· Private foundation
Guess Family Foundation
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
- Under $10k27 grants · $55k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE CHURCH OF THE GOOD SHEPHERD | $10,000 |
| ST JOHN IN THE WILDERNESS | $5,000 |
| NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF FREE AND CHARITABLE CLINICS | $3,000 |
| ST JUDE HOSPITAL | $3,000 |
| SAMARITAN HOUSE | $3,000 |
| KIM HEALTH CENTER | $3,000 |
| BREAD AND BROTH | $2,000 |
| SAMARITAN'S PURSE | $2,000 |
| MIKE ROWE WORKS FOUNDATION | $2,000 |
| HILLTOP HOME | $2,000 |
| THE LEAGUE TO SAVE LAKE TAHOE | $2,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,000 |
| OCEAN'S DEFENDER'S ALLIANCE | $2,000 |
| TUNNEL TO TOWERS | $2,000 |
| ALZHEIMERS ASSOCIATION | $2,000 |
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, $18k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 6% 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +10% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
22 repeat relationships — 14 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down; 14 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, 43% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $37k 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
- OCOCEAN CONSERVANCY3× · 2019–2021 · $9k · revenue +58%
- ODOCEAN DEFENDERS ALLIANCE4× · 2022–2025 · $9k · revenue +38%
- HHHILLTOP HOME INC4× · 2021–2025 · $9k · revenue +6%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2024 · $8k
- T2TURN 2 U INC dba THE LAST MILEone grant, 2021 · $4k · revenue +16%
- SMSTEPUP MINISTRYgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $3k · revenue +51%
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.
Water.org's goal is to bring safe water and sanitation to the world through access to small, affordable loans.
Project drawdown's mission is to drive meaningful climate action by advancing science-based solutions and strategies. project drawdown's work is focused on three pillars: science - advancing science-based climate solutions and strategies;…
Friends of the earth strives for a more healthy and just world by defendng the environment and human health while advancing social and economic justice by conducting research and education, transforming the economy so it protects the…
Medical teams international is a christian humanitarian relief agency focused on providing life-saving medical care for people in crisis.
Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.
Aerial recovery's mission is to save lives and stop evil. through the creation and deployment of humanitarian special operators, aerial recovery brings together selected veterans, first responders, and mission-qualified civilians who,…
Bloodwater mission, inc. (the organization) is a not-for-profit organization registered in nashville, tennessee that operates an international nonprofit that partners with african community-driven organizations to end water and hiv/aids…
To conduct and support programs and activities aimed at solving some of the world's greatest public health challenges, with a specific focus on enabling health workers to have the greatest possible impact on the health of the people they…
The fsmb serves as the voice for state medical boards, supporting them through education, assessment, research and advocacy while providing services and initiatives that promote patient safety, quality health care and regulatory best…
Actionaid is an international network building a just, equitable, and sustainable world in solidarity with communities on the frontlines of poverty and injustice. actionaid usa is the u.s. branch of actionaid international, which works in…
The organization's mission is to build partnerships to enhance compassionate care globally. we are dedicated to improving access to hospice and palliative care worldwide.
To improve lives by mobilizing caring power of communities around the world to advance common good.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Make-a-Wish Foundation of the Mid-South Inc and the most unlike its peers is League to Save Lake Tahoe. 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 33 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) — 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 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.
41 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. 41 of the 63 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 RAINFOREST TRUST ↗
- Who funds PLM FAMILIES TOGETHER INC ↗
- Who funds OCEAN CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds OCEAN DEFENDERS ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds HILLTOP HOME INC ↗
- Who funds STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
- Who funds THE CORRAL RIDING ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds TURN 2 U INC dba THE LAST MILE ↗
- Who funds GIFT OF LIFE INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
- Who funds Free Medical Clinic of America ↗
- Who funds GOOD360 ↗
- Who funds STEPUP MINISTRY ↗
- Who funds URBAN MINISTRIES OF WAKE COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds Samaritan House Inc ↗
- Who funds FAMILY PROMISE OF WAKE COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF FREE AND CHARITABLE CLINICS INC ↗
- Who funds THE FAMILY VIOLENCE PREVENTION CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds ALLIANCE MEDICAL MINISTRY INC ↗
- Who funds THE DANIEL CENTER FOR MATH & SCIENCE INC ↗
- Who funds StandUp for Kids ↗
- Who funds THE RALEIGH RESCUE MISSION INC ↗
- Who funds FOOD BANK OF CENTRAL & EASTERN NC INC ↗
- Who funds American Heart Association 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 tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Duke Energy Foundation · Triangle Community Foundation Inc · North Carolina Community Foundation · United Way of the Greater Triangle Inc · The Leon Levine Foundation · Mistler Charitable Trust · Duke University Health System Inc · John William Pope Foundation · Bell Schaefer Family Foundation · W Trent Ragland Jr Foundation · John Rex Endowment · T Rowe Price Program for Charitable Giving Inc
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 Guess 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.