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Polycarp 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 $10k4 grants · $18k
- $10k–50k9 grants · $140k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ITS THE PITS COOKERS | $40,000 |
| TACOMA YOUTH MARINE CENTER | $25,000 |
| AMERICAN NATIONAL RED CROSS | $15,000 |
| TEXAS STATE AQUARIUM | $10,000 |
| AMERICAN LEGION CHARITIES INC | $10,000 |
| THE THANKFUL ONES | $10,000 |
| CYPRESS UNITED METHODIST CHURCH | $10,000 |
| ST ANDREWS EPISCOPAL CHURCH | $10,000 |
| YAGA'S CHILDREN'S FUND | $10,000 |
| HOUSTON ZOO | $5,000 |
| TEXAS AND SOUTHWESTERN CATTLE | $5,000 |
| CHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF HOUSTON | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $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 (FY23–24, $55k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 9% 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.
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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 8% of Polycarp Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 85% of the giving stays in TX; read by stated purpose it is 79% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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 +38% since the first grant, against +12% for the ones you funded once.
15 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2024, 7 since wound down; 5 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, 44% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $88k 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
- ANAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches5× · 2020–2024 · $160k · revenue +38%
- DPDigital Preservation Organization3× · 2021–2023 · $50k · revenue ×88 · 100% of their budget
- SOSONS OF CONFEDERATE VETERANS INC6× · 2017–2022 · $38k · revenue +38%
Funded once
- SSSEA STAR BASE GALVESTONgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $165k · revenue ×13 · 52% of their budget
- FPFIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCHone grant, 2020 · $25k
- CCCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF DALLAS INCgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $25k · revenue +193%
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.
Preservation of maritime history through exhibits and educational programs.
Texas Book Festival connects authors and readers through experiences that celebrate the culture of literacy, ideas, and imagination.
To provide the general public with the rich heart of texas heritage
The mission of the Houston Museum of Natural Science shall be to preserve and advance the general knowledge of natural science; to enhance in individuals the knowledge of and delight in natural science and related subjects; and to maintain…
The dallas museum of art is a space of wonder and discovery where art comes alive.the dma will: - place art and our diverse communities at the center around which all activities radiate - pursue excellence in collecting and programming,…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Marine Military Academy Inc and the most unlike its peers is Sea Star Base Galveston. 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 SEA STAR BASE GALVESTON ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds Digital Preservation Organization ↗
- Who funds IT'S THE PITS COOKERS INC ↗
- Who funds SONS OF CONFEDERATE VETERANS INC ↗
- Who funds MARINE MILITARY ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds THE DALLAS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF DALLAS INC ↗
- Who funds CAFE MOMENTUM ↗
- Who funds ST MARK'S SCHOOL OF TEXAS ↗
- Who funds Houston Zoo Inc ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds Odyssey 2020 Academy Inc ↗
- Who funds The Thankful Ones ↗
- Who funds YAGAS CHILDRENS FUND INC ↗
- Who funds Dallas Intergroup Association ↗
- Who funds Seafarers Center of Beaumont ↗
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 set of overlaps that mostly run through you, not between each other.
Open a dossier: 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 Polycarp 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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