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Appelt Family Foundation at a glance

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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.

$675k
Granted FY2024still arriving
19
Grants FY2024still arriving
4
States reached
$100k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2022 to 2024.

Youth Development$250kHuman Services$135kHealth$126kAnimals$90kEducation$75kFood & Nutrition$50kReligion$50kArts & Culture$45kOther$0
02FY2024 · 19 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k16 grants · $400k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $275k
$25,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$10M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

show:

Its 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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%Easter Seals New Hampshire: $75k → 7%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

59%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$536k · 10 repeat orgs$365k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

10
1

Total granted

$536k
$5k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+3%
+134%

Still filing today

80%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 47% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $360k went to new ones.

50%100%’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’22’23’24
AnimalsEducationArts & CultureYouth DevelopmentHealthFood & NutritionOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • PL
    PATRIOT LEGACY FUND INC
    3× · 2022–2024 · $60k · revenue +3% · 50% of their budget
  • RT
    ROUND TOP LIBRARY ASSOCIATION INC
    2× · 2023–2024 · $50k · revenue +195%
  • BV
    BRAZOS VALLEY FOOD BANK INC
    2× · 2023–2024 · $50k · revenue +28%

Funded once

  • NC
    NORTHERN COLORADO WILDLIFE CENTERgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue +134%
How this is measured

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

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Platte Ranch Forever Home Sanctuary
Animals
2
Victory Hill Therapeutic Horsemanship Inc

To empower both children and adults with a broad range of special needs by providing the highest quality equine assisted activities

Human Services
3
Happy Trails Horse Rescue

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…

Animals
4
Raven Rock Ranch

Recovering children and rescuing horses to begin a bond of healing.

Animals
5
Laurels House

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…

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6
Mustang Journey

Providing healing opportunities for wild Mustangs and Veterans. Includes horse taming and training and various programs designed to support veterans.

Health
7
Puppy Dog Ranch

A small No Kill Rescue and Sanctuary for unwanted, homeless, abused, neglected, blind, deaf, disabled, medically dependent, special needs and unadoptable dogs and puppies.

Animals
8
Bella View Farm Animal Sanctuary Inc
Animals
9
2nd Chance Ranch and Rescue

Sanctuary for abused or abandoned animals

Animals
10
Central Texas Animal Sanctuary

Animal rescue and rehabilitation

Animals
11
Liberty Barn Inc

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.

Animals
12
Companions for Heroes

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.

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Miracle Farm Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

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

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
16/16
Grantees still filing
8/16
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

MIRACLE FARM INC: $100,000 · OtherMIRACLE FARM INCTexas Louisiana Gulf Coast Synod: $50,000 · OtherTexas Louisiana Gulf Coast SynodRobert Conte Foundation for Parkinson's: $45,350 · OtherRobert Conte Foundation for Parkinson'sRocky Mountain Elk Foundation Inc: $25,000 · OtherRocky Mountain Elk Foundation IncPi Beta Phi Foundation: $25,000 · OtherPi Beta Phi FoundationART GUILD OF FAYETTEVILLE TEXAS: $25,000 · OtherART GUILD OF FAYETTEVILLE TEXASFRIENDS OF CHAMBER MUSIC: $20,000 · OtherFRIENDS OF CHAMBER MUSICSPRING BRANCH-MEMORIAL SPORTS ASSOC: $35,000 · OtherSPRING BRANCH-MEMORIAL SPORTS ASSOCTINY HOPE VILLAGE: $35,000 · OtherTINY HOPE VILLAGE+1 more: $10,000 · OtherCamp For All Foundation: $150,000 · Youth DevelopmentCamp For All Found…PATRIOT LEGACY FUND INC: $60,000 · EducationPATRIOT LEGACY FU…ROUND TOP LIBRARY ASSOCIATION INC: $50,350 · EducationROUND TOP LIBRARY…Avondale House Inc: $25,000 · EducationAvondale House In…Easter Seals New Hampshire Inc: $75,000 · Human ServicesEaster Se…FAR VIEW HORSE RESCUE: $25,000 · AnimalsPaws for Heroes: $20,300 · AnimalsANIMAL SHELTER VOLUNTEERS OF TEXAS INC: $15,000 · AnimalsNORTHERN COLORADO WILDLIFE CENTER: $5,000 · AnimalsVAIL HEALTH SERVICES FOUNDATION: $55,350 · HealthBRAZOS VALLEY FOOD BANK INC: $50,000 · Food & Nutrition
Other$370,350Youth Development$150,000Education$135,350Human Services$75,000Animals$65,300Health$55,350Food & Nutrition$50,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCamp For All Foundation: $150,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetMIRACLE FARM INC: $100,000 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetEaster Seals New Hampshire Inc: $75,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPATRIOT LEGACY FUND INC: $60,000 over 3y, 50% of budgetVAIL HEALTH SERVICES FOUNDATION: $55,350 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetROUND TOP LIBRARY ASSOCIATION INC: $50,350 over 2y, 5.6% of budgetBRAZOS VALLEY FOOD BANK INC: $50,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetSPRING BRANCH-MEMORIAL SPORTS ASSOC: $35,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetTINY HOPE VILLAGE: $35,000 over 1y, 21% of budgetART GUILD OF FAYETTEVILLE TEXAS: $25,000 over 1y, 9.0% of budgetAvondale House Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetFAR VIEW HORSE RESCUE: $25,000 over 2y, 6.1% of budgetPaws for Heroes: $20,300 over 1y, 11% of budgetFRIENDS OF CHAMBER MUSIC: $20,000 over 1y, 10% of budgetANIMAL SHELTER VOLUNTEERS OF TEXAS INC: $15,000 over 2y, 9.6% of budgetNORTHERN COLORADO WILDLIFE CENTER: $5,000 over 1y, 3.1% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

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

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Greater Houston Commu…Shell USA Company Fou…American Endowment Fo…Natl Christian Charit…The Bank of America C…Donor Advised Charita…American Online Givin…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Greater Houston Community FoundationTX15.7× affinity6 shared granteesties to 8 of 8Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Appelt Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Appelt Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%3%13%28%50%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    4report 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, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 21 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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