· Private foundation
Partan 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.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CHILDREN INC | $1,500 |
| CAPITAL AREA FOODBANK | $1,500 |
| MANNA FOOD CENTER | $1,500 |
| WOMEN FOR WOMEN INTERNATIONAL | $1,360 |
| MBHS MAGNET FOUNDATION INC | $1,100 |
| WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC | $1,000 |
| WAMU | $1,000 |
| MEALS ON WHEELS OF TAKOMA PARK | $1,000 |
| BLAIR HIGH SCHOOL MAGNET PROGRAM | $1,000 |
| TAKOMA FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| SOME | $1,000 |
| TAKOMA PARK EMERGENCY ASSISTANCE FUND | $1,000 |
| CONSUMER REPORT | $1,000 |
| SHEPHERDS TABLE INC | $1,000 |
| TOMMY'S PANTRY-CHURCH OF THE ASCENSION | $1,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $7k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 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.
92 repeat relationships — 78 still active in FY2024, 14 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $500 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
- CICHILDREN INCORPORATED8× · 2017–2024 · $12k · revenue +41%
- WFWOMEN FOR WOMEN INTERNATIONAL8× · 2017–2024 · $10k · revenue +41%
- MFMANNA FOOD CENTER INC8× · 2017–2024 · $10k · revenue +82%
Funded once
- TPTakoma Park Middle School - PTAone grant, 2017 · $1k
- TPTHROUGH PISCATAWAY EYES TPE INCone grant, 2022 · $100
- EPEastham Police Associationone grant, 2021 · $100
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.
Friends of the earth strives for a more healthy and just world by defendng the environment and human health while advancing social and economic justice by conducting research and education, transforming the economy so it protects the…
Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.
Wwf's mission is to conserve nature and reduce the most pressing threats to the diversity of life on earth. (continued on schedule o)
Create a more accessible, sustainable, prosperous and livable national capital region by being a discussion forum, expert resource, issue advocate, and catalyst for action.
Water.org's goal is to bring safe water and sanitation to the world through access to small, affordable loans.
Actionaid is an international network building a just, equitable, and sustainable world in solidarity with communities on the frontlines of poverty and injustice. actionaid usa is the u.s. branch of actionaid international, which works in…
See schedule oustelecom exists to ensure members can compete, grow and thrive to build a world where families, enterprises and communities are connected through the power of broadband.our member companies have committed a considerable…
To establish and promote programs to protect the global climate, forests, wildlife and the natural environment, through research, advocacy, and investigation.
To engage and catalyze global seafood supply chains in rebuilding depleted fish stocks and reducing the environmental impacts of fishing and fish farming.
Wildaid's mission is to inspire change and empower the world to protect wildlife and vital habitats from critical threats.
Iatp works locally and globally at the intersection of policy and practice to ensure fair and sustainable food, farm and trade systems.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Children's Hospital Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Share. 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 43 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 7% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 14% 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.
56 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. 56 of the 101 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 CHILDREN INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds WOMEN FOR WOMEN INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds MANNA FOOD CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds CAPITAL AREA FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds SOME INC ↗
- Who funds CONSUMER REPORTS INC ↗
- Who funds The Shepherds Table Inc ↗
- Who funds ST MARY'S COLLEGE OF MARYLAND FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE GLOBAL HUNGER PROJECT ↗
- Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds ALTERNATIVE GIFTS OF GREATER WASHINGTON INC ↗
- Who funds TOMMYS PANTRY INC ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HISTORIC TAKOMA INC ↗
- Who funds Takoma Park Volunteer Fire Dept Inc ↗
- Who funds OXFAM-AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds SMILE TRAIN INC ↗
- Who funds JANE GOODALL INSTITUTE FOR WILDLIFE RESEARCH EDUCATION AND CONSERVATION ↗
- Who funds Mercy Corps ↗
- Who funds WASHINGTON HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds THE ZACHARY & ELIZABETH M FISHER CENTER FOR ALZHEIMER'S RESEARCH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Wildlife Conservation Society ↗
- Who funds PROJECT ORBIS INTERNATIONAL 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: Greater Washington Community Foundation · T Rowe Price Program for Charitable Giving Inc · Ibm International Foundation · Ge Aerospace Foundation · Verizon Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · American Endowment Foundation · 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 Partan 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.
- Chesapeake Bay Trust — 100% of income from government
- Association to Preserve Cape Cod Inc — 100% of income from government
- Mercy Corps — 47% of income from government
- Mobile Medical Care Inc — 17% of income from government
- Lower Cape Outreach Councilinc — 6% of income from government
- Chesapeake Bay Foundation Inc — 2% of income from government
- Manna Food Center Inc — 1% of income from government
- Americares Foundation Inc — 0% of income from government
- Oxfam-America 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.