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Jill and Thomas Siering Family Foundation at a glance

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Jill and Thomas Siering Family 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.

$23k
Granted FY2024still arriving
7
Grants FY2024still arriving
4
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.

Human Services$68kEnvironment$46kHousing & Shelter$45kEducation$27kPublic Safety & Disaster$23kRecreation & Sports$22kHealth$11kAnimals$10kOther$0
02FY2024 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k6 grants · $13k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
$2,500
Median grant
4
States reached
$786k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE EVERGLADES FOUNDATION INC$10,000
WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC$5,000
COLLIER COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$3,000
CONFIDENCE LEARNING CENTER INC$2,500
ARTIS NAPLES INC$1,600
BRECK SCHOOL$524
FOUNDATION OF GREATER MUSCATINE$500
02The need
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Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY18–22, $68k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%BIG LEAGUE IMPACT: $2k → 11%CHARITY WATER: $20k → 17%BIG LEAGUE IMPACT: $25k → 13%BIG LEAGUE IMPACT: $2k → 11%BIG LEAGUE IMPACT INC: $19k → 13%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

ME
MN
NY
IA
MD
AZ
DC
GA
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
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Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 65% of Jill and Thomas Siering Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 32% of the giving stays in FL; by stated purpose, 5%.

Jill and Thomas Siering Family Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
How this is measured
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

50%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$133k · 7 repeat orgs$136k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +37% since the first grant, against +17% for those funded once.

7 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2024, 2 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

7
14

Total granted

$133k
$136k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+37%
+17%

Still filing today

100%
71%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesEducationAnimalsInternationalEnvironmentHousing & ShelterOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • BL
    Big League Impact Inc
    4× · 2018–2022 · $48k · revenue +93%
  • THE EVERGLADES FOUNDATION INC
    5× · 2019–2024 · $46k · revenue +226%
  • CL
    CONFIDENCE LEARNING CENTER INC
    6× · 2019–2024 · $12k · revenue +59%

Funded once

  • BT
    Breakthrough Twin Citiesgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $25k · revenue +95%
  • TC
    TWIN CITIES HABITAT FOR HUMANITYgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $25k · revenue +53%
  • CHARITY GLOBAL INC
    one grant, 2018 · $20k · revenue +17%
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Children's Health Care

We champion the health needs of children and families. we are committed to improving children's health by providing the highest-quality, family centered care, advanced through research and education.

Health
2
Conservation International Foundation

Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.

Environment
3
Minnesota Council on Foundations

MCF is a vibrant philanthropic community connecting, strengthening and mobilizing the power of philanthropy to advance prosperity and equity.

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4
World Wildlife Fund Inc

Wwf's mission is to conserve nature and reduce the most pressing threats to the diversity of life on earth. (continued on schedule o)

Environment
5
Rainforest Alliance Inc

RA works at the intersection of business, agriculture & forests to improve lives & protect nature by transforming how land is used, production of goods & consumer choices.

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6
Environmental Initiative

Catalyze collaboration across perspectives, power, and systems for social equity and environmental health.

Environment
7
Habitat for Humanity of Minnesota Inc

Habitat for humanity brings people together to build homes, community, and hope. through advocacy, collaboration, and leadership, hfh-mn advances the work of minnesota's habitat for humanity affiliates to create and preserve affordable…

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8
Ocean Conservancy

Ocean conservancy unites science, people, and policy to protect our ocean, today and for generations to come.

Environment
9
Sustainable Fisheries Partnership Foundation

To engage and catalyze global seafood supply chains in rebuilding depleted fish stocks and reducing the environmental impacts of fishing and fish farming.

Animals
10
Women's Foundation of Minnesota

Women's Foundation of Minnesota is a statewide community foundation investing in ending systemic inequities and driving innovation for gender and racial justice. WFM applies an Intersectional Equity Framework inclusive of gender, race,…

Philanthropy
11
Children's Hospital Corporation

Provider of pediatric healthcare, education, research & community service

Health
12
Minnesota Women Lawyers

To advance the success of women attorneys and strive for a just society.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Collier Community Foundation Inc; the most unlike its peers is Florida Brittany Rescue Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network

20 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 20 of the 23 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
19/20
Grantees still filing
14/20
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Big League Impact Inc: $47,500 · Human ServicesBig League Impact IncCHARITY GLOBAL INC: $20,000 · Human ServicesCHARITY GLOBAL INCAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $10,000 · Human ServicesAmerican National Red Cross & It…TWIN CITIES HABITAT FOR HUMANITY: $25,000 · OtherTWIN CITIES HABITAT FOR HUMANITYCONFIDENCE LEARNING CENTER INC: $11,500 · OtherCONFIDENCE LEARNING CENTER INCSALVATION ARMY: $10,000 · OtherSALVATION ARMYHABITAT FOR HUMANITY COLLIER CO: $10,000 · OtherHABITAT FOR HUMANITY COLLIER COCOLLIER COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $3,000 · OtherWHEELCHAIR SPORTS FEDERATION INC: $10,000 · OtherWHEELCHAIR SPORTS FEDERATION INCFLORIDA BRITTANY RESCUE INC: $5,000 · OtherFLORIDA BRITTANY RESCUE INCAnimal Humane Society: $5,000 · OtherAnimal Humane SocietyARTIS-NAPLES INC: $3,200 · Other+4 more: $4,001 · OtherTHE EVERGLADES FOUNDATION INC: $46,000 · EnvironmentTHE EVERGLADES FOUN…Breakthrough Twin Cities: $25,000 · EducationBreakthroug…Breck School: $1,774 · EducationBreck Schoo…WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $13,000 · InternationalMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $2,000 · InternationalHabitat for Humanity of Collier County Inc: $10,000 · Housing & ShelterWashburn Center for Children: $10,000 · Health
Human Services$77,500Other$86,701Environment$46,000Education$26,774International$15,000Housing & Shelter$10,000Health$10,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetBig League Impact Inc: $47,500 over 4y, 2.6% of budgetTHE EVERGLADES FOUNDATION INC: $46,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetBreakthrough Twin Cities: $25,000 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetTWIN CITIES HABITAT FOR HUMANITY: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCHARITY GLOBAL INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $13,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCONFIDENCE LEARNING CENTER INC: $11,500 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetHabitat for Humanity of Collier County Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWashburn Center for Children: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWHEELCHAIR SPORTS FEDERATION INC: $10,000 over 1y, 6.3% of budgetFLORIDA BRITTANY RESCUE INC: $5,000 over 1y, 7.4% of budgetAnimal Humane Society: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetARTIS-NAPLES INC: $3,200 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCOLLIER COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMINNESOTA TWINS COMMUNITY FUND: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBreck School: $1,774 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSPROUT MN: $501 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GREATER MUSCATINE: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

The Blackbaud Giving …American Online Givin…Fidelity Investments …Donor Advised Charita…Amazonsmile Foundation
The Blackbaud Giving FundSC9.8× affinity4 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Blackbaud Giving Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Jill and Thomas Siering Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Jill and Thomas Siering Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    2get no government money at all
    7report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 23 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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