· Private foundation
The JB and Lottie Harris Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k11 grants · $36k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $68k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Morehouse College | $50,000 |
| Meharry Medical College | $25,000 |
| Discover Cheyenne | $22,150 |
| Covenant House Georgia | $11,250 |
| The Judson Lyons Society | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| Lawyers Committee For Civil Rights | $5,000 |
| Let Us Make Man | $5,000 |
| Metropolitan Atlanta Alumni Associa | $5,000 |
| Southern Education Foundation | $5,000 |
| Clark Atlanta University Guild | $2,500 |
| WCLK | $2,500 |
| Gate City Bar Foundation | $2,500 |
| The Oshun Charitable Organization | $1,000 |
| Helping Ethiopia Achieve Longevity | $1,000 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY19–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 93% of your 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.
23 repeat relationships — 14 still active in FY2024, 9 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8k 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
- MCMOREHOUSE COLLEGE6× · 2019–2024 · $250k · revenue +46%
- MMMEHARRY MEDICAL COLLEGE6× · 2019–2024 · $200k · revenue +67%
- CHCOVENANT HOUSE GEORGIA INC5× · 2019–2024 · $53k · revenue +47%
Funded once
- PMProvidence Manor Development Corporationgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $30k · revenue +82%
- SBSecond Baptist Churchone grant, 2022 · $18k
- GIGEORGIA INNOCENCE PROJECT INCgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue +25%
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.
Spelman college, a historically black college and global leader in the education of women of african descent, is dedicated to the academic excellence of its students.
The mission of the george washington university (gw) is to educate individuals in liberal arts, languages, sciences, learned professions, and other courses and subjects of study, and to conduct scholarly research and publish the findings…
To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.
The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.
The mission of the school is to provide outstanding legal education in a collegial and supportive environment with attention to newly emerging areas of law, particularly those related to technological development, globalization and the…
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 university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…
Columbia college improves lives by providing quality education to both traditional and nontraditional students, helping them achieve their true potential.
The organization's mission is to educate students for creative occupations in diverse fields of arts and media.
Provides innovative education in a dynamic urban setting. dedicated to academic excellence and community engagement,we prepare students of diverse backgrounds with the knowledge, skill,and experience to lead meaningful lives as informed…
William peace university is a private four-year university in downtown raleigh, north carolina. the mission of the university is to prepare students for careers in the organizations of tomorrow. rooted in the liberal arts tradition, the…
At sarah lawrence college, our mission is to graduate citizens of the world who are diverse in every definition of the word, who take intellectual and creative risks, and who are able to focus exceptional intellectual discipline (continued…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Naacp Legal Defense & Educ Fund Inc and the most unlike its peers is Providence Manor Development Corporation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 30 years old; the field is 13. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 15% 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.
23 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. 23 of the 47 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 MOREHOUSE COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds MEHARRY MEDICAL COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds JUDSON LYON SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds COVENANT HOUSE GEORGIA INC ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds DISCOVER CHEYENNE INC ↗
- Who funds Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law ↗
- Who funds Providence Manor Development Corporation ↗
- Who funds KAPPA BOULE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GEORGIA INNOCENCE PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds Clark Atlanta University Inc ↗
- Who funds OPERATION PEACE ↗
- Who funds TRINITY SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds The Grand Boule' of Sigma Pi Phi Fraternity ↗
- Who funds SPIKE STUDIO INC ↗
- Who funds HOSEA FEED THE HUNGRY AND HOMELESS INC ↗
- Who funds The Westminster Schools Inc ↗
- Who funds NAACP LEGAL DEFENSE & EDUC FUND INC ↗
- Who funds Students Without Mothers Inc ↗
- Who funds OUT OF HAND THEATER ↗
- Who funds UNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF ↗
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 for Greater Atlanta Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation
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 JB and Lottie Harris 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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.