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Bertrand Hopper Memorial 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 FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k8 grants · $17k
- $10k–50k15 grants · $289k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CHRISTIAN COUNTY YMCA | $48,923 |
| TAYLORVILLE COMMUNITY UNIT SCHOOLS DIST 3 | $39,500 |
| LINCOLN LAND COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION | $25,300 |
| HOWARD YOUNG FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| DO NO HARM | $20,000 |
| PARENTS DEFENDING EDUCATION | $20,000 |
| PROVIDENCE SAINT JOHNS HEALTH CENTER | $20,000 |
| TAYLORVILLE PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| TEXAS HILL COUNTRY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| SHARP LITERACY | $10,000 |
| CHRISTIAN COUNTY ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT | $10,000 |
| CHRISTIAN COUNTY CEO PROGRAM | $10,000 |
| TAYLORVILLE MEMORIAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| FOND DU LAC AREA FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| SCHOLL COMMUNITY IMPACT GROUP | $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 (FY20–25, $333k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 91% 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.
23 repeat relationships — 17 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down; 5 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, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $20k 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
- YMYOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION6× · 2020–2025 · $231k · revenue +52%
- HYHOWARD YOUNG FOUNDATION INC5× · 2020–2025 · $155k · revenue +23%
- DEDEFENDING EDUCATION5× · 2021–2025 · $110k · revenue +68%
Funded once
- CCCHRISTIAN COUNTY MENTAL HEALTH ASSOCIATIONgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $25k · revenue +44%
- ARAMERICAN RED CROSSone grant, 2022 · $25k
- SPSAMARITAN'S PURSEgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $20k · revenue +53%
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.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United Way of Decatur and Mid Il and the most unlike its peers is Taylorville Development Associ. 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 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% 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 48 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 YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds HOWARD YOUNG FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds DEFENDING EDUCATION ↗
- Who funds TURNING POINT USA INC ↗
- Who funds LINCOLN LAND COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SHARP LITERACY INC ↗
- Who funds Christian County Economic Development Corporation ↗
- Who funds DO NO HARM ↗
- Who funds TAYLORVILLE PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SCHOLL COMMUNITY IMPACT GROUP INC ↗
- Who funds CHRISTIAN COUNTY MENTAL HEALTH ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds TAYLORVILLE DEVELOPMENT ASSOCI ↗
- Who funds THE HILL SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN STUDIO ↗
- Who funds FOND DU LAC AREA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MILWAUKEE CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds DALLAS CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER ↗
- Who funds PALISADES CHARTER HIGH SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds EASTER SEALS SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA INC ↗
- Who funds MAHOMET AREA YOUTH CLUB ↗
- Who funds THE NEW DAY CLUB INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF DECATUR AND MID IL ↗
- Who funds PALISADES HIGH SCHOOL BOOSTER CLUB ↗
- Who funds SWIM WITH HEART ↗
- Who funds Bucknell University ↗
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: American Endowment Foundation · The Chicago Community Trust · Baird Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Charities Aid Foundation America · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
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 Bertrand Hopper Memorial 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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