuity of jewish life in western new york and around the world through private philanthropy. the foundation seeks,…

Philanthropy
9
Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University Inc

The Knight First Amendment Institute defends the freedoms of speech and the press in the digital age through strategic litigation, research, public advocacy and public education. Our aim is to promote a system of free expression that is…

Education
10
Manhattanville University

To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.

Education
11
Yeshiva University

The university is composed of several colleges and schools providing undergraduate, graduate, professional and post-doctoral education and training and research and clinical programs.

Education
12
The Young Men's and Young Women's Hebrew Association

For over 150 years, the 92nd street y, new york has been serving its communities and the larger world by bringing people together (continued on schedule o)and providing exceptional, groundbreaking programs in the performing and visual…

Religion
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Philharmonic Symphony Society of Ny Inc; the most unlike its peers is The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. 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

16 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. 16 of the 33 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
16/16
Grantees still filing
12/16
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CONGREGATION RODEPH SHALOM INC: $62,232 · OtherCONGREGATION RODEPH SHALOM INCUJA Foundation: $20,000 · OtherUJA FoundationTHE CONSERVATIVE SYNAGOGUE INC: $11,340 · OtherTHE CONSERVATIVE SYNAGOGUE INCCONGREGATION RODEPH SHOLOM: $7,000 · OtherCONGREGATION RODEPH SHOLOMUS Holocost Memorial Museum: $5,000 · Other+16 more: $16,595 · Other+16 moreRICHARD TUCKER MUSIC FOUNDATION INC: $35,000 · Arts & CultureRICHARD TUCKER MUSIC FOUNDATI…The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum: $18,000 · Arts & CultureThe United States Holocaust M…American Friends of Israel Philharmonic Orchestra: $5,600 · Arts & CultureAmerican Friends of Israel Ph…THE VIVIAN BEAUMONT THEATERINC D/B/A LINCOLN CENTER THEATER: $3,797 · Arts & CultureTHE VIVIAN BEAUMONT THEATERIN…+2 more: $2,000 · Arts & CultureUNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC: $20,540 · PhilanthropyUNITED JE…WASHINGTON INSTITUTE FOR NEAR EAST POLICY: $20,000 · InternationalWASHINGTO…FRIENDS OF RODEPH SHOLOM SCHOOL INC: $10,000 · EducationWashington and Lee University: $2,000 · EducationBOARD OF JEWISH EDUCATION INC: $3,500 · ReligionCENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY INC: $1,000 · Recreation & Sports
Other$122,167Arts & Culture$64,397Philanthropy$20,540International$20,000Education$12,000Religion$3,500Recreation & Sports$1,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetUNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC: $20,540 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWASHINGTON INSTITUTE FOR NEAR EAST POLICY: $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetThe United States Holocaust Memorial Museum: $18,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF RODEPH SHOLOM SCHOOL INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetAmerican Friends of Israel Philharmonic Orchestra: $5,600 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE VIVIAN BEAUMONT THEATERINC D/B/A LINCOLN CENTER THEATER: $3,797 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBOARD OF JEWISH EDUCATION INC: $3,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWashington and Lee University: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE PHILHARMONIC SYMPHONY SOCIETY OF NY INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL COUNCIL OF JEWISH WOMEN INCORPORATED: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMANHATTAN THEATRE CLUB INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNEW YORK CITY POLICE FOUNDATION INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCommunity Food Bank Of New Jersey Inc: $735 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetREPRODUCTIVE FREEDOM FOR ALL FOUNDATION: $500 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.

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.

Jewish Communal FundNational Philanthropi…Fidelity Investments …
Jewish Communal FundNY12.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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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 Harman Family Foundation co Richard Harman funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Harman Family Foundation co Richard Harman. 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%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
    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.
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    Find your warmest path to The Harman Family Foundation co Richard Harman through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 33 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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