· Private foundation
Dr Joy to the World 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 FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k65 grants · $264k
- $10k–50k15 grants · $208k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| WILDLIFE CONSERVATION NETWORK | $23,500 |
| CITY HARVEST | $20,000 |
| COALITION FOR THE HOMELESS | $18,750 |
| Individual grant recipient | $18,750 |
| Individual grant recipient | $18,000 |
| NWHN PLAN C | $13,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $11,250 |
| MONTANA FOOD BANK | $11,250 |
| WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN | $11,250 |
| DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS | $11,000 |
| FEEDING AMERICA | $11,000 |
| WORLD WILDLIFE FUND | $10,000 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD | $10,000 |
| NYC RESCUE MISSION HOPE FO NY | $10,000 |
| FOODBANK NYC | $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, $28k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 27% 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +44% since the first grant, against +43% for the ones you funded once.
37 repeat relationships — 24 still active in FY2024, 13 since wound down; 55 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, 33% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $310k 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
CITY HARVEST INC7× · 2017–2024 · $53k · revenue +75%- NWNational Women's Health Network6× · 2019–2024 · $37k · revenue +259%
FOOD BANK FOR NEW YORK CITY7× · 2017–2024 · $35k · revenue +113%
Funded once
- TRTONGUE RIVER EMERGENCY SHELTERone grant, 2023 · $8k
- DODONATION ON FACING HUNGERone grant, 2022 · $6k
CHARITY GLOBAL INCgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $5k · revenue +101%
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.
Food forward fights hunger and prevents food waste by rescuing fresh surplus produce, connecting this abundance with people experiencing food insecurity, and inspiring others to do the same.
To nourish the world's hungry through uniting and advancing food banks.
United Food Bank unites communities to alleviate hunger.
To provide food to all in need through community partnerships and hunger relief programs. Our vision is a hunger-free Larimer County.
The food bank for central & northeast missouri is a regional disaster and hunger relief network that acquires and distributes millions of meals each year to help neighbors get the food they need to thrive. (continued on schedule o)the…
The mission of feeding new york state is to lead a unified effort for a hunger-free state of new york. the mission of food banking is to obtain food and deliver it to emergency food programs. feeding new york state works to end hunger by…
Waste Not cultivates sustainable food systems that help people and the planet flourish. We do this by eliminating food waste and hunger through innovative community partnerships.
Harvesters mobilizes the power of our community to create equitable access to nutritious food and address the root causes and impact of hunger.
The Food Bank of Eastern Michigan's mission is to be the Food Source for people in need. Partnering with organizations to feed the hungry, we advocate and build a community solution to a community problem. By leveraging an abundance of…
Nourish people. build solutions. empower communities. no one goes hungry.
On a mission to connect every person facing hunger with nutritious meals by maximizing food rescue. through direct service and community partnerships, feeding san diego provides more than 26 million meals each year to children, families,…
To end hunger and transform the health of our community by providing nourishment to those in need by acquiring and distributing safe nutritious food via local agencies and by providing education to solve hunger and nutritional problems in…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Community Food Bank of New Jersey Inc and the most unlike its peers is Wildlife Conservation Society. 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 39 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) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 3% 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.
58 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. 58 of the 114 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 CITY HARVEST INC ↗
- Who funds National Women's Health Network ↗
- Who funds FOOD BANK FOR NEW YORK CITY ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds Physicians For Reproductive Health ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN HUMANE ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds Children International ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL ALLIANCE TO END HOMELESSNESS ↗
- Who funds COALITION FOR THE HOMELESS INC ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF GREATER NEW YORK INC ↗
- Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds FOOD RECOVERY NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds ANGELAS PIAZZA INC ↗
- Who funds MONTANA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Wildlife Conservation Society ↗
- Who funds FOOD RESCUE US INC ↗
- Who funds MONTANA FOOD BANK NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds Feeding America ↗
- Who funds NEW YORK CITY HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC ↗
- Who funds REFUGEE & IMMIGRANT CENTER FOR EDUCATION & LEGAL SERVICES ↗
- Who funds WORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC ↗
- Who funds SPOONFULS ↗
- Who funds FOODCYCLE ↗
- Who funds FORGOTTEN HARVEST INC ↗
- Who funds WEDONTWASTE INC ↗
- Who funds Spay Montana ↗
- Who funds HOPE FOR NEW YORK ↗
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: First Interstate BancSystem Foundation Inc · American Express Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Give Lively Foundation Inc · Clif Family Foundation · Network for Good · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · The Chicago Community Trust · Columbus Foundation · The Allstate Foundation · Baird Foundation Inc · Ge Aerospace 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 Dr Joy to the World 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Oregon Natural Resources Council Fund Oregon Wild — 2% 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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