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The Penn Harris Charitable Trust at a glance

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The Penn Harris Charitable Trust

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$35k
Granted FY2025still arriving
7
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$15k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Human Services$165kEducation$68kReligion$49kHealth$7kArts & Culture$390International$207Philanthropy$150
02FY2025 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k6 grants · $20k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $15k
$2,500
Median grant
2
States reached
$607k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
NEW ALTERNATIVES FOR CHILDREN INC$15,000
TAMID NYC$8,795
WESLEYAN COLLEGE$3,849
CORNELL UNIVERSITY$2,500
SPENCE SCHOOL$2,500
MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION$2,000
LREI$500
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:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 18%, against an area that typically sits at 19%. 7% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 19%CORNELL UNIVERSITY: $6k → 16%LREI: $500 → 17%RIVERDALE COUNTY SCHOOL: $7k → 28%WESLEYAN COLLEGE: $5k → 23%CORNELL UNIVERSITY: $3k → 16%MAKE A WISH FOUNDATION - METRO NEW YORK: $3k → 17%RIVERDALE COUNTY SCHOOL: $3k → 28%WESLEYAN COLLEGE: $4k → 23%CORNELL UNIVERSITY: $3k → 16%LREI: $500 → 17%RIVERDALE COUNTY SCHOOL: $750 → 28%CORNELL UNIVERSITY: $3k → 16%MAKE A WISH FOUNDATION - METRO NEW YORK: $1k → 17%CORNELL UNIVERSITY: $3k → 16%TAMID NYC: $9k → 17%CORNELL UNIVERSITY: $500 → 16%TAMID NYC: $6k → 17%CORNELL UNIVERSITY: $500 → 16%TAMID NYC: $6k → 17%CORNELL UNIVERSITY: $500 → 16%TAMID NYC: $5k → 17%TAMID NYC: $5k → 17%TAMID NYC: $5k → 17%TAMID NYC: $5k → 17%TAMID NYC: $4k → 17%TAMID NYC: $4k → 17%LITTLE RED SCHOOL HOUSE INC: $3k → 17%LITTLE RED SCHOOL HOUSE INC: $3k → 17%LITTLE RED SCHOOL HOUSE INC: $3k → 17%LITTLE RED SCHOOL HOUSE INC: $2k → 17%LITTLE RED SCHOOL HOUSE INC: $2k → 17%SPENCE SCHOOL: $3k → 17%SPENCE SCHOOL: $3k → 17%SPENCE SCHOOL: $3k → 17%DALTON SCHOOLS INC: $2k → 17%DALTON SCHOOLS INC: $2k → 17%DALTON SCHOOLS INC: $1k → 17%DALTON SCHOOLS INC: $500 → 17%LREI: $4k → 17%NEW ALTERNATIVES FOR CHILDREN INC: $21k → 17%NEW ALTERNATIVES FOR CHILDREN INC: $21k → 17%NEW ALTERNATIVES FOR CHILDREN INC: $21k → 17%NEW ALTERNATIVES FOR CHILDREN INC: $18k → 17%NEW ALTERNATIVES FOR CHILDREN INC: $17k → 17%NEW ALTERNATIVES FOR CHILDREN INC: $16k → 17%NEW ALTERNATIVES FOR CHILDREN INC: $16k → 17%NEW ALTERNATIVES FOR CHILDREN INC: $15k → 17%NEW ALTERNATIVES FOR CHILDREN INC: $15k → 17%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.

100%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$289k · 10 repeat orgs$747 to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +25% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.

10 repeat relationships: 7 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

10
3

Total granted

$289k
$747

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+25%
0%

Still filing today

80%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationArts & CulturePhilanthropyHealthInternationalOther
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

  • NEW ALTERNATIVES FOR CHILDREN INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $161k · revenue +48%
  • LR
    LITTLE RED SCHOOL HOUSE INC
    8× · 2017–2025 · $18k · revenue +10%
  • Cornell University
    8× · 2017–2025 · $18k · revenue +59%

Funded once

  • NY
    NEW YORK INTERNATIONAL CHILDRENS FILM FESTIVAL INC
    one grant, 2017 · $390 · revenue -10%
  • CW
    CONCERN WORLDWIDE (US) INC
    one grant, 2024 · $207 · revenue 0%
  • UJ
    UNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INCgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $150 · revenue +39%
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
Northeast College of Health Sciences

Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.

Education
2
Manhattanville University

To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.

Education
3
New York School of Interior Design

New york school of interior design provides the most innovative, immersive, and transformative interior design education in the world, demonstrating the impact of professionally designed interiors on the health, happiness, and well-being…

Education
4
Stony Brook Internists University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
5
Fordham University

Fordham university, the jesuit university of new york, is committed to the discovery of wisdom and the transmission of learning, through research and through education of the highest quality. for more information, see schedule o.

Education
6
University of New Haven

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…

Education
7
Darrow School

Darrow school is dedicated to serving students with diverse backgrounds and abilities, building on each student's talents and interests to inspire enduring confidence for success in college and life. this mission is accomplished through…

Education
8
The York School

York school is an award-winning, private, coed college-prep school for grades 8-12, that develops confident and authentic leaders. we offer an academically challenging experiential program for bright, kind, and driven students in an…

Education
9
Corlears School

Corlears students learn, play, and grow together in a school designed for who they are at ages 2 through 10. during these crucial formative years, we build a foundation of compassion, critical thinking, imagination and leadership, and…

Education
10
Chapel Hill-Chauncy Hall School

We engage a diverse community of learners in a collaborative educational experience, preparing them for college success and a lifetime of meaningful engagement with the broader world.

—
11
Open New York Education Inc

Open new york education, inc. supports public education, awareness, and engagement around housing issues to help build a movement for a more abundant and inclusive new york.

Housing & Shelter
12
Wilson College

Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Little Red School House Inc; the most unlike its peers is The Michael J Fox Foundation for Parkinson's Research. 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

11 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. 11 of the 13 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)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
11/11
Grantees still filing
8/11
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

NEW ALTERNATIVES FOR CHILDREN INC: $160,650 · OtherNEW ALTERNATIVES FOR CHILDREN INCTAMID NYC: $49,215 · OtherTAMID NYCLITTLE RED SCHOOL HOUSE INC: $18,000 · OtherLITTLE RED SCHOOL HOUSE INC+1 more: $4,194 · OtherCornell University: $17,500 · EducationCornell UniversityRIVERDALE COUNTRY SCHOOL INC: $10,250 · EducationRIVERDALE COUNTRY S…WESLEYAN COLLEGE: $8,849 · EducationWESLEYAN COLLEGETHE SPENCE SCHOOL: $7,500 · EducationTHE SPENCE SCHOOLDALTON SCHOOLS INC: $6,000 · EducationDALTON SCHOOLS INCTHE MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSON'S RESEARCH: $6,515 · HealthNEW YORK INTERNATIONAL CHILDRENS FILM FESTIVAL INC: $390 · Arts & CultureCONCERN WORLDWIDE (US) INC: $207 · InternationalUNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC: $150 · Philanthropy
Other$232,059Education$50,099Health$6,515Arts & Culture$390International$207Philanthropy$150

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

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetNEW ALTERNATIVES FOR CHILDREN INC: $160,650 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetLITTLE RED SCHOOL HOUSE INC: $18,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetCornell University: $17,500 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetRIVERDALE COUNTRY SCHOOL INC: $10,250 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetWESLEYAN COLLEGE: $8,849 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE SPENCE SCHOOL: $7,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSON'S RESEARCH: $6,515 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetDALTON SCHOOLS INC: $6,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetNEW YORK INTERNATIONAL CHILDRENS FILM FESTIVAL INC: $390 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCONCERN WORLDWIDE (US) INC: $207 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC: $150 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 Bank of America C…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
The Bank of America Charitable Foundation IncNC10× affinity4 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · 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 Penn Harris Charitable Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Penn Harris Charitable Trust. 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%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
    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.

    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 13 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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