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The Reed L Harman & Nan M Harman Foundation at a glance

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The Reed L Harman & Nan M Harman 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.

$176k
Granted FY2024still arriving
32
Grants FY2024still arriving
8
States reached
$30k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0190% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Health$585kArts & Culture$198kPhilanthropy$194kEducation$179kRecreation & Sports$116kHuman Services$82kEnvironment$53kReligion$52kOther$0
02FY2024 · 32 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k24 grants · $70k
  • $10k–50k8 grants · $106k
$5,000
Median grant
8
States reached
$4.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CEDARS SINAI MEDICAL GROUP$30,000
EISENHOWER MEDICAL CENTER$15,000
Individual grant recipient$10,748
DESERT COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$10,000
PROVIDENCE LITTLE COMPANY OF MARY FOUNDATION$10,000
TORRANCE MEMORIAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION$10,000
PCCH$10,000
DESERT SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION$10,000
HARLEM VALLEY RAIL TRAIL$6,000
THE LIVING DESERT FOUNDATION$6,000
PALOS VERDES ESTATE FOUNDATION$6,000
GREENWICH ACADEMY$5,000
PALOS VERDES LAND CONSERVANCY$5,000
OLD TOWN ARTISAN STUDIO$5,000
MAYO CLINIC$5,000
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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY17–24, $14k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%BOYS TOWN: $500 → 12%THE COLLEAGUES: $1k → 14%CHALLENGED ATHLETE FOUNDATION: $10k → 11%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $500 → 14%SECURE FUTURES: $1k → 11%THE COLLEAGUES: $1k → 14%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.

Which US states its grants reach

VT
NH
WA
MT
MN
IL
WI
NY
MA
WY
CT
CA
NE
MO
DC
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.

92%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.8M · 30 repeat orgs$164k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +39% since the first grant, against +10% for those funded once.

30 repeat relationships: 22 still active in FY2024, 8 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

30
43

Total granted

$1.8M
$143k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+39%
+10%

Still filing today

53%
30%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $21k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationArts & CultureHuman ServicesHealthEnvironmentYouth DevelopmentOther
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

  • PA
    PETERSEN AUTOMOTIVE MUSEUM FOUNDATION
    8× · 2017–2024 · $126k · revenue +39%
  • EM
    Eisenhower Medical Center
    8× · 2017–2024 · $85k · revenue +94%
  • DS
    DESERT SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION
    7× · 2018–2024 · $73k · revenue +843%

Funded once

  • CS
    CEDAR SINAI WOMEN'S GUILD
    one grant, 2017 · $30k
  • NY
    NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF LAW
    one grant, 2019 · $10k
  • FH
    FRED HITCHINSON CANCER RESEARCH
    one grant, 2017 · $10k
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
The Trustees of Princeton University

Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…

Education
2
President and Fellows of Harvard College

Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.

Education
3
Harvey Mudd College

HMC seeks to educate engineers, scientists, and mathematicians well versed in all of these areas and in the humanities, social sciences and the arts so that they may assume leadership in their fields with a clear understanding of the…

Education
4
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education
5
Claremont Graduate University

Claremont Graduate University prepares individuals to be leaders for positive change in the world. Unique in its transdisciplinary approach, the University is dedicated to the creation, dissemination, and application of new knowledge and…

Education
6
University of La Verne

The university of la verne offers a distinctive and relevant educational experience to a diverse population of traditional-age, adult, and graduate learners, preparing them for successful careers and a commitment to lifelong learning…

Education
7
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
8
Ucla Foundation

The ucla foundation is the giving, receiving, and investing arm of the ucla campus. the foundation enables private donors to help build, sustain and advance one of the world's finest academic and research institutions. private philanthropy…

Education
9
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

—
10
President and Trustees of Bates College

Bates is a college of the liberal arts and sciences, and is a coeducational, nonsectarian, residential college with special commitments to academic rigor, and to assuring in all of its efforts the dignity of each individual, and access to…

Education
11
Western University of Health Sciences

To produce, in a humanistic tradition, health care professionals and biomedical knowledge that will enhance and extend the quality of life in our communities.

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12
Pitzer College

Pitzer College produces engaged socially responsible citizens of the world through an academically rigorous, interdisciplinary liberal arts education emphasizing social justice, intercultural understanding and environmental sensitivity.…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Saint John's Health Center Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Father Flanagan's Boys' Home. 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

40 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 40 of the 84 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)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
39/40
Grantees still filing
25/40
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Individual grant recipient: $530,748 · OtherIndividual grant recipientCEDARS SINAI MEDICAL GROUP: $210,000 · OtherCEDARS SINAI MEDICAL GROUPTORRANCE MEMORIAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $131,900 · OtherTORRANCE MEMORIAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATIONHARLEM VALLEY RAIL TRAIL: $106,000 · OtherHARLEM VALLEY RAIL TRAILPCCH: $73,900 · OtherTHE LIVING DESERT FOUNDATION: $72,000 · Other+48 more: $270,217 · Other+48 moreEisenhower Medical Center: $85,000 · HealthEisenhower…MAYO CLINIC: $76,000 · HealthMAYO CLINI…Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center: $35,000 · HealthFred Hutch…+2 more: $4,250 · HealthPETERSEN AUTOMOTIVE MUSEUM FOUNDATION: $126,130 · Arts & CulturePETERSEN …OLD TOWN ARTISAN STUDIO INC: $31,500 · Arts & CultureOLD TOWN …BRUCE MUSEUM INC: $10,000 · Arts & CultureBRUCE MUS…Palos Verdes Art Center Beverly G Alpay Center for Arts Education: $9,000 · Arts & Culture+2 more: $606 · Arts & CultureDESERT SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION: $73,300 · EducationDESERT SC…President and Fellows of Middlebury College: $30,000 · EducationPresident…GREENWICH ACADEMY INC: $26,000 · EducationGREENWICH…Trustees of Dartmouth College: $21,500 · EducationTrustees …RANCHO MIRAGE WRITERS FESTIVAL: $10,000 · EducationRANCHO MI…+5 more: $12,500 · Education+5 morePALOS VERDES ESTATES FOUNDATION: $61,000 · EnvironmentMADISON SQUARE PARK CONSERVANCY INC: $10,000 · EnvironmentDESERT COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $32,000 · PhilanthropyPROVIDENCE LITTLE COMPANY OF MARY FOUNDATION: $10,000 · PhilanthropyCHALLENGED ATHLETES INC: $10,000 · Human ServicesSECUREFUTURES FOUNDATION INC: $2,000 · Human ServicesTHE COLLEAGUES INC: $2,000 · Human ServicesFather Flanagan's Boys' Home: $500 · Human ServicesAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $500 · Human Services
Other$1,394,765Health$200,250Arts & Culture$177,236Education$173,300Environment$71,000Philanthropy$42,000Human Services$15,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetPETERSEN AUTOMOTIVE MUSEUM FOUNDATION: $126,130 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetEisenhower Medical Center: $85,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetMAYO CLINIC: $76,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetDESERT SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION: $73,300 over 7y, 1.9% of budgetPALOS VERDES ESTATES FOUNDATION: $61,000 over 3y, 86% of budgetFred Hutchinson Cancer Center: $35,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetDESERT COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $32,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetOLD TOWN ARTISAN STUDIO INC: $31,500 over 8y, 0.5% of budgetPresident and Fellows of Middlebury College: $30,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetGREENWICH ACADEMY INC: $26,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetTrustees of Dartmouth College: $21,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCHALLENGED ATHLETES INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBRUCE MUSEUM INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPROVIDENCE LITTLE COMPANY OF MARY FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetRANCHO MIRAGE WRITERS FESTIVAL: $10,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetMADISON SQUARE PARK CONSERVANCY INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPalos Verdes Art Center Beverly G Alpay Center for Arts Education: $9,000 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetFREEDOM 4 U: $6,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budget#WALKAWAY FOUNDATION: $5,320 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetBRUNSWICK SCHOOL INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPENINSULA LIBRARY FRIENDS FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetChildren's Hospital Los Angeles: $2,750 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetJerusalem Farm: $2,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetSECUREFUTURES FOUNDATION INC: $2,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE COLLEAGUES INC: $2,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSAINT JOHN'S HEALTH CENTER FOUNDATION: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGLOBALGIVING FOUNDATION INC: $1,150 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNORTHEAST-MILLERTON LIBRARY: $1,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetNORTHEAST COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTRACY LANE FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetPALOS VERDES GOLF CLUB SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetTHE LIBRARY FOUNDATION OF LOS ANGELES: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBronxville Historical Conservancy Inc: $506 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetFather Flanagan's Boys' Home: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHOATE ROSEMARY HALL FOUNDATION INCORPORATED: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNEW VISTA SCHOOL: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPATHWAYS TO INDEPENDENCE: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHILDREN'S OUTING ASSOCIATION: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDALY MANSION PRESERVATION TRUST: $100 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

  • Who funds PETERSEN AUTOMOTIVE MUSEUM FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Eisenhower Medical Center ↗
  • Who funds MAYO CLINIC ↗
  • Who funds DESERT SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds PALOS VERDES ESTATES FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center ↗
  • Who funds DESERT COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds OLD TOWN ARTISAN STUDIO INC ↗
  • Who funds President and Fellows of Middlebury College ↗
  • Who funds GREENWICH ACADEMY INC ↗
  • Who funds Trustees of Dartmouth College ↗
  • Who funds CHALLENGED ATHLETES INC ↗
  • Who funds BRUCE MUSEUM INC ↗
  • Who funds PROVIDENCE LITTLE COMPANY OF MARY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds RANCHO MIRAGE WRITERS FESTIVAL ↗
  • Who funds MADISON SQUARE PARK CONSERVANCY INC ↗
  • Who funds Palos Verdes Art Center Beverly G Alpay Center for Arts Education ↗
  • Who funds FREEDOM 4 U ↗
  • Who funds #WALKAWAY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds BRUNSWICK SCHOOL INC ↗
  • Who funds PENINSULA LIBRARY FRIENDS FOUNDATION ↗

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 Kenneth T and Eil…The Confidence Founda…California Community …Orange County Communi…Morgan Stanley Global…The Chicago Community…National Philanthropi…American Endowment Fo…Vanguard Charitable E…Charities Aid Foundat…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …
The Kenneth T and Eileen L Norris FoundationCA13.5× affinity4 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Kenneth T and Eileen L Norris Foundation · The Confidence Foundation · California Community Foundation · Orange County Community Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Chicago Community Trust · National Philanthropic Trust · American Endowment Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Charities Aid Foundation America · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund

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 Reed L Harman & Nan M Harman Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Reed L Harman & Nan M Harman Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%6%23%51%90%funder's share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • President and Fellows of Middlebury College: 1% of income from government
  • Bruce Museum Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Choate Rosemary Hall Foundation Incorporated: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get 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 · 0–50%
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 84 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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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home