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3 Sister Non-Profit Inc 3 Sisters Non-Profit

Its FY2020 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$15k
Granted FY2020
18
Grants FY2020
4
States reached
$3k
Largest
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20182020.

Health$21kHuman Services$4kEducation$4kAnimals$1kPublic Safety & Disaster$765International$555Philanthropy$330Housing & Shelter$196
02FY2020 · 18 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$525
Median grant
4
States reached
$22k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Denver Health$3,125
Mary Greeley Foundation$2,145
Gilbert Education Foundation$2,125
Swedish Medical Center Health One$1,614
Project Valentine$1,050
Perry Community School District (Perry Middle School)$900
Individual grant recipient$765
Hornbuckle Foundation$660
Individual grant recipient$525
Des Moines VA Hospital Medical Center$378
Little Sisters of the Poor - Sacred Heart Home$350
Youth and Shelter Services$336
RIPBEAMS$330
Friendship Ark$196
Close to Home Hospice$175
02The need
03

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY18–20, $3k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 26% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%Emergency Infant Services: $480 → 15%Night Lights: $1k → 7%Night Lights: $1k → 7%Youth and Shelter Services: $336 → 17%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge
repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

49%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$16k · 4 repeat orgs$17k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +247% since the first grant, against +22% for the ones you funded once.

4 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2020, 1 since wound down; 15 grantees were first funded in FY2020 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

4
10

Total granted

$16k
$6k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+247%
+22%

Still filing today

50%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2020, 30% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $11k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’18’19’20
HealthHuman ServicesHousing & ShelterPhilanthropyOther

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

  • DH
    Denver Health
    2× · 2019–2020 · $9k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    2× · 2018–2020 · $4k
  • NL
    Night Lights Inc
    2× · 2018–2019 · $2k · revenue +211%

Funded once

  • DR
    DUBUQUE RESCUE MISSION
    one grant, 2019 · $1k
  • CD
    CO Dept of Education Facility Schools
    one grant, 2019 · $1k
  • VM
    VA Medical Center
    one grant, 2018 · $990

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Residential Services Inc

Residential Services, Inc. provides living options and related supports to people with intellectual and developmental disabilities of all ages.

Health
2
Family Housing Network of Fort Collins Inc

Faith Family Hospitality's mission is to support families experiencing homelessness to achieve sustainable self-sufficiency in a timely and dignified manner. This interfaith volunteer effort coordinates the work of 30 diverse Fort Collins…

Human Services
3
Hannahs Home

Hannahs Home is a Christ-centered life-affirming maternity home for women who are in crisis.

Human Services
4
Ronald McDonald House Charities of Greater Charlotte Inc

Ronald McDonald House Charities of Greater Charlotte (RMHC of GC) provides essential services that remove barriers, strengthen families, and promote healing when children need healthcare. Charlotte is recognized as a leading destination…

Human Services
5
Ronald McDonald House Charities of the Intermountain Area Inc

Ronald McDonald House Mountain West surrounds families with the support they need to be near and care for their seriously ill or injured children.

Health
6
Ronald McDonald House of Dallas Inc

Our mission is to provide essential services that remove barriers, strengthen families, and promote healing when children need healthcare. We support the health and well-being of seriously ill or injured children receiving treatment in the…

7
Ronald McDonald House Charities of Memphis Inc

Ronald McDonald House Charities of Memphis, Inc. sees a world where every family has what they need to ensure the best health outcomes for their children. They provide essential services that remove barriers, strengthen families, and…

Health
8
Ronald McDonald House of Mid-Michigan

To provide a warm & caring Home-Away-From-Home for ill children and their families.

Health
9
Nursing and Therapy Services of Colorado

To provide compassionate, comprehensive, and accessible healthcare for individuals of all ages, fostering a healthier and brighter future for every child and adult in our community. Our vision is rooted in a commitment to providing…

Health
10
Ronald McDonald House Charities of Central Illinois

Ronald McDonald House Charities of Central Illinois (RMHCCI) provides programs to support the well-being of children and provides a home away from home for families with children receiving medical care.

11
Family Promise - Salt Lake

We help families experiencing homelessness find lasting independence and security.

Housing & Shelter
12
Carole's House of Hope

Caroles House of Hope provides transitional living for young women and mothers who have aged out of foster care or have become homeless. Our home-like environment, paired with innovative programs and services, encourages self-sufficiency…

Public Benefit

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Youth and Shelter Services Inc and the most unlike its peers is Gilbert Education Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

04the grantee network

12 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 12 of the 29 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
12/12
Grantees still filing
11/12
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Denver Health — $8,735 · OtherDenver HealthIndividual grant recipient — $3,705 · OtherIndividual grant recipientSwedish Medical Center Health One — $1,614 · OtherSwedish Medical Center Health OneDUBUQUE RESCUE MISSION — $1,425 · OtherDUBUQUE RESCUE MISSIONCO Dept of Education Facility Schools — $1,195 · OtherProject Valentine — $1,050 · OtherVA Medical Center — $990 · OtherPerry Community School District (Perry Middle School) — $900 · Other+11 more — $3,444 · Other+11 moreMARY GREELEY MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION — $2,145 · HealthMARY GREELEY…HORNBUCKLE FOUNDATION — $960 · HealthHORNBUCKLE F…MARTHAS HOUSE OF HOPE INC — $300 · HealthMARTHAS HOUS…Craig Hospital — $133 · HealthNight Lights Inc — $2,340 · Human ServicesNight Light…Emergency Infant Services Inc — $480 · Human ServicesEmergency I…YOUTH AND SHELTER SERVICES INC — $336 · Human ServicesYOUTH AND S…GILBERT EDUCATION FOUNDATION — $2,125 · PhilanthropySENSE OF SECURITY INC — $275 · Housing & ShelterFRIENDSHIP ARK INC — $196 · Housing & Shelter
Other$23,058Health$3,538Human Services$3,156Philanthropy$2,125Housing & Shelter$471

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetNight Lights Inc — $2,340 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetMARY GREELEY MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION — $2,145 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGILBERT EDUCATION FOUNDATION — $2,125 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetEmergency Infant Services Inc — $480 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetYOUTH AND SHELTER SERVICES INC — $336 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICES OF COLORADO — $325 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMARTHAS HOUSE OF HOPE INC — $300 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetSENSE OF SECURITY INC — $275 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetRonald McDonald House Charities of Tulsa — $215 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDSHIP ARK INC — $196 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCraig Hospital — $133 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

  • Who funds Night Lights Inc
  • Who funds MARY GREELEY MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION
  • Who funds GILBERT EDUCATION FOUNDATION
  • Who funds HORNBUCKLE FOUNDATION
  • Who funds Emergency Infant Services Inc
  • Who funds YOUTH AND SHELTER SERVICES INC
  • Who funds LUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICES OF COLORADO
  • Who funds MARTHAS HOUSE OF HOPE INC
  • Who funds SENSE OF SECURITY INC
  • Who funds Ronald McDonald House Charities of Tulsa
  • Who funds FRIENDSHIP ARK INC
  • Who funds Craig Hospital

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Becker Family FoundationIA13.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 10 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Becker Family Foundation · Underwood Family Foundation · Colorado Gives Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Network for Good · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization 3 Sister Non-Profit Inc 3 Sisters Non-Profit funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 20%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    2get no government money at all
    3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 29 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2020, released 2020. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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