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Bess Spiva Timmons 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.

$213k
Granted FY2022
44
Grants FY2022
17
States reached
$18k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead

Read this first · the figures below need context

100% of Bess Spiva Timmons Foundation Inc’s FY2024 grant dollars went to Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc, not to grantees.

Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2024 names 1 organization directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2022, the last year Bess Spiva Timmons Foundation Inc named its own grantees at scale: 42 organizations, $213k. It is dated, not current.

Organizations named directly on the return

1
’17
1
’18
1
’19
39
’20
36
’21
42
’22
3
’23
1
’24

Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.

01What it funds
0196% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Philanthropy$4.3MHealth$169kHuman Services$126kAnimals$43kArts & Culture$31kFood & Nutrition$31kYouth Development$29kEducation$26kOther$0
02FY2022 · 44 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2022

  • Under $10k38 grants · $134k
  • $10k–50k6 grants · $79k
$4,000
Median grant
17
States reached
$2.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CHRISTIANS AS FAMILY ADVOCATES$18,300
RANDALL CHILDRENS HOSPITAL FOUNDATION$15,000
LAKE AREA FREE CLINIC INC$14,444
CARING MINISTRIES INC$11,000
ELIZABETH BALLARD COMMUNITY CENTER INC$10,000
OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION$10,000
OCONOMOWOC SILVER STREAK INC$9,444
WILD BIRD FUND INC$8,888
GROTTO COMMUNITY CENTER$8,888
KOMAK$7,500
TEXAS COUNTY MEMORIAL HOSPITAL HEALTHCARE FOUNDATI$7,000
ALWAYS & FUREVER MIDWEST ANIMAL SANCTUARY INC$6,000
FRIENDS OF HOPEWELL HOUSE$5,000
YOUTH ON THEIR OWN$5,000
BRIGHT FUTURES JOPLIN$5,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY20–24, $91k) 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%CRUCES CREATIVES: $2k → 23%MIAMI DIAPER BANK: $1k → 15%CAMP ENCOURAGE: $1k → 15%SLAMMIN FAMINE: $5k → 11%A KID AGAIN INC: $2k → 15%JASON'S FRIENDS FOUNDATION INC: $1k → 11%GIBSON CENTER FOR SENIOR SERVICES: $3k → 9%SLAMMIN FAMINE: $5k → 11%OCONOMOWOC SILVER STREAK INC: $9k → 5%CHRISTIANS AS FAMILY ADVOCATES: $18k → 15%BRIGHT FUTURES JOPLIN: $5k → 18%CHRISTIANS AS FAMILY ADVOCATES: $8k → 15%ASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF PHOENIX ARIZONA: $3k → 11%BRIGHT FUTURES JOPLIN: $3k → 18%OCONOMOWOC SILVER STREAK: $7k → 5%STORE TO DOOR: $5k → 12%STORE TO DOOR: $1k → 12%ANGEL HEART PAJAMA PROJECT: $2k → 15%YOUTH ON THEIR OWN: $5k → 15%YOUTH ON THEIR OWN: $4k → 15%YOUTH ON THEIR OWN: $3k → 15%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

NH
MN
WI
NY
MA
OR
WY
IN
OH
PA
CT
CA
CO
MO
VA
AZ
NM
KS
NC
SC
GA
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

67%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$397k · 29 repeat orgs$200k to everyone else

29 repeat relationships: 22 still active in FY2022, 7 since wound down; 22 grantees were first funded in FY2022 (too recent to call). Read against FY2022, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

29
48

Total granted

$397k
$125k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+36%
+55%

Still filing today

86%
73%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesHealthAnimalsYouth DevelopmentFood & NutritionEnvironmentOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • LAKE AREA FREE CLINIC INC
    3× · 2020–2022 · $37k · revenue +86%
  • EB
    ELIZABETH BALLARD COMMUNITY CENTER INC
    3× · 2020–2022 · $33k · revenue +41%
  • CM
    CARING MINISTRIES INC
    3× · 2020–2022 · $25k · revenue ×26

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2020 · $12k
  • WV
    WILLAMETTE VALLEY BABE RUTH BASEBALL INCgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $8k · revenue +98%
  • LF
    LIVING FIRE ARTS NETWORK BLUES BEHIND BARS
    one grant, 2021 · $7k
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
La Paloma Family Services Inc

We build relationships that enhance the development of skills, foster a sense of worth and enhance a belief in each child's individual potential.

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2
Foster 360

Foster360 equips former clients of the foster care system to break the cycle of homelessness and abuse.

Human Services
3
Border Kindness

Border Kindness provides vulnerable populations with comprehensive services that include food, shelter, clothing, medical care, and legal services. Our programs and interventions are designed to identify, protect and nurture the most…

Housing & Shelter
4
United Food Bank

United Food Bank unites communities to alleviate hunger.

Food & Nutrition
5
Foster Kinship

Foster Kinship supports all kinship families throughout Nevada. We assist grandparents, relatives, and fictive kin who are raising children through five core programs: 1- Enhanced Kinship Navigator Program - Provides intensive support to…

Human Services
6
Family Promise - Salt Lake

We help families experiencing homelessness find lasting independence and security.

Housing & Shelter
7
Pet Orphans of Southern California

In addition to rescue and adoption, pet orphans provides a wide range of services including education, medical/financial, spay/neuter, and training assistance.

Animals
8
Children At Risk

Children At Risk (C@R) is a statewide nonprofit organization whose mission is to serve as a catalyst for change to improve the quality of life for children through strategic research, public policy analysis, education, collaboration, and…

Crime & Legal
9
Port Angeles Food Bank

Nourishing our community. the port angeles food bank is the main food bank in clallam county, providing food to 13 other area pantries and meal programs as well as providing food to over 5,000 individuals per month.

Food & Nutrition
10
Kids Crossing

Kids crossing's vision is to provide a safe and caring home for every child. our mission is to strengthen families so they may provide the best care for those children entrusted to them.

Human Services
11
Pueblo Rescue Mission

Because of our love for God, we extend his mercy as we strive to empower and improve the lives of unsheltered adults in Pueblo, CO, through provisions of food, shelter and navigational support services.

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12
Mama's Kitchen

Mama's kitchen believes that everyone is entitled to the basic necessity of life - nutritious food. our services improve the health and well-being of individuals and families vulnerable to malnutrition due to critical illness.

Food & Nutrition
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Feed My Starving Children Inc; the most unlike its peers is The Michael D and Margaret Ann Latta Charitable Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

83 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 83 of the 101 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
30
Early backer (in before they grew)
82/83
Grantees still filing
57/83
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc: $2,168,355 · PhilanthropyRenaissance Charitable Foundation IncMORGAN STANLEY GLOBAL IMPACT FUNDING TRUST INC: $2,160,855 · PhilanthropyMORGAN STANLEY GLOBAL IMPACT FUNDING TRUST INC+2 more: $16,000 · PhilanthropyELIZABETH BALLARD COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $33,000 · OtherRANDALL CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL: $20,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $12,000 · OtherBOHART MUSEUM OF ENTOMOLOGY: $10,300 · OtherTHE YOUNG WOMEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF YORK PA: $10,000 · OtherCanelo Project Inc: $9,600 · OtherTHE GROTTO COMMUNITY CENTER: $21,388 · OtherE-TECH INTERNATIONAL: $18,500 · OtherOREGON HEALTH & SCIENCE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $10,000 · Other+44 more: $136,094 · OtherLAKE AREA FREE CLINIC INC: $36,944 · HealthTEXAS COUNTY MEMORIAL HOSPITAL: $19,000 · HealthKomak: $17,500 · HealthRANDALL CHILDRENS HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $15,000 · HealthChildren's Hospital Corporation: $5,000 · HealthBoston Children's Heart Foundation Inc: $4,444 · HealthMICHELLES LOVE: $4,000 · Health+6 more: $9,200 · HealthCHRISTIANS AS FAMILY ADVOCATES: $26,600 · Human ServicesOCONOMOWOC SILVER STREAK INC: $16,444 · Human ServicesYOUTH ON THEIR OWN: $11,500 · Human ServicesSLAMMIN FAMINE: $10,000 · Human ServicesBright Futures Joplin: $7,500 · Human ServicesSTORE TO DOOR: $6,000 · Human Services+9 more: $14,293 · Human ServicesWILD BIRD FUND INC: $16,388 · AnimalsAlways & Furever Midwest Animal Sanctuary: $6,000 · AnimalsOPERATION WILDLIFE INC: $5,000 · AnimalsGREAT PLAINS SPCA: $3,000 · AnimalsPAW WARRIORS INC: $3,000 · AnimalsBEAUTIES AND BEASTS INC: $3,000 · AnimalsNEW DAWN LIVESTOCK RESCUE & SANCTUARY INC: $1,500 · Animals+2 more: $1,500 · AnimalsUrbanPromise Charlotte: $23,888 · Youth DevelopmentCULVER COMMUNITY YOUTH CENTER FOUNDATION: $2,500 · Youth DevelopmentALL FOR THE KIDS FOUNDATION INC: $1,500 · Youth DevelopmentMENTOR FOR CHANGE: $1,000 · Youth DevelopmentPortland YouthBuilders: $1,000 · Youth DevelopmentCARING MINISTRIES INC: $24,500 · ReligionKINDRED PARTNERS: $2,500 · Religion
Philanthropy$4,345,210Other$280,882Health$111,088Human Services$92,337Animals$39,388Youth Development$29,888Religion$27,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetRenaissance Charitable Foundation Inc: $2,168,355 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMORGAN STANLEY GLOBAL IMPACT FUNDING TRUST INC: $2,160,855 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLAKE AREA FREE CLINIC INC: $36,944 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetELIZABETH BALLARD COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $33,000 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetCHRISTIANS AS FAMILY ADVOCATES: $26,600 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetCARING MINISTRIES INC: $24,500 over 3y, 2.0% of budgetUrbanPromise Charlotte: $23,888 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetTHE GROTTO COMMUNITY CENTER: $21,388 over 2y, 12% of budgetTEXAS COUNTY MEMORIAL HOSPITAL: $19,000 over 3y, 6.3% of budgetE-TECH INTERNATIONAL: $18,500 over 3y, 10% of budgetKomak: $17,500 over 3y, 3.8% of budgetOCONOMOWOC SILVER STREAK INC: $16,444 over 2y, 5.5% of budgetWILD BIRD FUND INC: $16,388 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetFriends of Hopewell House dba Hopewell House: $15,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetRANDALL CHILDRENS HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $15,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetYOUTH ON THEIR OWN: $11,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetOREGON HEALTH & SCIENCE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE YOUNG WOMEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF YORK PA: $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSLAMMIN FAMINE: $10,000 over 2y, 6.7% of budgetCanelo Project Inc: $9,600 over 3y, 7.9% of budgetLIVING FIRE ARTS: $8,000 over 2y, 11% of budgetWILLAMETTE VALLEY BABE RUTH BASEBALL INC: $8,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetBright Futures Joplin: $7,500 over 2y, 3.3% of budgetLOFT CINEMA INC FKA TUCSON CINEMA FOUNDATION INC: $7,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCOLONIAL FOX THEATRE FOUNDATION: $6,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetSTORE TO DOOR: $6,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetAlways & Furever Midwest Animal Sanctuary: $6,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetFEED MY STARVING CHILDREN INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOPERATION WILDLIFE INC: $5,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetChildren's Hospital Corporation: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBoston Children's Heart Foundation Inc: $4,444 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMICHELLES LOVE: $4,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetSISTERS OF THE ROAD INC: $3,750 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetGIVING THE BASICS INC: $3,750 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBooks for Classrooms: $3,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetGREAT PLAINS SPCA: $3,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetYavapai Exceptional Industries: $3,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPAW WARRIORS INC: $3,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetBEAUTIES AND BEASTS INC: $3,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetGIBSON CENTER FOR SENIOR SERVICES INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCoastal Crisis Chaplaincy: $2,500 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetCAMBRIDGE CAMPING ASSOCIATION INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetKID IN THE CORNER: $2,500 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetMEALS ON WHEELS PEOPLE INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetROSE HAVEN CIC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetDelivering Dreams of Arizona: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCULVER COMMUNITY YOUTH CENTER FOUNDATION: $2,500 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetLIFTING UP WESTCHESTER INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Marie Lamfrom Charita…Arizona Community Fou…Community Foundation …The Autzen FoundationThe Robert D and Marc…Greater Kansas City C…OCF Joseph E Weston P…Clark FoundationThe Holzman FoundationHillman Family Founda…Ash Grove Charitable …The Collins Foundation
Marie Lamfrom Charitable Foundation TrustOR18.9× affinity8 shared granteesties to 10 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Marie Lamfrom Charitable Foundation Trust · Arizona Community Foundation · Community Foundation for Southern Arizona · The Autzen Foundation · The Robert D and Marcia H Randall Charitable Trust · Greater Kansas City Community Foundation · OCF Joseph E Weston Public Foundation · Clark Foundation · The Holzman Foundation · Hillman Family Foundations · Ash Grove Charitable Foundation · The Collins Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Bess Spiva Timmons Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Bess Spiva Timmons Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 90%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 10%
  • Kindred Partners: 42% of income from government
  • Portland YouthBuilders: 35% of income from government
  • Cambridge Camping Association Inc: 14% of income from government
  • Children's Hospital Corporation: 10% of income from government
  • Christians As Family Advocates: 10% of income from government
  • Parenting Now: 1% of income from government
  • Boston Children's Heart Foundation Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Oregon Health & Science University Foundation: 1% of income from government
  • Randall Childrens Hospital Foundation: 0% of income from government
  • Help a Diabetic Child Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
9get no government money at all
27report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
05Through Plinth

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How do I get to Bess Spiva Timmons Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to Bess Spiva Timmons Foundation Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 101 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2022, released 2022. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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