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Biddinger Family Foundation at a glance

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Biddinger Family Foundation

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.

$160k
Granted FY2024still arriving
5
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Education$369kPhilanthropy$310kHousing & Shelter$250kReligion$40kInternational$25kArts & Culture$10kEnvironment$5kYouth Development$1k
02FY2024 · 5 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k2 grants · $10k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $150k
$50,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$2.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
HOMELESS EMPOWERMENT PROGRAM$50,000
ROLLINS COLLEGE$50,000
ROLLINS COLLEGE$50,000
SIBF EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION$5,000
INNISBROOK ASSOCIATE SCHOLARSHIP FD$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.

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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%BERKSHIRE SCHOOL: $20k → 12%CLEAN ENERGY LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE: $5k → 10%AKILAH INSTITUTE FOR WOMEN: $20k → 20%HOMELESS EMPOWERMENT PROGRAM: $100k → 12%ROLLINS COLLEGE: $50k → 13%BERKELEY PREPARATORY SCHOOL: $20k → 13%SIBF EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION: $5k → 8%GLOBAL NETWORK FOUNDATION: $25k → 13%AKILAH INSTITUTE FOR WOMEN: $20k → 20%HOMELESS EMPOWERMENT PROGRAM: $50k → 12%ROLLINS COLLEGE: $50k → 13%AKILAH FOUNDATION: $25k → 13%HOMELESS EMPOWERMENT PROGRAM: $50k → 12%ROLLINS COLLEGE: $50k → 13%BOYS GIRLS CLUBS OF TAMPA BAY: $1k → 13%HOMELESS EMPOWERMENT PROGRAM: $50k → 12%ROLLINS COLLEGE: $50k → 13%RUTH ECKERD HALL: $10k → 12%ROLLINS COLLEGE: $50k → 13%COPPERHEAD CHARITIES: $100k → 12%COPPERHEAD CHARITIES: $100k → 12%COPPERHEAD CHARITIES: $100k → 12%RYAN WELLS FOUNDATION: $14k → 12%RYAN WELLS FOUNDATION: $10k → 12%COPPERHEAD CHARITIES: $10k → 12%INNISBROOK ASSOCIATE SCHOLARSHIP FD: $5k → 12%INNISBROOK ASSOCIATE SCHOLARSHIP FD: $5k → 12%INNISBROOK ASSOCIATE SCHOLARSHIP FD: $5k → 12%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.
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.

90%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$914k · 7 repeat orgs$96k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +52% since the first grant, against +46% for those funded once.

7 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

7
7

Total granted

$914k
$91k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+52%
+46%

Still filing today

86%
57%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationPhilanthropyHousing & ShelterArts & CultureOther
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

  • CC
    COPPERHEAD CHARITIES INC
    4× · 2017–2023 · $310k · revenue +53%
  • HE
    HOMELESS EMERGENCY PROJECT INC
    4× · 2017–2024 · $250k · revenue +72%
  • RC
    ROLLINS COLLEGE
    4× · 2019–2024 · $250k · revenue +45%

Funded once

  • GN
    Global Network Foundation Incgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $25k · revenue +28%
  • PA
    PROJECT AKILAH INC
    one grant, 2020 · $25k · revenue -90%
  • BP
    BERKELEY PREPARATORY SCHOOL INC
    one grant, 2022 · $20k
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
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

Rensselaer educates the leaders of tomorrow for technologically based careers. We celebrate discovery and the responsible application of technology to create knowledge and global prosperity.

Education
2
Roger Williams University

At Roger Williams University, students are prepared to be thinkers and doers ready to solve challenging problems with innovative solutions. RWU offers robust offerings of undergraduate, graduate and professional programs across eight…

Education
3
Eckerd College

The mission of eckerd college is to provide excellent innovative undergraduate liberal arts education and lifelong learning programs in the unique florida environment, within the context of a covenant relationship with the presbyterian…

Education
4
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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5
Wilson College

Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.

Education
6
Endicott College

Endicott college offers students a vibrant academic environment that remains true to its founding principle of integrating professional and liberal arts with experiential learning. for more information see schedule o.

Education
7
Lehigh University

The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…

Education
8
Nichols College

Nichols college strives to develop tomorrow's leaders through a dynamic, career-focused business education. the college transforms students into successful graduates who respond to challenges, are eager for responsibility, and assume…

Education
9
The President and Trustees of Colby College

to provide a rigorous and transformative liberal arts education that prepares students to become thoughtful, engaged citizens.

Education
10
The Institute of World Politics

The institute of world politics is a graduate school of national security and international affairs, dedicated to developing leaders with a sound understanding of international realities and the ethical conduct of statecraft, based on…

International
11
The Bolles School

The bolles school prepares students for college and life by inspiring excellence, courage, integrity and compassion in an academic community dedicated to nurturing mind, body and soul.

Education
12
Williams College

Williams College strives to achieve educational excellence by fostering a community of learning in collaboration with students, faculty, staff, devoted alumni and parents.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Homeless Emergency Project Inc; the most unlike its peers is Ruth Eckerd Hall Inc. 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

10 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. 10 of the 15 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
10/10
Grantees still filing
8/10
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

COPPERHEAD CHARITIES INC: $310,000 · PhilanthropyCOPPERHEAD CHARITIES INCPROJECT AKILAH INC: $25,000 · PhilanthropyPROJECT AKILAH INCROLLINS COLLEGE: $250,000 · EducationROLLINS COLLEGETHE BERKSHIRE SCHOOL INC: $30,000 · EducationTHE BERKSHIRE SCHOOL INCRYAN WELLS FOUNDATION INC: $24,080 · EducationRYAN WELLS FOUNDATION INC+2 more: $15,000 · EducationHOMELESS EMERGENCY PROJECT INC: $250,000 · Housing & ShelterHOMELESS EMERGENCY PROJECT I…AKILAH INSTITUTE FOR WOMEN: $40,000 · OtherAKILAH INS…Global Network Foundation Inc: $25,000 · OtherGlobal Net…BERKELEY PREPARATORY SCHOOL INC: $20,000 · OtherBERKELEY P…INNISBROOK ASSOCIATE SCHOLARSHIP FD: $5,000 · OtherSIBF EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION: $5,000 · Other+1 more: $1,000 · OtherRUTH ECKERD HALL INC: $10,000 · Arts & Culture
Philanthropy$335,000Education$319,080Housing & Shelter$250,000Other$96,000Arts & Culture$10,000

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 budgetCOPPERHEAD CHARITIES INC: $310,000 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetHOMELESS EMERGENCY PROJECT INC: $250,000 over 4y, 1.6% of budgetROLLINS COLLEGE: $250,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BERKSHIRE SCHOOL INC: $30,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGlobal Network Foundation Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetPROJECT AKILAH INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetRYAN WELLS FOUNDATION INC: $24,080 over 2y, 4.7% of budgetRUTH ECKERD HALL INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetINNISBROOK ASSOCIATE SCHOLARSHIP FUND I: $10,000 over 2y, 8.3% of budgetCLEAN ENERGY LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE: $5,000 over 1y, 2.2% 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.

Copperhead Charities …Raymond James Charita…Natl Christian Charit…Vanguard Charitable E…National Philanthropi…The Bank of America C…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Copperhead Charities IncFL13.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 9 of 9Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Copperhead Charities Inc · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Biddinger Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Biddinger Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 40%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →median 15%
  • Homeless Emergency Project Inc: 15% of income from government
  • Rollins College: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
4get no government money at all
2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
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.

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 15 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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