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Be a Gift Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k23 grants · $38k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $30k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ST LUKES MEDICAL CENTER | $29,759 |
| SCOTTSDALE UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT | $5,997 |
| SAFE CHILDREN COALITION | $4,150 |
| UNIVERSITY OF IOWA HOSPITAL | $3,644 |
| RAINBOW BABIES & CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION | $3,516 |
| NEMOURS CHILDREN'S HEALTH | $2,906 |
| PAIUTE NEIGHBORHOOD CENTER | $2,350 |
| ST VINCENT DEPAUL | $2,300 |
| RAE RAE OF LIGHT | $1,525 |
| KAISER PERMANENTE | $1,350 |
| FAMILY PROMISE | $1,300 |
| NPH | $1,000 |
| ONE WAY OUT MINISTRIES | $1,000 |
| OHSU DOERNBECHER CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL | $955 |
| Individual grant recipient | $900 |
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 (FY17–24, $18k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 19% 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.
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 +54% since the first grant, against +42% for the ones you funded once.
34 repeat relationships — 16 still active in FY2024, 18 since wound down; 8 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, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8k 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
- MPMAGGIE'S PLACE INC6× · 2017–2022 · $130k · revenue +77%
- SCSOJOURNER CENTER5× · 2018–2022 · $39k · revenue +50%
- TNTHE NEMOURS FOUNDATION6× · 2019–2024 · $10k · revenue +54%
Funded once
- HPHUNKAPI PROGRAMS INCgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $4k · revenue +53%
- SVST VINCENT DE PAULone grant, 2017 · $3k
- CTCHRIST THE KING ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCHone grant, 2019 · $3k
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.
Phoenix children's hospital foundation supports phoenix children's hospital through fundraising ensuring that the hospital continues to stay on the leading edge of pediatric medicine and is equipped to fulfill its mission to advance hope,…
Provider of pediatric healthcare, education, research & community service
We champion the health needs of children and families. we are committed to improving children's health by providing the highest-quality, family centered care, advanced through research and education.
Assist banner health complete its mission to make health care easier so life can be better by providing integrated & coordinated care & population health management.
To inspire hope and promote lifelong health by providing the best care to every child.
Honorhealth's mission is to improve the health and well-being of those we serve.
East tennessee children's hospital is a free-standing, independent, not-for-profit pediatric health care system which serves the east tennessee region. children's hospital is certified by the state of tennessee as a comprehensive regional…
Orlando health is a trusted leader inspiring hope through the advancement of health. our mission as a community-owned organization is to improve the health and quality of life of the individuals and communities we serve.
Methodist le bonheur healthcare, in partnership with its medical staffs, will collaborate with patients and their families to be the leader in providing high quality, cost-effective patient-and family-centered care. services will be…
Ann & robert h. lurie children's hospital of chicago is dedicated to the health and well-being of all children. as the pediatric teaching facility for northwestern university feinberg school of medicine, this commitment drives us to be a…
To improve the health and well-being of north carolinians and others whom we serve. we accomplish this by providing leadership and excellence in the interrelated areas of patient care, education, and research.
The corporation is organized for charitable, educational and scientific purposes, and to provide healthcare services of pediatric specialty physicians and other personnel to the patients of johns hopkins all children's hospital and…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is House of Refuge Inc and the most unlike its peers is International Rescue Committee 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 35 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 28% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 16% 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.
31 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. 31 of the 82 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 MAGGIE'S PLACE INC ↗
- Who funds SOJOURNER CENTER ↗
- Who funds THE NEMOURS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SAFE CHILDREN COALITION INC ↗
- Who funds International Rescue Committee INC ↗
- Who funds ONE WAY OUT MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds RAINBOW BABIES & CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FAMILY PROMISE OF SOUTH SARASOTA COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds JESUS IN DISGUISE ↗
- Who funds HUNKAPI PROGRAMS INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF GREATER SCOTTSDALE INC ↗
- Who funds Prisma Health ↗
- Who funds HOSPICE OF SOUTHERN ILLINOIS INC ↗
- Who funds Neighborhood Ministries Inc ↗
- Who funds RAE OF LIGHT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SELAH FREEDOM 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.
Open a dossier: Arizona Community Foundation · Thunderbirds Charities · Virginia G Piper Charitable Trust · American Express Foundation · Thrivent Financial for Lutherans · Baird Foundation Inc · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Charities Aid Foundation America · 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 Be a Gift 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Selah Freedom Inc — 53% of income from government
- The Nemours Foundation — 0% of income from government
- Yale New Haven Hospital — 0% of income from government
- Safe Children Coalition 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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