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Bies Family Foundation Inc

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$188k
Granted FY2025still arriving
17
Grants FY2025still arriving
6
States reached
$55k
Largest
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20202025.

Education$472kHealth$331kEmployment$135kHuman Services$96kHousing & Shelter$60kRecreation & Sports$18kYouth Development$5kPublic Safety & Disaster$1k
02FY2025 · 17 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k11 grants · $29k
  • $10k–50k5 grants · $104k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $55k
$4,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$2.9M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SKILLPOINTE$55,000
GREENHILLS SCHOOL$34,100
HOWARD PHILLIP CENTER$29,108
WESPARK CANCER SUPPORT CENTER$18,100
FIRST TEE$12,332
FISHER HOUSE$10,000
Individual grant recipient$5,705
PROVIDENCE HIGH SCHOOL$4,700
FUCK CANCER FOUNDATION$4,000
ADOPT A FAMILY$3,965
Individual grant recipient$3,405
HEAVENS 27$2,500
CAMP KESEM$1,303
FLATWATER FOUNDATION$1,000
PENRICKTON CENTER FOR BLIND$1,000
02The need
03

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.

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Your human-services grants (FY20–25, $157k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 80% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%A SENSE OF HOME: $9k → 14%FLATWATER FOUNDATION: $1k → 10%PINE LAKE FUND: $30k → 10%A SENSE OF HOME: $8k → 14%FLATWATER FOUNDATION: $1k → 10%A SENSE OF HOME: $7k → 14%A SENSE OF HOME: $1k → 14%WESPARK CANCER SUPPORT CENTER: $30k → 14%WESPARK CANCER SUPPORT CENTER: $18k → 14%WESPARK CANCER SUPPORT CENTER: $17k → 14%WESPARK CANCER SUPPORT CENTER: $14k → 14%WESPARK CANCER SUPPORT CENTER: $10k → 14%HILLSIDES: $10k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
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 linein 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 — 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.

90%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.0M · 17 repeat orgs$110k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +93% since the first grant, against -26% for the ones you funded once.

17 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

17
10

Total granted

$1.0M
$87k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+93%
-26%

Still filing today

41%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $23k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesEducationRecreation & SportsHealthHousing & ShelterFood & 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

  • GS
    GREENHILLS SCHOOL
    6× · 2020–2025 · $171k · revenue +93%
  • SF
    SKILLPOINTE FOUNDATION
    2× · 2021–2022 · $105k · revenue +204%
  • WI
    WESPARK INC
    5× · 2021–2025 · $90k · revenue +39%

Funded once

  • PL
    PINE LAKE FUND
    one grant, 2020 · $30k · revenue -59%
  • AB
    A BETTER SHOT FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue -26%
  • RH
    RUSSELL HOME
    one grant, 2020 · $10k

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.

1
Arizona Cancer Foundation for Children Inc

Arizona Cancer Foundation for Children provides social, emotional, and financial support to families managing the health and well-being of a loved one with pediatric cancer.

Public Benefit
2
Family Reach Foundation

Family reach provides non-medical financial support to families facing cancer. treatment requires more than medicine families need a roof over their heads and food on their tables to survive. continued on schedule o.if a family can't meet…

Health
3
Fcancer

FCANCER IS dedicated to advancing health equity through early detection and prevention programs, and by providing resources to navigate, manage, and cope with cancer.

Health
4
Wyoming Foundation for Cancer Care Inc

To reduce the impact of cancer on wyoming residents diagnosed with cancer by providing non-medical, charitable financial assistance and by providing free education and screening opportunities to residents not diagnosed with cancer.

Human Services
5
San Francisco Fire Fighters Cancer Prevention Foundation

San francisco firefighters cancer prevention foundation (sffcpf) is committed to the prevention and early detection of cancer and providing access to cutting edge care for active and retired members of the san francisco fire department and…

Health
6
Cancer Support Community - California Central Coast

To help people affected by cancer enhance their health and well-being through participation in a professional program of emotional support, education, and hope at no cost.

Health
7
The Livestrong Foundation

Since 1997, The Livestrong Foundation has served and supported over 14.2 million people affected by cancer through survivorship programs, publications and collaborative partnerships with community and grassroots organziations to ensure a…

Philanthropy
8
CancerFree Kids

CancerFree KIDS exists to raise awareness of the need for more funding for pediatric cancer research and to raise funds that are invested in early stage, potentially game-changing research focused on gentler treatments and cures for…

Health
9
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
10
Lets Win Pancreatic Cancer Foundation

Let's Win Pancreatic Cancer Foundation (the Organization") is a go-to resource that guides patients and caregivers with vital information for better outcomes. Through a dynamic online platform available in English and Spanish, everyone who…

Health
11
Family Pathways

Family pathways is a comprehensive program designed to meet the placement, therapeutic, and psychosocial support needs of children and families in transition. family pathways' philosophy is to strengthen families through relationships.

Human Services
12
Assoc of Amer Cancer Instit

Aaci represents 100 premier academic and freestanding cancer centers in the united states and canada. aaci is accelerating progress against cancer by enhancing the impact of academic cancer centers and promoting cancer health equity.

Health

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Fisher House of the Emerald Coast Inc and the most unlike its peers is Hillsides. 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

14 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 14 of the 35 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
13/14
Grantees still filing
9/14
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

HOWARD PHILLIP CENTER — $137,261 · OtherHOWARD PHILLIP CENTERVALLEY SCHOOL ALUMNI FOUNDATION — $111,000 · OtherVALLEY SCHOOL ALUMNI FOUNDATIONSKILLPOINTE — $104,500 · OtherSKILLPOINTERONALD MCDONALD HOUSE — $75,000 · OtherRONALD MCDONALD HOUSEIndividual grant recipient — $27,790 · OtherFIRST TEE — $22,332 · OtherVFW NATIONAL HOME FOR CHILDREN — $20,000 · Other+14 more — $70,263 · Other+14 moreGREENHILLS SCHOOL — $171,350 · EducationGREENHILLS SCHOOLSKILLPOINTE FOUNDATION — $105,000 · EducationSKILLPOINTE FOUNDATIONJACKSON COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION — $23,254 · EducationJACKSON COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUN…WESPARK INC — $89,753 · Human ServicesWESPARK INCPINE LAKE FUND — $30,000 · Human ServicesPINE LAKE FUNDA SENSE OF HOME — $24,918 · Human ServicesA SENSE OF HOMEHILLSIDES — $10,000 · Human ServicesHILLSIDES+1 more — $2,000 · Human ServicesFISHER HOUSE OF THE EMERALD COAST INC — $60,000 · Housing & ShelterA BETTER SHOT FOUNDATION INC — $10,000 · Recreation & SportsFairways to Leadership Inc — $5,000 · Recreation & SportsAdopt a Family Inc — $12,586 · Food & NutritionF C Cancer Foundation A California Nonprofit Public Benefit Corp — $4,000 · HealthAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC — $1,000 · Health
Other$568,146Education$299,604Human Services$156,671Housing & Shelter$60,000Recreation & Sports$15,000Food & Nutrition$12,586Health$5,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetGREENHILLS SCHOOL — $171,350 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetSKILLPOINTE FOUNDATION — $105,000 over 2y, 10% of budgetWESPARK INC — $89,753 over 5y, 3.9% of budgetFISHER HOUSE OF THE EMERALD COAST INC — $60,000 over 6y, 4.2% of budgetPINE LAKE FUND — $30,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetA SENSE OF HOME — $24,918 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetJACKSON COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION — $23,254 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetA BETTER SHOT FOUNDATION INC — $10,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetHILLSIDES — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFairways to Leadership Inc — $5,000 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetTHE FLATWATER FOUNDATON — $2,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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 GREENHILLS SCHOOL
  • Who funds SKILLPOINTE FOUNDATION
  • Who funds WESPARK INC
  • Who funds FISHER HOUSE OF THE EMERALD COAST INC
  • Who funds PINE LAKE FUND
  • Who funds A SENSE OF HOME
  • Who funds JACKSON COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION
  • Who funds Adopt a Family Inc
  • Who funds A BETTER SHOT FOUNDATION INC
  • Who funds HILLSIDES
  • Who funds Fairways to Leadership Inc
  • Who funds F C Cancer Foundation A California Nonprofit Public Benefit Corp
  • Who funds THE FLATWATER FOUNDATON
  • Who funds AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC

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.

The Bank of America Charitable Foundation IncNC8.2× affinity6 shared granteesties to 6 of 6Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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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 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.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 30%1%4%8%15%your share of their income ↑0%6%13%19%25%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    3get 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 · 0–25%
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    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.

    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Bies Family Foundation Inc?

    Find your warmest path to Bies Family 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 35 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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