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Bangs 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k4 grants · $15k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $110k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| JOY MEADOWS | $45,000 |
| RESTORATION HOUSE OF EAST TENNESSEE | $25,000 |
| CHILDREN'S SKIN DISEASE FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| CHILDREN'S DREAM FUND | $10,000 |
| MISSION ADELANTE | $10,000 |
| SECOND WIND FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| URBAN SCHOLASTIC CENTER | $5,000 |
| SMOKY MOUNTAIN SERVICE DOGS | $5,000 |
| BETHANY CHRISTIAN MISSION | $234 |
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 (FY17–25, $534k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 60% 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +8% since the first grant, against +2% for the ones you funded once.
26 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2025, 19 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k 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
- CDCasa De Amparo8× · 2017–2024 · $200k · revenue +17%
- AOAVENUE OF LIFE INC6× · 2017–2022 · $86k · revenue +138%
- CSChildrens Skin Disease Foundation4× · 2022–2025 · $80k · revenue +2%
Funded once
- WFWESTSIDE FAMILY CHURCHone grant, 2018 · $10k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2019 · $10k
- MOMIGHTY OAKS FOUNDATIONone grant, 2024 · $6k · revenue 0%
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.
House of Hope Kansas City is unique, because we work with teens and their parents to find solutions and ultimately, restoration of healthy family relationships. We serve families in crisis with our program for residents to experience the…
Carolina hill provides safe and caring emergency shelter and supportive services to homeless families focusing efforts to achieve rapid re-housing and developing skills and resources to maintain it.
The Welcome House is a non-profit, sober living, recovery program (incorporated in 1971) with the sole purpose of educating and rehabilitating the adult male alcoholic/ addict and the expressed mission of returning the individual to…
Our mission is to end Veteran homelessness in Texas and throughout America by providing shelter, transitional living, counseling, case management, job training and job placement.
To provide quality care, facilities and supportive services for adults with a developmental disability, traumatic brain injury or mental illness. being enabled by god, we strive to provide an intentionally christian environment and program…
To provide christ-centered programs and services that lead the homeless toward self-sufficiency.
Good Samaritan Boys Ranch is on a mission to confront the forces that push families into foster care and transform the systems that fail youth as they leave it through a spectrum of residential and community-based services that bring…
The mission of Hearts for Homes is to improve the living conditions of low-income senior homeowners in Denton County. Hearts for Homes is a nonprofit Christian outreach providing hope and dignity through home rehabilitation, affording…
Acres of Diamonds offfers moms and their children a community-centered, non-traditional approach to transitional housing. our mission is to break the cycle of homelessness by providing holistic, long-term solutions that empower families to…
Our Mission at Welcome House Knoxville is to share the love of Jesus through the ministries of hospitality and friendship. We provide safe and loving homes for individuals and families in transition to permanent housing.
Warriors Center Memphis is dedicated to assisting men overcome issues related to substance abuse and/or homelessness. We meet the needs of men such as clothing, shelter, education, job training and rehabilitation.
To provide quality care, facilities, and supportive services for adults with a developmental disability, traumatic brain injury or mental illness. being enabled by god, we strive to provide an intentionally christian environment and…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Joy Meadows Inc and the most unlike its peers is Childrens Skin Disease 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 21 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) — 0% 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.
28 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. 28 of the 42 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 Casa De Amparo ↗
- Who funds ALL STAR EQUESTRIAN FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds JOY MEADOWS INC ↗
- Who funds THE RESTORATION HOUSE OF EAST TENNESSEE ↗
- Who funds AVENUE OF LIFE INC ↗
- Who funds Childrens Skin Disease Foundation ↗
- Who funds SEMPER FI & AMERICA'S FUND ↗
- Who funds SHANGRI-LA THERAPEUTIC ACADEMY OF RIDING INC ↗
- Who funds HILTON HEAD ISLAND DEEP WELL PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S DREAM FUND INC ↗
- Who funds Kansas City Dream Center Co ↗
- Who funds WELLS FOR LIFE ↗
- Who funds ST VINCENT HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds URBAN SCHOLASTIC CENTER ↗
- Who funds THE BLUE DOOR PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds MIGHTY OAKS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BAREFOOT MISSION INC ↗
- Who funds ELEVATE BRANSON ↗
- Who funds TEAM RUBICON INC ↗
- Who funds Smoky Mountain Service Dogs ↗
- Who funds CHAMPIONS SPECIAL MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds Midlands Housing Alliance Inc ↗
- Who funds CARVER COMMUNITY CENTER ↗
- Who funds TEXAS HEARING & SERVICE DOGS INC ↗
- Who funds Hilltop Ranch ↗
- Who funds IMMUNE DEFICIENCY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE MISSION CONTINUES ↗
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: Servant Foundation · Greater Kansas City Community Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · The Signatry Charitable Trust · Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc · Shell USA Company Foundation · Network for Good · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust
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 Bangs 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.
- Children's Dream Fund Inc — 0% 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.
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