· Private foundation
Filkins Family Foundation Inc
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 FY2019–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- $10k–50k19 grants · $335k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $215k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY | $100,000 |
| ST AUGUSTINES EPISCOPAL CHURCH | $60,000 |
| RESIDENTIAL HOSPICE FOUNDATION | $55,000 |
| ST MICHAEL AND ALL ANGELS EPISCOPAL | $35,000 |
| ALSACST JUDE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL | $30,000 |
| AMERICAN RED CROSS | $30,000 |
| NATIONAL ALLIANCE | $25,000 |
| CHICAGO BOYS & GIRLS CLUB | $25,000 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF LEE CO | $25,000 |
| LURIE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL | $20,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $20,000 |
| FEEDING AMERICA | $15,000 |
| RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE | $15,000 |
| CHICAGO'S CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CTR | $15,000 |
| ASPCA | $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 (FY24–25, $60k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, 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.
29 repeat relationships — 19 still active in FY2025, 10 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, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $85k 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
- CHCHICAGO HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY6× · 2020–2025 · $145k · revenue +27%
Culver Educational Foundation5× · 2019–2023 · $100k · revenue +39%
SANIBEL-CAPTIVA CONSERVATION FOUNDATION6× · 2020–2025 · $70k · revenue +115%
Funded once
- TMTHE METHODIST HOSPITAL FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $100k · revenue +55%
- EHEndeavor Health Clinical Operationsone grant, 2023 · $45k · revenue +5%
HARRY CHAPIN FOOD BANK OF SOUTHWEST FLORIDA INCgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $30k · revenue +53%
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.
We harness the power of plants for humankind and share the joy and beauty of tropical gardening with everyone. fairchild tropical botanic garden is a museum of tropical plants within a world famous, 83-acre designed landscape. it was…
Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.
To engage and catalyze global seafood supply chains in rebuilding depleted fish stocks and reducing the environmental impacts of fishing and fish farming.
The museum's mission statement is: "to discover, interpret, and disseminate - through scientific research and education - knowledge about human cultures, the natural world, and the universe."
The advancement of marine and environmental sciences through scientific research, education and public outreach, leading new discoveries, revitalization and sustainability of our oceans and greater public understanding of our marine…
The mission of the foundation is to restore and protect america's everglades through its three programmatic pillars: science, advocacy and education. (continued on schedule o)
Inspiring communities to save wildlife for future generations.
The clinic for the rehabilitation of wildlife is a teaching hospital and visitor center dedicated to the saving of wildlife through state-of-the-art veterinary care, research, education, and conservation medicine.
Wwf's mission is to conserve nature and reduce the most pressing threats to the diversity of life on earth. (continued on schedule o)
Founded in 1877, american humane association, dba american humane society (american humane) is committed to ensuring the safety, welfare and well-being of animals. our leadership programs are first to serve in promoting and nurturing the…
The children's hospital of philadelphia, the oldest hospital in the united states dedicated exclusively to pediatrics, strives to be the world leader in the advancement of health care for children by integrating excellent patient care,…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Foundation for Lee County Public Schools Inc and the most unlike its peers is Enchanted Backpack. 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 45 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% 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.
23 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. 23 of the 43 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 CHICAGO HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds THE METHODIST HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Culver Educational Foundation ↗
- Who funds SANIBEL SEA SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds SANIBEL-CAPTIVA CONSERVATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds RESIDENTIAL HOSPICE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds UNION LEAGUE BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS ↗
- Who funds Endeavor Health Clinical Operations ↗
- Who funds THE FOUNDATION FOR LEE COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOLS INC ↗
- Who funds Community Housing and Resources Inc ↗
- Who funds Feeding America ↗
- Who funds CHICAGO CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER ↗
- Who funds HARRY CHAPIN FOOD BANK OF SOUTHWEST FLORIDA INC ↗
- Who funds CAPTAINS FOR CLEAN WATER INC ↗
- Who funds CHILDRENS EDUCATION CENTER OF THE ISLANDS ↗
- Who funds ENCHANTED BACKPACK ↗
- Who funds GREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY ↗
- Who funds THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS ↗
- Who funds SPECIAL EQUESTRIANS INC ↗
- Who funds NOURISHING HOPE ↗
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 Chicago Community Trust · National Philanthropic Trust · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust 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 Filkins 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Sanibel-Captiva Conservation Foundation — 4% of income from government
- Special Equestrians Inc — 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.