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The Harmon Foundation at a glance

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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 it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0186% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2021.

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

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$1,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$43k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
LYNN UNIVERSITY$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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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY19–21) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 66% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its 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
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.

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

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +63% since the first grant, against +26% for those 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
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

  • 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%
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
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…

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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.

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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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Delta Tau Delta Educational Foundation Inc; 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 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. 18 of the 23 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)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
18/18
Grantees still filing
13/18
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and 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…PROJECT HEALING WATERS FLY FISHING INC: $1,000 · HealthALZHEIMER'S FOUNDATION OF AMERICA INC: $1,000 · HealthMIDDLEBURG HUMANE FOUNDATION: $100 · Animals
Education$109,250Recreation & Sports$44,750Other$43,350Arts & Culture$25,000Health$2,000Animals$100

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 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 budgetPROJECT HEALING WATERS FLY FISHING 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 budgetALZHEIMER'S FOUNDATION OF AMERICA INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Pennington School: $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
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.

Wise FoundationThe Anna McWane Chari…Dun FoundationFrank Mangano Foundat…The Community Foundat…James Lessing Kleebla…MRC Full Circle Found…Virts Miller Foundati…Graham Foundation IncWilliam M Backer Foun…McGraw FoundationAwa Family Foundation
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

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 Harmon Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Harmon Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →median 46%
  • Project Healing Waters Fly Fishing Inc: 46% of income from government
  • Lynn University Inc: 0% 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, 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 23 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 2021, released 2021. Filings run roughly 12 to 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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