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Regal Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2021–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k314 grants · $343k
- $10k–50k18 grants · $343k
- $50k–250k8 grants · $1.1M
- $250k+3 grants · $1.2M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF AMERICA | $500,000 |
| ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL | $363,092 |
| GARY SINISE FOUNDATION | $349,941 |
| VARIETY OF THE UNITED STATES | $237,047 |
| AMERICAN RED CROSS | $216,122 |
| UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE FOUNDATION | $175,500 |
| BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF THE TENNESSEE VALLEY | $150,000 |
| VARIETY OF EASTERN TENNESSEE | $129,848 |
| HISTORIC TENNESSEE THEATRE | $80,000 |
| LOLLIPOP THEATER NETWORK | $60,000 |
| WILL ROGERS MOTION PICTURE PIONEERS FOUNDATION | $55,500 |
| VARIETY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA | $44,000 |
| AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION (KNOXVILLE) | $40,000 |
| FORT SANDERS FOUNDATION | $30,000 |
| ZOO KNOXVILLE | $27,500 |
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 (FY21–24, $247k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 98% 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.
165 repeat relationships — 113 still active in FY2024, 52 since wound down; 225 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, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $448k 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
- BGBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF AMERICA3× · 2022–2024 · $1.1M · revenue +12%
ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC3× · 2022–2024 · $719k · revenue +59%
GARY SINISE FOUNDATION2× · 2023–2024 · $586k · revenue +701%
Funded once
- AJALSACST JUDE CHILDRENS RESEARCH HOSPITALone grant, 2022 · $353k
- VTVARIETY THE CHILDREN'S CHARITY OF THE USone grant, 2022 · $295k
- VHVISION HOUSEone grant, 2023 · $180k
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.
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Santa barbara humane operates two campuses located in santa barbara and santa maria providing care for community-owned and homeless animals. both campuses offer affordable high quality veterinary care, compassionate behavior training…
In addition to rescue and adoption, pet orphans provides a wide range of services including education, medical/financial, spay/neuter, and training assistance.
The mission of safe haven for cats is to use no-kill principles and education to save cats' lives through rescue, adoption, spay/neuter services and community programs.
Valley Humane Society (VHS) creates a brighter future for cats and dogs by encouraging and strengthening the bond between people and pets. VHS rescues and rehabilitates companion animals, champions responsible caretaking, shares pets'…
To reduce the number of homeless pets through adoption, rescue and spay and neuter programs.
To compassionately serve pets and the people who love them.
Reduce the euthanasia rate of healthy and adoptable animals and improve the lives of companion animals by finding permanent homes for animals in need, providing support to communities who do not have access to humane organizations,…
The austin humane society (ahs) offers comprehensive, humane, life-saving animal services, transforming the lives of animals and those who love them. because we believe homeless animals deserve a chance to thrive in a loving environment,…
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,…
To champion homeless cats and dogs who are healthy or treatable in the quest to find their forever homes and engage with our community to provide responsible pet ownership reducing future generations of homeless animals.
We have a no-kill mission to save the lives of homeless cats and dogs abandoned and/or placed in kill shelters, while also providing life-saving programs and services to keep pets and their people together. through outreach, education and…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Family Violence Center and the most unlike its peers is Runaways Animal Rescue. 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 33 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.5% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
388 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. 388 of the 637 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds VARIETY OF EASTERN TENNESSEE ↗
- Who funds GARY SINISE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF THE TENNESSEE VALL ↗
- Who funds Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc ↗
- Who funds DOGWOOD ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds Covenant Health Foundation ↗
- Who funds WILL ROGERS MOTION PICTURE PIONEERS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds EAST TENNESSEE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds HELEN ROSS MCNABB FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CHILDHELP INC ↗
- Who funds HISTORIC TENNESSEE THEATRE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LOLLIPOP THEATER NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds OPERATION HOMEFRONT INC ↗
- Who funds KNOXVILLE OPERA COMPANY ↗
- Who funds VARIETY BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF BOYLE HEIGHTS ↗
- Who funds KNOXVILLE TRACK & FIELD CLUB INC ↗
- Who funds BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF EAST TENNESSEE INC ↗
- Who funds AUTISM SPEAKS INC ↗
- Who funds RAISE THE FUTURE ↗
- Who funds HAWAII COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF GREAT SMOKY MOUNTAINS NATIONAL PARK ↗
- Who funds FELIX ORGANIZATION - ADOPTEES FOR CHILDREN 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: The Duffield Family Foundation Dba Maddie's Fund · Petco Love · Boys & Girls Clubs of America (Group Return) · Boys & Girls Clubs of America · Haslam Family Foundation Inc · Greater Good Charities · The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals · BISSELL Pet Foundation · East Tennessee Foundation · The Gap Foundation · The Clayton Homes Foundation · Humane World for Animals 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 Regal 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.
- Oregon Spinal Cord Injury Connection — 44% of income from government
- Anchorage Children's Home of Bay County Inc — 14% of income from government
- The Maryland Food Bank Inc — 11% of income from government
- Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc — 7% of income from government
- Best Buddies International Inc — 4% of income from government
- Out Central Oregon — 3% of income from government
- Wounded Warrior Project 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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