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Pontikes Family Foundation
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 FY2021–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k2 grants · $4k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $280k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SOC-F | $100,000 |
| TOMAHAWK CHARITABLE SOLUTIONS FOUNDATION INC | $80,000 |
| THE VETERANS CENTER | $50,000 |
| THE STATION FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| STRINGS MUSIC FESTIVAL | $10,000 |
| PORTLAND SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA | $1,971 |
| TOMAHAWK CHARITABLE SOLUTIONS FOUNDATION INC | $1,815 |
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 (FY21–21, $20k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +21% since the first grant, against +20% for the ones you funded once.
4 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2025, 0 since wound down; 2 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, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $52k 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
- TCTOMAHAWK CHARITABLE SOLUTIONS FOUNDATION INC5× · 2021–2025 · $309k · revenue +21%
- TSTHE STATION FOUNDATION2× · 2024–2025 · $125k · revenue +5%
- SMSTRINGS MUSIC FESTIVAL3× · 2023–2025 · $26k · revenue +47%
Funded once
University of Chicagoone grant, 2024 · $25k · revenue +15%- SOSPECIAL OPERATIONS CARE FUND INCgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $20k · revenue +31%
- SFSPECIAL FORCES ASSOCIATIONone grant, 2021 · $15k · revenue +12%
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 special operators transition foundation ("sotf") assists special operation forces veterans transition from the military into their next successful career.
Msofc's mission is to enable the sustained success of america's special ops warriors and families through collaborative health and well-being research and programs. these programs include virtual education events, training & workshops for…
The special forces foundation provides immediate and ongoing support to the special forces community and their families.
The purpose of the special forces scholarship fund (sfsf) is to award merit based post secondary educational scholarships to the daughters and sons of current and veteran special forces soldiers.
To be north carolina's state orchestra, an orchestra achieving the highest level of artistic quality and performance standards, and embracing its dual legacies of statewide service and music education.
Special ops survivors advances the mission "to embrace and empower surviving spouses of fallen special operations heroes to build healthy post-loss futures as they transition and rebuild their new lives." the foundation provides programs…
We are committed to American interests, both domestic and abroad. We strive to enhance national security and enrich our democracy, elevating our communitys voice and promoting the Ground Truth to the highest levels of government. We are…
The Special Operations Fund (the "Fund") is a nonprofit organization that provides educational grants and support to the families of special mission unit warriors killed in action, killed in training, died in the line of duty, suicide, and…
The Special Operations Association Foundation supports Special Operations veterans and active-duty members, along with their families and survivors. The goals are to support the educational awards program, provide emotional support to…
We are committed to american interests, both domestic and abroad. strive to enhance national security and enrich our democracy, elevating our community's voice and promoting the ground truth to the highest levels of government. committed…
To receive and hold the endowment of the north carolina symphony society, inc. (the "society"), solicit additions to the endowment, safeguard assets, and expend funds for the exclusive use and benefit of the society.
Provide a forum for the interchange of medical knowledge as it relates to the practice of care for military personnel.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Tomahawk Charitable Solutions Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Working Bikes. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
8 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. 8 of the 11 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 TOMAHAWK CHARITABLE SOLUTIONS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE STATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds STRINGS MUSIC FESTIVAL ↗
- Who funds University of Chicago ↗
- Who funds SPECIAL OPERATIONS CARE FUND INC ↗
- Who funds SPECIAL FORCES ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds Working Bikes ↗
- Who funds PORTLAND MAINE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ↗
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: National Philanthropic Trust · American Endowment Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · 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 Pontikes 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 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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