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Family Tapestry 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2021–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k9 grants · $19k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $12k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| AFRICAN LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT | $12,000 |
| BEANS OF GRACE NFP | $9,000 |
| SEVEN RIVERS PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH | $3,000 |
| CBMC CHICAGOLAND INC NAME AMENDED TO LEGACY LEADER | $2,400 |
| KENDALL COUNTY COMMUNITY FOOD PANTRY INC | $1,000 |
| BASICS UNITED INC | $1,000 |
| CITRUS COUNTY FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER INC | $1,000 |
| FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH OF DOWNERS GROVE | $1,000 |
| GODS SHED OF LOVE INC | $500 |
| FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH OF DOWNERS GROVE | $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 (FY24–24, $1k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 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.
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.
11 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k 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
- CCCBMC CHICAGOLAND INC NAME AMENDED TO LEGACY LEADERSHIP FORUMS INC5× · 2021–2025 · $16k · revenue +106%
- WSWeiss Scholarship Foundation4× · 2021–2024 · $5k · revenue +234%
- KCKENDALL COUNTY COMMUNITY FOOD PANTRY INC2× · 2023–2025 · $1k · revenue +27%
Funded once
- UMUNITED METHODIST CHURCHone grant, 2021 · $6k
- GGGENEROUS GIVING INCgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $6k · revenue +36%
- PMPLANO METHODIST CHURCHone grant, 2024 · $5k
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.
The mission of Selah International Counseling Ministries is to glorify God as we serve and equip His church, providing leadership and service through counseling, counseling resources, and counseling training.
To proclaim gospel of jesus.
Pilgrim Africa's mission is to challenge despair, love boldly, and help African people create a future of sustainable prosperity and health. We give ourselves in service to others regardless of economic, religious, or social standing,…
KRF dedicated to serving people in need, especially families and children worldwide. They seek to reflect the character of God by direct humanitarian activities. The foundation supports many individuals and organizations around the world…
Established to rescue enslaved families within the islamic republic of pakistan by freeing them and helping them rebuild their lives.
The purpose of 'the children's mission' is to (1) educate the international community about the physical, educational and emotional needs of orphans and vulnerable children in malawi, africa; (2) raise funds to meet those needs; and (3)…
Provide Christian Support
Missions - sponsors foreign and domestic missions and orphanages with a special emphasis on missions in India
Family connects international is committed to strengthening bonds for families of newborns and linking them directly to supportive community care resources.
The purpose of christian relief services is to provide funding, services and critically needed goods to help people in communities striving to break the stranglehold of poverty and to help develop and implement sustainable solutions to the…
The ministry exists to awaken worship leaders to become spiritual fathers and mothers in the local church through training, coaching, and discipleship.
Delivering life changing care in rural Guatemala through a regional eye center, general medical and surgical care, maternal health and child nutrition programs.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Generous Giving Inc and the most unlike its peers is Patric Young Foundation Inc. 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 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 15% of your grantees by number, and just 20% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 15% 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.
12 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. 12 of the 25 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 CBMC CHICAGOLAND INC NAME AMENDED TO LEGACY LEADERSHIP FORUMS INC ↗
- Who funds AFRICAN LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT ↗
- Who funds GENEROUS GIVING INC ↗
- Who funds Weiss Scholarship Foundation ↗
- Who funds HEIFER PROJECT INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds Patric Young Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds KENDALL COUNTY COMMUNITY FOOD PANTRY INC ↗
- Who funds CASA OF KENDALL COUNTY ↗
- Who funds CITRUS COUNTY FAMILY RESOURCE CENTE ↗
- Who funds THE PREGNANCY & FAMILY LIFE CENTER ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE FOX RIVER VALLEY ↗
- Who funds Partnership for Cures ↗
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: American Endowment Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Network for Good · National Philanthropic Trust · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation 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 Family Tapestry 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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