William F Harnisch Foundation Inc
East Quogue, NY · EIN 11-3353576. Reported 271 grants totalling $8,814,650 to 138 recipients across tax years 2021-2024. This foundation told the IRS it does not accept unsolicited requests: it contributes only to organizations it selects itself.
Does this foundation accept applications?
No -- on its own tax return. Form 990-PF asks every private foundation to check a box if it "only makes contributions to preselected charitable organizations and does not accept unsolicited requests for funds". William F Harnisch Foundation Inc checked it on its most recent filing, as 78% of the 91,758 foundations in our data that made a grant and answered did. An unsolicited request is unlikely to go anywhere.
Organizations it funds that make grants of their own
3 of the organizations William F Harnisch Foundation Inc funded make grants themselves, and it reported 5 grants totalling $190,000 to them. That is 4% of the $4,599,412 of its giving we could match to a registered organization. Each is classified by the IRS as a philanthropy or grantmaking organization, reported grants to at least 25 organizations of its own, and has at least 10 funders behind it.
All of them file Form 990, which never asks whether an organization funds only groups it picks, so there is no answer on record either way.
What that does not mean. It does not mean an application to any of them reaches this foundation's money. A private foundation's grant to a community foundation or a federated campaign is often a donor-advised fund or a gift designated for a purpose the foundation chose, and has nothing to do with any open programme the receiving organization runs. Its return's purpose text sometimes names a family fund or a designated purpose, which is the plainest case of money no applicant can reach; where it names none, neither return says which. The list is who this foundation paid that also makes grants. Whether any of them would fund you is a question for its own page.
| Grantmaker | Kind | State | Received | Grants | Years | Last | Only funds organizations it picks? |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Women Donors Network | grantmaking organization | California | $155,000 | 3 | 2 | 2023 | Its form does not ask |
| Tides Foundation | grantmaking organization | California | $30,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 | Its form does not ask |
| The Community Foundation of Sarasota Co | community foundation | Florida | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 | Its form does not ask |
A floor, not a full list. A grantmaker appears here only where this foundation's return named it clearly enough for us to match the name to an EIN, which we manage for about two thirds of 990-PF grant rows, and only where that grantmaker has a page on this site. There may be more. Dollars here are summed by EIN across every spelling on its returns, so a figure can differ from the matching row in the full list below, which groups names as written. And the IRS classification cannot tell a grantmaker from a funders' association or a donor-advised fund sponsor, so a payment to one of these may be dues or an account rather than support for a grants programme.
How big are its grants?
The median grant is $7,500. Half of everything it gave fell between $1,500 and $25,000; the smallest was $40 and the largest $1,500,000.
Every organization it funded
This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Recipients are grouped by name and state as they were written on the returns, so an organization entered under two different names appears twice. Years funded is the number of separate tax years in which that name received money.
| Organization | Location | Total received | Grants | Years funded | Last |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Central Suffolk Hospital Foundation Aka Peconic Bay Medical Center Foundati | Riverhead, NY | $2,000,000 | 2 | 1 | 2024 |
| Peconic Bay Medical Center Foundation | Riverhead, NY | $650,187 | 3 | 2 | 2023 |
| Utah Film Center | Salt Lake City, UT | $620,000 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Baruch College Fund | New York, NY | $320,000 | 7 | 4 | 2024 |
| Women Make Movies | New York, NY | $317,537 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| National Ms Society | New York, NY | $254,006 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Higher Heights Leadership Fund | Brooklyn, NY | $250,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Sundance Institute | Park City, UT | $236,200 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Film Independent | Los Angeles, CA | $200,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| New York Women in Film & Television | New York, NY | $200,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Respectability | Rockville, MD | $200,000 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| The 19TH News | Austin, TX | $175,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Women Donors Network | San Francisco, CA | $155,000 | 3 | 2 | 2023 |
| Afterimage Public Media | San Francisco, CA | $150,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| International Documentary Association | Los Angeles, CA | $150,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Crisis Text Line | New York, NY | $135,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Barnard College | New York, NY | $125,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| American Impact Capital Foundation | Westport, CT | $100,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| American India Foundation | New York, NY | $100,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| National Multiple Sclerosis Society | New York, NY | $100,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Scribe Video Center | Philadelphia, PA | $100,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Austin Film Society | Austin, TX | $85,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Healthnetwork Foundation | Pepper Pike, OH | $80,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| National Women's Hall of Fame | Seneca Falls, NY | $75,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Museum of Modern Art | New York, NY | $65,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Subject Matter Inc | New York City, NY | $65,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| The Free History Project | San Francisco, CA | $65,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Alliance of Women Directors | Los Angeles, CA | $60,100 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Fund for Women's Equality | Washington, DC | $60,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| St Mary's Church | Hampton Bays, NY | $54,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Globalxplorer | Birmingham, AL | $52,915 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Possibility Labs | San Francisco, CA | $52,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Aubin Pictures | New York, NY | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Center for Independent Documentary | Boston, MA | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Dkt International | Washington, DC | $50,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Kartemquin Educational Films | Chicago, IL | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Video Veracity | New Orleans, LA | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Vital Voices | Washington, DC | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| World Central Kitchen Inc | Washington, DC | $50,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Queensborough Community College Fund | Oakland Gardens, NY | $48,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Columbia College Chicago | Chicago, IL | $45,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| American Museum of Natural History | New York, NY | $42,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| NAMI (national Alliance of Mental Illness) | Arlington, VA | $41,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Ravenscroft School | Raleigh, NC | $40,000 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Central Park Conservancy | New York, NY | $36,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Hello Neighbor | Pittsburgh, PA | $35,500 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| 826 Valencia | San Francisco, CA | $33,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Neo Philanthropy Inc | New York, NY | $30,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Tides Foundation | Los Angeles, CA | $30,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Frist Art Museum | Nashville, TN | $28,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| The Dinner Party Labs | Anaheim, CA | $27,786 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Investigative Reporters & Editors | Columbia, MO | $25,750 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| End Well Foundation | Healdsburg, CA | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Filmscene | Iowa City, IA | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Gender Avenger | New York, NY | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Hamptons Observatory | East Hampton, NY | $25,000 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Moving Image Arts and Education | Austin, TX | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Nyc Economic Development Corporation | New York, NY | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Panorama Global | Seattle, WA | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Tennessee Justice Center | Nashville, TN | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Central Suffolk Hospital Foundation (pbmc) | Riverhead, NY | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Friends of the High Line | New York, NY | $20,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Kovno Communications Inc | Berkeley, CA | $20,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Public Intelligence Inc | San Francisco, CA | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Wildlife Conservation Society | Bronx, NY | $17,500 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Metropolitan Museum of Art | New York, NY | $16,500 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Museum of the City of New York | New York, NY | $16,250 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Solomon Guggenheim Museum | New York, NY | $15,300 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Austin City Art Fund | Austin, TX | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Disability Belongs Fka Respectability | Fredericksburg, VA | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Global Girl Media | Culver City, CA | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| National Trust for Historic Preservation | Washington, DC | $13,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Whitney Museum of American Art | New York, NY | $12,200 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Second Harvest Food Bank of Middle Tennessee | Nashville, TN | $11,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| American Friends of Tiff | New York, NY | $10,710 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Access Reproductive Care - Southeast | Atlanta, GA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| American Friends of Tiff | Woodland Hills, CA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Asian American Journalists Association | San Francisco, CA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Bahamas National Trust Fund | Coconut Creek, FL | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum | New York, NY | $10,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Elevated Access Inc | Champaign, IL | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Fractured Atlas | New York, NY | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Friendship House | Boca Reton, FL | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Global Impact | Alexandria, VA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Naral Pro-Choice America Foundation | Washington, DC | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Protect Our Defenders | Sarasota, FL | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Rare Genomics Institute | Hanover, MD | $10,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Reproductive Freedom for All Foundation | Washington, DC | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| South Fork Bakery for the Special Needs Corp | Sag Harbor, NY | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Work in Beauty Inc | Gallup, NM | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Ny Public Library | New York, NY | $9,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| St Jude Children's Research Hospital | Memphis, TN | $8,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Book'em | Nashville, TN | $7,500 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| The Shed | New York, NY | $7,500 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Children's Vision International Inc | Bangor, WI | $5,500 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Design | New York, NY | $5,100 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Aabc Foundation | Perkiomenville, PA | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Actblue Charities | Somerville, MA | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Ballotpedia | Middleton, WI | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Community Foundation of Sarasota County | Sarasota, FL | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Drag Out the Vote | Austin, TX | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Fashion Institute of Technology | New York, NY | $5,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| La Jornada | Flushing, NY | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Mount Saint Mary's University | Rancho Cucamonga, CA | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Outright Action International | New York, NY | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Protect Our Defenders | Alexandria, VA | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Protect Our Defenders Foundation | Alexandria, VA | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Rare Genomics Institute | Los Angeles, CA | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Street Symphony | Los Angeles, CA | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| The Groundtruth Project | Boston, MA | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Uncharted | Denver, CO | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Women Rising Media | Jersey City, NJ | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Ny Historical Society | New York, NY | $4,320 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| National Museum of Mathematics | New York, NY | $4,004 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| NAMI - Nys | Albany, NY | $4,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| NAMI - Seattle | Seattle, WA | $3,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Neighborhood Housing Services of Queens Cdc Inc | Woodside, NY | $3,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Tourette Association of America | Bayside, NY | $3,000 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Usta Foundation | Purchase, NY | $3,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Nyc Health & Hospitals Elmhurst | Elmhurst, NY | $2,500 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Hampton Bays Fire Company | Hampton Bays, NY | $2,200 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| American Association for the Advancement of Science | Washington, DC | $1,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Brooklyn Tech Alumni Foundation Inc | Brooklyn, NY | $1,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Conscious Connections Foundation | Spokane, WA | $1,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Economic Policy Institute | Washington, DC | $1,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Frist Center for Visual Arts (aka Frist Art Museum) | Nashville, TN | $1,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Lgbt Center Intercultural Collective Inc | Jackson Heights, NY | $1,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| N Street Village | Washington, DC | $1,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| NAMI - Wake County | Raleigh, NC | $1,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Trans Formative Schools | New York, NY | $1,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| National Audubon Society | New York, NY | $500 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Hampton Bays Ambulance Membership Corp | Hampton Bays, NY | $450 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| East Quogue Fire Department | East Quogue, NY | $400 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Hampton Bays Historical & Preservation Society | Hampton Bays, NY | $400 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Peconic Baykeeper | Hampton Bays, NY | $400 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Tribeca Film Institute | New York, NY | $175 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Hampton Bays Beautification Association | Hampton Bays, NY | $160 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Hampton Bays Volunteer Ambulance Corps | Hampton Bays, NY | $100 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
58 of 138 (42%) 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 55%, across 3 year-to-year transitions. The median foundation retains about 67%, so this one is less consistent than most. This measures how often it paid the same organizations again. It says nothing about whether it would consider a new one, and this foundation told the IRS it does not.
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.
- Peconic Bay Medical Center Foundation
GENERAL OPERATIONS SUPPORT AND HARNISCH NEUROSCIENCES CENTER - Utah Film Center
FILMS: LOVE TO THE MAX, ONE BILLION - AN ARTISTIC UPRISING FKA V-DAY, NEVER SATISFIED: THE MAKING OF HAMILTON, THE MYSTERY & MAGIC OF BEN BARRES: THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF A TRANSGENDER SCIENTIST, AND MRS. ROBINSON - National Ms Society
GENERAL OPERATIONS SUPPORT - Film Independent
GENERAL OPERATIONS AND SUPPORT FOR FILM - WASTEWATER DOCUMENTARY - Afterimage Public Media
SUPPORT FOR FILM - MARLEE MATLIN: NOT ALONE ANYMORE - Women Make Movies
MY NAME IS ANDREA FILM AND UNTITLED INEQUALITY PROJECT
What kind of organizations it funds
By the activity category the IRS assigns each recipient, for the 187 grants where we could match the recipient to a registered organization. The categories are the IRS's. The match, made from the name and address on the return, is ours.
Giving by year
| Tax year | Grants | Total | Median grant |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 72 | $1,883,746 | $5,000 |
| 2022 | 84 | $2,548,725 | $10,000 |
| 2023 | 59 | $1,416,708 | $5,000 |
| 2024 | 56 | $2,965,471 | $10,000 |
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
59% of its giving went to organizations in New York.
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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 a sign of overlapping priorities and nothing more. Unlike this foundation, none of them is on record as funding only organizations it picks, and each page says what its filings show.
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Where these numbers come from
Everything above is taken from William F Harnisch Foundation Inc's own Form 990-PF filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2021-2024). Grant figures are from its returns. Matching recipients to registered organizations, their IRS classifications, the retention rate and the funders that support the same organizations are our own calculations, described in how we build this.
Address of record on the latest return: Po Box 366, East Quogue, NY, 11942. This is the address the foundation gave the IRS.
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