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The Harper Family Foundation
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.
Read this first · the figures below need context
100% of The Harper Family Foundation’s FY2024 grant dollars went to Omaha Community Foundation, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2024 names 0 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2017, the last year The Harper Family Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 24 organizations, $6M. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2017
- Under $10k25 grants · $88k
- $10k–50k10 grants · $174k
- $50k–250k5 grants · $425k
- $250k+5 grants · $4.9M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE | $2,514,616 |
| UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME | $1,110,000 |
| CENTER CITY HOUSING CORP | $593,210 |
| THE PINKY SWEAR FOUNDATION | $337,500 |
| CREIGHTON UNIVERSITY | $333,000 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF ROCHESTER | $100,744 |
| CHILDREN'S MINNESOTA FOUNDATION | $100,000 |
| METHODIST HOSPITAL FOUNDATION | $87,500 |
| PATRIOTIC PRODUCTIONS | $86,500 |
| CMMF ANGEL FUND | $50,000 |
| THRIFT AMERICA & CYSTIC FIBROSIS FOUNDATION OF NE | $47,388 |
| THE SHELBURNE MUSEUM | $25,000 |
| ANNANDALE HIGH SCHOOL | $20,000 |
| FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH OF ROCHESTER | $15,000 |
| BELLEVUE UNIVERSITY | $15,000 |
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 (FY17–17, $353k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 96% 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.
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.
Nebraska methodist hospital (commonly know as "methodist hospital") is an acute care facility dedicated to bringing high quality care for the mind, body and spirit of every person. we provide community-based health care, health education…
The nmu foundation will establish and foster relationships to generate resources that benefit the strategic goals of northern michigan university.
The organization provides medical care to improve, maintain, and restore the health of the people in the communities we serve.
The mission of the foundation for health care continuums is to strengthen each community we serve by providing a wide spectrum of housing and health care services that honor the evolving, aging population.
Primary functions are the coordination and delivery of health care resources and services, health care education for the hospital service area, long range analysis of health care needs and development of programs, and arranging for…
Engage actively and continuously in medical research, education and training in the practice of medicine in conjunction with the department of family medicine of the indiana university school of medicine and indiana university…
To serve our communities by provding innovative and compassionate healthcare.
Mercy Health will provide assistance, support and direction to all of the health care institutions and activities operated and maintained by its Subsidiaries. The mission of Mercy Health in performing these activities shall be to provide a…
NORTHWEST COMMUNITY HEALTHCARE follows the mission of Endeavor Health. The mission of Endeavor Health is to "help everyone in our communities be their best." Central to this mission is a commitment to providing clinical programs and…
North shore health system medical faculty group practice (the corporation) functions as an extension of the northwell health hospitals by bringing medical care to community settings, providing care to medicare, medicaid, and other…
Lead the transformation of healthcare through quality, innovation & education, and make Indiana one of the nation's healthiest states.
The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Nebraska Methodist Hospital Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Freestore. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 42 years old; the field is 25. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 15% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 8% 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.
23 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. 23 of the 46 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 Omaha Community Foundation ↗
- Who funds NEBRASKA METHODIST HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds University of Notre Dame du Lac ↗
- Who funds Creighton University ↗
- Who funds CENTER CITY HOUSING CORP ↗
- Who funds PINKY SWEAR FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PATRIOTIC PRODUCTIONS INC ↗
- Who funds SHELBURNE MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds Bellevue University ↗
- Who funds THE DURHAM MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds OLD TOWN SCHOOL OF FOLK MUSIC ↗
- Who funds Almost Home Kids ↗
- Who funds The Cara Program ↗
- Who funds HARBOR HOUSE ↗
- Who funds ANNANDALE YOUTH FIRST INC ↗
- Who funds FREESTORE ↗
- Who funds SEASONS HOSPICE ↗
- Who funds JOIN THE JOURNEY ↗
- Who funds GIFT OF LIFE INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF THE MIDLANDS ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF SOUTHEAST MINNESOTA ↗
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: Dr C C and Mabel L Criss Memorial · Gilbert M and Martha H Hitchcock Foundation · The Hawks Foundation · Otto Bremer Trust · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · American Online Giving 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 organization The Harper 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.
- Shelburne Museum Inc — 9% 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.
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