· Private foundation
Everett and Alice Hess Family Fund
Its FY2023 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 FY2017–2023.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2023
- Under $10k1 grant · $6k
- $10k–50k13 grants · $360k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MAGGIE'S PLACE | $40,000 |
| THE NATURE CONSERVANCY | $30,000 |
| JUST PEOPLE INC | $30,000 |
| GRACE UPON GRACE | $30,000 |
| CITY OF REFUGE | $30,000 |
| GENESIS WOMEN'S SHELTER & SUPPORT | $30,000 |
| GENTLE GIANTS DRAFT HORSE RESCUE | $30,000 |
| MIKEROWEWORKS FOUNDATION | $30,000 |
| ACTION AGAINST HUNGER | $30,000 |
| THEODORE PAYNE FOUNDATION FOR WILD FLOWERS & NATIVE PLANTS | $20,000 |
| INQUIRING SYSTEMS | $20,000 |
| BENJAMIN FRANKLIN ELEMENTARY FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| KITTEN RESCUE | $20,000 |
| LUCKY DUCK FOUNDATION | $5,600 |
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 (FY17–23, $134k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 55% 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.
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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 11% of Everett and Alice Hess Family Fund’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, 30% of the giving stays in CA; read by stated purpose it is 25% — 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.
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.
Water.org's goal is to bring safe water and sanitation to the world through access to small, affordable loans.
Partnersglobal (partners) works through a global network to support local leaders and create partnerships that transform conflict, strengthen democratic institutions, and achieve sustainable development.
Pact is a nonprofit organization that builds evidence-based, data-driven, and community-led solutions for human development (continued in schedule o)
Accelerate the growth of anti-trafficking and root cause organizations to impact more people globally. we envision a world where exploiters are stopped, vulnerable people have livelihoods, and trafficking survivors pursue lives of freedom…
To offer the dignity of fair employment to people living in impoverished communities, who become transformational agents of global forest restoration.
Our rescue works collaboratively with law enforcement agencies worldwide to identify, arrest, and prosecute traffickers. we provide compassionate care for our survivors, beginning with crisis relief and ending months or years later with…
Our vision is to reimagine everyday giving to help charities. our mission is to enable the world's leading online platforms to create opportunities for everyday charitable giving. in doing so, we ensure our programs are trustworthy,…
Fair trade usa is building an innovative model of responsible business, conscious consumerism, and shared value to eliminate poverty and enable a sustainable development for farmers, workers, their families, and communities around the…
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.
See schedule o for a more detailed description of ide's mission statement and achievements.
Mighty earth is a global advocacy organization working to defend nature, climate, and communities. our goal is to protect half of earth for nature and secure a stable climate that allows life to flourish.
Actionaid is an international network building a just, equitable, and sustainable world in solidarity with communities on the frontlines of poverty and injustice. actionaid usa is the u.s. branch of actionaid international, which works in…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Action Against Hunger - Usa and the most unlike its peers is Cold Cap-Ital Fund. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 27 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 7% 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.
24 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. 24 of the 26 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 MAGGIE'S PLACE INC ↗
- Who funds GENESIS WOMENS SHELTER & SUPPORT ↗
- Who funds MIKEROWEWORKS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ACTION AGAINST HUNGER - USA ↗
- Who funds GRACE UPON GRACE INC ↗
- Who funds GENTLE GIANTS DRAFT HORSE RESCUE SOCIETY LTD ↗
- Who funds JUST PEOPLE INC ↗
- Who funds CITY OF REFUGE ↗
- Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds INQUIRING SYSTEMS INC ↗
- Who funds THEODORE PAYNE FOUNDATION FOR WILD FLOWERS AND NATIVE PLANTS INC ↗
- Who funds KITTEN RESCUE ↗
- Who funds Benjamin Franklin Elementary Foundation ↗
- Who funds COOPERATIVE FOR ASSISTANCE AND RELIEF EVERYWHERE INC ↗
- Who funds SANDY HOOK PROMISE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds PLAN INTERNATIONAL USA INC ↗
- Who funds Feeding America ↗
- Who funds VIP COMMUNITY MENTAL HEALTH CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds LUCKY DUCK FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PEARLS MEMORY BABIES INC ↗
- Who funds COLD CAP-ITAL FUND ↗
- Who funds SPCA of Texas ↗
- Who funds THE EMPOWERMENT PLAN ↗
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: The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Everett and Alice Hess Family Fund 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.
- Sandy Hook Promise Foundation — 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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