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Arendsee Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k20 grants · $71k
- $10k–50k17 grants · $280k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $130k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| WORKSHOP FOR WARRIORS | $80,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF REDLANDS | $50,000 |
| FWCD SHOOTING SPORTS | $25,000 |
| THE VILLAGE CHURCH | $25,000 |
| VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER | $25,000 |
| TENNESSEE GOLF FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| MISSION ARLINGTON | $25,000 |
| BRIGHTSTONE | $25,000 |
| TENNESSEE PERFORMING ARTS | $15,200 |
| JOURNEY HOME | $15,000 |
| NORTH DALLAS SHARED MINISTRIES INC | $15,000 |
| VETERANS CENTER OF NORTH TEXAS INC | $15,000 |
| HOUSING CONNECTOR | $10,000 |
| FAMILY GATEWAY | $10,000 |
| DICKSON COUNTY HELP CENTER | $10,000 |
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 (FY25–25, $38k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 87% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
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.
The tulsa area united way unites people and resources to improve lives and strengthen our communities.
The mission of the Dallas-Fort Worth Hospital Council is to drive evidence-based improvement in patient care and health equity throughout the region.
VolunteerNow transforms lives through volunteers. As the hub of volunteerism in North Texas, and a national thought leader, VolunteerNow provides a wide range of programs and services to build capacity for nonprofit and community…
Nashville public radio's mission is to be the most trusted & independent nashville voice, connecting our communities through non-partisan journalism, compelling storytelling, civil conversation and music discovery.
The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.
The only free day shelter in the area comprised of a collection of community agencies and service providers, all focused on a single mission: ending homelessness in tarrant county.
Tirrc is a statewide, immigrant and refugee-led collaboration. our mission is to build power, amplify our voices, and organize communities to advocate for our rights. our vision is a stronger, more inclusive tennessee where people of all…
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Methodist Medical Center provides quality healthcare, in alignment with Covenant Health's mission to serve the community by improving the quality of life through better health regardless of a patient's ability to pay.
The neighborhood reinvestment corporation (d.b.a neighborworks america) is a congressionally chartered public non-profit corporation that creates opportunities for people to live in affordable homes, improve their lives, and strengthen…
Banner health's nonprofit mission is "making health care easier, so life can be better".
Research Triangle Institute is one of the world's leading research institutes, dedicated to improving the human condition by turning knowledge into practice. Our staff of more than 5,300 provides research and technical (continued on…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Entryway and the most unlike its peers is Veterans Center of North Texas Inc. 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.
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 36 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
27 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. 27 of the 39 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 WORKSHOPS FOR WARRIORS INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF REDLANDS ↗
- Who funds BRIGHTSTONE INC ↗
- Who funds TENNESSEE GOLF FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Vanderbilt University Medical Center ↗
- Who funds VETERANS CENTER OF NORTH TEXAS INC ↗
- Who funds JOURNEY HOME INC ↗
- Who funds NORTH DALLAS SHARED MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds MANNA CAFE MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds SCRIPPS HEALTH ↗
- Who funds FAMILY GATEWAY INC ↗
- Who funds DICKSON COUNTY HELP CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds HOUSING CONNECTOR ↗
- Who funds PRAGER UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ENTRYWAY ↗
- Who funds Tarrant Area Food Bank ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR TRANSFORMING LIVES ↗
- Who funds SHASTA WOMEN'S REFUGE INC DBA ONE SAFE PLACE ↗
- Who funds Nashville Symphony Association ↗
- Who funds SINACA STUDIOS - SCHOOL OF GLASS AND GALLERY ↗
- Who funds PROJECT HEAL INC ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
- Who funds FESTIVAL INTERNATIONAL DE LOUISIANE ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds THE WELMAN PROJECT ↗
- Who funds Burn Institute ↗
- Who funds UNITED THROUGH READING ↗
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: The Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee Inc · Nashville Predators Foundation · United Way of Middle Tennessee Inc · United Way of Metropolitan Dallas Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Communities Foundation of Texas Inc · Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc · Charities Aid Foundation America · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program
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 Arendsee 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.
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