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Deems Family Foundation

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.

$106k
Granted FY2024still arriving
13
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$20k
Largest
01What you fund
0189% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20222024.

Religion$70kHealth$41kInternational$40kPublic Safety & Disaster$25kAnimals$10kHousing & Shelter$10kHuman Services$10kCommunity Improvement$10kOther$0
02FY2024 · 13 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k7 grants · $35k
  • $10k–50k6 grants · $71k
$5,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$1.9M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
FOUNDATION FOR PHILIPPINE MEDICAL$20,000
CROHN'S & COLITIS FOUNDATION$11,445
HIGHLAND CHURCH$10,000
SOUTH EAST ASIA PRAYER CENTER$10,000
EAGLE BROOK CHURCH$10,000
CUTTING EDGE MINISTRIES$10,000
GILLETTE CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION$5,000
Individual grant recipient$5,000
Individual grant recipient$5,000
Individual grant recipient$5,000
FIRSTLIGHT INTERNATIONAL$5,000
Individual grant recipient$5,000
Individual grant recipient$5,000
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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY22–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 72% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%HIGHLAND CHURCH: $10k → 11%ERIN HEINZ: $5k → 6%JONI & FRIENDS: $5k → 11%Square One: $10k → 11%NORTH EAST UNITED: $5k → 14%SOUTH EAST ASIA PRAYER CENTER: $10k → 11%CHU VISION FOUNDATION: $10k → 17%Cutting Edge Ministries: $10k → 17%DRAGONFLY: $5k → 16%Halo Helping Animals Live On: $10k → 11%KEITH EVANS: $5k → 6%MDA OF MN: $5k → 11%GILLETTE CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION: $5k → 14%SEAPC: $10k → 11%GREG MORTENSEN: $5k → 6%Homes for Heroes Foundation: $10k → 11%Chron's & Colitis Foundation: $10k → 14%SOUTH EAST ASIA PRAYER CENTER: $10k → 11%FOUNDATION FOR PHILIPPINE MEDICAL: $20k → 6%FIRSTLIGHT INTERNATIONAL: $5k → 11%FOUNDATION FOR PHILIPPINE MEDICAL MISSIONS: $20k → 6%CROHN'S & COLITIS FOUNDATION: $11k → 11%EAGLE BROOK CHURCH: $10k → 6%CUTTING EDGE RELIEF: $10k → 11%CUTTING EDGE MINISTRIES: $10k → 11%CHROHN'S & COLITIS FOUNDATION: $5k → 11%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.

33%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$80k · 3 repeat orgs$161k to everyone else

3 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2024, 0 since wound down; 10 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

3
11

Total granted

$80k
$95k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+7%
+13%

Still filing today

67%
45%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 38% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $66k went to new ones.

50%100%’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’22’23’24
HealthPhilanthropyInternationalPublic Safety & DisasterAnimalsHousing & ShelterOther

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

  • FF
    Foundation for Philippine Medical Missions
    2× · 2023–2024 · $40k · revenue +7%
  • CE
    Cutting Edge Ministries
    2× · 2022–2024 · $20k
  • SE
    SOUTH EAST ASIA PRAYER CENTER
    2× · 2023–2024 · $20k · revenue +3%

Funded once

  • S
    SEAPC
    one grant, 2022 · $10k
  • CC
    Chron's & Colitis Foundation
    one grant, 2022 · $10k
  • CV
    CHU VISION FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2023 · $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
Covenant HomeCare

Covenant HomeCare provides quality healthcare, in alignment with Covenant Health's mission to serve the community by improving the quality of life through better health, regardless of the patient's ability to pay.

Health
2
Gillette Children's Specialty Healthcare

In collaboration with patients, families and partners, Gillette Children's Specialty Healthcare (Gillette) redefines what is possible for children with brain, bone and movement conditions through clinical leadership, research and global…

Health
3
Children's Hospital Pathology Foundation Inc

The Foundation's mission is to provide pathology services primarily to patients at Boston Children's Hospital and at satellite locations. The Foundation carries on and promotes basic and applied medical research and education in the field…

Health
4
Childrens House International

Children's house international provides ethical adoption services, child focused recruitment, and family support. we support disadvantaged children with humanitarian aid in countries worldwide.

5
Global Partners in Care

The organization's mission is to build partnerships to enhance compassionate care globally. we are dedicated to improving access to hospice and palliative care worldwide.

International
6
The Foundation for the Center for Hospice and Palliative Care Inc

The mission of the hospice foundation (foundation) is to raise philanthropic dollars for the benefit of the center for hospice care (chc) for the purpose of supporting and promoting the mission, vision, and standards of chc and global…

Philanthropy
7
Halo House Foundation

Halo House's mission is to help save the lives of cancer patients battling leukemia, lymphoma, or myeloma by providing them with low-cost, fully furnished temporary housing while undergoing active cancer treatment at the Texas Medical…

Health
8
Corus International Inc

TO MANAGE AN INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT, HEALTH, AND RELIEF FOCUSED FAMILY OF ORGANIZATIONS HELPING PEOPLE AND COMMUNITIES LIFT THEMSELVES OUT OF POVERTY, SUPPORT WELL-BEING OF INDIVIDUALS, FAMILIES AND COMMUNITIES, AND PROVIDE…

Human Services
9
Children's Shelter of Cebu

We exist to glorify god by demonstrating his love to the philippines as we provide a loving, christ-centered home with comprehensive medical, educational and placement services for homeless filipino children.

International
10
Children's Heartlink

We save children's lives by transforming pediatric heart care in underserved parts of the world.

11
Christian Mission for the United Nations Community

Christian Mission for the United Nations Community is a ministry aimed at leading the head of every nation and other top leaders to faith in Jesus Christ and helping them to walk in dependence upon God as they discharge the…

12
Community Partners International

Community partners international works in partnership with local community-based organizations (cbos) in myanmar and along its borders and this is the core of our work. together with local partners, we listen to local voices, build local…

Human Services

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Crohn's & Colitis Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Homes for Heroes Foundation. 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

10 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. 10 of the 24 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
10/10
Grantees still filing
6/10
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Cutting Edge Ministries — $20,000 · OtherCutting Edge MinistriesSEAPC — $10,000 · OtherSEAPCHIGHLAND CHURCH — $10,000 · OtherHIGHLAND CHURCHChron's & Colitis Foundation — $10,000 · OtherChron's & Colitis FoundationCHU VISION FOUNDATION — $10,000 · OtherCHU VISION FOUNDATIONEAGLE BROOK CHURCH — $10,000 · OtherEAGLE BROOK CHURCHSquare One — $10,000 · OtherSquare OneIndividual grant recipient — $5,000 · OtherDRAGONFLY — $5,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient — $5,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient — $5,000 · OtherJONI AND FRIENDS — $5,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient — $5,000 · OtherCHROHN'S & COLITIS FOUNDATION — $5,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient — $5,000 · OtherFoundation for Philippine Medical Missions — $40,000 · PhilanthropyFoundation for Phi…CROHN'S & COLITIS FOUNDATION INC — $11,445 · HealthCROHN'S & CO…CURESEARCH FOR CHILDREN'S CANCER — $10,000 · HealthCURESEARCH F…Gillette Children's Hospital Foundation — $5,000 · HealthGillette Chi…SOUTH EAST ASIA PRAYER CENTER — $20,000 · InternationalSOUTH EAS…CUTTING EDGE RELIEF — $10,000 · Public Safety & DisasterHALO HELPING ANIMALS LIVE ON INC — $10,000 · AnimalsHOMES FOR HEROES FOUNDATION — $10,000 · Housing & ShelterFIRSTLIGHT INTERNATIONAL — $5,000 · Religion
Other$120,000Philanthropy$40,000Health$26,445International$20,000Public Safety & Disaster$10,000Animals$10,000Housing & Shelter$10,000Religion$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$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetFoundation for Philippine Medical Missions — $40,000 over 2y, 17% of budgetSOUTH EAST ASIA PRAYER CENTER — $20,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetCROHN'S & COLITIS FOUNDATION INC — $11,445 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCUTTING EDGE RELIEF — $10,000 over 1y, 5.6% of budgetHALO HELPING ANIMALS LIVE ON INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetHOMES FOR HEROES FOUNDATION — $10,000 over 1y, 4.0% of budgetCURESEARCH FOR CHILDREN'S CANCER — $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetJONI AND FRIENDS — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFIRSTLIGHT INTERNATIONAL — $5,000 over 1y, 4.9% of budgetGillette Children's Hospital Foundation — $5,000 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.

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.

Donor Advised Charitable Giving IncCO5.8× affinity5 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover 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 Deems Family 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.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 10%1%5%11%20%your share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    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 Deems Family Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Deems Family Foundation 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 24 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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