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The Harrison Foundation
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 FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k2 grants · $13k
- $10k–50k39 grants · $891k
- $50k–250k15 grants · $1.1M
- $250k+1 grant · $699k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA | $699,000 |
| COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY | $150,000 |
| FOCUSED ULTRASOUND FOUNDATION | $120,000 |
| CHESAPEAKE BAY FOUNDATION | $100,000 |
| NORTHERN NECK FAMILY YMCA | $100,000 |
| ANNA JULIA COOPER SCHOOL | $80,000 |
| GICIA | $70,000 |
| FOXCROFT SCHOOL | $50,000 |
| BOCA GRANDE HEALTH CLINIC | $50,000 |
| YMCA OF THE VIRGINIA PENINSULAS | $50,000 |
| RAPPAHANNOCK ART LEAGUE INC | $50,000 |
| CURE ALZHEIMER'S FUND | $50,000 |
| CAMP HOLIDAY TRAILS INC | $50,000 |
| BLUE RIDGE SCHOOL | $50,000 |
| FRIENDS OF BOCA GRANDE | $50,000 |
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 (FY20–25, $505k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 37% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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 +41% since the first grant, against +19% for the ones you funded once.
74 repeat relationships — 47 still active in FY2025, 27 since wound down; 9 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, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $245k 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
- TBTHE BLUE RIDGE SCHOOL INC6× · 2020–2025 · $600k · revenue +25%
- JRJAMES RIVER ASSOCIATION4× · 2020–2023 · $600k · revenue +30%
- WHWOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION6× · 2020–2025 · $375k · revenue +35%
Funded once
- RARAPPAHANNOCK ART LEAQUE INCone grant, 2023 · $65k
- TFTHE FISHER HOUSE FOUNDATION OF RICHMONDone grant, 2020 · $40k
- CSCRANBERRY SUNSET FARM INCone grant, 2022 · $30k · revenue -7%
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 williams school builds with each child the foundation for academic, moral and social success. a williams school student embodies confidence, integrity and a love of learning.
Since 1775, the mission of Hampden-Sydney College has been to form good men and good citizens in an atmosphere of sound learning.
We know, value, and challenge each student. we commit to building a diverse and inclusive community. we graduate independent thinkers and globally aware citizens.
Saint andrew's school is an independent school founded in the episcopal tradition. our mission is to build a community of learners, provide excellence in education, and nurture each student in mind, body, and spirit.
We create opportunities for discovery and reflection by engaging the minds, hands, and hearts of our students.
The mission of south shore charter school is to cultivate students the tenacity, integrity, and curiosity needed to become innovative and socially responsible leaders, ready to face and solve the ever-changing challenges facing our…
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
The mission of chesapeake bay academy is to educate students through academic programs individualized to address their learning differences, empowering them with the skills and confidence necessary for success in higher education, careers,…
Hampshire country school is a place of possibilities for high-ability, neurodiverse students enrolling in later elementary or middle school who have not found success in traditional educational environments. hampshire country school offers…
The mission of Good Shepherd Episcopal School is to inspire each child to achieve academic excellence within a diverse, nurturing community that builds character and fosters respect for one another and our shared environment, locally and…
Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.
The mission is to bring compassion to health care and to be good to those in need, especially those who are poor and dying. as a system of caregivers, we commit ourselves to help bring people and communities to health and wholeness.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Greenwich Academy Inc and the most unlike its peers is Greenwich Hospital. 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 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 5% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% 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.
74 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. 74 of the 101 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 BLUE RIDGE SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds JAMES RIVER ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK ↗
- Who funds FOCUSED ULTRASOUND FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SHELTERING ARMS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION ↗
- Who funds CHESAPEAKE BAY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds GASPARILLA ISL CONSER & IMPROVE ASSN ↗
- Who funds The Island School Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds BOCA GRANDE HEALTH CLINIC INC ↗
- Who funds HOUSING ASSISTANCE CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds Foxcroft School ↗
- Who funds ANNA JULIA COOPER SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds ST JOSEPH'S VILLA ↗
- Who funds THOMAS JEFFERSON FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ST ANNE'S-BELFIELD INC ↗
- Who funds FEED MORE INC ↗
- Who funds ST CATHERINE'S SCHOOL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CAMP HOLIDAY TRAILS ↗
- Who funds THE CROSS-OVER MINISTRY INC ↗
- Who funds GREENWICH HOSPITAL ↗
- Who funds ELK HILL FARM INC ↗
- Who funds The Virginia Home ↗
- Who funds THE PROTESTANT EPISCOPAL HIGH SCHOOL IN VIRGINIA ↗
- Who funds GoochlandCares ↗
- Who funds MAYMONT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THREE BAYS PRESERVATION INC ↗
- Who funds GREATER RICHMOND FIT4KIDS INC ↗
- Who funds SAFE HARBOR ↗
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: The Community Foundation Inc · Richard S Reynolds Foundation · Herndon Foundation · Carmax Foundation · The Mary Morton Parsons Foundation · Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation · Estes Foundation Co Matthew Breidenbach Pitcairn · Shelton H Short Jr Trust · The Pauley Family Foundation · Virginia Sargeant Reynolds Foundation · Robert G Cabell III and Maude Morgan Cabell Foundation · The Charles M Caravati Foundation Fund
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 Harrison 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution — 63% of income from government
- Three Bays Preservation Inc — 18% of income from government
- Housing Assistance Corporation — 10% of income from government
- Barnstable Land Trust Inc — 4% of income from government
- Chesapeake Bay Foundation Inc — 2% of income from government
- Boys & Girls Club of Martin County — 2% of income from government
- The Banner Lake Club Inc — 1% of income from government
- Greenwich Hospital — 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.
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