· Private foundation
Billian Family 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.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Christ Church of Westerly | $20,000 |
| Winship Cancer Institute of Emory | $20,000 |
| La Amistad | $20,000 |
| Center Point Volunteer Fire Dept | $20,000 |
| Literacy Volunteers of America | $20,000 |
| Borough Of Bound Brook NJ | $20,000 |
| The Dietert Center | $20,000 |
| Chorus of Westerly | $20,000 |
| Shepherd Center Foundation | $20,000 |
| Community Foundation Texas Hill | $20,000 |
| Texas Public Radio | $10,000 |
| Watch Hill Conservancy | $10,000 |
| Make a Wish America Foundation | $10,000 |
| Atlanta Lab Rescue | $10,000 |
| United Theatre | $10,000 |
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 (FY18–18, $10k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 0% 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.
32 repeat relationships — 12 still active in FY2025, 20 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, 70% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $80k 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
- CYCreate Your Dreams Inc8× · 2017–2024 · $140k · revenue +28%
- LILaAmistad Inc9× · 2017–2025 · $140k · revenue +151%
- SCSHEPHERD CENTER FOUNDATION INC8× · 2018–2025 · $135k · revenue ×15
Funded once
- PCPIEDMONT CASA INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $40k · revenue +114%
- MDMuscular Dystrophy Foundationone grant, 2017 · $20k
- BGBoys Girls Club of Central Virginiaone 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.
Nashville public radio's mission is to be the most trusted & independent nashville voice, connecting our communities through non-partisan journalism, compelling storytelling, civil conversation and music discovery.
Qlarant inc's, mission is to improve health in the communities we serve.
To support the mission of westminster-canterbury on chesapeake bay
Leadership austin connects and develops leaders to courageously engage and transform our communities.
Provide post-secondary education of excellence.
Wnet is a multi-media public service non-profit that delivers lifelong learning and meaningful experiences to our communities. our content inspires curiosity, encourages action and nurtures dreams.
Whitney center's mission, excellence in senior living, is grounded in the principal that all elders, regardless of physical or cognitive limitation, have the right to engage in life and seek fulfillment. our ideals of self-determination,…
To bring quality public television programs and resources to communities throughout new jersey and its tri-state neighbors. its content, both on-air and online, aims to reflect the diverse
The washington area community investment fund (wacif) is a nonprofit community loan fund focused on increasing equity and economic opportunity in the washington, dc area's underserved communities. wacif's mission is driven is driven by…
Provides mediation services and mediation training for all manner of disputes, private and public, without the need for formal audication through the court system.
Low-income housing.
Legal counsel for the elderly (lce) champions the dignity and rights of low-income d.c. residents aged 60 and older by providing free legal and social services to defend, protect and empower vulnerable seniors. lce accomplishes its mission…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Shepherd Center Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Atlanta Lab rescue Inc. 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 32 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% 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 13% 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.
27 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. 27 of the 57 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 LITERACY VOLUNTEERS OF AMERICA ESSEX & PASSAIC COUNTIES NEW JERSEY INC ↗
- Who funds Create Your Dreams Inc ↗
- Who funds LaAmistad Inc ↗
- Who funds SHEPHERD CENTER FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds READING IS ESSENTIAL FOR ALL PEOPLE ↗
- Who funds CLARITY CHILD GUIDANCE CENTER ↗
- Who funds The Chorus of Westerly Inc ↗
- Who funds THE JONNYCAKE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Agape Community Center ↗
- Who funds SAN ANTONIO FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds THE OCEAN COMMUNITY UNITED THEATRE INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY ASSISTANCE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds THE WATCH HILL CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds PIEDMONT CASA INC ↗
- Who funds THE WESTERLY LAND TRUST ↗
- Who funds Atlanta Lab rescue Inc ↗
- Who funds DIETERT CENTER ↗
- Who funds CENTER POINT VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT ↗
- Who funds TEXAS PUBLIC RADIO ↗
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: The Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta Inc · Washington Trust Co Charitable Fdn · The Rhode Island Community Foundation · Hal & Charlie Peterson Foundation & Fd Mgmt Trust · Royce Family Fund Inc · The Imlay Foundation Inc · United Way of Greater Atlanta Inc · Georgia Power Foundation Inc · Amica Companies Foundation · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · Synchrony 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 organization Billian Family 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.
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.