· Private foundation
John Sluck & Anita Sluck Foundation
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 FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k37 grants · $124k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| HOSPICE OF TEXARKANA | $10,000 |
| PACT PANTHERS PTO | $6,000 |
| ST MARY'S ORTHODOX CATHEDRAL | $6,000 |
| USA CLAY TARGET LEAGUE | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| TAYLOR COMMUNITY LIBRARY | $5,000 |
| TEAM KOPACZ INC | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| DISBLED VETERANS REST CAMP | $5,000 |
| INVISIBLE WOUNDS PROJECT | $5,000 |
| BIRCHWOOD AREA FOOD PANTRY INC | $5,000 |
| AMERICAN ACCOUNTABILITY FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| LIBERTAS INSTITUTE | $4,000 |
| COMMON HOPE | $3,000 |
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 (FY17–22, $12k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 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 +53% since the first grant, against +24% for the ones you funded once.
42 repeat relationships — 22 still active in FY2024, 20 since wound down; 15 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, 66% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $45k 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
- HOHOSPICE OF TEXARKANA7× · 2018–2024 · $130k · revenue +1%
JUDICIAL WATCH INC8× · 2017–2024 · $38k · revenue +141%
THE HERITAGE FOUNDATION8× · 2017–2024 · $35k · revenue +63%
Funded once
- TFTEAMSTERS FOOD SHELFone grant, 2017 · $10k
- TRTEXARKANA REGIONAL ARTS & HUMANITIEone grant, 2019 · $10k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2017 · $5k
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 open markets institute works to help people relearn how to use competition policy to build stronger democracies, more just and equitable societies, more innovative and sustainable economies, and a more secure and peaceful world.
The federation for american immigration reform's (fair) mission is to educate the public about the economic, sociological, environmental, demographic and other effects of mass immigration to the united states.
The liberal patriot (tlp) is a digital newsletter focused on american politics and public policy. tlp aims to provide readers with honest analysis and original commentary to help advance a vital center perspective in american life.
The institute is a leading research and policy organization committed to advancing sexual and reproductive health and rights in the united states and globally.
Making our government work better is a daunting task, and we are a small organization seeking to transform a government that employs millions of civilians and manages trillions of dollars in taxpayer revenue needed to protect public…
The committee to protect journalists promotes press freedom worldwide and defends the right of journalists to report the news safely and without fear of reprisal. cpj ensures the free flow of news and commentary by taking action wherever…
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…
Free press was created to give people a voice in the crucial decisions that shape our media. we believe that positive social change, racial justice and meaningful engagement in public life require equitable access to technology, diverse…
The policy center is improving maternal mental health outcomes through closing gaps in care delivery, including improving detection and access to evidence-based and informed clinical and community-based care. the policy center has been…
To achieve simple, sensible tax policy at the federal and state levels by producing and disseminating basic information and economically principled analysis of tax policy issues and the size of the tax burden borne by americans at all…
Just capital's mission is to build a more just economy that works for all americans by helping companies improve how they serve all their stakeholders - workers, customers, communities, the environment, and shareholders - as defined by the…
Our mission is to break down barriers to als research to find effective treatments. by uniting academia, the pharma and biotech industry, government, venture capital, related nonprofits, and the als community, we aim to overcome the…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is American Accountability Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Friends of Ronald Reagan Sp. 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 23 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) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% 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, 2017–2026.
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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 41 of the 90 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 HOSPICE OF TEXARKANA ↗
- Who funds RESCUED PETS ARE WONDERFUL ↗
- Who funds BIRCHWOOD AREA FOOD PANTRY INC ↗
- Who funds JUDICIAL WATCH INC ↗
- Who funds THE HERITAGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PROJECT VERITAS ↗
- Who funds CATO INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds Libertas Network ↗
- Who funds Vikings Helping Vikings Inc ↗
- Who funds CAPABLE PARTNERS INC ↗
- Who funds TEE IT UP FOR THE TROOPS INC ↗
- Who funds WATERSPRINGS RANCH INC ↗
- Who funds Invisible Wounds Project Inc ↗
- Who funds TWIN CITIES HABITAT FOR HUMANITY ↗
- Who funds USA CLAY TARGET LEAGUE ↗
- Who funds SECOND AMENDMENT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BELLIS ↗
- Who funds PAWSITIVELY FOR THE ANIMALS ↗
- Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
- Who funds LIVE ACTION ↗
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: Xcel Energy Foundation · Allina Health System · The US Charitable Gift Trust · The Graco Foundation · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · Catholic Community Foundation of Minnesota · The Minneapolis Foundation · Donors Trust Inc · Thrivent Charitable Impact & Investing · United Way Worldwide · Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund
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 John Sluck & Anita Sluck 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.