· Private foundation
Bolsters Foundation Inc
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2023–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- $10k–50k5 grants · $75k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $200k
- $250k+1 grant · $500k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE VILLAGES YOUTH SPORTS CLUB INC | $500,000 |
| DESTINY INSPIRED WOMAN INC | $100,000 |
| THE VILLAGES CHARTER SCHOOL AUTISM CENTER LLC | $100,000 |
| KATHRYN LEIGH THURGALAND FOUNDATION INC | $25,000 |
| AIM FOR THE HANDICAPPED INC | $20,000 |
| BAILEY'S BUTTERFLIES FOR TURNER SYNDROME | $10,000 |
| OCALA OUTREACH FOUNDATION INC | $10,000 |
| LAKE-SUMTER CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER | $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 (FY23–24, $35k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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.
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.
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.
Provide educational scholarships to children of kentucky workers who have been seriously or fatally injured in work related accidents.
Our mission is to respond to, protect, and restore children so they receive the help, hope, and healing they deserve.
The mission of the olivia knighton foundation is to honor olivia knighton's short but beautiful life by spreading her light, love, passion, and kindness. the foundation's goal is to enable children to follow their dreams and make the world…
During 2024, Solace Charities organized multiple fund raiser events, increased awareness, raised donations and transferred funds to its affiliate Solace.
Helping families with sick children.
Our mission is to help children suffering from illnesses similar to simon and giving families hope in desperate times.
Kids for life, inc. is dedicated to serving children in foster care in marion county, al and surrounding counties by providing a safe and nurturing environment, inspiring hope through compassionate support and empowering every child to…
Granting wishes to children of south carolina ages 3 to 18 life threatening illnesses
The organization was founded in 2004 to help abused, abandoned or neglected children in need, specifically children confined to foster care facilities between the ages of 6-18 in central florida. the organization provides mentors to assist…
Children battling cancer
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Aim Inc Dba Aim for the Handicapped and the most unlike its peers is Samaritan's Purse. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
8 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. 8 of the 11 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 THE VILLAGES YOUTH SPORTS INC ↗
- Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
- Who funds BUFFALO SCHOLARSHIPS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds AIM INC DBA AIM FOR THE HANDICAPPED ↗
- Who funds KATHRYN LEIGH THURGALAND FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Ocala Outreach Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds LAKE SUMTER CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds KENNY'S PLACE OF MARION COUNTY 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 set of overlaps that mostly run through you, not between each other.
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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 Bolsters 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- The Villages Youth Sports 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.
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