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William F Harnisch Foundation Inc at a glance

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William F Harnisch 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.

$3.0M
Granted FY2024still arriving
56
Grants FY2024still arriving
11
States reached
$1.5M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Health$3.6MArts & Culture$3.5MEducation$988kCivil Rights$821kPhilanthropy$438kCommunity Improvement$345kInternational$255kReligion$105kOther$0
02FY2024 · 56 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k27 grants · $63k
  • $10k–50k21 grants · $391k
  • $50k–250k6 grants · $511k
  • $250k+2 grants · $2.0M
$10,000
Median grant
11
States reached
$5.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CENTRAL SUFFOLK HOSPITAL FOUNDATION AKA PECONIC BAY MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATI$1,500,000
CENTRAL SUFFOLK HOSPITAL FOUNDATION AKA PECONIC BAY MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATI$500,000
AFTERIMAGE PUBLIC MEDIA$150,000
HIGHER HEIGHTS LEADERSHIP FUND$100,000
SUNDANCE INSTITUTE$86,200
BARUCH COLLEGE FUND$75,000
SUBJECT MATTER INC$50,000
HEALTHNETWORK FOUNDATION$50,000
CRISIS TEXT LINE$35,000
CENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY$25,000
AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY$25,000
MUSEUM OF MODERN ART$25,000
DKT INTERNATIONAL$25,000
FRIST ART MUSEUM$25,000
THE 19TH NEWS$25,000
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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY17–24, $470k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 39% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%HELLO NEIGHBOR: $36k → 11%THE DINNER PARTY LABS: $28k → 10%FRIENDSHIP HOUSE: $10k → 11%HEALTHNETWORK FOUNDATION: $500 → 17%RESPECTABILITY: $100k → 8%HEALTHNETWORK FOUNDATION: $500 → 17%RESPECTABILITY: $50k → 8%HEALTHNETWORK FOUNDATION: $500 → 17%RESPECT ABILITY: $50k → 8%SOUTH FORK BAKERY FOR THE SPECIAL NEEDS CORP: $10k → 7%HEALTHNETWORK FOUNDATION: $500 → 17%RESPECTABILITY: $50k → 8%HEALTHNETWORK FOUNDATION: $50k → 17%HEALTHNETWORK FOUNDATION: $25k → 17%HEALTHNETWORK FOUNDATION: $5k → 17%POSSIBILITY LABS: $52k → 10%SHE'S THE FIRST: $3k → 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.

Which US states its grants reach

WA
IL
WI
NY
MA
IA
OH
PA
NJ
CT
CA
UT
CO
MO
VA
MD
NM
TN
NC
DC
LA
AL
GA
TX
FL
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.
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Where the work is directed

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

About 6% of William F Harnisch Foundation Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

William F Harnisch Foundation Inclessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 5.1% directed abroad (not shown)
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.

63%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$6.6M · 78 repeat orgs$3.9M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +21% since the first grant, against +21% for those funded once.

78 repeat relationships: 43 still active in FY2024, 35 since wound down; 10 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

78
76

Total granted

$6.6M
$1.7M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+21%
+21%

Still filing today

71%
82%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 26% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2.2M 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
Arts & CultureHealthEducationHuman ServicesCivil RightsPhilanthropyOther
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

  • UF
    UTAH FILM CENTER
    5× · 2018–2023 · $642k · revenue +128%
  • HH
    Higher Heights Leadership Fund
    5× · 2019–2024 · $400k · revenue +117%
  • Sundance Institute
    6× · 2017–2024 · $386k · revenue +1%

Funded once

  • TS
    THE SAPLING FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $100k · revenue +911%
  • PR
    PERRINE-CUTLER RIDGE ROTARY FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2019 · $100k
  • TA
    THE AMERICAN INDIA FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $100k · revenue +68%
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
New York Foundation for the Arts Inc

Established in 1971, the mission of the new york foundation for the arts (nyfa) is to empower artists in all disciplines, as well as cultural workers, to achieve success on their own terms by providing critical support, resources, and…

Arts & Culture
2
United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

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3
City Report Inc

CITY REPORT, INC. serves the people of New York through independent journalism that answers their information needs and holds the powerful to account.

Arts & Culture
4
Npr Foundation

The npr foundation ("foundation") is organized and operated exclusively for the benefit of its sole supported organization, national public radio, inc. ("npr inc."). the foundation supports npr inc. through various activities such as…

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5
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
6
Open Markets Institute

The open markets institute works to help people relearn how to use competition policy to build stronger democracies, more just and equitable societies, more innovative and sustainable economies, and a more secure and peaceful world.

Education
7
America's Newspapers

Providing research, education and practical information all aimed at optimizing newspapers' business operations, deepening their community engagement and enhancing the quality of their journalism.

Employment
8
Academy of Television Arts and Sciences

The Television Academy is dedicated to celebrating excellence, innovation and the advancement of the telecommunications arts and sciences through recognition, education and leadership, while fostering a diverse, inclusive and accessible…

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9
The Conversationalist
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10
The Paris Review Foundation Inc

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,…

Education
11
The Associated Press Foundation for Journalism Inc

The foundation's mission is to produce, support and promote high-quality journalism focused on underserved issue and focus areas in order to educate and inform the public and ensure widespread, ongoing public access to educational,…

Arts & Culture
12
Wikimedia Foundation Inc

The mission of the wikimedia foundation is to empower and engage people around the world to collect and develop educational content under a free license or in the public domain, and to disseminate it effectively and globally. (see schedule…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Social and Environmental Entrepreneurs (See) Inc; the most unlike its peers is The Sapling Foundation. 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

134 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. 134 of the 169 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
20
Early backer (in before they grew)
129/134
Grantees still filing
87/134
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

UTAH FILM CENTER: $642,000 · Arts & CultureUTAH FILM CENTERSundance Institute: $386,200 · Arts & CultureSundance InstituteWOMEN MAKE MOVIES INC: $367,537 · Arts & CultureWOMEN MAKE MOVIES INCFILM INDEPENDENT: $200,000 · Arts & CultureFILM INDEPENDENTTHE 19TH NEWS: $175,000 · Arts & CultureTHE 19TH NEWSAFTERIMAGE PUBLIC MEDIA: $150,000 · Arts & CultureINTERNATIONAL DOCUMENTARY FOUNDATION INC: $150,000 · Arts & Culture+29 more: $954,729 · Arts & Culture+29 moreCentral Suffolk Hospital: $2,000,000 · HealthCentral Suffolk HospitalNATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY: $200,000 · HealthNATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSI…CRISIS TEXT LINE INC: $155,000 · HealthCRISIS TEXT LINE INC+11 more: $99,200 · HealthPECONIC BAY MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION: $705,187 · OtherPECONIC BAY MEDICAL CENTER F…NATIONAL MS SOCIETY: $279,006 · OtherNATIONAL MS SOCIETYNEW YORK WOMEN IN FILM & TELEVISION INC: $205,000 · OtherNEW YORK WOMEN IN FILM & TEL…ST MARY'S CHURCH: $105,000 · OtherPERRINE-CUTLER RIDGE ROTARY FOUNDATION INC: $100,000 · OtherSCRIBE VIDEO CENTER INC: $100,000 · OtherAMERICAN IMPACT CAPITAL FOUNDATION INC: $100,000 · OtherTHE AMERICAN INDIA FOUNDATION: $100,000 · Other+74 more: $974,415 · Other+74 moreTHE BARUCH COLLEGE FUND: $640,000 · EducationTHE BARUCH …BARNARD COLLEGE: $125,000 · EducationBARNARD COL…Antenna: $60,000 · EducationAntennaRAVENSCROFT SCHOOL: $50,000 · EducationQUEENSBOROUGH COMMUNITY COLLEGE FUND INC: $48,000 · EducationColumbia College Chicago: $45,000 · Education+8 more: $73,800 · Education+8 moreHigher Heights Leadership Fund: $400,000 · Civil RightsFUND FOR WOMEN'S EQUALITY INC: $110,000 · Civil Rights+5 more: $21,100 · Civil RightsDISABILITY BELONGS: $250,000 · Human ServicesHEALTHNETWORK FOUNDATION FKA HEALTH NET FOUNDATION INC: $82,000 · Human ServicesPOSSIBILITY LABS: $52,000 · Human ServicesHELLO NEIGHBOR: $35,500 · Human ServicesTHE DINNER PARTY LABS CO NPOC SERVICES: $27,786 · Human Services+3 more: $23,000 · Human ServicesWOMEN DONORS NETWORK: $161,000 · PhilanthropyTHE SAPLING FOUNDATION: $100,000 · PhilanthropyTHE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE INC: $100,000 · PhilanthropyTIDES FOUNDATION: $30,000 · Philanthropy+4 more: $27,000 · Philanthropy
Arts & Culture$3,025,466Health$2,454,200Other$2,668,608Education$1,041,800Civil Rights$531,100Human Services$470,286Philanthropy$418,000

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 budgetCentral Suffolk Hospital: $2,000,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetUTAH FILM CENTER: $642,000 over 5y, 2.6% of budgetTHE BARUCH COLLEGE FUND: $640,000 over 8y, 0.7% of budgetHigher Heights Leadership Fund: $400,000 over 5y, 11% of budgetSundance Institute: $386,200 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetWOMEN MAKE MOVIES INC: $367,537 over 4y, 1.3% of budgetDISABILITY BELONGS: $250,000 over 4y, 3.3% of budgetNEW YORK WOMEN IN FILM & TELEVISION INC: $205,000 over 2y, 9.8% of budgetFILM INDEPENDENT: $200,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetNATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY: $200,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE 19TH NEWS: $175,000 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetWOMEN DONORS NETWORK: $161,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetCRISIS TEXT LINE INC: $155,000 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetAFTERIMAGE PUBLIC MEDIA: $150,000 over 1y, 18% of budgetINTERNATIONAL DOCUMENTARY FOUNDATION INC: $150,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetBARNARD COLLEGE: $125,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFUND FOR WOMEN'S EQUALITY INC: $110,000 over 2y, 21% of budgetTHE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE INC: $100,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE AMERICAN INDIA FOUNDATION: $100,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetSCRIBE VIDEO CENTER INC: $100,000 over 1y, 3.7% of budgetFilm Society of Austin Inc: $85,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetHEALTHNETWORK FOUNDATION FKA HEALTH NET FOUNDATION INC: $82,000 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetHaven Media Inc: $75,000 over 1y, 18% of budgetNATIONAL WOMEN'S HALL OF FAME INC: $75,000 over 3y, 1.9% of budgetMuseum of Modern Art: $71,750 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetThe Free History Project Inc: $65,000 over 1y, 13% of budgetSUBJECT MATTER INC: $65,000 over 2y, 10% of budgetALLIANCE OF WOMEN DIRECTORS: $60,100 over 1y, 30% of budgetAntenna: $60,000 over 2y, 3.5% of budgetGLOBAL XPLORER: $52,915 over 1y, 36% of budgetPOSSIBILITY LABS: $52,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE CENTER FOR INDEPENDENT DOCUMENTARY INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetKARTEMQUIN EDUCATIONAL FILMS: $50,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetVITAL VOICES GLOBAL PARTNERSHIP INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $50,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetRAVENSCROFT SCHOOL: $50,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetVIDEO VERACITY INC: $50,000 over 1y, 9.1% of budgetAUBIN PICTURES INC: $50,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetDKT INTERNATIONAL INC: $50,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Museum of Natural History: $49,750 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetQUEENSBOROUGH COMMUNITY COLLEGE FUND INC: $48,000 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetColumbia College Chicago: $45,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY INC: $40,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetAustin City Art Fund: $40,000 over 1y, 10% of budgetHELLO NEIGHBOR: $35,500 over 1y, 1.1% of budget826 Valencia: $33,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetTIDES FOUNDATION: $30,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNEO Philanthropy Inc: $30,000 over 2y, 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.

Harnisch Family Found…The Ford FoundationSilicon Valley Commun…Chicken & Egg Films I…The San Francisco Fou…ImpactassetsincPerspective Media Ini…Rockefeller Philanthr…Jonathan Logan Family…Amalgamated Charitabl…Democracy Fund IncThe New York Communit…
Harnisch Family FoundationNY51.6× affinity23 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Harnisch Family Foundation · The Ford Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Chicken & Egg Films Inc · The San Francisco Foundation · Impactassetsinc · Perspective Media Initiatives Inc · Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors Inc · Jonathan Logan Family Foundation · Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc · Democracy Fund Inc · The New York Community Trust

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 William F Harnisch Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from William F Harnisch Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 90%3%10%23%40%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 6%
  • The Center for Independent Documentary Inc: 6% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
9get no government money at all
26report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
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.
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How do I get to William F Harnisch Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to William F Harnisch 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 169 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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