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French Family Foundation
Its FY2017 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2017
- Under $10k11 grants · $17k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $68k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| DRURY UNIVERSITY | $33,000 |
| KANAKUK MINISTRIES | $15,000 |
| LOST AND FOUND | $10,000 |
| THE KITCHEN | $10,000 |
| MERCY HEALTH FOUNDATION | $2,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,500 |
| BREAST CANCER FOUNDATION OF THE OZARKS | $2,500 |
| MISSOURI JUNIOR GOLF FOUNDATION | $2,000 |
| CONVOY OF HOPE | $2,000 |
| HILL CITY CHURCH | $1,500 |
| COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE OZARKS | $1,200 |
| THAILAND LITTLE ONES | $1,000 |
| GOOD SARARITAN BOYS RANCH | $750 |
| RELIANT MISSION | $500 |
| SCS BOOSTER CLUB | $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 (FY17–17, $21k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 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.
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.
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.
True to our christian heritage, we prepare students from diverse religious, cultural, educational and economic backgrounds to live life fully.
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Offer hope to build a better tomorrow through mental health services.
As an institution of higher education committed to the reformed christian perspective, dordt university equips students, alumni, and the broader community to work effectively toward christ-centered renewal in all aspects of contemporary…
To eliminate underlying causes of health inequities, transform systems and enable individuals and communities to thrive
Benedictine University is an inclusive academic community dedicated to teaching and learning, scholarship and service, truth and justice, as inspired by the Catholic intellectual tradition, the social teaching of the Church, and the…
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Convoy of Hope and the most unlike its peers is Drury University. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
9 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. 9 of the 15 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 Drury University ↗
- Who funds Kanakuk Ministries ↗
- Who funds LOST & FOUND ↗
- Who funds THE KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds BREAST CANCER FOUNDATION OF THE OZARKS ↗
- Who funds MISSOURI JUNIOR GOLF SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CONVOY OF HOPE ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE OZARKS INC ↗
- Who funds Good Samaritan Boys Ranch ↗
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: Community Foundation of the Ozarks Inc · Mercy Health Springfield Communities · Stanley & Elaine Ball Charitable Tr · The Herschend Family Foundation · Arvest Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · 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 French Family 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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