· Private foundation
Bears Den Charitable Foundation
Its FY2025 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 FY2022–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BIG SANDY RANCHERIA NATIVE YOUTH | $6,500 |
| REMATRIATION | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $4,328 |
| ST REGIS MOHAWK TRIBE | $4,030 |
| HOGANSBURG AKWESASNE VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT | $3,500 |
| NATIONAL NATIVE AMERICAN LAW STUDENTS ASSOCIATION | $2,500 |
| MASSENA CENTRAL HIGH SCHOOL | $2,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,000 |
| COMANCHE CARES FOUNDATION | $1,034 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,000 |
| USA LACROSSE INC | $1,000 |
| 4 THE FUTURE FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,000 |
| CROW TRIBAL COUNCIL | $1,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,000 |
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 (FY23–23, $500) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% 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.
16 repeat relationships — 12 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down; 21 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, 41% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $26k 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
- BSBIG SANDY RANCHERIA NATIVE YOUTH3× · 2023–2025 · $11k
- HAHOGANSBURG AKWESASNE VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPT3× · 2023–2025 · $11k
- ABAKWESASNE BOYS & GIRLS CLUB2× · 2023–2024 · $10k · revenue 0%
Funded once
- SRST REGIS MOHWAK TRIBEone grant, 2024 · $7k
- VMVARIOUS MINOR DONATIONS TO LOCAL COMMUNITY CHARITIESone grant, 2023 · $2k
- AFAKWESASNE FREEDOM SCHOOLone grant, 2023 · $2k
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 prevent and extinguish fire. to provide safety and protection to the public from injury, death, damage or destruction from fire, disaster, or accient. as well as provide training to its members.
To provide its members an organized curriculum to play hockey
Develop hockey skills in youth hockey players and provide a competitive team to compete with other teams in the midwest.
The organization's mission is to develop and encourage sportsmanship among all players, encourage and improve standards of hockey in the state of maine, unite all maine amateur youth hockey teams into one association, conduct annual…
The purpose of maha is to organize, manage, & promote youth hockey in the general region of addison county, vermont.
To provide for and promote development of youth hockey in the greater ames community.
The mission of the lakes area hockey association is to create, nurture, and sustain ice-related sports and recreation programs that teach and improve skills; foster sportsmanship, teamwork, and enjoyment; and improve fitness. these…
To provide a youth hockey program for approximately 300 children, ages 4 through 17, within the city of melrose, ma. this program provides an opportunity for the youth to skate and to learn hockey skills while providing recreation for the…
To provide an opportunity for young players to continue playing hockey. the organization instructs and educates young players to help develop talent for a higher level of play.
See schedule oto provide local boys and girls with the opportunity to learn and play ice hockey. our organization is founded on the principles of the usa hockey, inc.'s american development model, and we strive to instill in each hockey…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Massena Little League Inc and the most unlike its peers is Louisville Volunteer Fire Department Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
11 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. 11 of the 69 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.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Bears Den Charitable 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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