Ohio's Leading Human Performance Institute · An HFF Company

Where human potential becomes Ohio's advantage

An independent performance institute on the SPIRE campus in Geneva, Ohio. Young athletes are developed in body and mind, and given a real look into the business and science of sport, so each one leaves with more than a season. The research that follows advances performance for everyone, with students and their families the first priority, and protected at every step.

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850,000 sq ft
Olympic-grade campus
800+ acres
Working grounds
200+
Resident athletes
35+
Countries
12 mo
A year, in session
The institute
The Institute and the People Behind It

A family office that builds, on a campus built for it.

The Harris Family Fund is the owner and operator of the institute. Human performance is not a side bet for the family. It is an area of deep operating expertise, and the institute was being built as a standalone before it had a home.

That changed when Francisco Lujan and Ray Lewis brought the family into SPIRE, to build the vision where the population already lives. The campus was there. The athletes were there. The science was there. What did not exist yet was the company that connects them, and the model to do it again.

The family leaned in fully and took the role of owner and operator, rather than a passive check, because this is an institution worth building from the inside. The Harris Family Fund funds the research and operates it directly, so the standard is set by the people accountable for the result.

The reason is the audience. Proven performance science rarely reaches the young athletes and the families who could use it most. The institute exists to put them first, on a campus that already serves them, twelve months a year. That priority is not only the right thing. It is what makes the model work, and what keeps everyone protected in the process.

The Commitment
Owner-operated
The Harris Family Fund funds the research and runs the institute.
Nathan HarrisFounder, owner-operator
Harris Family FundOwner of the institute
SPIREHost campus
Francisco LujanBrought HFF to SPIRE
Ray LewisAnchor partner
The Partner Network

Built with operators from inside the science and inside the sport.

The institute is anchored by people whose names carry weight in performance, and by partners whose protocols and technology set the standard for the field. These anchors are Icons of Impact, and each one carries the work off the field through a foundation that puts young people first.

Ray Lewis
Hall of Fame Athlete, Speaker & Philanthropist

Ray Lewis

An anchor partner and an Icon of Impact. He helped bring the family into SPIRE, and through the Ray of Hope Foundation he invests in young people and their mental health.

Emmitt Smith
Entrepreneur & Managing Partner of 52 Ventures

Francisco Lujan

An anchor partner and advisor The NFL's top players, industry partners and sports professionals.

Bobby Kaleal
Director of SPIRE Performance

Bobby Kaleal

Bobby Kaleal is an award-winning performance coach, entrepreneur, inventor, and keynote speaker who specializes in extracting greatness out of individuals, teams, and organizations.

Nathan Harris
Chairman & CEO of Harris Family Fund

Nathan Harris

HFF is a first-generation family office that backs real, operating assets where our involvement changes the outcome. We invest our own capital first across real estate, hospitality, technology, and life sciences, take long-term positions, and stay operationally involved like we OHPI.

The science is here. The names are next.

The research, data, and technology partners are under wrap until the contracts close. The institute announces first. The partners announce second.

●The Science
●The Data
●The Technology
●The Brands
Founding partners to be announced in 2026.
Priority One

Every athlete leaves with more than a season.

The athlete and the family come first. That is the truth the whole institute is built on. It is what makes the model work for everyone, and what keeps everyone protected. Here is what it means for the young people who train here.

BODY AND MIND

Physical and mental performance

The work develops the body and the mind together. The athletes who last are strong in both, so the science here trains the whole performer, not only the physical side of the game.

THE BUSINESS OF SPORT

A door into the world behind the game

Athletes can take part in programs that put them inside the business of sport, alongside technology, innovation, investment, and research. It is a look no other high school offers.

A LIFELONG LENS

A career they can build on

Whatever the offer after SPIRE, the athlete leaves with a lens on opportunity that lasts. In sport or beyond, that way of seeing the world is theirs to keep and to build on.

A JOURNEY, INFORMED

A path drawn from real data

Performance and educational data inform a suggested path, one that weighs professional goals, performance goals, and real outcomes, so an athlete can see what the future may hold depending on the choices they make. It guides the decision. It never makes a promise.

Students and families come first. That is what protects everyone, and what lets the institute do the most good.

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Why it exists

Performance research lives in two places that rarely speak to each other. Universities hold the rigor. Elite sport holds the application.

The science and the practice sit on opposite sides of a wall, and the people who could use the work never see it. When a finding does cross over, the capital usually runs out before the timeline does. We built the institute to sit in between, so the work is proven alongside the athletes who benefit from it first, and the result travels back into the coaching, the programs, and the technology that serve them.

The Campus

The real-world lab is a working campus, not a closed room.

The institute runs inside SPIRE, one of the largest indoor multi-sport training complexes in the world and a United States Olympic and Paralympic training site. SPIRE describes its research engine as the data-driven core of how it trains, combining biomechanics, physiology, and cognitive science, where potential is quantified. We are that engine, made independent, working for the athlete first and proving what helps the whole field.

SPIRE campus, Geneva, Ohio
850K sq ft
Indoor training space
800+
Acres of campus
200+
Resident athletes
35+
Countries represented
8
Sports in residence
The Work

What the institute does.

A contract-research engine that turns sports-science and health-technology questions into validated answers, and validated answers into ventures. Clients pay for the work. The work is held to a research standard, and the standard is what earns its place in market.

VALIDATION

Product validation

Performance and health claims tested under research-grade protocols, with a regional clinical pathway for IRB-governed studies and independent oversight.

DATA

Athlete performance modeling

Testing, analysis, and feedback that go to the athlete first, and that, measured over time and held to a standard, also produce findings the field can trust.

TECHNOLOGY

Technology pilots

A working site to prove emerging sports technology in real conditions, with the athletes to validate on and the volume to find what holds and what does not.

PARTNERSHIP

Co-funded research

Partners direct research toward the questions that matter to them. We do the work and create durable value: recoverable grants, IP royalties, and licensing.

ENDORSEMENT

The validation standard

A research-backed mark that helps a proven product earn its place in market, conducted under a disclosed conflict-of-interest framework that keeps the work credible.

DUAL-USE

Research that travels

Findings in injury, recovery, and readiness translate across sport, the military, and everyday health, on a platform built to win and manage federal research funding.

Bring us a question

A question worth proving belongs in a place built to prove it.

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Modeling, Analytics, and Strategy

We model the athlete, and the market the athlete competes in.

Performance data only matters if it travels back into a decision, and the first person it serves is the athlete. The institute closes that loop: measure on campus, model against the field, and hand back a clear read the athlete and their family can act on. One discipline runs underneath all of it.

01Longitudinal performance data

A resident population measured over time, not once. The same athletes across seasons, ages, sports, and genders produce the repeated data a single combine cannot, which is what separates a real finding from a lucky one.

02Market-position modeling

Private performance data benchmarked against public data, so an athlete sees their position relative to the field and how it moves as they improve. The output is a read on where an athlete actually stands, not a number on a wall.

03Recruiting and transfer-portal analytics

The same model informs fit. With unlimited transfers and a portal that turns over constantly, an athlete and a program need more than preference to decide between a Division I and a Division II path. We model fit and likely success, and we track the portal as it moves.

04One measured discipline

Every relationship, in research, sponsorship, and philanthropy alike, is read through one equation: establish the baseline, apply the leverage, measure what moves. It is the same financial discipline a serious operator applies to a business, brought to performance.

Illustrative model readout
Performance percentile, in-position78th
Market position vs public benchmark+14
Division I fit index0.71
Trajectory, 12-monthRising
Illustrative. A representative readout, not an actual athlete. Modeling outputs support decisions; they do not guarantee outcomes.
The Performance Hub

One system measures the whole thing, in real time.

The research, the capital, and the people run on one platform. It tracks everything from the capital stack to live performance, and it scores the readiness of a finding across the life of the research, the person it benefits, the company it becomes, and the stakeholders who funded it. Impact and return are measured for every channel, and the view zooms from the network down to the health of a single department. Partners license it by subscription.

Performance Hub
Live
Technology Readiness
TRL 6 →
Advancing across 7 active studies
Commercial Readiness
.62
Market, IP, and regulatory weighted
Validated studies
9
Peer-reviewable, year to date
Impact per dollar
2.0x
With matched capital, to cap
Live performance index, resident cohort
Capital recycled
Stage 3
Proceeds returning to the fund
Department health
Green
Zoom to any unit, any scale
Active studies
7
Performance, recovery, readiness
IRB-governed protocols
4
Independent oversight in place
Average study TRL
5.4
Concept to system, weighted
Peer-reviewable outputs
9
Year to date
Studies advancing, by stage
Replication rate
86%
Findings that hold on repeat
Data integrity
Green
De-identified, end to end
Resident athletes
200+
Measured longitudinally
Performance gain
to 22%
Body and mind, across programs
Career-program athletes
64
In business-of-sport tracks
Countries
35+
Population diversity
Readiness index, body and mind
Injury-risk flags
12
Surfaced early by computer vision
Privacy posture
Green
De-identification-first
Capital stage
Stage 3
Across the recycling cycle
Recycled to next site
31%
Proceeds returning to the fund
Blended sources
3
Catalytic, sponsor, charitable
Impact per dollar
2.0x
With matched capital, to cap
Deployment and recycling curve
Runway
18 mo
At current plan
Securities posture
Walled
Accredited path kept separate
Units tracked
6
Research, lab, capital, talent, ops, data
Unit health
5/6
Green, one unit at amber
Utilization
78%
Testing and lab capacity
Staffing to plan
92%
Across the institute
Throughput by unit
Open actions
14
Tracked to close
Escalations
0
None open
THE AI LAYER

Context, deployed in real time

An intelligence layer aggregates the data, interprets it, and deploys the right context to each stakeholder as conditions change. Secure end to end, and designed de-identification-first so it meets privacy obligations while it works.

THE SPACE AS INSTRUMENT

The campus captures its own data

Built with commercial-space data partners, the facility itself becomes a measurement tool. Placed technology tracks usage, and computer vision monitors form and injury risk, turning the environment into context the research can use.

SCORED FOR LIFE

Readiness across the whole life

TRL and Commercial Readiness are tracked across the life of the research, the athlete it serves, the company it becomes, and the stakeholders behind it, so progress and return are legible to everyone with a stake.

The platform

See the operating system behind the institute, in motion.

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How we measure it

Measured the way a research organization measures it.

A partner, a funder, or a grants office should be able to see the work the way they would judge any research program. Every program is tracked against the same instruments, live, so progress is verifiable and not a matter of trust alone.

3 → 8
Technology Readiness Level, concept to system-proven
.28 → .82
Commercial Readiness Score across market, IP, and regulatory
1 → 9
Published, peer-reviewable validation studies
to 22%
Measured performance improvement across active programs

ILLUSTRATIVE MODEL TRAJECTORY. Targets, not results. Figures are diligence-stage and subject to counsel review. Every contribution and outcome is tracked from its source to its purpose.

The Model

Capitalized differently, by design.

One system funds the research, proves it, and pays for the next site. Capital and partners fund the work, the work validates and becomes technology, commercialization recycles the capital, and the model repeats on the next campus.

01

Fund

Catalytic capital, charitable contributions, and corporate sponsorship fund the research phase. No single check carries it.

Capital in→
02

Research

The real-world lab tests science on real athletes, held to a research standard by embedded protocols and professionals.

Validated work→
03

Commercialize

What validates becomes applied technology and intellectual property that athletes, partners, and institutions can use.

Value created→
04

Compound

Proceeds recycle to fund the next site, and the playbook carries with them. Each site makes the next one faster to stand up.

Capital recycled
↻ The same dollar does more. Value created at the end returns to fund the next result.

Blended, staged to outcomes

Philanthropic, sponsor, and catalytic capital each enter at the stage they fit, so the model self-selects for what is working before commercial capital arrives.

The capital recycles

As validated research commercializes, the proceeds fund the next site. The system is built to compound across a network rather than depend on one raise.

Philanthropy is a funding source, not revenue

Charitable capital funds research at the earliest, highest-risk stage. It is never counted as company revenue, and that line is kept clean.

The family fund brings the capital and the financial team to co-fund projects, with full financial modeling built on real-world operating results rather than generic benchmarks. Patient capital de-risks the early stage and carries a finding to the point a commercial partner can take it.Any participation in venture value that is a security is available only to verified accredited investors, under Regulation D Rule 506(c), and is conducted apart from this page.
Philanthropy, Proven

We no longer raise for a cause. We fund the model that proves it.

Our giving has changed. Instead of running iconic campaigns for general causes, we raise for a proven, measured program built to become the gold standard of how the family gives, because breakthrough research that improves the community is worth funding with the same rigor as any enterprise. Every campaign runs on one equation: establish the baseline, apply the leverage, measure what moves.

Icon engagement

Moves acquisition and conversion

$42→$14
Cost to reach a donor falls as name and likeness do the work paid media used to, and conversion climbs.
Cost per donor acquired
Corporate partner

Moves how much reaches impact

68%→82%
When a partner underwrites delivery, the program keeps more of every dollar raised, without changing what the donor gives.
Efficiency ratio reaching impact
Matched capital

Moves impact per dollar

$1→$2
Each donated dollar is paired with partner or investment capital to a cap, so the same relationship deploys more toward the mission.
Impact per donor dollar

The funder executes a proven model, and the campaign recognizes them for it. A donor or corporate partner is not buying marketing. They are funding a measured program that gets more of every dollar to the mission, and the campaign amplifies the cause and recognizes the funder. Figures are illustrative, sized to show the mechanics. Charitable capital is never counted as revenue, and recycled value returns to the charitable fund, never to a donor.

The Network

The first site is the proof. The network is the thesis.

The model is built to repeat, one site at a time, toward a target of five. As sites are added, the platform compounds, and the value created for each party grows with it. The shape is below. The figures live in the briefing.

Enterprise value created per party, by siteRelative growth shown · figures gated
The instituteOperating company, HFF-owned
Site 1
2
3
4
5
The corporate sponsorBrand recognition and reach
Site 1
2
3
4
5
The research partnerFees, IP, and participation
Site 1
2
3
4
5
The charitable fundRecurring charitable value, recycled
Site 1
2
3
4
5
↻ The recycling multiplier compounds value across the network, not just within a single site.
ILLUSTRATIVE. Relative growth and shape only, grounded in the operating model. Actual enterprise-value figures, and any equity participation, are reserved for the gated partner briefing.
The model

The shape is here. The numbers are in the briefing.

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The Ecosystem

Who plugs into the platform.

The same engine serves more than youth sports. The demand arrives from every direction that needs proof, a population, or a system to run on.

CORE

Youth sports

The core. Young athletes who are developed first, and a community served right alongside them.

MOTORSPORT

Motorsport

A racing team bringing the science to drivers and crews, where readiness and recovery decide races.

LICENSE

Schools and institutions

Programs licensing and white-labeling the model to bring it into their own schools and athletes.

RESEARCH

Research labs

Partners who co-fund studies and exchange IP on a platform built to win federal research funding.

VENTURE

Venture pipeline

A flow of validated technology and the capital partners positioned to commercialize it.

VALIDATION

Startups seeking validation

Companies that do not need funding, but need proof to take to market or report to their stakeholders.

TALENT

Icons and athletes

Performers enrolling into the program, and lending their standing to draw others to the work.

EDUCATION

Camps and education

People who want to learn the methods, through camps and continued education inside the platform.

How You Fit In

Find your line. See your return.

Each partner arrives with a different problem and leaves with a different reason to build here. Choose your role and zoom in on the value and the return that are yours.

Technology and device innovators
A strong product, no place to prove it, and no patient capital to carry it to market.

A population that is developed, not just measured. Resident athletes who are supported here and choose to take part, with the depth of measurement to find what actually holds.

A clinical pathway. Research-grade protocols and IRB governance through the region, with independent oversight.

Capital that lowers your cost. Patient, blended capital carries the work from a finding toward a product.

The validation standard. A research-backed mark that helps a proven product earn its place in market.

Return on engagement

Proof you can take to market, a faster path from finding to product, and a lower cost of validation than building the capability alone.

Scope a validation engagement →
Corporate sponsors and brands
Sponsorship dollars that buy exposure, but not proof or measured impact.

A measured impact story. Your support tracked from dollar to outcome, on the platform, not in a brochure.

Association with proof. A place beside elite anchors and a program held to a research standard.

A higher efficiency ratio. Underwriting delivery gets more of every dollar to the mission, and recognizes you for it.

A seat in the network. Presence across a model built to scale to five sites and beyond.

Return on engagement

Recognition tied to measured outcomes rather than impressions, and a position at the center of a regional innovation network.

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Donors and grant-makers
Giving that ends when the check clears, with no way to stay in the work or do more with the same dollar.

Direct your research. Point your contribution at the breakthrough work you care about most.

Proof your dollar moved. Impact tracked from deployment to measured outcome, scored the way research is scored.

Giving that keeps working. Structured so value recycles to the charitable fund and underwrites the next study.

A proven model. The gold standard of how the family gives, measured against a baseline every time.

Return on engagement

Recurring charitable value, not a financial return. Your giving compounds toward the mission rather than ending at the gift.

Direct a research priority →
Research and federal partners
Research that needs a real population and a platform built to win and manage federal funding.

A population that translates. Findings in injury, recovery, and readiness carry across sport, the military, and health.

A funding vehicle. A platform built for non-dilutive federal research funding, routed correctly through the right partner.

Shared IP and co-funding. Defined terms agreed in advance, with the family fund co-funding the work.

Measurement built in. TRL and Commercial Readiness tracked live across the life of the research.

Return on engagement

Access to a population you cannot easily replicate, a co-funding partner, and a platform built to compete for federal research dollars.

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Institutions and schools
A program you want for your athletes, without building the research engine from scratch.

License the model. White-label the institute's methods and bring them into your own school and athletes.

The platform, by subscription. The Performance Hub and its scoring, without standing up the system yourself.

Camps and education. Continued education and training in the methods, for your staff and your athletes.

A proven standard. Adopt a research-backed approach rather than assembling one piece at a time.

Return on engagement

A research-grade performance program for your athletes at a fraction of the cost and time of building it alone.

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Icons, athletes, and teams
A performer or a team that wants an edge, and a platform worthy of lending a name to.

A measured edge. Testing, modeling, and feedback that turn into decisions, in any sport, including motorsport.

Your market position. A read on where you stand against the field, and how it moves as you improve.

A mission worth your name. Anchor the work and draw others to it, factually and without endorsement of a security.

Continued development. Camps and education that extend the work beyond a single visit.

Return on engagement

A measurable performance advantage, and a platform whose standing reflects well on the names attached to it.

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Built to be trusted

The questions a serious partner asks, answered.

A family office, a grants office, and a federal program each evaluate the same way: where is the rigor, where is the conflict, and where does the money go. Here is how the institute is built to hold up to that.

RIGOR

Research-grade by default

Studies run under research-grade protocols with IRB governance through a regional clinical pathway, and independent oversight of the work.

INDEPENDENCE

Conflicts disclosed and managed

Where the institute holds an interest in what it studies, that interest is disclosed and managed under a defined framework, so validation stays credible.

TRANSPARENCY

Tracked source to purpose

Every contribution and outcome is tracked from where it came from to what it funded, with independent valuation and counsel review before execution.

Answers to the first questions

What does an athlete gain here? +

Development in body and mind, feedback that goes to the athlete first, and the option to step inside the business and science of sport through technology, innovation, investment, and research. Whatever comes after SPIRE, the athlete leaves with a career lens they can build on.

How are students and families protected, and put first? +

The athlete and the family are the first priority, by design. Taking part in any program is a choice, the athlete's own data serves the athlete, and research data is handled de-identified and secured end to end. Putting students first is not only right. It is what makes the model work and keeps everyone protected.

Is this a securities offering? +

No. This page is informational and concerns the operating and research relationship, not an investment. A separate opportunity to participate in venture value exists for verified accredited investors only, under Regulation D Rule 506(c), and it is kept strictly apart from the work described here.

How is philanthropic capital treated? +

Charitable capital funds research at the earliest, highest-risk stage. It is never counted as company revenue. Any value that recycles returns to the charitable research fund for future charitable use, and not to a donor. This is recurring charitable value, not a financial return.

Are the campaign partners buying marketing? +

No. A donor or corporate partner funds a proven, measured program. The icon, the partner, and the matched capital each move a measured variable that gets more of every dollar to the mission. The campaign amplifies the cause and recognizes the funder, and it is never sold as purchased reach.

Can public funding flow to the company? +

No. Public funding eligibility runs through the appropriate nonprofit, university, or public partner, never through the operating company. The institute is the on-campus research engine and the population. The region funds and clinically validates what the work produces.

How is athlete and performance data protected? +

The platform is designed de-identification-first and secured end to end. Data capture, modeling, and the intelligence layer are built to meet privacy obligations, and personal data is handled accordingly across the system.

What can you say about your partners? +

The anchor partners are named in fact. The research, data, and technology partners are under confidentiality until contracts close, at which point the institute and its partners announce in sequence.

Why here

The combination is the point.

A clinical site has the validation but not the population. An urban hub has the capital network but not the campus or the regional designation. SPIRE has the combination, and the combination is what makes the model work.

01The campus

A residential athletic campus with elite facilities and a real population, already operating in Geneva, Ohio.

02The region

A federally recognized Appalachian region, which opens public programs for workforce, health, and growth.

03The ecosystem

A regional network of clinical, motorsport, and innovation institutions that fund and validate what the work produces.

Partners, not competitors. The region's clinical and innovation institutions are partners in this. The institute is the on-campus applied-research engine and the resident athlete population. The region funds and clinically validates what the work produces. Public funding eligibility runs through the appropriate nonprofit, university, or public partner, never through the operating company.

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The Invitation

Build the proof with us. Then build the network.

A repeatable system, built to scale nationally, one site at a time. SPIRE is the first, and the next institute can stand in your city or your state. Partner with us to open one near you: bring a population, a campus, and the will to build, and we bring the model, the research engine, and the operating playbook. There is a place in it for the work you do, whether you validate, fund, research, license, or sponsor.

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