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Francis Noz Heritage Fund
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 FY2023–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k3 grants · $15k
- $10k–50k11 grants · $201k
- $50k–250k13 grants · $805k
- $250k+2 grants · $760k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| INTERNATIONAL FUND FOR ANIMAL WELFARE | $390,000 |
| PEDULI AANAK FOUNDATION | $370,304 |
| MEALS ON WHEELS (YOLO) | $100,000 |
| AMAZON WATCH | $100,000 |
| GLOBAL GIVING FORWARD FUND | $80,000 |
| MERCY SHIPS | $75,000 |
| NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC SOCIETY | $50,000 |
| FRIENDS OF NINOS DE GUATEMALA | $50,000 |
| ROOM TO READ | $50,000 |
| ONE TREE PLANTED | $50,000 |
| JANE GOODALL FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| AMERICAN FUNDS OF OCEAN CLEANUP | $50,000 |
| AMREF HEALTH AFRICA INC | $50,000 |
| CROHNS AND COLITIS FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| AMERICAN RED CROSS | $50,000 |
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, $450k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 16% 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.
5 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2024, 0 since wound down; 24 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, 52% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $851k 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
INTERNATIONAL FUND FOR ANIMAL WELFARE INC2× · 2023–2024 · $400k · revenue +26%- AWAmazon Watch Inc2× · 2023–2024 · $110k · revenue +11%
- RTROOM TO READ2× · 2023–2024 · $60k · revenue +9%
Funded once
MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INCone grant, 2023 · $20k · revenue +1%- MOMEALS ON WHEELS INCone grant, 2023 · $15k · revenue +12%
- JGJANE GOODALL INSTITUTE FOR WILDLIFE RESEARCH EDUCATION AND CONSERVATIONone grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue +12%
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.
Wwf's mission is to conserve nature and reduce the most pressing threats to the diversity of life on earth. (continued on schedule o)
To save lives & relieve suffering through health interventions & related activities that strengthen communities affected by conflict, natural disasters & disease outbreaks.
Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.
HUMANE WORLD FOR ANIMALS INTERNATIONAL, FKA HUMANE SOCIETY INTERNATIONAL (HSI), works around the globe to promote the human-animal bond, rescue and protect dogs and cats, improve farm animal welfare, protect wildlife, promote animal-free…
(msh) saves lives and improves the health of the world's poorest (see schedule o) and most vulnerable people by closing the gap between knowledge and action in public health.
The wildlife conservation society (wcs) saves wildlife and wild places worldwide through science, conservation action, education, and inspiring people to value nature.
World animal protection is a global organization working to end factory farming and wildlife exploitation. we expose cruel systems, promote animal-friendly alternatives, and influence policy change. for over 75 years, we've been rewriting…
RA works at the intersection of business, agriculture & forests to improve lives & protect nature by transforming how land is used, production of goods & consumer choices.
To prevent cruelty to animals, we promote enacting and enforcing good public policies. enacting good laws depends upon electing good lawmakers, and we remind voters which candidates care about and support animal issues.
Wildaid's mission is to inspire change and empower the world to protect wildlife and vital habitats from critical threats.
The international committee of the red cross (switzerland)(icrc) is an impartial, neutral, and independent organization whose exclusively humanitarian mission is to protect the lives and dignity of victims of armed conflict and of violence…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Save the Children Federation Inc and the most unlike its peers is National Geographic 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 45 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 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 4% 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.
27 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. 27 of the 37 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 INTERNATIONAL FUND FOR ANIMAL WELFARE INC ↗
- Who funds Peduli Anak Foundation ↗
- Who funds Amazon Watch Inc ↗
- Who funds MEALS ON WHEELS YOLO COUNTY ↗
- Who funds ROOM TO READ ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds CROHN'S & COLITIS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds AMREF HEALTH AFRICA INC INC (AMREF) ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF NINOS DE GUATEMALA ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds ONE TREE PLANTED INC ↗
- Who funds THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS ↗
- Who funds International Rescue Committee INC ↗
- Who funds MONTEREY BAY AQUARIUM FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE ARC OF THE UNITED STATES ↗
- Who funds Save The Children Federation Inc ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds HUMANE SOCIETY SILICON VALLEY ↗
- Who funds MEALS ON WHEELS INC ↗
- Who funds JANE GOODALL INSTITUTE FOR WILDLIFE RESEARCH EDUCATION AND CONSERVATION ↗
- Who funds THE WHITE HELMETS INC ↗
- Who funds THE MARINE MAMMAL CENTER ↗
- Who funds Mercy Corps ↗
- Who funds PROJECT PEARLS USA INC ↗
- Who funds THE GENTLE BARN FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HOPE FOR PAWS ↗
- Who funds MAKE IT HAPPEN FOR YOLO COUNTY ↗
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: Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · 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 Francis Noz Heritage 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.
- Mercy Corps — 47% of income from government
- Save the Children Federation Inc — 30% 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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