· Private foundation
Ralph S French Charitable
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 FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- $10k–50k13 grants · $302k
- $50k–250k10 grants · $800k
- $250k+1 grant · $394k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| NYU COLLEGE OF MEDICINE | $393,916 |
| COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING | $149,566 |
| PINGRY SCHOOL | $149,566 |
| ROSER MEMORIAL CHURCH | $74,783 |
| GOODWILL INDUSTRIES- | $65,000 |
| AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY | $65,000 |
| HUMANE SOCIETY OF MANATEE CO | $64,957 |
| COMMUNITY COALITION ON HOMELESSNESS | $60,913 |
| TIDEWELL HOSPICE INC | $60,000 |
| WOMEN'S RESOURCE CENTER | $60,000 |
| HABITAT FOR HUMANITY | $50,000 |
| BISHOP MUSEUM OF SCIENCE & NATURE | $40,000 |
| STATE COLLEGE OF FLORIDA | $40,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $35,000 |
| SOUTHEASTERN GUIDE DOGS | $33,265 |
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 (FY17–25, $1.1M) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 42% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
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.
28 repeat relationships — 22 still active in FY2025, 6 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, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $45k 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
- THTIDEWELL HOSPICE INC9× · 2017–2025 · $525k · revenue +28%
- SGSoutheastern Guide Dogs Inc9× · 2017–2025 · $423k · revenue +146%
- BMBISHOP MUSEUM OF SCIENCE AND NATURE INC9× · 2017–2025 · $361k · revenue +136%
Funded once
- COCOLLEGE OF MEDICINEone grant, 2017 · $346k
- AHANIMAL HUMANE SOCIETYone grant, 2017 · $28k
- FOFRIENDS OF THE HENNEPIN COUNTY LIBRARYgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $16k · revenue +64%
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.
Providing positive life changing solutions to people and animals in need.
Mission: to protect animals and build connections between pets and people through advocacy and education. vision: leading and guiding a humane lake county core values: compassion for pets and people. engagement through innovative programs,…
Our mission is to further the compassionate safe and responsible relationship between animals and people.
To ensure every companion animal has access to quality medical care, compassionate shelter, and a loving home.
Our mission is to be an innovative regional leader in responsible treatment of homeless dogs and cats, primarily through their rescue and placement in forever loving homes and by promoting spaying and neutering to control pet…
Spca tampa bay is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization that operates pinellas county's only nonprofit for-all animal shelter assisting all animals in need, regardless of species or circumstance, at its 10-acre campus in largo. (continued on…
The jacksonville humane society provides care, comfort and compassion to animals in need while engaging the hearts, hands and minds of our community to bring about an end to the killing of abandoned and orphaned shelter animals.
The Humane Society of Tampa Bay is dedicated to ending animal homelessness and providing care and comfort for companion animals in need. Our vision is "Leading the way because every life counts". In 2025, we saved 10,631 animals.
At humane society silicon valley, our mission is to save lives, keep families together, and create a better future for pets and their people.(see schedule o for continuation)
The aspca's mission, as stated by founder henry bergh in 1866, is "to provide effective means for the prevention of cruelty to animals throughout the united states." the aspca was founded on the belief that animals are entitled to kind and…
Create a more humane world by inspiring compassion, providing hope and advancing the welfare of animals and people.
Can do canines transforms people's lives by creating mutually beneficial partnerships with specially trained dogs.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Community Coalition on Homelessness dba Turning Points and the most unlike its peers is Mote Marine Laboratory Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
18 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. 18 of the 35 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 TIDEWELL HOSPICE INC ↗
- Who funds Community Coalition on Homelessness dba Turning Points ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds Southeastern Guide Dogs Inc ↗
- Who funds BISHOP MUSEUM OF SCIENCE AND NATURE INC ↗
- Who funds AMVETS NATIONAL SERVICE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HOLD YOUR HORSES ↗
- Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
- Who funds Animal Humane Society ↗
- Who funds Douglas Animal Welfare Group ↗
- Who funds Valley Outreach ↗
- Who funds MOTE MARINE LABORATORY INC ↗
- Who funds Tahoe Youth and Family Services ↗
- Who funds ANNA MARIA ISLAND COMMUNITY CENTER ↗
- Who funds PEOPLE REACHING OUT TO OTHER PEOPLE INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE HENNEPIN COUNTY LIBRARY ↗
- Who funds WESTERN COMMUNITIES ACTION NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds Douglas County Sheriffs Advisory Council ↗
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: The Community Foundation of Sarasota Co Inc · Xcel Energy Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation America · National Philanthropic Trust · American Endowment Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
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 Ralph S French Charitable 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.
- Mote Marine Laboratory Inc — 4% of income from government
- Bishop Museum of Science and Nature Inc — 2% of income from government
- Southeastern Guide Dogs Inc — 0% of income from government
- Tidewell Hospice 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.
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