· Private foundation
The Stephen and Deborah Harnik Charitable Foundation
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.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 48% of THE STEPHEN AND DEBORAH HARNIK CHARITABLE FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| AAF SALZBURG WEILL CORNELL | $4,000 |
| NY TIMES NEEDIEST CASES FUND | $4,000 |
| NEW CLASSROOMS INNOVATION PARTNERS | $1,500 |
| TFFJ-TEENS FOR FOOD JUSTICE | $1,000 |
| FREUD FOUNDATION US | $1,000 |
| SBT CHARITABLE FUND | $1,000 |
| ELYSIUM BETWEEN TWO CONTINENTS | $750 |
| CITIZENS COMMITTEE FOR CHILDREN | $500 |
| CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIV | $350 |
| SWARTHMORE COLLEGE | $350 |
| STXBP1 FOUNDATION | $250 |
| ALZHEIMERS FOUNDATION | $250 |
| MYRIAD USA | $250 |
| PIANOFEST INC | $100 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY17–23, $5k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +51% since the first grant, against +17% for the ones you funded once.
31 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2025, 21 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- VOVIENNESE OPERA BALL2× · 2017–2018 · $14k · revenue +304% · 38% of their budget
- PAPEN AMERICAN CENTER INC5× · 2017–2024 · $11k · revenue +110%
CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY7× · 2018–2025 · $10k · revenue +44%
Funded once
- GRGeorges River Land Trustone grant, 2020 · $2k · revenue -23%
- GSGERMAN-AMERICAN SCHOLARSHIP ASSOCIATION INCone grant, 2019 · $1k · revenue -65%
- HMHORACE MANN SCHOOLone grant, 2018 · $1k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.
Operate a state-of-the-art, world-class genomic research center that creates and uses advanced genomics to understand the genetic basis of disease. for more information, see schedule o.
The new york botanical garden is a museum of plants and a scientific research center devoted to the study of plants and their uses. it is the garden's mission to improve public understanding of the natural world, horticulture, and the…
The mission of the organization is to foster the development of creative individuals as writers and artists and to promote public appreciation of excellence in the literary and graphic arts by publishing a magazine containing fiction,…
To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
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…
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
The institute for advanced study (the institute) is one of the world's leading centers for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. see schedule o.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
The Knight First Amendment Institute defends the freedoms of speech and the press in the digital age through strategic litigation, research, public advocacy and public education. Our aim is to promote a system of free expression that is…
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.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The New York Public Library Astor Lenox and Tilden Foundations and the most unlike its peers is Freud Foundation Us. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 36 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 10% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
45 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 45 of the 86 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds VIENNESE OPERA BALL ↗
- Who funds THE NEW YORK TIMES COMMUNITIES FUND ↗
- Who funds PEN AMERICAN CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds NEW YORK PUBLIC RADIO ↗
- Who funds THE SALZBURG FESTIVAL SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds THE INNOCENCE PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds SWARTHMORE COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds FREUD FOUNDATION US ↗
- Who funds NEW CLASSROOMS INNOVATION PARTNERS INC ↗
- Who funds THE BOOKS FOR KIDS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Georges River Land Trust ↗
- Who funds American Civil Liberties Union of Virginia ↗
- Who funds ELYSIUM BETWEEN TWO CONTINENTS INC ↗
- Who funds METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART ↗
- Who funds GERMAN-AMERICAN SCHOLARSHIP ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds SOUTHAMPTON BATH & TENNIS CLUB CHARITABLE FUND ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds TEENS FOR FOOD JUSTICE INC ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY INC ↗
- Who funds GOD'S LOVE WE DELIVER INC ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: The Mark Zurack & Kathy Ferguson Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Charities Aid Foundation America · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Network for Good · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization The Stephen and Deborah Harnik Charitable Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.
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