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The Sheila and Nat Harris Legacy Foundation Inc

Its FY2019 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$10k
Granted FY2019
1
Grants FY2019
1
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What it funds
0192% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2019.

Health$36kEducation$13kAnimals$10kReligion$5kCommunity Improvement$2kYouth Development$1kOther$0
02FY2019 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$10,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CHILDRESS INSTITUTE FOR PEDIATRIC$10,000
02The need
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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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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY18–19) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%CHARLOTTE COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL: $3k → 10%CEII WILMINGTON GREEN: $3k → 12%CHRIST SCHOOL: $3k → 12%ST MARK'S CHURCH: $5k → 13%CHILDRESS INSTITUTE FOR PEDIATRIC: $20k → 15%IAM 247: $1k → 10%THE HILL SCHOOL OF WILMINGTON: $3k → 12%CHILDRESS INSTITUTE FOR PEDIATRIC: $10k → 15%MYRTLE GROVE CHRISTIAN SCHOOL: $3k → 12%COASTAL CHRISTIAN HIGH SCHOOL: $2k → 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 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.

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Colleyville Covenant Christian

The mission is to provide a biblically based classical college preparatory education that inspires a passion for excellence a heart of grace and the character of Christ.

Education
2
Covenant Christian School

Covenant Christian School (CCS) is committed to the academic, spiritual, physical, and social growth of our children in a Christ-centered environment. Continued on Schedule O Covenant Christian School cultivates a distinctive generation…

Education
3
Summit Classical Christian School

Summit Classical Christian School is a PreK-12 school that exists to cultivate generations of joyful disciples of Christ by partnering with faithful Christian families to educate their children from a Biblical worldview using classical…

Education
4
Crowleys Ridge Academy

Christian education

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5
Christian Heritage School Inc

Christian Heritage School exists to assist parents and churches in fulfilling their God-given responsibility to teach their children that "in (Christ) are hid all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge" (Col. 2:3) and to provide its…

Education
6
Cape Charles Christian School Inc

Trusting in Gods guidance, the mission of Cape Charles School is to educate and develop the Whole Child in a non-denominational Christian setting

Education
7
Cherry Hills Christian School

Cherry Hills Christian School awakens the educational experience by preparing students to live fully for God in a rapidly changing world, knowing they are His masterpieces, uniquely designed for His purpose.

Education
8
Axiom Christian Classical School

To provide a comprehensive Christian Classical education to grades 1-12.

Education
9
Lake Norman Christian School

The mission of Lake Norman Christian School is to provide a college-preparatory education in a safe and nurturing environment grounded in the Christian faith.

Education
10
Charlotte Christian School

Charlotte christian school is a christ-centered, college preparatory school, equipping and developing students to effectively integrate biblical truth and learning nto their daily lives and to impact the culture for christ.

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11
Concord Christian Academy

Concord Christian Academy is a life preparatory educational institution that works in harmony with families to promote the spiritual, intellectual, emotional, physical and creative growth of students, empowering them to live for the glory…

Education
12
Arborbrook Christian Academy

Arborbrook Christian Academy partners with parents to equip, empower, and encourage students to cultivate godly character, pursue life-long learning, and love the Lord Jesus Christ.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Christ School Inc; the most unlike its peers is Vigilant Hope Inc. 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

8 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. 8 of the 12 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)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/8
Grantees still filing
8/8
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CHILDRESS INSTITUTE FOR PEDIATRIC: $30,000 · OtherCHILDRESS INSTITUTE FOR PEDIATRICNC WILDLIFE HABITAT FOUNDATION: $10,000 · OtherNC WILDLIFE HABITAT FOUNDATIONSAINT MARKS EVANGELICAL AND REFORMED CHURCH INC: $5,000 · OtherSAINT MARKS EVANGELICAL AND REFORMED CHURCH INCMyrtle Grove Christian School: $3,000 · OtherMyrtle Grove Christian SchoolIndividual grant recipient: $3,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientThe Hill School of Wilmington Inc: $3,000 · EducationThe Hill School …CHRIST SCHOOL INC: $2,500 · EducationCHRIST SCHOOL IN…CHARLOTTE COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL: $2,500 · EducationCHARLOTTE COUNTR…Coastal Christian High School Inc: $2,000 · EducationCoastal Christia…CHARLOTTE RESCUE MISSION: $6,000 · HealthCHARLOTTE…Vigilant Hope Inc: $2,000 · Community ImprovementI AM 247: $1,000 · Youth Development
Other$51,000Education$10,000Health$6,000Community Improvement$2,000Youth Development$1,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetMyrtle Grove Christian School: $3,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThe Hill School of Wilmington Inc: $3,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetCHRIST SCHOOL INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHARLOTTE COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVigilant Hope Inc: $2,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetCoastal Christian High School Inc: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetI AM 247: $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% 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.

Natl Christian Charitable Fdn IncGA13.2× affinity8 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · 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 Sheila and Nat Harris Legacy Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Sheila and Nat Harris Legacy Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

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no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    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 12 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 2019, released 2019. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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