· Private foundation
Felker Family Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k20 grants · $61k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $66k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UGA Foundation | $50,000 |
| McDaniel Tichenor House | $25,000 |
| Valor Academy | $11,000 |
| Summit Middle School | $10,000 |
| Grace Commons Church | $10,000 |
| Woman's & Children's Alliance | $10,000 |
| Bogus Basin Recreation Assoc | $5,000 |
| Madison County Habitat for Humanity | $5,000 |
| Monroe Museum | $5,000 |
| Horse Rescue Relief and Retirment Fund | $5,000 |
| Butterfly Dreams Farm | $5,000 |
| Meningioma mommas | $5,000 |
| Walton County Boys & Girls Club | $5,000 |
| Big Horn Equestrian Center | $5,000 |
| Food Bank of NE Geogia | $4,000 |
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 (FY21–25, $20k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 0% 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.
39 repeat relationships — 21 still active in FY2025, 18 since wound down; 5 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, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $34k 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
- TMThe McDaniel Tichenor House Inc9× · 2017–2025 · $105k · revenue +31%
- TUTHE UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA FOUNDATION2× · 2024–2025 · $100k · revenue +27%
- COCOLLEGE OF ATHENS INC8× · 2017–2024 · $83k · revenue +75%
Funded once
- MCMONROE COUNTRY DAY SCHOOLgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $10k · revenue +303%
- LFLIFESONG FOR ORPHANS INCgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $10k · revenue +139%
- FUFirst United Methodist Church of Monroeone grant, 2019 · $10k
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.
To rescue, rehabilitate, and re-home abused, neglected and slaughter bound horses of all breads and sizes. To provide a safe, loving and rehabilitative home, including all needed medical care, to every incoming animal. Once ready for their…
The primary mission of the humane society is to end animal cruelty, neglect and overpopulation in south carolina.
To protect and nurture companion animals and enrich the lives of people who love them.
To end senseless euthanasia and stop pet over-population in Georgia through targed spay/neuter programming.
Seattle humane promotes the human-animal bond by saving and serving pets in need, regardless of age, ability, circumstance or geography.
The washington humane society protects animals, supports families, and advocates for positive change to create a world where all animals can thrive. we enrich the humanity of our communities by promoting compassion and encouraging people…
Our mission is to promote and provide for the humane treatment of cats and dogs in Forsyth County. In support of its mission, the Forsyth Humane Society FHS is committed to achieving a save rate of 90 percent for shelter animals in our…
The Humane Society is dedicated to saving and improving the lives of pets through adoptions, community spay/neuter services and humane eduon programs.
To offer compassionate care to animals, support safe communities, and provide socially conscious sheltering. (continued on schedule o)
To promote the security of horses through rehabilitation, veterinary care, and education.
Reduce the euthanasia rate of healthy and adoptable animals and improve the lives of companion animals by finding permanent homes for animals in need, providing support to communities who do not have access to humane organizations,…
Humane Society of Charlotte mission is to champion the wellbeing of companion animals and strengthen their bond with the people who know, love, and need them.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Shepherd Center Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Georgia Equine Rescue League Ltd. 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 26 years old; the field is 11. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 28% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 19% 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.
38 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. 38 of the 67 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 The McDaniel Tichenor House Inc ↗
- Who funds THE UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds COLLEGE OF ATHENS INC ↗
- Who funds SHEPHERD CENTER FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds BIG HORN EQUESTRIAN CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF AIKEN COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds THE NEW MUSEUM AT THE BRADFORD BRINTON RANCH ↗
- Who funds BOGUS BASIN RECREATIONAL ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds Meningioma Mommas Inc ↗
- Who funds MYOTONIC DYSTROPHY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds High Point IEA Inc ↗
- Who funds GREATER BOULDER YOUTH ORCHESTRAS ↗
- Who funds IDAHO DIAPER BANK INC ↗
- Who funds Women's and Children's Alliance ↗
- Who funds MONROE COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds LIFESONG FOR ORPHANS INC ↗
- Who funds ATHENSPETS INC ↗
- Who funds Idaho Humane Society Inc ↗
- Who funds MADISON OGLETHORPE ANIMAL SHELTER ↗
- Who funds FLATIRONS ELEMENTARY PTO ↗
- Who funds HORSE RESCUE RELIEF AND RETIREMENT FUND INC ↗
- Who funds Humane World for Animals 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 loosely connected circle, clustered around a few shared anchors.
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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 Felker Family Foundation 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.
- Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc — 7% 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.