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Diersch 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k15 grants · $50k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $15k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ST THOMAS THE APOSTLE CHURCH | $15,000 |
| SMOKEY MOUNTAIN SERVICE DOGS | $5,270 |
| TIMELESS TELLICO FOUNDATION | $5,250 |
| TELLICO VILLAGE LIBRARY | $5,000 |
| PAWS WITH A CAUSE | $5,000 |
| OUR PLACE | $5,000 |
| LOUDON COUNTY HABITAT FOR HUMANITY | $5,000 |
| TELLICO VILLAGE VOLUNTARY FIRE DEP | $3,000 |
| 11TH ARMORED CALVARY'S VVC | $2,500 |
| HOLY FAMILY CATHOLIC CHURCH | $2,500 |
| 1ST LT AL BONNYMAN JR VFW POST 1213 | $2,500 |
| CATHOLIC NEWMAN CENTER | $2,500 |
| MEALS ON WHEELS WESTERN MI | $2,000 |
| BETHANY CHRISTIAN SERVICES | $2,000 |
| NAT LIBERTY SHIP MEMORIAL | $1,500 |
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 (FY18–24, $42k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 100% of Diersch Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 55% of the giving stays in TN; read by stated purpose it is 0% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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.
17 repeat relationships — 13 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $9k 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
- KFKIDS' FOOD BASKET INC5× · 2018–2022 · $52k · revenue +29%
- SMSmoky Mountain Service Dogs7× · 2018–2024 · $37k · revenue +65%
- MOMEALS ON WHEELS WESTERN MICHIGAN2× · 2023–2024 · $10k · revenue +2%
Funded once
- POPRINCE OF PEACE CATHOLIC NEWMAN CENone grant, 2018 · $25k
- POPRINCE OF PEACE CATHOLIC NEWMAN CTRone grant, 2019 · $15k
- STST THOMAS THE APOSTLE CATHOLIC CHUone grant, 2019 · $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.
Provides home delivered meals to the house bound residents of Torrance and Lomita.
Our mission is to help the citizens of hancock county maintain an independent lifestyle through the delivery of nutritious meals in accordance with prescribed dietary needs and provide a point of personal contact with the community.
Ypsilanti meals on wheels supports the community's homebound elderly, ill and disabled residents with home-delivered meals, social contact, pet food and supplies, personal goods and other supports to help them live healthier, safer and…
We deliver healthy delicious meals to our home-bound neighbors. With a vision of creating a more interconnected resilient and compassionate community our program supports entire family systems. In 2024 236 volunteers delivered 55,642 meals…
To enhance the lives of older adults by delivering healthy meals and providing an array of supportive services that empower seniors to live independently, safely, and with dignity.
Providing meals to the elderly and needy
To support senior independence through meals, shelter, education, and community.
To empower seniors, disabled adults, veterans, and other under served populations to remain independent by nourishing their bodies, minds, and spirits, and drive out hunger and isolation in our region.
Prepare and deliver nutritious meals to the elderly, disabled, convalescing and others who are unable to prepare adequate meals for themselves.
McKeesport Area Meals on Wheels provides meals to numerous McKeesport Area elderly anddisabled individuals throughtout the calender year.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Kids' Food Basket Inc and the most unlike its peers is Smoky Mountain Service Dogs. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 10 of the 35 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 KIDS' FOOD BASKET INC ↗
- Who funds Smoky Mountain Service Dogs ↗
- Who funds TIMELESS TELLICO FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MEALS ON WHEELS WESTERN MICHIGAN ↗
- Who funds LOUDON COUNTY HABITAT FOR HUMANITY ↗
- Who funds Paws With A Cause ↗
- Who funds THE NATIONAL LIBERTY SHIP MEMORIAL INC ↗
- Who funds SPECIAL OLYMPICS MICHIGAN INC ↗
- Who funds TELLICO VILLAGE VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT INC ↗
- Who funds TELLICO BOATERS ASSITANCE RESPONSE TEAM 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.
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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 Diersch 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.
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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