· Private foundation
PB&J Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 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 FY2019–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k10 grants · $29k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $61k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| PRAGER UNIVERSITY | $20,000 |
| FORT WAYNE BALLET | $10,500 |
| CHILDREN'S DEFENSE FUND | $10,000 |
| TURNING POINT USA | $10,000 |
| SISTERS OF LIFE | $10,000 |
| EMMANUEL CHRISTIAN SCHOOL | $8,000 |
| WORLD VENTURES | $5,400 |
| INDEPENDENT ARTS & MEDIA | $5,000 |
| HONEYWELL ARTS ACADEMY | $5,000 |
| ASHER HOUSE | $2,000 |
| EITELJORG MUSEUM OF AMERICAN INDIAN | $1,000 |
| MIAMI NATION OF INDIANAS OF IN | $1,000 |
| LIVE ACTION | $1,000 |
| JUDICIAL WATCH | $500 |
| PAWS OF HONOR | $250 |
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 (FY19–20, $8k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 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.
14 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 75% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $23k 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
- FWFORT WAYNE BALLET INC6× · 2019–2025 · $38k · revenue +26%
CHILDREN'S DEFENSE FUND4× · 2019–2025 · $35k · revenue +39%- TPTURNING POINT USA INC2× · 2024–2025 · $15k · revenue +36%
Funded once
- AWANIMAL WELFARE SOCIETY INCgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $5k · revenue +88%
- SFSEMPER FI & AMERICA'S FUNDgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $5k · revenue +45%
- LELINCOLN ELEMENTARY SCHOOLone grant, 2024 · $2k
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.
Our goal is to sustainably improve animal welfare, provide veterinary care, and improve veterinary education globally. in order to achieve this goal, we work in over 10 countries, across 5 continents, supporting local people and animals,…
The organization's mission is to transform the lives of veterans by helping them save an at risk shelter dog or cat, and to end all animal homelessness in the us and enrich the lives of men and women who serve, and have served our country.…
Since 1951, the animal welfare institute has been dedicated to alleviating animal suffering caused by people. we seek to improve the welfare of animals everywhere: in agriculture, in commerce, in our homes and communities, in research, and…
As america's first animal shelter, founded in 1869, women's humane society dba women's animal center (wac), assists people in the community, saves the lives of animals, and improves the health of pets through its shelter and adoptions…
Animal outlook is a national animal protection organization working to end the abuse of farmed animals using a variety of strategies, including investigations, legal advocacy, corporate and food system reform, and vegan outreach.
Seattle humane promotes the human-animal bond by saving and serving pets in need, regardless of age, ability, circumstance or geography.
A champion for animals since 1967, PAWS is a nationally recognized leader - rehabilitating injured and orphaned wildlife, sheltering and adopting homeless cats and dogs, and educating people to make a better world for animals and people.
The washington humane society protects animals, supports families, and advocates for positive change to create a world where all animals can thrive. we enrich the humanity of our communities by promoting compassion and encouraging people…
Founded in 2023, humane animal partners is a nonprofit no-kill animal care and adoption center. we are committed to providing for the needs of homeless and owned dogs and cats in our community. we make "friends for life" by connecting…
The friends are dedicated to the rescue, protection, and adoption of companion animals in need while inspiring the human-animal bond. we meet our mission by:-saving 100% of healthy and treatable animals.-providing high-quality animal care…
Food & water watch conducts extensive research and public education to ensure the food and water we consume is safe, accessible and sustainably produced. so we can all enjoy and trust in what we eat and drink, we help people take charge of…
Animal care sanctuary's lifesaving mission as a no kill organization envisions a community that promotes turning compassion into action for companion animals by: 1.) adopting healthy pet companions into loving homes. 2.) promoting the…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Petsmart Charities Inc and the most unlike its peers is Wake Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
17 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. 17 of the 30 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 BELOVED NOT FORGOTTEN INC ↗
- Who funds FORT WAYNE BALLET INC ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S DEFENSE FUND ↗
- Who funds TURNING POINT USA INC ↗
- Who funds HUMANE FORT WAYNE INC ↗
- Who funds THE HONEYWELL ARTS ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds PETSMART CHARITIES INC ↗
- Who funds LIVE ACTION ↗
- Who funds WAKE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Independent Arts & Media ↗
- Who funds ANIMAL WELFARE SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds SEMPER FI & AMERICA'S FUND ↗
- Who funds THE ASHER HOUSE ↗
- Who funds BLESSINGS IN A BACKPACK INC ↗
- Who funds COVENANT COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORP ↗
- Who funds JUDICIAL WATCH INC ↗
- Who funds PAWS OF HONOR 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: American Endowment Foundation · Donor Advised Charitable Giving 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 PB&J Foundation Inc 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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