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Pearl M & Julia J Harmon Foundation

Tulsa, OK · EIN 73-6095893. Reported 47 grants totalling $164,595 to 40 organizations across tax years 2020-2023. This foundation did not tell the IRS it funds only preselected organizations.

Yesaccepts unsolicited requests
$3,000median grant
$164,595granted, 2020-2023
40organizations funded
$72.4Massets, 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. Pearl M & Julia J Harmon Foundation 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 $3,000. Half of everything it gave fell between $2,500 and $3,000; the smallest was $1,000 and the largest $20,000. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong foundation.

$1,000 - $5,000
40 grants
$5,000 - $10,000
5 grants
$10,000 - $25,000
2 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
First Baptist ChurchNowata, OK$26,000312023
Barnsdall First Assembly of GodSapulpa, OK$10,000112023
First Christian ChurchNowata, OK$8,000212023
Living Word Family ChurchNowata, OK$8,000222023
Nowata Senior CitizensNowata, OK$6,500212023
City of Nowata OklahomaNowata, OK$5,500212020
Aim High CenterNowata, OK$5,000112023
His Life ChurchNowata, OK$5,000222023
Skiatook Paws and Claws Animal RescueSkiatook, OK$5,000112023
Wild Heart Ranch Wildlife RescueFoyil, OK$5,000112023
Armstrong Community ChurchNowata, OK$3,000112023
Central Church of ChristNowata, OK$3,000112023
Childers Community ChurchNowata, OK$3,000112023
City of NowataNowata, OK$3,000112023
Cornerstone Community ChurchNowata, OK$3,000112023
Delaware MethodistDelaware, OK$3,000112023
Emmanuel ChapelSouth Coffeyville, OK$3,000112023
First Baptist Church S CvilleSouth Coffeyville, OK$3,000112023
Full Gospel Christian ChurchNowata, OK$3,000112023
Hillside Christian ChurchNowata, OK$3,000112023
Little Flock Baptist ChurchCoffeyville, OK$3,000112023
New Life Assembly of GodNowata, OK$3,000112023
Nowata First Church of GodNowata, OK$3,000112023
Nowata Methodist ChurchNowata, OK$3,000112023
Trinity ChurchNowata, OK$3,000112023
Wann Baptist ChurchWann, OK$3,000112023
Bartlesville Symphony OrchestraBartlesville, OK$2,500112023
Boston Ave United Methodist ChurchTulsa, OK$2,500112023
Circle Cinema FoundationTulsa, OK$2,500112023
Emergency Infant ServicesTulsa, OK$2,500112023
How Foundation Recovery CenterTulsa, OK$2,500112023
Software in the Public Interest IncNew York, NY$2,500112023
Spay OklahomaTulsa, OK$2,500112023
Tulsa Ballet Theater IncTulsa, OK$2,500112023
Tulsa Day Center IncTulsa, OK$2,500112023
Tulsa Symphony OrchestraTulsa, OK$2,500112023
Wikimedia FoundationSan Francisco, CA$2,500112020
Mt Olive Baptist ChurchNowata, OK$2,095112020
Living Word ChurchNowata, OK$2,000112023
Animal Rescue FoundationTulsa, OK$1,000112023

2 of 40 (5%) received money in more than one year over the 2 years we hold.

Plus 9 grants to individuals totalling $93,248 -- scholarships, hardship and emergency assistance. We deliberately do not publish the names of people who received them, even though the filings do.

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 18 grants where we could identify the organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses.

Religion
5 grants
Animal Welfare
4 grants
Arts & Culture
4 grants
Food & Nutrition
1 grant
Human Services
1 grant
Science & Technology
1 grant
Housing & Shelter
1 grant
Education
1 grant

Giving by year

Tax yearGrantsTotalMedian grant
20206$17,095$2,500
202341$147,500$3,000

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. 97% of this one's giving went to organizations in Oklahoma. If you are outside its footprint, that matters more than how well your programme fits.

Oklahoma
$160K
New York
$2K
California
$2K

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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 Fund8 shared recipientsTulsa Community Foundation6 shared recipientsDonor Advised Charitable Giving Inc5 shared recipientsGeorge Kaiser Family Foundation5 shared recipientsCommunity Food Bank of Eastern4 shared recipientsAmerican Online Giving Foundation Inc4 shared recipients

How to approach this foundation

  1. Check you are its size. The median grant is $3,000. 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 Oklahoma.
  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.

Where these numbers come from

Everything above is taken from Pearl M & Julia J Harmon Foundation's own Form 990-PF filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2020-2023). Nothing here is scraped, inferred, or estimated.

Address of record on the latest return: Po Box 52568, Tulsa, OK, 74152. 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 73-6095893 · See the original filings on ProPublica · How we build this

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