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The JB and Lottie Harris Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$154k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
16
Grants FY2024
26
Organizations funded FY2023
35%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$5,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$50,000
Organizations funded a year
14 to 26
FY2019 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
5
Total assets, FY2024
$2.8M
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 35% of the organizations The JB and Lottie Harris Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 18% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $28k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’20’21’22’23
EducationCrime & LegalEnvironmentReligionCivil RightsArts & CultureOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving16$154k13%
FY202326$154k35%
FY202220$127k35%
FY202114$169k21%
FY202018$151k50%
FY201916$153kn/a
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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.

Education$416kHealth$208kCrime & Legal$73kYouth Development$48kHousing & Shelter$46kCivil Rights$33kArts & Culture$23kReligion$18kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

IL
NY
WY
CT
CA
MD
TN
DC
LA
GA

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2019 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 26 grantees
All grantees of The JB and Lottie Harris Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Morehouse College$250,00060%
Meharry Medical College$200,00060%
Judson Lyon Society Inc$62,000678%
Covenant House Georgia Inc$53,15050%
Southern Education Foundation Inc$40,00041%
Discover Cheyenne Inc$37,15024%
Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law$30,00060%
Providence Manor Development Corporation$30,0001n/a
Clark Atlanta University Inc$14,00060%
Kappa Boule Foundation$11,00021%
Urbangreenhouse Institute Inc$10,0002n/a
Georgia Innocence Project Inc$10,00011%
Trinity School Inc$7,00040%
Operation Peace$7,00042%
Spike Studio Inc$5,000120%
Kappa Boule Scholarship Fund Inc$5,0001n/a
The Grand Boule' of Sigma Pi Phi Fraternity$5,0001n/a
Hosea Feed the Hungry and Homeless Inc$4,00020%
The Westminster Schools Inc$3,00030%
NAACP Legal Defense & Educ Fund Inc$3,00030%
Students Without Mothers Inc$2,50011%
Out of Hand Theater$2,00020%
Earl Warren Legal Training Program Inc$1,00011%
United States Fund for Unicef$1,00010%
The Links Foundation Incorporated$50010%
Walter Rodney Foundation Inc$2501n/a

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 20 recipients with no EIN on record ($115k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

The JB and Lottie Harris Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 21 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetMorehouse College: $250,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetMeharry Medical College: $200,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetJudson Lyon Society Inc: $62,000 over 6y, 78% of budgetCovenant House Georgia Inc: $53,150 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetSouthern Education Foundation Inc: $40,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetDiscover Cheyenne Inc: $37,150 over 2y, 4.3% of budgetLawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law: $30,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetClark Atlanta University Inc: $14,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetKappa Boule Foundation: $11,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetGeorgia Innocence Project Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetTrinity School Inc: $7,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetOperation Peace: $7,000 over 4y, 1.7% of budgetSpike Studio Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 20% of budgetHosea Feed the Hungry and Homeless Inc: $4,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetThe Westminster Schools Inc: $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNAACP Legal Defense & Educ Fund Inc: $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetStudents Without Mothers Inc: $2,500 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetOut of Hand Theater: $2,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetEarl Warren Legal Training Program Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetUnited States Fund for Unicef: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Links Foundation Incorporated: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 21.

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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.

The Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta IncGA14.3× affinity5 shared granteesties to 5 of 5Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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About The JB and Lottie Harris Foundation

How much does The JB and Lottie Harris Foundation give?
The JB and Lottie Harris Foundation reported 16 grants totaling $153,900 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 14 and 26 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2023.
What does The JB and Lottie Harris Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (46%), Health (23%), Crime & Legal (8%).
Who are The JB and Lottie Harris Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2019 to FY2024: Morehouse College ($250k), Meharry Medical College ($200k), Judson Lyon Society Inc ($62k).
Does The JB and Lottie Harris Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 35% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does The JB and Lottie Harris Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as The JB and Lottie Harris Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta Inc, Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program, American Online Giving Foundation Inc.
Where is The JB and Lottie Harris Foundation based?
The JB and Lottie Harris Foundation is based in GA.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 46 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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