· Private foundation
Melvin C Draft 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.
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 $10k36 grants · $100k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $63k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| LONGLEAF ELEMENTARY SCHOOL | $30,000 |
| RIVER RIDGE MIDDLE SCHOOL | $12,500 |
| ST JUDE CHILDRENS RESEARCH HOSPITA | $10,000 |
| GULF HIGH SCHOOL BAND BOOSTERS | $10,000 |
| METROPOLITAN MINISTRIES | $8,000 |
| HABITAT FOR HUMANITY | $7,000 |
| HEARTLAND HORSE HEROES | $5,000 |
| FLORIDA SHERIFFS YOUTH RANCH | $5,000 |
| TEAM RUBICON | $3,012 |
| ALL HANDS & HEARTS | $3,010 |
| CHARLOTTESVILLE AREA DENTAL ACCESS | $3,000 |
| SPCA OF NEW PORT RICHEY | $3,000 |
| PIEDMONT HOUSING ALLIANCE | $3,000 |
| BLUE RIDGE FOOD BANK | $3,000 |
| UVA HEALTH FOUNDATION FBO CHILDREN | $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 (FY19–24, $58k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, 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.
48 repeat relationships — 26 still active in FY2024, 22 since wound down; 13 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, 75% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $40k 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
METROPOLITAN MINISTRIES INC5× · 2020–2024 · $43k · revenue +38%- PHPIEDMONT HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC7× · 2017–2023 · $35k · revenue +152%
- GCGULF COAST HUMANE SOCIETY INC3× · 2017–2019 · $30k · revenue +38%
Funded once
- GSGERMAN SHEPHERD RESCUE OF CENTRALFLone grant, 2017 · $18k
- WAWESTERN ALBEMARLE RESCUE SQUADone grant, 2021 · $5k · revenue +4%
- ANAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branchesone grant, 2022 · $4k · revenue +23%
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.
Rescue pointer dogs and treat back to health and f
Spca tampa bay is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization that operates pinellas county's only nonprofit for-all animal shelter assisting all animals in need, regardless of species or circumstance, at its 10-acre campus in largo. (continued on…
The jacksonville humane society provides care, comfort and compassion to animals in need while engaging the hearts, hands and minds of our community to bring about an end to the killing of abandoned and orphaned shelter animals.
To save the lives of animals through rescue, rehabilitation and adoption; to promote learning, eliminate animal cruelty and be a leader in advancing the highest standards in animal welfare.
The Humane Society of Tampa Bay is dedicated to ending animal homelessness and providing care and comfort for companion animals in need. Our vision is "Leading the way because every life counts". In 2025, we saved 10,631 animals.
To save the lives of pets and people by helping to protect both from zoonotic and other diseases, creating public awareness on animal welfare matters, providing vital education, and acting as a resource for assistance in animal related…
We transform the lives of animals with compassionate care and services, outstanding educational programs, and advocacy for all animals.
Lucky dog animal rescue is a volunteer-powered nonprofit dedicated to rescuing homeless, neglected, and abandoned animals from certain euthanasia and finding them loving forever homes. we educate the community and all pet owners on…
Animal house project's mission is to offer comprehensive support to vulnerable animals. this includes rescuing, adopting, and facilitating access to veterinary care and food. through dedicated efforts, innovative solutions and strategic…
To ensure every companion animal has access to quality medical care, compassionate shelter, and a loving home.
Located in raleigh, nc, the spca of wake county works in over half the state of north carolina through collaborative partnerships that save pets and help people. significant activities include: decreasing the number of animals entering…
To serve our community by promoting animal welfare and strengthening the animal-human bond. to improve the lives of pets through education and protection. to shelter stray, abandoned, and surrendered pets and find them loving homes.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Gulf Coast Humane Society Inc and the most unlike its peers is Buckingham County Vol Fire Department Dba Dillwyn Fire Department. 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 34 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 27% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 17% 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.
40 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. 40 of the 83 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.
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- Who funds GULF COAST HUMANE SOCIETY INC ↗
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- Who funds Buckingham County Vol Fire Department DBA Dillwyn Fire Department ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds Buckingham County Public Library Inc ↗
- Who funds SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS OF W PASCO INC ↗
- Who funds CHARLOTTESVILLE AREA DENTAL ACCESS INC ↗
- Who funds EMERGENCY FOOD NETWORK ↗
- Who funds PIEDMONT HOUSING ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds BLUE RIDGE AREA FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds THE SHRINERS' HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds HEART TO HEART INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
- Who funds Hernando Pasco Hospice Inc ↗
- Who funds THE PARAMOUNT THEATER OF CHARLOTTESVILLE INC ↗
- Who funds THE NORML FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds DIRECT RELIEF ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL RELIEF TEAMS ↗
- Who funds WESTERN ALBEMARLE RESCUE SQUAD ↗
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: Charlottesville Area Community Foundation · Duke Energy Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Network for Good · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · 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 Melvin C Draft 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- The Shriners' Hospital for Children — 6% of income from government
- Pace Center for Girlsinc — 2% of income from government
- One Community Now Inc — 1% of income from government
- Spca Inc — 0% of income from government
- Metropolitan Ministries Inc — 0% of income from government
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc — 0% 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.