Virginia · Private foundation
The Harris Trust
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.
- $22k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 23
- Grants FY2025
- 24
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 21%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $350
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $7,040
- Organizations funded a year
- 22 to 26
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 9
- Total assets, FY2025
- $127k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 21% of the organizations The Harris Trust funded were first-time grantees, receiving 13% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 23 | $22k | 22% |
| FY2024 | 24 | $20k | 21% |
| FY2023 | 25 | $15k | 40% |
| FY2022 | 22 | $19k | 32% |
| FY2021 | 24 | $21k | 21% |
| FY2020 | 25 | $15k | 36% |
| FY2019 | 22 | $17k | 32% |
| FY2018 | 26 | $15k | 42% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Preservation Society of Newport County | $24,160 | 7 | 0% |
| Foodbank of Southeastern Virginia | $18,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Squam Lakes Association | $9,503 | 8 | 0% |
| The Union Mission | $5,500 | 3 | 0% |
| Bryn Mawr Theatre Film Institute | $5,200 | 5 | 0% |
| Newport Historical Society | $4,800 | 5 | 0% |
| The Kingsley Montessori School Inc | $3,750 | 6 | 0% |
| Squam Lakes Natural Science Center | $3,350 | 7 | 0% |
| St Mark's School of Southborough Inc | $3,300 | 6 | 0% |
| Squam Lakes Conservation Society | $2,450 | 7 | 0% |
Show all 41 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 41 recipients with no EIN on record ($58k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Harris Trust supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: Edwin S Webster Foundation · The Pamela and Laurence Tarica Foundation · Van Beuren Charitable Foundation Inc · Hamilton Family Foundation · Frederick Henry Prince Testamentary Trust · The Rhode Island Community Foundation · New Hampshire Charitable Foundation · The New York Community Trust · Mathieson Family Foundation · Cocchiaro Family Foundation · Ejmp Fund for Philanthropy · Alletta Morris McBean Charitable Trust
How this is measured
About The Harris Trust
- How much does The Harris Trust give?
- The Harris Trust reported 23 grants totaling $21,665 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 22 and 26 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does The Harris Trust fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (40%), Food & Nutrition (11%), Environment (10%).
- Who are The Harris Trust's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: The Preservation Society of Newport County ($24k), Foodbank of Southeastern Virginia ($18k), Squam Lakes Association ($10k).
- Does The Harris Trust fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 21% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Harris Trust accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Harris Trust?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Edwin S Webster Foundation, The Pamela and Laurence Tarica Foundation, Van Beuren Charitable Foundation Inc.
- Where is The Harris Trust based?
- The Harris Trust is based in VA.
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