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The John C Harmon Family Foundation at a glance

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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.

$55k
Granted FY2024still arriving
1
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$55k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Religion$130kEducation$65kInternational$55kHuman Services$36kAnimals$32kHousing & Shelter$30kArts & Culture$20kCommunity Improvement$12kOther$0
02FY2024 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$55,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$904k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SAMARITAN'S PURSE$55,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%DIAMOND WILLOW MINISTRIES: $10k → 40%HAYWOOD CHRISTIAN MINISTRY: $15k → 12%HAYWOOD CHRISTIAN MINISTRY: $10k → 12%HAYWOOD CHRISTIAN MINISTRY: $10k → 12%REACH OF HAYWOOD COUNTY INC: $10k → 12%KARE INC: $8k → 12%KARE INC: $8k → 12%HAYWOOD CHRISTIAN MINISTRY: $6k → 12%KARE INC: $6k → 12%HAYWOOD CHRISTIAN MINISTRY: $6k → 12%KARE INC: $5k → 12%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

61%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$238k · 12 repeat orgs$151k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +125% since the first grant, against +83% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

12
16

Total granted

$238k
$96k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+125%
+83%

Still filing today

67%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $55k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’20’21’22’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’20’21’22’24
Human ServicesEducationArts & CultureReligionHousing & ShelterCommunity ImprovementOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • HC
    Haywood Christian Ministry Inc
    5× · 2017–2022 · $47k · revenue +515%
  • HP
    Haywood Pathways Center Inc
    4× · 2017–2022 · $30k · revenue +109%
  • KI
    KARE Inc
    4× · 2017–2022 · $26k · revenue +255%

Funded once

  • PL
    PAWSITIVE LOVE FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2018 · $30k
  • STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue +83%
  • DW
    DIAMOND WILLOW MINISTRIESgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $10k · revenue +323%
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Haywood Health Foundation Inc

To improve healthcare for residents of Haywood County through addressing unmet healthcare needs

Health
2
Hayswood Foundation Inc
Philanthropy
3
Hayworth Christian School Inc

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.

Education
4
Haywood Waterways Association Inc

To work to improve & protect surface water in haywood county, north carolina.

Environment
5
Haywood Street Community Development

Dignity through dwellings, connection through community.

Housing & Shelter
6
Hands of Hope Medical Clinic Inc

To provide medical care for uninsured individuals in the Yadkinville area.

Health
7
Hay Center Foundation

Empower current and former foster youth to be successful, productive adults through training, employment, and personal achievement.

Youth Development
8
Haywood County Rescue Squad Inc

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.

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9
Hays Area Childrens Center Inc

To serve and advance quality care and educational experiences for young children.

Education
10
His Harvest Stand

To lift people out of poverty by responding to human need with the love of christ.

Food & Nutrition
11
Haywood Pet Care Inc

Providing low-cost spay/neuter services and animal wellness programs

Animals
12
Harwood House

To provide non-hospital, in-patient treatment to adult men and women recovering from drug and alcohol dependence.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Haywood Pathways Center Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

17 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. 17 of the 29 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
10
Early backer (in before they grew)
17/17
Grantees still filing
12/17
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

RUSHWOOD PARK WESLEYAN CHURCH: $45,000 · OtherRUSHWOOD PARK WESLEYAN CHURCHPAWSITIVE LOVE FOUNDATION: $30,000 · OtherPAWSITIVE LOVE FOUNDATIONHAYWOOD COUNTY SCHOOLS FOUNDATION: $17,000 · OtherHAYWOOD COUNTY SCHOOLS FOUNDATIONNEW COVENANT CHURCH: $14,000 · OtherNEW COVENANT CHURCHMOUNTAIN PROJECTS INC: $11,000 · OtherMOUNTAIN PROJECTS INCWESTERN CAROLINA UNIVERSITY FOUNDAT: $10,000 · OtherWESTERN CAROLINA UNIVERSITY FOUNDATFARMER BAPTIST CHURCH: $10,000 · OtherFARMER BAPTIST CHURCH+10 more: $17,691 · Other+10 moreHaywood Christian Ministry Inc: $47,000 · Human ServicesHaywood Christian Ministry …KARE Inc: $26,000 · Human ServicesKARE IncDIAMOND WILLOW MINISTRIES: $10,000 · Human ServicesDIAMOND WILLOW MINISTRIESREACH OF HAYWOOD COUNTY INC: $10,000 · Human ServicesREACH OF HAYWOOD COUNTY INCSAMARITAN'S PURSE: $55,000 · ReligionSAMARITAN'S PURS…Haywood Community College Found: $22,300 · EducationHaywood Co…STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION: $10,000 · EducationSTEPHEN SI…Haywood Christian Academy Inc: $5,370 · EducationHaywood Ch…Haywood Pathways Center Inc: $30,000 · Housing & ShelterHAYWOOD COUNTY ARTS COUNCIL INC: $11,000 · Arts & CultureHAYWOOD ARTS REGIONAL THEATRE: $5,000 · Arts & CultureTHE COMMUNITY KITCHEN INC: $3,000 · Food & Nutrition
Other$154,691Human Services$93,000Religion$55,000Education$37,670Housing & Shelter$30,000Arts & Culture$16,000Food & Nutrition$3,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSAMARITAN'S PURSE: $55,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHaywood Christian Ministry Inc: $47,000 over 5y, 1.5% of budgetHaywood Pathways Center Inc: $30,000 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetKARE Inc: $26,000 over 4y, 2.1% of budgetHaywood Community College Found: $22,300 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetHAYWOOD COUNTY SCHOOLS FOUNDATION: $17,000 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetHAYWOOD COUNTY ARTS COUNCIL INC: $11,000 over 2y, 2.6% of budgetMOUNTAIN PROJECTS INC: $11,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDIAMOND WILLOW MINISTRIES: $10,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetREACH OF HAYWOOD COUNTY INC: $10,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetHAYWOOD ARTS REGIONAL THEATRE: $5,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetTHE COMMUNITY KITCHEN INC: $3,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetHAYWOOD ADVANCEMENT FOUNDATION INC: $1,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetST ANDREW COMMUNITY MEDICAL CENTER INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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 Foundat…United Way of Haywood…Ken & Deborah Wilson …Foundation for the Ca…East Tennessee Founda…North Carolina Commun…Haywood Health Founda…Gradison FoundationWnc Bridge FoundationDogwood Health TrustColquitt FoundationEvergreen Foundation
The Community Foundation of Western North Carolina IncNC25.4× affinity10 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The John C Harmon Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The John C Harmon Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%8%15%22%30%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    6report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–30%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
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    How do I get to The John C Harmon Family Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to The John C Harmon Family Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 29 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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