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Harvest Charities

Detroit, MI · EIN 57-6020261. Reported 82 grants totalling $3,335,500 to 38 organizations across tax years 2021-2024. This foundation did not tell the IRS it funds only preselected organizations.

Yesaccepts unsolicited requests
$17,500median grant
$3,335,500granted, 2021-2024
38organizations funded
85%of grantees funded again the next year
$15.9Massets, latest filing

Does this foundation accept applications?

Yes -- on its own tax return. Form 990-PF asks every private foundation whether it makes grants only to organizations it selects itself. Of the 91,758 foundations in our data that made a grant and answered, 78% said yes -- and applying to those is wasted effort. Harvest Charities did not check that box on its most recent filing, which puts it in the minority that is at least open to being approached.

This is the foundation's own statement to the IRS, not our judgement, and it says nothing about whether they have a form, a deadline, or an appetite for new grantees. Treat it as the reason this foundation is worth your research time, not as an invitation. Many small foundations of this kind have no website and no application process -- a letter of inquiry is the normal first step.

How big are its grants?

The median grant is $17,500. Half of everything it gave fell between $5,000 and $50,000; the smallest was $500 and the largest $350,000. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong foundation.

Under $1,000
3 grants
$1,000 - $5,000
15 grants
$5,000 - $10,000
9 grants
$10,000 - $25,000
23 grants
$25,000 - $50,000
7 grants
$50,000 - $100,000
14 grants
$100,000 and Up
11 grants

Every organization it funded

This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Years funded is the number of separate tax years in which the organization received money -- more than one means a real relationship rather than a one-off.

OrganizationLocationTotal receivedGrantsYears fundedLast
Miracle Hill Ministries IncGreenville, SC$900,000442024
Samaritan's PurseBoone, NC$450,000332024
Bon Secours St Francis Health SystemsGreenville, SC$350,000332024
Presbyterian CollegeClinton, SC$302,000442024
Converse UniversitySpartanburg, SC$160,000332024
Bob Jones University Museum and GalleryGreenville, SC$150,000222023
Christ Community Church MontreatMontreat, NC$105,000442024
The Salvation ArmyWest Nyack, NY$100,000112021
Harold Jennings FoundationGreenville, SC$95,000442024
Young Life GreenvilleGreenville, SC$94,000332024
Pcsc FoundationColumbia, SC$90,000442024
Museum and Gallery IncGreenville, SC$75,000112024
Camperdown AcademyGreenville, SC$60,000112021
Bob Jones UniversityGreenville, SC$50,000112021
Brookgreen GardensPawleys Island, SC$50,000112024
Highlands Cashiers Health FoundationHighlands, NC$50,000112021
YMCA of GreenvilleGreenville, SC$50,000442024
The Museum Association Inc David Drake Pottery CollectionGreenville, SC$40,000332024
The Salvation Army GreenvilleGreenville, SC$20,000222024
Young LifeColorado Springs, CO$20,000112021
Friends of Oakdale Cemetery IncWilmington, NC$17,500442024
Center for Developmental ServicesGreenville, SC$15,000112021
Cancer Society of Greenville CountyGreenville, SC$15,000332023
Surgeons for SightGreenville, SC$10,000112021
Servants for Sight Attn Amy Evette Executive DirectorGreenville, SC$10,000112022
The Julie Valentine CenterGreenville, SC$10,000112021
ThornwellClinton, SC$10,000112021
Clemson University FoundationClemson, SC$8,000442024
Jasmine RoadGreenville, SC$5,000112023
Neighborhood Cancer ConnectionGreenville, SC$5,000112024
Ronald Mcdonald House Charities of the CGreenville, SC$5,000112021
National Multiple Sclerosis SocietyColumbia, SC$4,000442024
American Diabetes AssociationArlington, VA$3,000332024
The Legacy Foundation of South CarolinaPineland, SC$3,000222024
Abbeville County Historical SocietyAbbeville, SC$2,500112022
John a KuhneGreenville, SC$500112021
Lucy S KuhneGreenville, SC$500112021
Nell RiceGreenville, SC$500112021

19 of 38 (50%) received money in more than one year over the 4 years we hold.

Measured the way we measure every foundation -- what share of one year's grantees are funded again the next -- this one retains 85%, across 3 year-to-year transitions. The median foundation retains about 67%, so this one is unusually consistent. A high number means its list is close to settled and a newcomer has to displace someone; a low one means it is still moving money around, which is where an opening is.

What the money was for

Taken verbatim from the purpose field of its filings. This is the closest thing to a statement of what this foundation cares about, in its own words.

What kind of organizations it funds

By the recipient's own IRS classification, for the 37 grants where we could identify the organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses.

Human Services
10 grants
Education
8 grants
Crime & Legal
5 grants
Diseases & Disorders
4 grants
Housing & Shelter
4 grants
Philanthropy & Grantmaking
2 grants
Environment
1 grant
Arts & Culture
1 grant

Giving by year

Tax yearGrantsTotalMedian grant
202124$653,000$12,500
202218$840,500$17,500
202320$725,000$15,000
202420$1,117,000$22,500

Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- filings arrive about a year late, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a foundation winding down.

Where its money goes

Foundations concentrate geographically far more than their mission statements suggest. 78% of this one's giving went to organizations in South Carolina. If you are outside its footprint, that matters more than how well your programme fits.

South Carolina
$2.6M
North Carolina
$622K
New York
$100K
Colorado
$20K
Virginia
$3K

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Funders that support the same organizations

These funders gave to organizations this one also funded -- some private foundations, some community foundations and other grantmaking charities. Shared grantees are the strongest available signal that two funders have overlapping priorities, and a funder already backing your peers is a far warmer prospect than one that merely lists your cause.

Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund16 shared recipientsDonor Advised Charitable Giving Inc15 shared recipientsAmerican Online Giving Foundation Inc11 shared recipientsNatl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc10 shared recipientsThe Simpson Foundation9 shared recipientsGe Aerospace Foundation9 shared recipients

How to approach this foundation

  1. Check you are its size. The median grant is $17,500. Asking for ten times that is the most common way small organizations waste a submission.
  2. Check you are in its geography. Its giving is concentrated in South Carolina.
  3. Read the recipient list above for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer, and a cheap one to get.
  4. Look up the current filing before writing. The 990-PF names the foundation's officers and, where one exists, its application procedure. We link it below.

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Where these numbers come from

Everything above is taken from Harvest Charities's own Form 990-PF filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2021-2024). Nothing here is scraped, inferred, or estimated.

Address of record on the latest return: Po Box 75000, Detroit, MI, 48275. This is the address the foundation gave the IRS; many small foundations file through an accountant or a bank trust department, so it may not be where post to a programme officer should go.

EIN 57-6020261 · See the original filings on ProPublica · How we build this

This is history, not an open call. Foundation returns are published about a year after the tax year ends. Nothing on this page is a deadline. It is a record of who this foundation has actually funded, which is the best available predictor of who it will fund next -- and a much better basis for deciding whether to write to them than a mission statement.

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