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· Private foundation
BIES FAMILY FOUNDATION INC
This foundation does not accept unsolicited requests — it funds preselected organizations.
$189k
Granted FY2024
14
Grants
4
Communities
$50k
Largest
01What you fund
01
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 64% of BIES FAMILY FOUNDATION INC’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.
02beneath the categories
Past the labels — and the year it shifted
Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.
…and in their own words, year by year
2020
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2021
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2022
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2023
childrens
Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.
03FY2024 · 14 grants
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k7 grants · $27k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $162k
$10,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$3.8M
Total assets
Largest grants
- SKILLPOINTE$49,500
- GREENHILLS SCHOOL$32,500
- HOWARD PHILLIP CENTER$28,254
- WESPARK CANCER SUPPORT CENTER$17,198
- RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE$15,000
- FIRST TEE$10,000
- FISHER HOUSE$10,000
- A SENSE OF HOME$8,920
- A BETTER SHOT$5,000
- MAKE A WISH$4,150
- ADOPT A FAMILY$3,500
- JACKSON COLLEGE$3,000
- AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY$1,000
- FLATWATER FOUNDATION$1,000
02The need
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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.
show:
Your human-services grants (FY20–24, $65k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12% — the area typically sits at 12%. 52% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
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; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
03Your edge
repeat funding
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.
84%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$782k · 14 repeat orgs$148k to everyone else
14 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Re-uppedFunded once
Organizations
14
8
Total granted
$782k
$81k
Median revenue growth · since first grant
+204%
+271%
Still filing today
21%
50%
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 65% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $67k went to new ones.
RenewedFirst-time
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
Human ServicesEducationRecreation & SportsFood & NutritionOther
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
- GSGREENHILLS SCHOOL5× · 2020–2024 · $137k · revenue +54%
- SFSKILLPOINTE FOUNDATION2× · 2021–2022 · $105k · revenue +204%
- ASA SENSE OF HOME3× · 2022–2024 · $24k · revenue +249%
Funded once
- PLPINE LAKE FUNDone grant, 2020 · $30k · revenue -44%
- CCDCone grant, 2021 · $10k
- HHILLSIDESone grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue +18%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
04Your field
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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Arizona Golf and Life Skills Inc
Teaches life-skills through the game of golf for children & youth who are financially unable.
Recreation & Sports
2
Horizons for Youth
Horizons for Youth mission is to transform children's lives by providing targeted resources, rooted in education, in a trusting partnership with their families and communities.
Youth Development
3
The Hillside School
The mission of the hillside school is to maximize the potential of children with learning disabilities through excellence in education.
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4
American Golf Foundation
American Golf Foundation is dedicated to the enhancement and enrichment of communities by promoting the enjoyment of the game of golf and its ideals through charity, education and community service.
Employment
5
Green Hedges School Inc
Green Hedges inspires young people of talent and promise to develop clear values, a desire for wisdom, and an appreciation for all endeavors which broaden the mind and enlighten the spirit.
Education
6
Greenfields Academy
We join our students on a journey of self-discovery. we empower them to find and nurture their passions and develop a vision of who they want to be in the world. through hard work, they develop the academic and real-world skills to become…
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7
Academy Hill School Inc
Academy hill school provides an intellectual, nurturing, and enriching foundation for high-potential and engaged students to become the next visionaries, innovators, and leaders.
Education
8
First Tee of Miami-Dade
Impacting the lives of young people, by providing educational programs that build character, instill life-enhancing values and promote healthy choices through the game of golf.
Youth Development
9
Skillpoint Alliance
The mission of Skillpoint Alliance is to provide a gateway for individuals to transform their lives through rigorous skills-based training and education.
Employment
10
Pinecrest School Inc
Pinecrest School is committed to providing a positive social and emotional environment for students. The School provides an atmosphere that bolsters self-confidence and equips its students with the cognitive skills necessary to undertake…
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Hilton Head Island Foundation to
The first tee helps shape the lives of kids and teens from all walks of life by introducing them to values inherent in the game of golf. values like integrity, respect and perseverance
Recreation & Sports
12
Greenville Country Club Scholarship Foundation
To identify qualified applicants in order to provide scholarship grants for advanced career educational opportunities that may otherwise go unfulfilled.
Education
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Hillsides and the most unlike its peers is A Sense of Home. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network
9 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.
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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/9
Grantees still filing
7/9
Grew since you first funded
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Other$598,500Education$242,250Human Services$64,918Recreation & Sports$15,000Food & Nutrition$8,621
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.
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.
American Online Giving Foundation IncDE6.3× affinity4 shared granteesties to 1 of 1Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →
Open a dossier: American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation
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 organisation BIES FAMILY FOUNDATION INC 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.
2025
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
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. 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.
05Through Plinth
Through Plinth
Your grantmaking, live and operational
This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: SKILLPOINTE FOUNDATION.
Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk
Financial management
low risk
~10 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 4 filed years.
Track record & reputation
medium risk
4 years of Form 990 filings, still active; revenue up 3.0× since.
Legal standing
low risk
US 501(c)(3); EIN 851384690 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.
Governance
Live in Plinth
Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.
Compliance & sanctions
Live in Plinth
OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.
Program capacity
Live in Plinth
Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.
Live · Plinth’s real DD engine
Run the actual assessment on SKILLPOINTE FOUNDATION, cold from public data.
Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.
Post-award monitoring · continuous checks
- On trackFinancial stability— Roughly 10 months of cash on hand.
- On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue grew over the period.
- On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 10% of their budget — diversified.
- Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.
What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.
Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing
Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.
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How do I get to Bies Family Foundation Inc?
Find your warmest path to Bies Family Foundation Inc through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.
Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.
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funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home
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the interactive map of money crossing state lines