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Diermeier Family 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.

$924k
Granted FY2024still arriving
12
Grants FY2024still arriving
5
States reached
$493k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead

Read this first · the figures below need context

56% of Diermeier Family Foundation’s FY2025 grant dollars went to Community Foundation Of Collier County Inc, not to grantees.

Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2025 names 24 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2024, the last year Diermeier Family Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 11 organizations, $924k. It is dated, not current.

Organizations named directly on the return

10
’18
11
’19
11
’20
9
’21
10
’22
6
’23
11
’24
24
’25

Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.

01What you fund
0197% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2025.

Education$2.4MPhilanthropy$1.9MYouth Development$1.9MHuman Services$601kHealth$430kHousing & Shelter$200kReligion$72kPublic Benefit$61kOther$0
02FY2024 · 12 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k3 grants · $11k
  • $10k–50k6 grants · $130k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $290k
  • $250k+1 grant · $493k
$25,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$12M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION$492,750
UCAN$210,000
THE GUADALUPE CENTER$80,000
AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY$30,000
CHAMPIONS FOR LEARNING$25,000
THE COMMUNITY HOUSE$25,000
ILLINOIS POLICY INSTITUTE$20,000
PATHWAYS EARLY EDUCATION CENTER OF IMMOKALEE$20,000
PACE CENTER FOR GIRLS$10,000
OPERATION DEPLOYED INC$5,400
NAPLES PATHWAYS COALITION$5,000
CATO INSTITUTE$500
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:

Your human-services grants (FY18–25, $2.4M) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 91% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%THE COMMUNITY HOUSE: $30k → 7%THE COMMUNITY HOUSE: $25k → 7%THE COMMUNITY HOUSE: $25k → 7%UCAN: $207k → 14%THE COMMUNITY HOUSE: $25k → 7%UCAN: $200k → 14%THE COMMUNITY HOUSE: $25k → 7%THE COMMUNITY HOUSE: $25k → 7%THE COMMUNITY HOUSE: $25k → 7%THE COMMUNITY HOUSE: $20k → 7%CIRCLE URBAN MINISTRIES: $20k → 14%THE SHELTER FOR ABUSED WOMEN & CHILDREN INC: $25k → 10%OPERATION DEPLOYED INC: $5k → 7%SHELTER FOR ABUSED WOMEN & CHILDREN INC: $10k → 10%OPERATION DEPLOYED INC: $5k → 7%UCAN: $260k → 14%UCAN: $255k → 14%UCAN: $220k → 14%UCAN: $215k → 14%UCAN: $210k → 14%UCAN: $105k → 14%GRACE PLACE FOR CHILDREN & FAMILIES: $5k → 10%THE GUADALUPE CENTER: $95k → 10%THE GUADALUPE CENTER: $80k → 10%THE GUADALUPE CENTER: $80k → 10%THE GUADALUPE CENTER: $80k → 10%THE GUADALUPE CENTER: $50k → 10%THE GUADALUPE CENTER: $30k → 10%THE GUADALUPE CENTER: $30k → 10%THE GUADALUPE CENTER: $25k → 10%REDLAND CHRISTIAN MIGRANT ASSOCIATION: $5k → 10%YOUTH HAVEN INC: $1k → 10%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.

Which US states your grants reach

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WI
OH
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DC
GA
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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.

88%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$5.1M · 16 repeat orgs$683k to everyone else

16 repeat relationships — 12 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down; 15 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call). Read against FY2024, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

16
10

Total granted

$5.1M
$465k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+53%
+100%

Still filing today

94%
40%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 73% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $218k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesHealthEducationYouth DevelopmentPublic BenefitPhilanthropyOther

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

  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION
    8× · 2018–2025 · $1.8M · revenue +43%
  • U
    UCAN
    8× · 2018–2025 · $1.7M · revenue +66%
  • GC
    Guadalupe Center Inc
    8× · 2018–2025 · $470k · revenue +145%

Funded once

  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN
    one grant, 2018 · $265k
  • CL
    CHRISTIAN LIFE MINISTRIES
    one grant, 2020 · $50k
  • CC
    CHICAGO COMMUNITY FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2020 · $50k

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
Collier County Child Advocacy Council Inc

The mission of the organization is to improve the lives of abused children in collier county and the vision is to create a community where child abuse is not tolerated.

Civil Rights
2
Florida Community Health Centers Inc

Florida community health centers, inc. (fchc) is a federally qualified health center serving medically needy populations in south florida, with an emphasis on serving rural and farm worker communities.

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3
Choices Coordinated Care Solutions Inc

To strengthen youth and families while enhancing systems and communities.

Human Services
4
Camelot Community Care Inc

To develop and provide services that enable children and families to realize their fullest potential.

Human Services
5
Child Advocacy Center Inc

A comprehensive, child-friendly facility where professionals from law enforcement, medical, child protection and therapeutic services collaborate to meet the individual needs of child victims and break the cycle of abuse.

Crime & Legal
6
Childnet Inc

Childnet's mission is to protect broward and palm beach counties' abused, abandoned and neglected children, to ensure their safety and to promptly provide them with a permanent, loving home.

Human Services
7
Institute for Child and Family Health Inc

The institute for child and family health is committed to empowering the children, youth and families of miami-dade county, florida by providing services that enhance their emotional, physical and educational well-being.

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8
Tsic Inc Dba/Take Stock in Children

Provides college scholarships and mentoring programs for deserving low-income children whose household income falls below 185% of the federal poverty guidelines from middle school through college.

Crime & Legal
9
Lighthouse Central Florida Inc

Charting a course for living, learning, and earning with vision loss.

Human Services
10
Colorado Coalition for the Homeless

The mission of the colorado coalition for the homeless is to work collaboratively toward the prevention of homelessness and the creation of lasting solutions for families, children, and individuals who are experiencing or at-risk of…

Human Services
11
Coop Careers Inc

Building a movement of diverse, upwardly mobile college grads overcoming underemployment through digital skills and peer connections.

Education
12
Central Florida Commission On Homelessness Inc

The corporation is organized for the purpose of permanently reducing the number of homeless individuals and families in the central florida region.

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Shelter for Abused Women & Children Inc and the most unlike its peers is Community Foundation of Central Illinois Depositor. 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyCivil Rights & Legal Advoca…Botanical Gardens & Plant E…Community Health Care Provi…Emergency Assistance & Cris…Wisconsin Professional Asso…
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 35 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%6%<5yr14%6%5–10yr19%9%10–20yr16%29%20–35yr13%27%35–55yr16%24%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%1%<5yr14%0%5–10yr19%3%10–20yr16%5%20–35yr13%36%35–55yr16%55%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 6% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/37
the rest of the field
13%
240,396/1,819,528

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.

04the grantee network

33 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. 33 of the 43 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)
10
Early backer (in before they grew)
32/33
Grantees still filing
19/33
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

COLLIER COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC — $1,842,500 · OtherCOLLIER COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INCUNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN — $265,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF WISCONSINCHAMPIONS FOR LEARNING — $183,898 · OtherCHAMPIONS FOR LEARNING+16 more — $307,015 · Other+16 moreUCAN — $1,672,275 · Human ServicesUCANGuadalupe Center Inc — $470,000 · Human ServicesGuadalupe Center IncTHE COMMUNITY HOUSE — $200,000 · Human ServicesTHE COMMUNITY HOUSE+7 more — $91,400 · Human ServicesUNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION — $1,844,244 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOU…+2 more — $35,000 · EducationAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC — $200,000 · HealthWellness House — $145,000 · HealthDAVID LAWRENCE MENTAL HEALTH CENTER INC — $70,000 · Health+2 more — $15,000 · HealthGUITARS OVER GUNS ORGANIZATION INC — $189,750 · Youth DevelopmentPACE CENTER FOR GIRLSINC — $20,000 · Youth DevelopmentTHE VARSITY COLLECTIVE CHARITABLE FUND INC — $50,000 · PhilanthropyEDUCATION FOUNDATION OF COLLIER COUNTY INC — $30,000 · PhilanthropyILLINOIS POLICY INSTITUTE — $58,000 · Public BenefitCATO INSTITUTE — $3,000 · Public Benefit
Other$2,598,413Human Services$2,433,675Education$1,879,244Health$430,000Youth Development$209,750Philanthropy$80,000Public Benefit$61,000

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 budgetUNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION — $1,844,244 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetCOLLIER COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC — $1,842,500 over 5y, 1.0% of budgetUCAN — $1,672,275 over 8y, 0.5% of budgetGuadalupe Center Inc — $470,000 over 8y, 0.7% of budgetTHE COMMUNITY HOUSE — $200,000 over 8y, 1.1% of budgetAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC — $200,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetGUITARS OVER GUNS ORGANIZATION INC — $189,750 over 5y, 2.0% of budgetWellness House — $145,000 over 4y, 1.8% of budgetDAVID LAWRENCE MENTAL HEALTH CENTER INC — $70,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetILLINOIS POLICY INSTITUTE — $58,000 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetTHE VARSITY COLLECTIVE CHARITABLE FUND INC — $50,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetTHE SHELTER FOR ABUSED WOMEN & CHILDREN INC — $35,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF CENTRAL ILLINOIS DEPOSITOR — $30,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetEDUCATION FOUNDATION OF COLLIER COUNTY INC — $30,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetPathways Early Education Center of Immokalee Inc — $25,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetCASA LAKE COUNTY INC — $20,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetCIRCLE URBAN MINISTRIES — $20,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetPACE CENTER FOR GIRLSINC — $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetOPERATION DEPLOYED INC — $10,400 over 2y, 3.8% of budgetNaples Pathways Coalition Inc — $10,000 over 2y, 2.2% of budgetTHE CONSERVANCY OF SOUTHWEST FLORIDA — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGRACE PLACE FOR CHILDREN AND FAMILIES INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetREDLANDS CHRISTIAN MIGRANT ASSOCIATION INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCANCER ALLIANCE NETWORK INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetCATO INSTITUTE — $3,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetYOUTH HAVEN INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNaples Concert Band Inc — $1,000 over 1y, 0.6% 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.

The League Club IncCollier Community Fou…The Richard M Schulze…Carol B Phelon Founda…Clark Family Foundati…Naples Children Found…The Dupage Community …The Chicago Community…The Martin Foundation…United Way of Collier…Suncoast Credit Union…The Ayco Charitable F…
The League Club IncFL22.1× affinity8 shared granteesties to 10 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The League Club Inc · Collier Community Foundation Inc · The Richard M Schulze Family Foundation · Carol B Phelon Foundation · Clark Family Foundation Inc · Naples Children Foundation Inc · The Dupage Community Foundation · The Chicago Community Trust · The Martin Foundation Inc · United Way of Collier and the Keys Inc · Suncoast Credit Union Foundation · The Ayco Charitable 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 Diermeier 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 40%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • Redlands Christian Migrant Association Inc — 51% of income from government
  • Pace Center for Girlsinc — 2% of income from government
  • The Shelter for Abused Women & Children Inc — 2% of income from government
  • David Lawrence Mental Health Center Inc — 1% of income from government
  • Guitars Over Guns Organization Inc — 1% of income from government
  • Youth Haven Inc — 0% of income from government
  • Guadalupe Center Inc — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
4get no government money at all
9report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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.

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 43 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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