· Private foundation
Appelt Family Foundation
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2022–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- $10k–50k16 grants · $400k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $275k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Miracle Farm Inc | $100,000 |
| Camp For All | $100,000 |
| Easter Seals New Hampshire | $75,000 |
| Tiny Hope Village | $35,000 |
| Vail Health Foundation | $35,000 |
| Patriot Legacy Fund | $30,000 |
| Spring Branch-Memorial Sports Association | $30,000 |
| Round Top Family Library | $30,000 |
| Arts for Rural Texas | $25,000 |
| Brazos Valley Food Bank | $25,000 |
| Robert Conte Foundation for Parkinson's | $25,000 |
| Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation Inc | $25,000 |
| Pi Beta Phi Foundation | $25,000 |
| Texas Louisiana Gulf Coast Synod | $25,000 |
| Avondale House | $25,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY24–24, $75k) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
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.
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.
10 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2024, 1 since wound down; 10 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 47% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $360k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- PLPATRIOT LEGACY FUND INC3× · 2022–2024 · $60k · revenue +3% · 50% of their budget
- RTROUND TOP LIBRARY ASSOCIATION INC2× · 2023–2024 · $50k · revenue +276%
- BVBRAZOS VALLEY FOOD BANK INC2× · 2023–2024 · $50k · revenue +28%
Funded once
- NCNORTHERN COLORADO WILDLIFE CENTERgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue +134%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
To empower both children and adults with a broad range of special needs by providing the highest quality equine assisted activities
Happy Trails Horse Rescue, located in Bend, Oregon, is dedicated to the protection of horses and their quality of life, to be free from abuse, neglect, abandonment, slaughter, or early euthanasia without just cause. While we strive to…
Recovering children and rescuing horses to begin a bond of healing.
Laurel's House strengthens the human animal bond improves public health decreases the number of companion animal euthanasia due to overpopulation and diminishes human impact on native wildlife species by providing unprecedented access to…
Providing healing opportunities for wild Mustangs and Veterans. Includes horse taming and training and various programs designed to support veterans.
A small No Kill Rescue and Sanctuary for unwanted, homeless, abused, neglected, blind, deaf, disabled, medically dependent, special needs and unadoptable dogs and puppies.
Sanctuary for abused or abandoned animals
Animal rescue and rehabilitation
Rescued abused abandoned and neglected horses and farm animals including goats pigs chickens and donkeys. Provided emergency care veterinary services proper nutrition shelter and behavioral rehabilitation to each intake.
To champion public awareness of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) and challenges confronting our countrys heroes and rally support for shelter animal adoption by connecting heroes and companions.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Miracle Farm Inc and the most unlike its peers is Far View Horse Rescue. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
16 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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 16 of the 21 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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 Camp For All Foundation ↗
- Who funds MIRACLE FARM INC ↗
- Who funds Easter Seals New Hampshire Inc ↗
- Who funds PATRIOT LEGACY FUND INC ↗
- Who funds VAIL HEALTH SERVICES FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ROUND TOP LIBRARY ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds BRAZOS VALLEY FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds TINY HOPE VILLAGE ↗
- Who funds SPRING BRANCH-MEMORIAL SPORTS ASSOC ↗
- Who funds FAR VIEW HORSE RESCUE ↗
- Who funds Avondale House Inc ↗
- Who funds ART GUILD OF FAYETTEVILLE TEXAS ↗
- Who funds Paws for Heroes ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF CHAMBER MUSIC ↗
- Who funds ANIMAL SHELTER VOLUNTEERS OF TEXAS INC ↗
- Who funds NORTHERN COLORADO WILDLIFE CENTER ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Greater Houston Community Foundation · Shell USA Company Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
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 Appelt Family Foundation 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.
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.