· 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| 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 |
| NEW HAMPSHIRE BOAT MUSEUM | $1,000 |
| KINGSLEY MONTESSORI SCHOOL | $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 |
| INNOCENCE PROJECT | $250 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +40% since the first grant, against +9% for those 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
How this is measured
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
- CCCANCER CARE FOUNDATION OF TIDEWATERone grant, 2019 · $1k · revenue -32%
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.
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.
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.
How this is measured
40 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. 40 of the 83 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
- 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 GENERAL DOUGLAS MACARTHUR FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NEW HAMPSHIRE BOAT MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds THE LAB SCHOOL OF WASHINGTON ↗
- Who funds CANCER CARE FOUNDATION OF TIDEWATER ↗
- Who funds BETSYS PARK ↗
- Who funds Newport Hospital Foundation ↗
- Who funds Young Men's Christian Association of South Hampton Roads ↗
- Who funds FORKIDS INC ↗
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Harris Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Harris Trust. Bigger dots raise more.
- 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
How this is measured
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