· Private foundation
Gary and Nancy Penisten Family Foundation
Its FY2019 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 clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2019.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2019
- Under $10k1 grant · $4k
- $10k–50k8 grants · $303k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $64k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| PEOPLE'S RESOURCE CENTER | $64,000 |
| AURORA INTERFAITH FOOD PANTRY | $44,243 |
| MUTUAL GROUND | $40,000 |
| LOAVES & FISHES | $40,000 |
| GOODWILL INDUSTRIES OF METROPOLITAN | $40,000 |
| WELLNESS HOUSE | $40,000 |
| NORTHERN ILLINOIS FOOD BANK | $40,000 |
| HESSED HOUSE | $35,000 |
| WAYSIDE CROSS MINISTRIES | $23,425 |
| AMERICAN RED CROSS | $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 (FY17–19, $138k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 5% 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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +70% since the first grant, against -5% for the ones you funded once.
16 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2019, 6 since wound down.
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 FY2019, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- PRPEOPLE'S RESOURCE CENTER3× · 2017–2019 · $77k · revenue +70%
- AAAURORA AREA INTERFAITH FOOD PANTRY3× · 2017–2019 · $52k · revenue +9%
- MGMUTUAL GROUND INC3× · 2017–2019 · $47k · revenue +105%
Funded once
- EFEPILEPSY FOUNDATION OF NORTHCENTRAL ILLINOIS INCone grant, 2017 · $1k
- SUSTAND UP TO CANCERone grant, 2018 · $1k
- RCRush Copley Foundationgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $1k · revenue +71%
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 food bank for central & northeast missouri is a regional disaster and hunger relief network that acquires and distributes millions of meals each year to help neighbors get the food they need to thrive. (continued on schedule o)the…
Nourishing hope provides food, mental health support, and social services to help all our neighbors thrive.
United Food Bank unites communities to alleviate hunger.
Engaging the community to end hunger
Provide affordable, high-quality health services and remove inequities to improve the lives of all.
Our mission is to solve hunger in central pennsylvania by ensuring that everyone struggling with hunger has access to enough wholesome food every day. we will achieve this bold goal with the help of our generous donors, volunteers and…
Harvesters mobilizes the power of our community to create equitable access to nutritious food and address the root causes and impact of hunger.
Rock river valley blood center, in partnership with our community, is dedicated to providing safe, high value blood products and services to people in need.
Ccfb is dedicated to ending hunger, working with over 200 partner agencies to provide food to those experiencing hunger. our mission: transforming lives together, in the passionate pursuit to end hunger in central ca - one meal, one…
We believe that food is a human right and that food has the power to bring people together. Our vision is to build a stronger, healthier, and hunger-free Coralville community. Powered by community support, the Coralville Community Food…
We strive to make aging easier through the development of a network of services for older persons designed to optimize the quality of their lives.
The Foodbank's mission is to provide food, and develop awareness of and creative solutions for food insecurity. Annually, the Foodbank distributes approximately 9.5 million pounds of food to 130 food pantries, soup kitchens, children's…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Northern Illinois Food Bank and the most unlike its peers is Concordia College. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
11 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. 11 of the 21 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 PEOPLE'S RESOURCE CENTER ↗
- Who funds AURORA AREA INTERFAITH FOOD PANTRY ↗
- Who funds MUTUAL GROUND INC ↗
- Who funds LOAVES & FISHES COMMUNITY SERVICES ↗
- Who funds NORTHERN ILLINOIS FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds Wellness House ↗
- Who funds PUBLIC ACTION TO DELIVER SHELTER INC D/B/A HESED HOUSE ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds EPILEPSY FOUNDATION OF NORTHCENTRAL ILLINOIS INC ↗
- Who funds Rush Copley Foundation ↗
- Who funds CONCORDIA COLLEGE ↗
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: Fox Valley United Way · Dunham Fund · The Bersted Foundation · Community Foundation of the Fox River Valley · Donor Advised Charitable Giving 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 Gary and Nancy Penisten 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.