· Private foundation
Nita Thiessen 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 FY2022–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k2 grants · $6k
- $10k–50k27 grants · $400k
- $50k–250k6 grants · $945k
- $250k+1 grant · $300k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Impact Church | $300,000 |
| Roots & Wings Inc | $225,000 |
| Tigertown Mennonite Evangelical Church | $200,000 |
| Centro de Rehabilitacion Luz en mi Camino AC | $200,000 |
| Lighthouse Mission Church | $160,000 |
| Vida 180 | $100,000 |
| Victory Life Church | $60,000 |
| Adult Teen Chalenge of Texas | $40,000 |
| His Little Feet | $25,000 |
| Depot Christian School | $25,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $25,000 |
| Red River Valley Down Syndrome Society | $20,000 |
| Downtown Food Pantry | $20,000 |
| Word of Life Fellowship INC | $20,000 |
| Como Volunteer Fire Department | $20,000 |
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 (FY22–24, $75k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
27 repeat relationships — 27 still active in FY2024, 0 since wound down; 9 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, 78% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $366k 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
- RWRoots & Wings International Ministries3× · 2022–2024 · $260k · revenue +81% · 54% of their budget
- CFCASA For Kids Inc3× · 2022–2024 · $32k · revenue +20%
- RRRed River Valley Down Syndrome Society2× · 2023–2024 · $30k · revenue +19%
Funded once
- MIMedi-Chair Incone grant, 2023 · $43k
- COCity of Reno Texasone grant, 2022 · $25k
- EVEnnis Volunteer Fire Deptone grant, 2023 · $10k
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 provide a supportive environment where foster families, biological families, and the children they love and service may work toward healing from painful pasts through faith and friendship.
Continue to provide rescues of horses,donkeys, and large dogs
Firefighter & emergency medical services for the waskom, tx area.
Christain Home
West Harrison Volunteer Fire Department is organized to provide fire fighting, rescue and other emergency services for the preservation of life and the protection of property from fire or other emergencies within the area of its operation…
Providing volunteer fire-fighting services on the west side of Possum Kingdom Lake in Palo Pinto County.
Animal Rescue
To provide healing and restoration through God's love and grace for children who have been abused, abandoned or neglected.
The Lullaby House missionis ot strengthen families by providing programs and services to teenage parents and familites in need which will inspire and promote generational change.
Support of special needs military or first responders and their families.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is His Little Feet and the most unlike its peers is Paris Pregnancy Care Center Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
11 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. 11 of the 49 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 Roots & Wings International Ministries ↗
- Who funds HIS LITTLE FEET ↗
- Who funds WORD OF LIFE FELLOWSHIP INC ↗
- Who funds CASA For Kids Inc ↗
- Who funds BROOKSTON VFD ↗
- Who funds PARIS AREA HOMESCHOOL ATHLETIC ASSO ↗
- Who funds Red River Valley Down Syndrome Society ↗
- Who funds Paris Pregnancy Care Center Inc ↗
- Who funds ROXTON VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT ↗
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.
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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 Nita Thiessen 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.
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