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The Harmon Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$1k
Granted FY2021
1
Grants FY2021
1
States reached
$1k
Largest
01What you fund
0186% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20192021.

Education$110kRecreation & Sports$35kArts & Culture$30kHealth$12kAnimals$10kHousing & Shelter$1kHuman Services$250Other$0
02FY2021 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$1,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$43k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
LYNN UNIVERSITY$1,000
02The need
03

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.

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Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY19–21) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 66% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%ALZHEIMERS FOUNDATION: $1k → 17%MISCELLANEOUS CASH CONTRIBUTIONS: $15k → 11%DELTA TAU DELTA EDUCATIONAL FDN: $250 → 5%THE PENNINGTON SCHOOL: $1k → 11%SPROUT THERAPEUTIC RIDING: $5k → 4%VIRGINIA HORSE CENTER FOUNDATION: $10k → 12%PROJECT HEALING WATERS: $1k → 8%MISCELLANEOUS CASH CONTRIBUTIONS: $6k → 11%MFHA FOUNDATION: $10k → 4%VIRGINIA HORSE CENTER FOUNDATION: $10k → 12%LYNN UNIVERSITY: $1k → 11%FOXCROFT SCHOOL: $6k → 4%0%20%40%50%more need →
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 linein 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 — 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.

72%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$162k · 6 repeat orgs$63k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +63% since the first grant, against +26% for the ones you funded once.

6 repeat relationships — 0 still active in FY2021, 6 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2021 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

6
16

Total granted

$162k
$62k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+63%
+26%

Still filing today

83%
75%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2021, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’20’21
EducationRecreation & SportsHealthArts & CultureAnimalsOther

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

  • TH
    THE HILL SCHOOL CORPORATION OF MIDDLEBURG
    2× · 2019–2020 · $100k · revenue +89%
  • VH
    VIRGINIA HORSE CENTER FOUNDATION
    2× · 2019–2020 · $20k · revenue +63%
  • AP
    A PLACE TO BE
    2× · 2019–2020 · $10k · revenue +13%

Funded once

  • MF
    MIDDLEBURG FILM FESTIVAL
    one grant, 2019 · $25k · revenue +7%
  • MF
    MFHA Foundation
    one grant, 2019 · $10k · revenue -65%
  • Foxcroft Schoolgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $6k · revenue +71%

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.

1
President and Fellows of Middlebury College

Through a commitment to immersive learning, we prepare students to lead engaged, consequential, and creative lives, contribute to their communities, and address the world's most challenging problems.

Education
2
Masters of Foxhounds Association of America

The Masters of Foxhounds Association (MFHA) is the governing body of organized, mounted hunting of acceptable quarry within North America and Canada. It promotes and protects the sport, recognizes organized hunts which meet its published…

Recreation & Sports
3
Millbrook School

In a community where every student is known and needed, millbrook prepares its students for college and lives of meaning and consequence by instilling the values of respect, integrity, service, stewardship, and curiosity.

Education
4
Hillbrook School

Hillbrook provides an extraordinary educational experience that fosters a love of learning in our students and helps them to develop the knowledge, skills and confidence to achieve their highest individual potential in school and in life.…

Education
5
Hampshire Country School

Hampshire country school is a place of possibilities for high-ability, neurodiverse students enrolling in later elementary or middle school who have not found success in traditional educational environments. hampshire country school offers…

6
Millbrook Horse Trials Inc

The organization was formed exclusively for the joint purposes of being charitable and fostering national and international amateur sports competitions.

Recreation & Sports
7
Hampden-Sydney College

Since 1775, the mission of Hampden-Sydney College has been to form good men and good citizens in an atmosphere of sound learning.

Education
8
University of Lynchburg

The mission of the University is to inspire independent thinkers who become trustworthy, effective leaders that shape caring communities. The vision of the University of Lynchburg is to cultivate a world that is innovative, authentic, and…

Education
9
Washington International Horse Show

The Washingon International Horse Show is a historic, world class equestrian event that engages,entertains and educates the Washington DC community while supporting charitable and military causes

Recreation & Sports
10
Flint Hill School

Flint Hill is a private nonsectarian school of 1,049 preschool through high school students from 95 countries. We create developmental experiences that embrace the best practices of traditional and contemporary education. Through…

Education
11
Fielding Graduate University

We provide exemplary interdisciplinary programs for a community of scholar-practitioners within a distributed learning model grounded in student-driven inquiry and leading to enhanced knowledge.

12
Midland School Corporation

Midland school provides a distinctive co-educational boarding school experience to a diverse student body in grades 9-12. through study and work, midland teaches the value of a lifetime of learning, self-reliance, simplicity,…

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Delta Tau Delta Educational Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Lynn University 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

18 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 18 of the 23 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
18/18
Grantees still filing
13/18
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

THE HILL SCHOOL CORPORATION OF MIDDLEBURG — $100,000 · EducationTHE HILL SCHOOL CORPORATION OF MIDDLEBURGFoxcroft School — $6,000 · EducationFoxcroft School+3 more — $3,250 · EducationVIRGINIA HORSE CENTER FOUNDATION — $20,000 · Recreation & SportsVIRGINIA HORSE CENTER …MFHA Foundation — $10,000 · Recreation & SportsMFHA FoundationHIGH PERFORMANCE EQUESTRIAN FOUNDATION — $7,500 · Recreation & SportsHIGH PERFORMANCE EQUES…UPPERVILLE COLT & HORSE SHOW INC — $4,000 · Recreation & SportsUPPERVILLE COLT & HORS…LOUDOUN BENEFIT HORSE SHOW FOUNDATION — $3,250 · Recreation & SportsLOUDOUN BENEFIT HORSE …Individual grant recipient — $21,000 · OtherIndividual grant reci…A PLACE TO BE — $10,100 · OtherA PLACE TO BEIndividual grant recipient — $5,000 · OtherIndividual grant reci…Individual grant recipient — $4,500 · OtherIndividual grant reci…+5 more — $2,750 · Other+5 moreMIDDLEBURG FILM FESTIVAL — $25,000 · Arts & CultureMIDDLEBURG F…ALZHEIMER'S FOUNDATION OF AMERICA INC — $1,000 · HealthPROJECT HEALING WATERS FLY FISHING INC — $1,000 · HealthMIDDLEBURG HUMANE FOUNDATION — $100 · Animals
Education$109,250Recreation & Sports$44,750Other$43,350Arts & Culture$25,000Health$2,000Animals$100

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetTHE HILL SCHOOL CORPORATION OF MIDDLEBURG — $100,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetMIDDLEBURG FILM FESTIVAL — $25,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetVIRGINIA HORSE CENTER FOUNDATION — $20,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetA PLACE TO BE — $10,100 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetMFHA Foundation — $10,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetFoxcroft School — $6,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUPPERVILLE COLT & HORSE SHOW INC — $4,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetSouthern Methodist University — $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetALZHEIMER'S FOUNDATION OF AMERICA INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLYNN UNIVERSITY INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWINDY HILL FOUNDATION INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Pennington School — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPROJECT HEALING WATERS FLY FISHING INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMIDDLEBURG COMMUNITY CENTER INC — $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDelta Tau Delta Educational Foundation Inc — $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMIDDLEBURG HUMANE FOUNDATION — $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

Wise FoundationVA20× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Wise Foundation · The Anna McWane Charitable Foundation · Dun Foundation · Frank Mangano Foundation · The Community Foundation for Northern Virginia Inc · James Lessing Kleeblatt Memorial Foundation Inc · MRC Full Circle Foundation · Virts Miller Foundation · Graham Foundation Inc · William M Backer Foundation Inc · McGraw Foundation · Awa Family 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 Harmon 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.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 10%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 46%
  • Project Healing Waters Fly Fishing Inc46% of income from government
  • Lynn University Inc0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get 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 · 0–50%
typical government reliance, FY2025

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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 23 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2021, released 2021. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record but names no grant recipient in the published copy, so the figures above are from FY2021, the most recent year this funder’s grantee list reached the public record.

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