· Private foundation
Hattie Givens Testamentary Trust
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2023.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2023
- Under $10k14 grants · $19k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $40k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| YOSEMITE LODGE 99 SCHOLARSHIP FUND | $28,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $12,000 |
| SHRINERS HOSPITAL OF SACRAMENTO | $3,000 |
| MASONIC HOME ENDOWMENT FUND | $2,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,000 |
| CALIF MASONIC FOUNDATION | $2,000 |
| MERCED COUNTY FOOD BANK | $2,000 |
| CASA - MERCED COUNTY | $1,200 |
| HINDS HOSPICE OF MERCEDMARIPOSA | $1,000 |
| FRIENDS OF THE LIBRARY | $1,000 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF AMERICA | $1,000 |
| FULLER CENTER FOR HOUSING OF MERCED | $1,000 |
| MERCED HIGH SCHOOL FOOTBALL | $1,000 |
| CHOWCHILLA AMERICAN LEGION POST #148 | $800 |
| VALLEY CRISIS CENTER | $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 (FY18–20, $8k) land where the poverty rate runs at 19%, against an area that typically sits at 17%. 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.
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.
42 repeat relationships — 16 still active in FY2023, 26 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 FY2023, 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
- YLYOSEMITE LODGE #99 SCHOLARSHIP FUND7× · 2017–2023 · $163k · revenue +28% · 79% of their budget
- COCENTER OF VISION ENHANCEMENT3× · 2018–2020 · $8k · revenue +134%
- MRMERCED RESCUE MISSION5× · 2017–2021 · $5k · revenue +520%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2017 · $10k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2022 · $4k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2018 · $4k
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.
To assist and promote the educational services of Merced community college.
The mission of the Merced LGBTQ+ Alliance is to advocate for the interests of the LGBTQ+ community within Merced County. We celebrate our diversity and advocate for justice and opportunities for members of our vulnerable community. We…
MERCED RESCUE MISSION: MISSION, VISION AND PURPOSE:Our MISSION is to exhibit the love and caring of Jesus Christ; transforming lives for those in our county who are in physcial and spirtual need.Our VISION is to be the hands, feet and…
To serve, advocate, and collaborate for those in need by developing innovative strategies for self-empowerment.
We mobilize the caring power of our community to advance health stability and opportunity for all.
Provide educational grants and scholarships
To Provide a benefit to the public by providing work related training and job placement services to low income adults and youth (ages 16-24 yrs).
The merced county deputy sheriff's association is dedicated to supporting the sworn and non-sworn employees of the merced county sheriff's deparment.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Merced Rescue Mission and the most unlike its peers is Yosemite Lodge #99 Scholarship Fund. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
10 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. 10 of the 53 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 YOSEMITE LODGE #99 SCHOLARSHIP FUND ↗
- Who funds CENTER OF VISION ENHANCEMENT ↗
- Who funds THE MERCED COUNTY FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds MERCED RESCUE MISSION ↗
- Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
- Who funds MERCED COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds FULLER CENTER FOR HOUSING OF MERCED COUNTY ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY 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: United Way of Merced County · Stewart Family Foundation · 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 Hattie Givens Testamentary Trust 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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