· 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| NEWPORT PRESERVATION SOCIETY | $7,040 |
| THE UNION MISSION | $2,000 |
| FOOD BANK OF SE VA | $2,000 |
| UVA ROWING ASSOCIATION | $1,500 |
| SENTARA FOUNDATION | $1,500 |
| KINGSLEY MONTESSORI SCHOOL | $1,000 |
| NEW HAMPSHIRE BOAT MUSEUM | $1,000 |
| FRIENDS CENTRAL SCHOOL FUND | $750 |
| SQUAM LAKES ASSOCIATION | $750 |
| SQUAM LAKES NATURAL SCIENCE | $600 |
| BETSYS PARK FOUNDATION | $500 |
| ST MARKS SCHOOL | $350 |
| SQUAM LAKE CONSERVATION SOCIETY | $300 |
| THE TRUSTEES OF RESERVATIONS | $250 |
| DEERWOOD FOUNDATION | $250 |
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 (FY20–25, $9k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 88% 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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +40% since the first grant, against +9% for the ones you funded once.
45 repeat relationships — 18 still active in FY2025, 27 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- TPTHE PRESERVATION SOCIETY OF NEWPORT COUNTY7× · 2017–2023 · $24k · revenue +86%
- FOFOODBANK OF SOUTHEASTERN VIRGINIA9× · 2017–2025 · $18k · revenue +90%
- SLSQUAM LAKES ASSOCIATION8× · 2017–2025 · $10k · revenue +139%
Funded once
- CICAMPAIGN IN SQUAMone grant, 2023 · $2k
- NANaval Academyone grant, 2018 · $2k
- IAISLAND ACADEMY INTERNATIONALone grant, 2024 · $1k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
The nantucket conservation foundation owns, protects, and stewards over 9,000 acres of land and coastal shoreline, conserves nantucket's rare and significant natural resources, and engages in impactful ecological research to inform…
Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.
The organization's mission is to conserve and promote new england's native plants to ensure healthy, biologically diverse landscapes.
Saint anselm is a catholic, benedictine college providing all of its students a distinctive liberal arts education that incorporates opportunities for professional and career preparation. it does so in a learning community that encourages…
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
To cultivate and develop an expansive collection of trees, gardens, and plants for all to explore, enjoy and study; and to provide through education and stewardship, a greener, healthier, more beautiful environment.
The mission of rhode island school of design, through its college and museum,is to educate its students and the public in the creation and (see schedule o)appreciation of works of art and design, to discover and transmit knowledge and to…
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…
The new england aquarium is a catalyst for global change through public engagement and education, commitment to marine animal conservation, innovative scientific research, and effective advocacy for a vital and vibrant ocean.
The museum is an educational corporation formed to ignite a life-long passion for exploring, discovering, and valuing nature and science.
Eastern national promotes the public's understanding and support of america's national parks and other public trust partners by providing quality educational experiences, products and services.
The aquarium of the pacific's mission is to instill a sense of wonder, respect, and stewardship for the pacific ocean, its inhabitants, and ecosystems.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Save the Bay Inc and the most unlike its peers is Wynnewood Civic Association. 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 55 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
40 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. 40 of the 83 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 THE PRESERVATION SOCIETY OF NEWPORT COUNTY ↗
- Who funds FOODBANK OF SOUTHEASTERN VIRGINIA ↗
- Who funds SQUAM LAKES ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds THE UNION MISSION ↗
- Who funds BRYN MAWR THEATRE FILM INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds NEWPORT HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds THE KINGSLEY MONTESSORI SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds SQUAM LAKES NATURAL SCIENCE CENTER ↗
- Who funds ST MARK'S SCHOOL OF SOUTHBOROUGH INC ↗
- Who funds SQUAM LAKES CONSERVATION SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds THE INNOCENCE PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds WHYY INC ↗
- Who funds GWENDOLYN STRONG FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NEWPORT FILM INC ↗
- Who funds NEW HAMPSHIRE BOAT MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds CANCER CARE FOUNDATION OF TIDEWATER ↗
- Who funds THE LAB SCHOOL OF WASHINGTON ↗
- Who funds Newport Hospital Foundation ↗
- Who funds GENERAL DOUGLAS MACARTHUR FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BETSYS PARK ↗
- Who funds FORKIDS INC ↗
- Who funds Young Men's Christian Association of South Hampton Roads ↗
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: 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
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 Harris Trust 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.
- President and Fellows of Harvard College — 7% of income from government
- The Trustees of Reservations — 2% of income from government
- Pan-Massachusetts Challenge Inc — 0% 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.