· Private foundation
Im Eleanor Lloyd Dees Foundation
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 FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k17 grants · $53k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $85k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| NATURE CONSERVANCY | $25,000 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA | $20,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $20,000 |
| SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER | $10,000 |
| COMMUNITY IN ACTION | $10,000 |
| ABIGAIL DEES DONOR ADVISED FUND | $6,000 |
| NATIONAL CENTER FOR | $5,000 |
| BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF WESTERN | $5,000 |
| ROCKY MOUNTAIN ELK FDN | $5,000 |
| TAP ANIMAL PROJECT INC | $4,000 |
| THE CALIFORNIA WILDLIFE CENTER | $3,000 |
| WALDENS PUDDLE | $3,000 |
| ELEPHANT SANCTUARY | $3,000 |
| CORNELL UNIVERSITY | $2,500 |
| TRANSGENDER LAW CENTER | $2,500 |
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 (FY17–21, $8k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 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.
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 +46% since the first grant, against +28% for the ones you funded once.
32 repeat relationships — 17 still active in FY2024, 15 since wound down; 3 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, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k 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
- CICommunity in Action7× · 2017–2024 · $53k · revenue +108%
NATIONAL CENTER FOR LGBTQ RIGHTS FKA NATIONAL CENTER FOR LESBIAN RIGHTS2× · 2017–2018 · $35k · revenue +73%- GFGUNTHER FAMILY FOUNDATION INC3× · 2022–2024 · $28k · revenue +332% · 50% of their budget
Funded once
- BWB-Word Worldwide Inc Bitch Mediaone grant, 2018 · $25k · revenue -10%
- CCCULVER CITY COMM SCHOLARSHIP FUNDone grant, 2018 · $15k
- TMTHE MAYOR'S FUND FOR LOS ANGELESone grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue -89%
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.
Panthera's mission is the conservation of the world's 40 wild cat species, many of which are endangered or threatened. panthera develops, implements and oversees wild cat conservation strategies on a global scale.
Wwf's mission is to conserve nature and reduce the most pressing threats to the diversity of life on earth. (continued on schedule o)
Wildlife alliance is the leader in direct protection of forests and wildlife in tropical asia. our mission is to combat deforestation, biodiversity loss, climate change, and poverty by partnering with local communities and governments.…
Defenders of Wildlife is a national, nonprofit membership organization dedicated to the protection of all native animals and plants in their natural communities.
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…
Protection of animal rights
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…
At Environmental and Animal Defense, our mission is to provide Colorado with access to affordable legal services for environmental and animal issues, in addition to protecting wildlife and their habitats through enforcement of the law. No…
To improve the health & well-being of animals through veterinary aid, response, training, research & local capacity building worldwide. We provide services to companion animals, horses, street dogs, livestock and marine animals including…
The aspca's mission, as stated by founder henry bergh in 1866, is "to provide effective means for the prevention of cruelty to animals throughout the united states." the aspca was founded on the belief that animals are entitled to kind and…
The Nonhuman Rights Project (NhRP) is the only civil rights organization in The United States dedicated solely to securing fundamental rights for nonhuman animals and the leading force in building a national and global nonhuman rights…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Elephant Sanctuary in Tennessee and the most unlike its peers is Gunther Family Foundation Inc. 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 30 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) — 6% of your grantees by number, and just 5% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% 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.
35 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. 35 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 THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds Community in Action ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL CENTER FOR LGBTQ RIGHTS FKA NATIONAL CENTER FOR LESBIAN RIGHTS ↗
- Who funds SANILAC COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GUNTHER FAMILY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds B-Word Worldwide Inc Bitch Media ↗
- Who funds WALDENS PUDDLE WILDLIFE REHABILITATION & EDUCATIO ↗
- Who funds Libraries of Eastern Oregon ↗
- Who funds THE CALIFORNIA WILDLIFE CENTER ↗
- Who funds THE ELEPHANT SANCTUARY IN TENNESSEE ↗
- Who funds Blue Mountain Wildlife ↗
- Who funds Cornell University ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds FOUR PAWS INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
- Who funds THE MAYOR'S FUND FOR LOS ANGELES ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF WESTERN TREASURE VALLEY ↗
- Who funds Asia Wild ↗
- Who funds EQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE ↗
- Who funds RAINFOREST TRUST ↗
- Who funds Soi Dog Foundation USA ↗
- Who funds Downtown Dog Rescue ↗
- Who funds Ifc Scholarship-Sponsorship Fund ↗
- Who funds OASIS SANCTUARY FOUNDATION LTD ↗
- Who funds DUKE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds THE FRIENDS OF THE CORNELL LAB OF ORNITHOLOGY 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: AbbVie Foundation · The Roundhouse Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Sempra Foundation · California Community Foundation · Ge Aerospace Foundation · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation 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 Im Eleanor Lloyd Dees 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Community in Action — 65% of income from government
- Blue Mountain Wildlife — 1% 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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