· Private foundation
The JB and Lottie Harris Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| Lawyers Committee For Civil Rights | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| Let Us Make Man | $5,000 |
| Metropolitan Atlanta Alumni Associa | $5,000 |
| Southern Education Foundation | $5,000 |
| Gate City Bar Foundation | $2,500 |
| Clark Atlanta University Guild | $2,500 |
| WCLK | $2,500 |
| The Oshun Charitable Organization | $1,000 |
| Helping Ethiopia Achieve Longevity | $1,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY19–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 93% of its 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.
22 repeat relationships: 14 still active in FY2024, 8 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
How this is measured
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%
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.
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…
How this is measured
23 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. 23 of the 46 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 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 Clark Atlanta University Inc ↗
- Who funds KAPPA BOULE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GEORGIA INNOCENCE PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds TRINITY SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds OPERATION PEACE ↗
- Who funds SPIKE STUDIO INC ↗
- Who funds The Grand Boule' of Sigma Pi Phi Fraternity ↗
- 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 EARL WARREN LEGAL TRAINING PROGRAM 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.
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How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The JB and Lottie Harris Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The JB and Lottie Harris Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
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