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The Harris-Taylor Family Foundation at a glance

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The Harris-Taylor Family Foundation

Its FY2019 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$150k
Granted FY2019
16
Grants FY2019
6
States reached
$37k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2019.

Youth Development$86kEducation$69kHealth$43kInternational$31kPublic Benefit$28kHousing & Shelter$22kArts & Culture$16kRecreation & Sports$8kOther$0
02FY2019 · 16 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2019

  • Under $10k11 grants · $22k
  • $10k–50k5 grants · $127k
$2,800
Median grant
6
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
BOYS GIRLS CLUBS OF PHILADELPHIA$36,700
UCI FOUNDATION$33,500
HERITAGE FDN$25,000
FAME-FOUND FOR AFRICAN MEDICINE EDU$18,000
TANZANIAN CHILDREN'S FUND$14,000
WISE PLACE$5,000
FREE REIN FOUNDATION$3,750
TIM WRIGHTMAN FOUNDATION$2,800
PACIFIC RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOR PUBL$2,500
UNIVERSITY OF LA VERNE$2,500
BOB BARBARA WHITE FOUNDATION$1,500
FREEDOM4U$1,500
SAN RAFAEL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL PTA$1,000
RITES OF PASSAGE COUNCIL$1,000
THE CHARTER ONE HUNDRED INC$625
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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY17–19, $36k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%TANZANIAN CHILDREN'S FUND: $14k → 8%WISE PLACE: $10k → 10%WISE PLACE: $7k → 10%WISE PLACE: $5k → 10%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.

Which US states its grants reach

ID
MA
OH
PA
NJ
CA
NC
DC
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.

88%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$271k · 13 repeat orgs$39k to everyone else

13 repeat relationships: 9 still active in FY2019, 4 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2019 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

13
11

Total granted

$271k
$17k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+44%
+44%

Still filing today

62%
64%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2019, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $22k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19
EducationPublic BenefitHuman ServicesHealthRecreation & SportsInternationalOther
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

  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA IRVINE FOUNDATION
    2× · 2018–2019 · $58k · revenue +55%
  • THE HERITAGE FOUNDATION
    2× · 2017–2019 · $28k · revenue +63%
  • W
    WISEPLACE
    3× · 2017–2019 · $22k · revenue +512%

Funded once

  • MU
    MILLERSVILLE UNIV GIRLS VOLLEYBALL
    one grant, 2017 · $4k
  • SU
    STOCKTON UNIVERSITY FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $2k · revenue +201%
  • NS
    NEW SOMERSET UNITED METHODIST CHURC
    one grant, 2018 · $2k
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
Pacific University

A diverse and sustainable learning community dedicated to discovery and excellence in teaching, scholarship and practice, pacific university inspires students to think, care, create and pursue justice in our world.

Education
2
Uc Santa Barbara Foundation

The uc santa barbara foundation actively works to further the goals of the university of california, santa barbara. the foundation seeks to maintain and nurture the university's quality and distinction. on behalf of the campus, the…

Education
3
Uc Riverside Foundation

To support educational, research and public functions and programs of the riverside campus of the university of california.

Education
4
President-Board of Trustees Santa Clara College

Scu is a catholic and jesuit institution that makes student learning its central focus, promotes faculty and staff learning in its various forms, and exhibits organizational learning.

Education
5
California Baptist University

A private institution of higher education, offering both undergraduate and graduate courses to students.

Education
6
Sage Hill School

We inspire in our students a love of knowledge and the ability to use that knowledge creatively, compassionately and courageously throughout their lives.sage hill school's commitment to academic excellence and our outstanding college…

Education
7
Western University of Health Sciences

To produce, in a humanistic tradition, health care professionals and biomedical knowledge that will enhance and extend the quality of life in our communities.

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8
Ucla Foundation

The ucla foundation is the giving, receiving, and investing arm of the ucla campus. the foundation enables private donors to help build, sustain and advance one of the world's finest academic and research institutions. private philanthropy…

Education
9
University of the Pacific

To provide a superior, student-centered learning experience integrating liberal arts and professional education and preparing individuals for lasting achievement and responsible leadership in their careers and communities.

Education
10
Claremont Graduate University

Claremont Graduate University prepares individuals to be leaders for positive change in the world. Unique in its transdisciplinary approach, the University is dedicated to the creation, dissemination, and application of new knowledge and…

Education
11
Association of California School Administrators

The association serves its members by creating resources that enable california school administrators to develop and apply creative leadership and management skills and in turn, improve the educational process for all students.

—
12
Golden Gate University

Golden gate university prepares individuals to lead and serve by providing high quality, practice-based educational programs in law, taxation, business and related professions - as a nonprofit institution - in an innovative and challenging…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Olive Crest; the most unlike its peers is The Charter One Hundred 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

20 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. 20 of the 31 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
19/20
Grantees still filing
12/20
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

BOYS GIRLS CLUBS OF PHILADELPHIA: $78,700 · OtherBOYS GIRLS CLUBS OF PHILADELPHIAFAME-FOUND FOR AFRICAN MEDICINE EDU: $28,000 · OtherFAME-FOUND FOR AFRICAN MEDICINE EDUHORSE NATION FOUNDATION: $16,000 · OtherHORSE NATION FOUNDATIONFREE REIN FOUNDATION: $11,250 · OtherFREE REIN FOUNDATION+15 more: $22,875 · Other+15 moreUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA IRVINE FOUNDATION: $57,500 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNI…UNIVERSITY OF LA VERNE: $5,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF LA VERNE+2 more: $2,575 · EducationWISEPLACE: $21,500 · Human ServicesWISEPLACETHE TANZANIAN CHILDRENS FUND INC: $14,000 · Human ServicesTHE TANZANIA…THE HERITAGE FOUNDATION: $27,500 · Public BenefitTHE HERITA…BAJA LOVE OUTREACH: $1,000 · Public BenefitGlobal Partners For Development: $16,000 · InternationalFREEDOM 4 U: $5,000 · Youth DevelopmentTIM WRIGHTMAN FOUNDATION: $2,800 · Recreation & SportsCRYSTAL COVE CONSERVANCY: $250 · Recreation & Sports
Other$156,825Education$65,075Human Services$35,500Public Benefit$28,500International$16,000Youth Development$5,000Recreation & Sports$3,050

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA IRVINE FOUNDATION: $57,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE HERITAGE FOUNDATION: $27,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWISEPLACE: $21,500 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetGlobal Partners For Development: $16,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetTHE TANZANIAN CHILDRENS FUND INC: $14,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF LA VERNE: $5,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFREEDOM 4 U: $5,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetVANGUARD UNIVERSITY OF SO CAL: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSTOCKTON UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOLIVE CREST: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetALGALITA MARINE RESEARCH AND EDUCATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCHOC FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSADDLEBACK MEMORIAL FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNEWPORT HARBOR EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION C/O EMILY EVANS: $575 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF ORANGE COUNTY AND THE INLAND EMPIRE INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCRYSTAL COVE CONSERVANCY: $250 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.

Orange County Communi…American Endowment Fo…Charities Aid Foundat…The Bank of America C…Morgan Stanley Global…American Online Givin…National Philanthropi…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Orange County Community FoundationCA21× affinity8 shared granteesties to 9 of 9Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Orange County Community Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation America · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Harris-Taylor Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Harris-Taylor Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    2get no government money at all
    5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
    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.
    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to The Harris-Taylor Family Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to The Harris-Taylor Family Foundation 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 31 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 2019, released 2019. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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