California · Nonprofit
HARNESS COMMUNITY
HARNESS COMMUNITY (California) receives grants from 34 organizations whose IRS filings report $8,097,502 to it, the largest being THE FORD FOUNDATION ($1,140,000). 16 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $3.1M
- Funders on record
- 34
- Grants received
- $8.1M
- Net assets
- $2.1M
What Harness Community does
Mission
Harness is a community of activists, artists, and entertainment industry leaders who believe that storytelling shapes our world. We build community to educate, inspire, and care for one another. We convene to envision and amplify the stories that define a more just future. We create that future through our art, influence, and actions.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Protect the sacred - native youth summitin early august, protect the sacred hosted its 3rd annual native youth summit, marking the transition to an in-person format in the navajo nation. Thirty native youth leaders, aged 16-27, were selected from 85 applicants through an open application process. The summit laid the foundation for a community committed to organizing throughout the 2024 election cycle, aiming to empower native youth, the broader native community, and native american voting rights in arizona, with the long-term goal of cultivating lifelong leaders.over two and a half days, participants engaged in panels with native and non-native national leaders such as navajo nation vice president richelle montoya, u.s. Department of energy director of indian energy wahleah johns, former candidate for az congress ginger sykes torres, actors zahn mcclarnon and mo brings plenty, and film producer jhane meyers, to name a few. Workshops and breakout groups allowed youth leaders to contribute to the overall power-building strategy, while also incorporating elements of celebration through music performances, discussions with native artists, actors, writers, and a public community dinner…
$569,879 spentof which $47,757 as grants$24,000 earned by the program37% of program spendingCommunity dinnersfrom march to july, harness hosted intimate gatherings in la, nyc and oakland with 100 influential activists, artists, and media leaders in our community. These dinners facilitated reconnection with our community, unveiling a resounding desire for belonging in a values-aligned community and a hunger for spaces to gather and feel cared for. The community requested support in advancing narrative change and intersectional organizing around issues such as bodily autonomy, protecting democracy, criminal justice reform, and more, which informed our programming for the year.
$512,796 spent33% of program spendingIndustry power gatheringfrom october 19-20, harness, in collaboration with the pop culture collaborative, convened 30 leaders championing narrative change in hollywood from bipoc-led and/or centered organizations. In the wake of industry strikes and reduced dei commitments, this moment is crucial for building collective power, shared learning, and developing of impactful strategies to guide our field forward.participants represented the narrative change ecosystem, including executives of strike-friendly production companies, producers, distributors, writers, showrunners, strategists, and organizers, coming together to discuss priorities and strategies to enhance narrative power in the entertainment industry. We will leverage insights from this gathering to inform our industry impact initiatives.
$299,873 spent19% of program spendingEducational salonsbuilding on priorities that emerged from the community dinners, harness organized two salons to mobilize artists and influencers to shape the public narrative on bodily autonomy. In partnership with the aclu and Harness Community experts, the new york city salon, moderated by america ferrera, featured renee bracey sherman of wetestify, activist and author raquel willis, chase strangio - deputy director for transgender justice with the aclu, and j.j. Straight - deputy director of the liberty division of the national aclu. The la salon, co-hosted by laverne cox, aimed at transforming storytelling in tv and film. Both events saw 60 participants committing to over 150 actions to advance narrative strategy and advocacy campaigns, focusing on addressing escalating attacks on transgender rights and reproductive justice in the conversation.harness retreatover three days in october, our annual harness retreat took place at 1440 multiversity in the california redwoods, hosting 110 artists and movement leaders. The retreat, co-created with participants, prioritized fostering a sense of belonging, in-person connection, inspiration, strategizing, and dreaming a vision of a…
$156,547 spent10% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,539,095.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2022, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2022, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2022 to 2023, from $2.4M to $1.4M (−40%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
99% of HARNESS COMMUNITY’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (97% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 3 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Board chair
Cristina Pacheco
Board chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2022 → 2023: the base broadened from 16 funders to 17 funders, grant income fell $3.1M → $2.2M.
13 of 34 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 30% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of HARNESS COMMUNITY’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 34 funders by total. Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
HARNESS COMMUNITY has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 14% of grant income, and it takes 5 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 5 funders to its left
59% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund HARNESS COMMUNITY.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2022 31% · 2023 14% — diversifying over time.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Where its funders are
HARNESS COMMUNITY draws 61% of its grant income from funders outside California, across 6 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $2.5M arriving through sponsors registered in 7 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
HARNESS COMMUNITY runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 976 civil rights nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 976 civil rights nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like HARNESS COMMUNITY
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
64% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for HARNESS COMMUNITY: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds HARNESS COMMUNITY?
- HARNESS COMMUNITY (California) receives grants from 34 organizations whose IRS filings report $8,097,502 to it, the largest being THE FORD FOUNDATION ($1,140,000). 16 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does HARNESS COMMUNITY have?
- IRS filings report 34 organizations giving $8,097,502 in grants to HARNESS COMMUNITY, 16 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of HARNESS COMMUNITY?
- THE FORD FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $1,140,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like HARNESS COMMUNITY find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2022–2024), and the filings of 34 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing