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A Frederick Banfield Charitable Trust

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$965k
Granted FY2024still arriving
25
Grants FY2024still arriving
15
States reached
$900k
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 FY20192024.

Recreation & Sports$4.0MHuman Services$127kFood & Nutrition$90kEducation$41kHousing & Shelter$41kArts & Culture$23kAnimals$9kScience & Tech$8kOther$0
02FY2024 · 25 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k21 grants · $25k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $40k
  • $250k+1 grant · $900k
$500
Median grant
15
States reached
$2.6M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
World Players of Handball Foundation$900,000
Community Food Bank of Southern Arizona$20,000
Colorado School of Mines Foundation$10,000
The Salvation Army Tucson$10,000
Fred Lewis Foundation for Youth Handball$5,000
United States Handball Association$5,000
Friends of the Smithsonian$2,500
The National World War II Museum$2,500
National Geographic Society$2,000
African Wildlife Foundation$1,000
Yellowstone Forever$600
Bright Focus Foundation$500
American Heart Association Inc$500
Hoover Presidential Foundation$500
Mutts with a Mission$500
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:

Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY19–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 99% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%MAKE A WISH ARIZONA: $1k → 11%ARIZONA PUBLIC MEDIA: $2k → 15%KEEPERS OF THE WILD: $1k → 17%COLORADO SCHOOL OF MINES FOUNDATION: $10k → 7%SME FOUNDATION: $2k → 8%NATIONAL WORLD WAR II MUSEUM: $3k → 23%Colorado School of Mines Foundation: $10k → 7%NATIONAL WORLD WAR II MUSEUM: $3k → 23%COLORADO SCHOOL OF MINES FOUNDATION: $10k → 7%NATIONAL WORLD WAR II MUSEUM: $3k → 23%Community Food Bank of Southern Arizona: $20k → 15%COLORADO SCHOOL OF MINES FOUNDATION: $10k → 7%NATIONAL WORLD WAR II MUSEUM: $3k → 23%COMMUNITY FOOD BANK OF SOUTHERN ARIZONA: $20k → 15%The National World War II Museum: $3k → 23%COMMUNITY FOOD BANK OF SOUTHERN ARIZONA: $20k → 15%COMMUNITY FOOD BANK OF SOUTHERN ARIZONA: $10k → 15%COMMUNITY FOOD BANK OF SOUTHERN ARIZONA: $10k → 15%COMMUNITY FOOD BANK OF SOUTHERN ARIZONA: $10k → 15%National Geographic Society: $2k → 14%HABITAT FOR HUMANITY: $10k → 15%HABITAT FOR HUMANITY: $10k → 15%HABITAT FOR HUMANITY: $10k → 15%HABITAT FOR HUMANITY: $10k → 15%THE SALVATION ARMY TUCSON: $30k → 15%CASA DE LOS NINOS: $15k → 15%THE SALVATION ARMY TUCSON: $10k → 15%THE SALVATION ARMY TUCSON: $10k → 15%THE SALVATION ARMY TUCSON: $10k → 15%The Salvation Army Tucson: $10k → 15%THE SALVATION ARMY TUCSON: $10k → 15%CASA DE LOS NINOS: $10k → 15%CASA DE LOS NINOS: $10k → 15%CASA DE LOS NINOS: $10k → 15%Fred Lewis Foundation for Youth Handball: $5k → 15%FRED LEWIS FOUNDATION FOR YOUTH HANDBALL: $5k → 15%World Players of Handball Foundation: $900k → 15%WORLD PLAYERS OF HANDBALL FOUNDATION: $200k → 15%United States Handball Association: $5k → 15%UNITED STATES HANDBALL ASSOCIATION: $5k → 15%UNITED STATES HANDBALL ASSOCIATION: $5k → 15%UNITED STATES HANDBALL ASSOCIATION: $5k → 15%UNITED STATES HANDBALL ASSOCIATION: $5k → 15%UNITED STATES HANDBALL ASSOCIATION: $5k → 15%WORLD PLAYERS OF HANDBALL FOUNDATION CO CHARLES CHARVOZ TREASURER: $850k → 15%WORLD PLAYERS OF HANDBALL FOUNDATION CO CHARLES CHARVOZ TREASURER: $820k → 15%WORLD PLAYERS OF HANDBALL FOUNDATION CO CHARLES CHARVOZ TREASURER: $760k → 15%WORLD PLAYERS OF HANDBALL FOUNDATION CO CHARLES CHARVOZ TREASURER: $450k → 15%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.

Which US states your grants reach

MT
NY
IA
IN
NJ
CA
CO
MO
KY
VA
MD
AZ
KS
AR
TN
DC
LA
AL
TX
FL

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.

100%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$4.3M · 30 repeat orgs$5k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +25% since the first grant, against +16% for the ones you funded once.

30 repeat relationships — 18 still active in FY2024, 12 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

30
8

Total granted

$4.3M
$2k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+25%
+16%

Still filing today

77%
88%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationHealthAnimalsEnvironmentPublic BenefitYouth DevelopmentOther

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

  • WP
    WORLD PLAYERS OF HANDBALL FOUNDATION
    2× · 2023–2024 · $1.1M · revenue +3% · 84% of their budget
  • CS
    COLORADO SCHOOL OF MINES FOUNDATION
    4× · 2021–2024 · $40k · revenue +5%
  • TN
    THE NATIONAL WORLD WAR II MUSEUM INC
    5× · 2020–2024 · $13k · revenue +52%

Funded once

  • VETERANS OF FOREIGN WARS FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2022 · $500 · revenue +16%
  • SHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDRENgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $500 · revenue +78%
  • DA
    Disabled American Veterans
    one grant, 2022 · $500 · revenue +20%

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
The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Chartered by a unanimous act of congress, the museum is america's national institution for the documentation, study, interpretation, and education of holocaust history and serves as our country's memorial to the victims of the holocaust.…

Arts & Culture
2
American Museum of Natural History

The museum's mission statement is: "to discover, interpret, and disseminate - through scientific research and education - knowledge about human cultures, the natural world, and the universe."

Arts & Culture
3
Denver Zoological Foundation

Inspiring communities to save wildlife for future generations.

Animals
4
National Science and Technology Medals Foundation Inc

The nstmf's mission is to build inclusive stem communities across the united states. fundamental to these communities are the significant, inspirational connections we foster between the individuals who have received national recognition…

5
American Humane Association

Founded in 1877, american humane association, dba american humane society (american humane) is committed to ensuring the safety, welfare and well-being of animals. our leadership programs are first to serve in promoting and nurturing the…

Animals
6
Lowell Observatory

The mission of lowell observatory is to pursue the study of astronomy, especially the study of our solar system and its evolution; to conduct pure research in astronomical phenomena; and to maintain quality public education and outreach…

Science & Tech
7
New York University

Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.

Education
8
Us Navy Memorial Foundation

The navy memorial mission is to honor, recognize and celebrate the men and women of the sea services and the important contributions made by them while serving in the united states navy, marine corps, coast guard and merchant marine. the…

Arts & Culture
9
Henry M Jackson Foundation for the Advancement of Military Medicine

Hjf partners to advance military medicine for our nations warfighters. as a global nonprofit organization authorized by congress, hjf provides scientific, administrative and program management services to researchers and clinicians. hjf…

Health
10
Conservation International Foundation

Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.

Environment
11
Animal Wellness Action

To prevent cruelty to animals, we promote enacting and enforcing good public policies. enacting good laws depends upon electing good lawmakers, and we remind voters which candidates care about and support animal issues.

Human Services
12
Science Museum of Minnesota

The museum's mission statement is "turn on the science: inspire learning. inform policy. improve lives."

Arts & Culture

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Hoover Presidential Foundation and the most unlike its peers is World Players of Handball Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyCancer Support ServicesMilitary Veterans SupportHealth Access Advocacy and …Animal Rescue and ShelterEnvironmental Conservation …Community FoundationsYouth Sports Programs
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 52 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number28%0%<5yr17%3%5–10yr19%18%10–20yr15%15%20–35yr10%18%35–55yr12%47%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value28%0%<5yr17%81%5–10yr19%1%10–20yr15%1%20–35yr10%10%35–55yr12%7%55yr+

The field is 28% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close 0.0% lost their exemption, against 16% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/36
the rest of the field
16%
4,465/28,449

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

04the grantee network

35 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. 35 of the 45 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)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
35/35
Grantees still filing
26/35
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

WORLD PLAYERS OF HANDBALL FOUNDATION CO CHARLES CHARVOZ TREASURER — $2,880,000 · OtherWORLD PLAYERS OF HANDBALL FOUNDATION CO CHARLES CHARVOZ TREASURER+27 more — $147,395 · OtherWORLD PLAYERS OF HANDBALL FOUNDATION — $1,100,000 · Recreation & SportsWORLD PLAYERS OF HANDBALL FOU…+1 more — $30,000 · Recreation & SportsCommunity Food Bank Inc — $90,000 · Food & NutritionCASA DE LOS NINOS — $45,000 · Youth DevelopmentFRED LEWIS FOUNDATION FOR YOUTH HANDBALL — $10,000 · Youth DevelopmentCOLORADO SCHOOL OF MINES FOUNDATION — $40,000 · EducationNATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC SOCIETY — $4,000 · Education+3 more — $1,400 · EducationTHE NATIONAL WORLD WAR II MUSEUM INC — $12,850 · Arts & CultureSMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION — $6,675 · Arts & CultureAFRICAN WILDLIFE FOUNDATION INC — $5,000 · AnimalsKeepers of the Wild — $1,365 · AnimalsMUTTS WITH A MISSION — $500 · AnimalsPROJECT K9 HERO — $500 · AnimalsHumane Society of Southern Arizona — $300 · Animals
Other$3,027,395Recreation & Sports$1,130,000Food & Nutrition$90,000Youth Development$55,000Education$45,400Arts & Culture$19,525Animals$7,665

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 budgetWORLD PLAYERS OF HANDBALL FOUNDATION — $1,100,000 over 2y, 84% of budgetCommunity Food Bank Inc — $90,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetCASA DE LOS NINOS — $45,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetCOLORADO SCHOOL OF MINES FOUNDATION — $40,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED STATES HANDBALL ASSOCIATION — $30,000 over 6y, 8.1% of budgetTHE NATIONAL WORLD WAR II MUSEUM INC — $12,850 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetFRED LEWIS FOUNDATION FOR YOUTH HANDBALL — $10,000 over 2y, 7.0% of budgetSMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION — $6,675 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetAFRICAN WILDLIFE FOUNDATION INC — $5,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC SOCIETY — $4,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSME FOUNDATION — $4,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetYELLOWSTONE FOREVER — $1,800 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC — $1,700 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPAWS FOR PURPLE HEARTS — $1,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetKeepers of the Wild — $1,365 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetHOOVER PRESIDENTIAL FOUNDATION — $1,250 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION — $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED SERVICE ORGANIZATIONS INC — $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBRIGHTFOCUS FOUNDATION — $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMARA ELEPHANT PROJECT USA INC — $600 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION — $600 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPARALYZED VETERANS OF AMERICA — $600 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetVETERANS OF FOREIGN WARS FOUNDATION — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMUTTS WITH A MISSION — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDisabled American Veterans — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Eisenhower Foundation — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPROJECT K9 HERO — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHumane Society of Southern Arizona — $300 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE HARRY S TRUMAN LIBRARY INSTITUTE NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS — $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHEIFER PROJECT INTERNATIONAL — $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE TAU BETA PI ASSOCIATION INC — $200 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICA'S VETDOGS THE VETERANS K-9 CORPS INC — $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC — $100 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.

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.

Texas Instruments FoundationTX14.3× affinity5 shared granteesties to 10 of 10Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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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 A Frederick Banfield Charitable Trust 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 · 10%6%23%51%90%your share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 0%
  • Shriners Hospitals for Children0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
7report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
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 45 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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