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The Luther & Susie Harrison Foundation Inc

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.

$2.7M
Granted FY2024still arriving
7
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$1.0M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Health$6.3MEducation$4.2MHuman Services$1.1MReligion$1.0MHousing & Shelter$225kPhilanthropy$202kCrime & Legal$175kFood & Nutrition$100k
02FY2024 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k1 grant · $830
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $425k
  • $250k+3 grants · $2.3M
$200,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$50M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
University of Georgia Foundation$1,000,000
Children's Healthcare$1,000,000
Mayo Clinic (Rochester)$250,000
Fragile Kids Foundation$200,000
Individual grant recipient$175,000
Piedmont CASA Inc$50,000
Individual grant recipient$830
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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY21–21, $75k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, 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%Barrow Ministry Village Inc: $50k → 9%Peace Place Inc: $25k → 9%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.
04

Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 19% of The Luther & Susie Harrison Foundation Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

The Luther & Susie Harrison Foundation Inclessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
How this is measured
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

50%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$5.6M · 5 repeat orgs$5.6M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +36% since the first grant, against +30% for those funded once.

5 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2024, 2 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

5
13

Total granted

$5.6M
$4.3M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+36%
+30%

Still filing today

60%
69%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 43% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.4M went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24
HealthEducationHuman ServicesCivil RightsFood & NutritionPhilanthropyOther
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

  • TU
    THE UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA FOUNDATION
    3× · 2022–2024 · $3.0M · revenue +36%
  • ES
    Extra Special People Inc
    2× · 2020–2021 · $2.0M · revenue +386% · 39% of their budget
  • F
    FOCUS
    2× · 2022–2023 · $400k

Funded once

  • WF
    Wesley FDN at University of Georgia
    one grant, 2022 · $1.0M
  • EAGLE RANCH INC
    one grant, 2021 · $1.0M · revenue -44%
  • EU
    Emory Universitygraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $1.0M · revenue +54%
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
Family Counseling Center of Central Georgia Inc

Strengthen and preserve the well-being of individuals, couples, and families through easy, affordable access to professional counseling services.

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2
Sharehouse Inc

The Organization is a non-profit organization providing crisis intervention and the continuum of care to address the causes and effects of family violence.

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3
Easter Seals East Georgia Inc

Easter Seals East Georgia's mission is to provide exceptional services to ensure that people with disabilities and barriers to employment maximize their potential for employment and independence and broaden their opportunities for full…

Human Services
4
Family House of West Georgia Inc

Family house of west georgia provides a home away from home for families of seriously ill or injured children receiving treatment at nearby hospitals. the house gives children a place to play after a long day at the hospital, parents and…

Health
5
Forsyth County Family Haven Inc

To provide comprehensive services to individuals and their children who have experienced family violence, to educate and train the community on the issue of family violence/sexual assault, to increase self-sufficiency and to reduce…

Human Services
6
Peachtree Christian Health Inc

To support caregivers and their loved ones by providing a compassionate care center offering safe, engaging, and reliable adult services.

Human Services
7
Tifton Judicial Circuit Shelter Inc

To end domestic and sexual violence, as well as child sexual and physical abuse, through a collaborative, multidisciplinary approach to investigations, advocacy, and support, while working in the community to change attitudes, beliefs and…

Human Services
8
Family Hope House Inc

Family Hope House empowers families through therapy, education, and advocacy. As Oklahoma's sole adoption competent mental health agency, we support foster and adoptive children for lasting stability and success.

Health
9
The Safehouse of Shelby County Inc

Temporary shelter for abused spouses and their children.

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10
Family Counseling Service of Athens Inc

The organization provides family counseling services to families in clarke,barrow,madison,jackson,oconee and oglethorpe counties in georgia.

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11
The Drake House Inc

To empower women and their children experiencing homelessness to achieve economic independence and long-term stability.

Housing & Shelter
12
Rogers Behavioral Health - Georgia Inc

We provide highly effective mental health and addiction treatment that helps people reach their full potential for health and well-being.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Athens Area Community Foundation Inc; the most unlike its peers is George West Mental Health Foundation Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network

15 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. 15 of the 23 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
14/15
Grantees still filing
11/15
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Extra Special People Inc: $2,000,000 · OtherExtra Special People IncWesley FDN at University of Georgia: $1,000,000 · OtherWesley FDN at University of GeorgiaChildren's Healthcare: $1,000,000 · OtherChildren's HealthcareFOCUS: $400,000 · OtherFOCUSFRAGILE KIDS FOUNDATION INC: $200,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $175,000 · Other+4 more: $252,420 · OtherTHE UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA FOUNDATION: $3,000,000 · EducationTHE UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA FOUNDAT…Emory University: $1,000,000 · EducationEmory UniversityMAYO CLINIC: $2,000,000 · HealthMAYO CLINICEAGLE RANCH INC: $1,000,000 · HealthEAGLE RANCH INCGEORGE WEST MENTAL HEALTH FOUNDATION INC: $650,000 · HealthGEORGE WEST MENTAL HEALTH FOUND…+1 more: $100,000 · HealthAthens Area Community Foundation Inc: $200,000 · PhilanthropyBARROW COUNTY COOPERATIVE BENEVOLENCE MINISTRIES INC: $50,000 · PhilanthropyPIEDMONT CASA INC: $150,000 · Civil RightsFOOD BANK OF NORTHEAST GEORGIA INC: $100,000 · Food & NutritionBARROW MINISTRY VILLAGE INC: $50,000 · Human ServicesPEACE PLACE INC: $25,000 · Human ServicesTHE TREE HOUSE INC: $25,000 · Crime & Legal
Other$5,027,420Education$4,000,000Health$3,750,000Philanthropy$250,000Civil Rights$150,000Food & Nutrition$100,000Human Services$75,000Crime & Legal$25,000

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 budgetTHE UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA FOUNDATION: $3,000,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetMAYO CLINIC: $2,000,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetExtra Special People Inc: $2,000,000 over 2y, 39% of budgetEAGLE RANCH INC: $1,000,000 over 1y, 7.4% of budgetEmory University: $1,000,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGEORGE WEST MENTAL HEALTH FOUNDATION INC: $650,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetAthens Area Community Foundation Inc: $200,000 over 1y, 5.9% of budgetPIEDMONT CASA INC: $150,000 over 3y, 14% of budgetFOOD BANK OF NORTHEAST GEORGIA INC: $100,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetSide by Side Brain Injury Clubhouse: $100,000 over 1y, 9.7% of budgetBARROW MINISTRY VILLAGE INC: $50,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetBARROW COUNTY COOPERATIVE BENEVOLENCE MINISTRIES INC: $50,000 over 1y, 19% of budgetTHE TREE HOUSE INC: $25,000 over 1y, 3.1% of budgetPEACE PLACE INC: $25,000 over 1y, 1.9% 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.

Peach State Fcu Cares…Jackson Emc Foundatio…Amazonsmile Foundation
Peach State Fcu Cares Foundation IncGA13.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Peach State Fcu Cares Foundation Inc · Jackson Emc Foundation Inc Attn Amy Rouse · 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Luther & Susie Harrison Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Luther & Susie Harrison Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%3%10%23%40%funder's share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    7report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
    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.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to The Luther & Susie Harrison Foundation Inc?

    Find your warmest path to The Luther & Susie Harrison Foundation Inc 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 23 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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