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The John C Harmon Family Foundation
Its FY2024 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 FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SAMARITAN'S PURSE | $55,000 |
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 (FY17–22, $93k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those 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.
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 +125% since the first grant, against +83% for the ones you funded once.
12 repeat relationships — 0 still active in FY2024, 12 since wound down; 1 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, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $55k 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
- HCHaywood Christian Ministry Inc5× · 2017–2022 · $47k · revenue +515%
- HPHaywood Pathways Center Inc4× · 2017–2022 · $30k · revenue +109%
- KIKARE Inc4× · 2017–2022 · $26k · revenue +255%
Funded once
- PLPAWSITIVE LOVE FOUNDATIONone grant, 2018 · $30k
STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue +83%- DWDIAMOND WILLOW MINISTRIESgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $10k · revenue +323%
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.
To improve healthcare for residents of Haywood County through addressing unmet healthcare needs
Hayworth christian school's mission is to educate young men and women from a biblical worldview in partnership with the church and home, equipping them to discover and live with excellence the calling of god for their life.
To work to improve & protect surface water in haywood county, north carolina.
Dignity through dwellings, connection through community.
To provide medical care for uninsured individuals in the Yadkinville area.
Empower current and former foster youth to be successful, productive adults through training, employment, and personal achievement.
The haywood county rescue squad provides backup prehospital emergency care and non emergency ambulance services to the citizens of haywood county and surrounding counties. provides search and rescue when needed.
To serve and advance quality care and educational experiences for young children.
To lift people out of poverty by responding to human need with the love of christ.
Providing low-cost spay/neuter services and animal wellness programs
To provide non-hospital, in-patient treatment to adult men and women recovering from drug and alcohol dependence.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Haywood Pathways Center Inc and the most unlike its peers is Samaritan's Purse. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
17 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. 17 of the 29 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 SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
- Who funds Haywood Christian Ministry Inc ↗
- Who funds Haywood Pathways Center Inc ↗
- Who funds KARE Inc ↗
- Who funds Haywood Community College Found ↗
- Who funds HAYWOOD COUNTY SCHOOLS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HAYWOOD COUNTY ARTS COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds MOUNTAIN PROJECTS INC ↗
- Who funds STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds DIAMOND WILLOW MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds REACH OF HAYWOOD COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds Haywood Christian Academy Inc ↗
- Who funds HAYWOOD ARTS REGIONAL THEATRE ↗
- Who funds THE COMMUNITY KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds HAYWOOD ADVANCEMENT FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Balsam Mountain Trust ↗
- Who funds ST ANDREW COMMUNITY MEDICAL CENTER INC ↗
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 of Western North Carolina Inc · United Way of Haywood County Inc · Ken & Deborah Wilson Foundation Inc · Foundation for the Carolinas · East Tennessee Foundation · North Carolina Community Foundation · Haywood Health Foundation Inc · Gradison Foundation · Wnc Bridge Foundation · Dogwood Health Trust · Colquitt Foundation · Evergreen 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 John C Harmon Family 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.
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