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Bilek Charitable Foundation
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k14 grants · $56k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $117k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ANAHEIM DUCKS FOUNDATION | $42,000 |
| ORANGEWOOD FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| MAKE-A-WISH NEVADA | $15,000 |
| BREAKTHROUGH TD1 | $10,000 |
| COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE TEXAS HILL COUNTRY | $10,000 |
| TYLER ROBINSON FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| SAMUELI ACADEMY | $10,000 |
| SPREAD THE WORD NEVADA | $8,000 |
| DARREN WALLER FOUNDATION | $7,500 |
| CURE DUCHENNE | $7,500 |
| KEEP MEMORY ALIVE | $7,000 |
| JF SHEA THERAPEUTIC RIDING CENTER | $5,000 |
| STARS AND STRIPES CHILDRENS FOUNDATION | $4,000 |
| THE NEON MUSEUM | $2,500 |
| SLOW FOOD DENVER | $2,000 |
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 (FY19–25, $154k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 12% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
25 repeat relationships — 15 still active in FY2025, 10 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, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $31k 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
- SASTARS AND STRIPES CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION8× · 2017–2025 · $221k · revenue +55%
- OFORANGEWOOD FOUNDATION6× · 2017–2025 · $204k · revenue +83%
CURE DUCHENNE7× · 2017–2025 · $119k · revenue +32%
Funded once
- NFNATIONAL FOUNDATION FOR ECTODERMAL DYSPLASIASgraduatedone grant, 2024 · $50k · revenue +34%
- PIPHILANTHROPIC IMPACT FUNDone grant, 2019 · $20k · revenue +30%
- CFCYSTIC FIBROSIS FOUNDATIONone grant, 2018 · $15k
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.
The san diego foundation inspires enduring philanthropy and enables community solutions to improve the quality of life in our region.
On a mission to connect every person facing hunger with nutritious meals by maximizing food rescue. through direct service and community partnerships, feeding san diego provides more than 26 million meals each year to children, families,…
The foundation's mission is to improve the oral health of all californians by supporting the dental profession and its efforts to meet community needs.
The purpose of the water research foundation (wrf) is a definitive research organization to advance the science of all things water to better meet the evolving needs of its subscribers and the water sector. to engage exclusively in…
The santa fe community foundation inspires philanthropic generosity, strengthens nonprofits, and fosters positive change to build a more vibrant, healthy, and resilient region. the foundation's vision is a thriving northern new mexico,…
Through philanthropy, empower current and future food and nutrition practitioners to optimize global health.
The npr foundation ("foundation") is organized and operated exclusively for the benefit of its sole supported organization, national public radio, inc. ("npr inc."). the foundation supports npr inc. through various activities such as…
The samuel waxman cancer research foundation (the "foundation") funds innovative research to bring faster cures to patients. in addition to supporting ongoing collaborative research in specific cancers, our scientists are investigating the…
To lead, serve and collaborate to mobilize enduring philanthropy for a better arizona.
Food forward fights hunger and prevents food waste by rescuing fresh surplus produce, connecting this abundance with people experiencing food insecurity, and inspiring others to do the same.
To sustain, restore, and enhance the nation's fish, wildlife, plants, and habitats.
Friends of the earth strives for a more healthy and just world by defendng the environment and human health while advancing social and economic justice by conducting research and education, transforming the economy so it protects the…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Make-a-Wish Nevada and the most unlike its peers is The Victor B Cohen Foundation. 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 27 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% 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.
38 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. 38 of the 54 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 STARS AND STRIPES CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ORANGEWOOD FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CURE DUCHENNE ↗
- Who funds ABERCROMBIE & KENT PHILANTHROPY INC ↗
- Who funds ANAHEIM DUCKS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL FOUNDATION FOR ECTODERMAL DYSPLASIAS ↗
- Who funds THE DARREN WALLER FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds TYLER ROBINSON FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CHP 11-99 FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NEVADA CHILDHOOD CANCER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds JF SHEA THERAPEUTIC RIDING CENTER INC FKA FRAN JOSWICK THERAP RIDING CTR INC ↗
- Who funds SAMUELI ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds SPREAD THE WORD NEVADA ↗
- Who funds THE NEON MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds PHILANTHROPIC IMPACT FUND ↗
- Who funds MAKE-A-WISH NEVADA ↗
- Who funds WATERKEEPER ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds MIRACLES FOR KIDS INC ↗
- Who funds Jessie Rees Foundation ↗
- Who funds WORLD VETS ↗
- Who funds THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE TEXAS HILL COUNTRY INC ↗
- Who funds WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds THE DIVIDED SKY FOUNDATION CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds HAWAII COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds ORANGE COUNTY SHERIFFS ADVISORY COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds VEGAS GOLDEN KNIGHTS FOUNDATION 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.
Open a dossier: Enterprise Holdings Foundation · Wynn Resorts Foundation · Orange County Community Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Engelstad Family Foundation · Mgm Resorts Foundation · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc
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 Bilek Charitable 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.
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc — 0% of income from government
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.