· Private foundation
Backus Family Foundation Inc
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 FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k47 grants · $17k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| NANOSTEAD FOUNDATION DBA MARSHALL RELIEF ALLIANCE | $10,000 |
| GALE ETRICK TREMPELEAU SCHOOL DISTRICT | $1,000 |
| FAITH CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH | $1,000 |
| MIDWEST HORSE WELFARE FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,000 |
| MERCY CHEFS | $521 |
| GUNDERSEN LUTHERAN MEDICAL FOUNDATION INC | $518 |
| WISCONSIN MASONIC CENTER FOUNDATION INC | $515 |
| THREE PILLARS SENIOR LIVING COMMUNITIES | $515 |
| INTERNATIONAL CRANE FOUNDATION | $515 |
| DAVE THOMAS FOUNDATION FOR ADOPTION | $514 |
| UNITED PENTECOSTAL CHURCH OF STOUGHTON | $500 |
| HELP THE LEAST OF THESE | $500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $500 |
| STOUGHTON HOSPITAL FOUNDATION | $500 |
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 (FY21–24, $2k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 79% 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.
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.
57 repeat relationships — 29 still active in FY2024, 28 since wound down; 17 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, 35% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $17k 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
- HTHELP THE LEAST OF THESE INC5× · 2020–2024 · $3k · revenue +13%
- SHStoughton Hospital Foundation Inc4× · 2021–2024 · $2k · revenue +175%
- DTDAVE THOMAS FOUNDATION FOR ADOPTION5× · 2020–2024 · $2k · revenue +118%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2020 · $3k
- ESEVANS SCHOLARS FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $1k · revenue +48%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2021 · $1k
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 improve and save lives through compassionate care, community engagement and advocacy for animals.
The fsmb serves as the voice for state medical boards, supporting them through education, assessment, research and advocacy while providing services and initiatives that promote patient safety, quality health care and regulatory best…
The mission of the akc canine health foundation, inc. is to fund, advance, and communicate canine health research and science through knowledge and discovery.
The friends are dedicated to the rescue, protection, and adoption of companion animals in need while inspiring the human-animal bond. we meet our mission by:-saving 100% of healthy and treatable animals.-providing high-quality animal care…
Our goal is to sustainably improve animal welfare, provide veterinary care, and improve veterinary education globally. in order to achieve this goal, we work in over 10 countries, across 5 continents, supporting local people and animals,…
Marin humane transforms lives through exceptional animal care, humane education, and advocacy. every day, marin humane inspires compassion and positive relationships between people and animals.
Seattle humane promotes the human-animal bond by saving and serving pets in need, regardless of age, ability, circumstance or geography.
The mission of the Wisconsin Humane Society is to make a difference for animals and the people who love them.
To be the leading voice of medicine to make minnesota the healthiest state and the best place to practice.
Sof is called to empower warriors to find purpose, be resilient, and live well. we develop and provide customized treatment plans for veterans through our national network of partners.
Partnering for healing and a healthy future through philanthropy.
The purpose of the water research foundation (wrf) is a definitive research organization to advance the science of all things water to better meet the evolving needs of its subscribers and the water sector. to engage exclusively in…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Shelter From the Storm Animal Rescue Inc and the most unlike its peers is Guardian Angels of Naples 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.
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 33 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) — 2% 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.
65 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 65 of the 130 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 INTERNATIONAL CRANE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds HELP THE LEAST OF THESE INC ↗
- Who funds Stoughton Hospital Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds DAVE THOMAS FOUNDATION FOR ADOPTION ↗
- Who funds WISCONSIN MASONIC FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GULF COAST HUMANE SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds EVANS SCHOLARS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FOLDS OF HONOR FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Florida Sheriffs Youth Ranches Inc ↗
- Who funds Young America's Foundation ↗
- Who funds ARIZONA HEMOPHILIA ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds ANGEL'S WISH INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds MIDWEST HORSE WELFARE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MINGUS MOUNTAIN ESTATE RESIDENTIAL ↗
- Who funds STARLIGHT CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ALTER-ATIONS INC ↗
- Who funds HOMES FOR OUR TROOPS INC ↗
- Who funds ST MATTHEWS HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds BLOOD CANCER UNITED INC ↗
- Who funds GUIDE DOGS FOR THE BLIND INC ↗
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.
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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 Backus Family Foundation Inc 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- The Shriners' Hospital for Children — 6% of income from government
- The Oregon Community Foundation — 2% of income from government
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.