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Shomos Family Foundation Ltd
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.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE SALVATION ARMY WORLD SERVICE OFFICE | $5,000 |
| DIRECT RELIEF | $5,000 |
| FRIENDS OF PBS WISCONSIN INC | $5,000 |
| DRIPPING SPRINGS HELPING HANDS INC | $5,000 |
| CANCER RESEARCH INSTITUTE INC | $5,000 |
| ASHOKAN FOUNDATION INC | $4,000 |
| TRAVIS HEIGHTS ART TRAIL | $4,000 |
| SUSTAINABLE FOOD CENTER INC | $3,000 |
| SECOND HARVEST FOODBANK OF SOUTHERN WI | $3,000 |
| THE PUBLIC FOR ANIMAL WELFARE INC (PAWS SHELTER OF CENTRAL TEXAS) | $3,000 |
| AUSTIN FRIENDS OF TRADITIONAL MUSIC | $3,000 |
| ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE AND RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC (WI CHAPTER) | $3,000 |
| CENTER FOR WOMEN & THEIR WORK INC | $3,000 |
| NATIONAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC | $3,000 |
| AUSTIN ZOO INC | $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 (FY17–25, $77k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 39% 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.
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.
83 repeat relationships — 52 still active in FY2025, 31 since wound down; 4 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, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k 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
DIRECT RELIEF9× · 2017–2025 · $42k · revenue +94%- CRCANCER RESEARCH INSTITUTE INC9× · 2017–2025 · $34k · revenue +43%
- SFSUSTAINABLE FOOD CENTER9× · 2017–2025 · $28k · revenue +281%
Funded once
- FOFRIENDS OF EAGER FREE PUBLIC LIBRARY INCone grant, 2020 · $20k · revenue -89% · 75% of their budget
- FOFRIENDS OF THE EAGER FREE PUBLIC LIBRARYone grant, 2019 · $20k
- GGGREATER GOOD CHARITIESgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $2k · revenue +237%
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.
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.
The spca of texas is dedicated to providing every animal exceptional care and a loving home.
The humane animal welfare society of waukesha county leads the community in animal welfare and assures sanctuary for animals in need.
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…
Legal protection and advocacy to protect the rights of people with disabilities in wisconsin.
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…
Midwest dairy works with others to give consumers an excellent dairy experience increasing sales, fostering innovation, and inspiring consumer confidence of dairy products and practices.
Seattle humane promotes the human-animal bond by saving and serving pets in need, regardless of age, ability, circumstance or geography.
The mission of the Wisconsin Humane Society is to make a difference for animals and the people who love them.
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…
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,…
Our mission is to create a kinder world for pets and the people who love them by providing lifesaving care, innovative programs, and community resources.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Community Foundation of Southern Wisconsin Inc and the most unlike its peers is Therapy Pet Pals of Texas. 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 36 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% 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.
86 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. 86 of the 115 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 COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF SOUTHERN WISCONSIN INC ↗
- Who funds DRIPPING SPRINGS HELPING HANDS INC ↗
- Who funds DIRECT RELIEF ↗
- Who funds CANCER RESEARCH INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds SUSTAINABLE FOOD CENTER ↗
- Who funds AUSTIN ZOO INC ↗
- Who funds ASHOKAN FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Travis Heights Art Trail ↗
- Who funds Center for Women and Their Work Inc ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF EAGER FREE PUBLIC LIBRARY INC ↗
- Who funds FAMILY ELDERCARE INC ↗
- Who funds THERAPY PET PALS OF TEXAS ↗
- Who funds HILL COUNTRY CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds PAWS OF AUSTIN Protection of Animal Welfare Services ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF PBS WISCONSIN INC ↗
- Who funds WIMBERLEY ADOPTION GROUP AND RESCUE CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds WISCONSIN PUBLIC RADIO ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds SECOND HARVEST FOODBANK OF SOUTHERN WI ↗
- Who funds EMANCIPET INC ↗
- Who funds REWILD ↗
- Who funds SHELTERBOX USA INC ↗
- Who funds EVANSVILLE ECUMENICAL CARE CLOSET LTD ↗
- Who funds OXFAM-AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds ENERGY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds Central Texas Food Bank Inc ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY ACTION INC OF ROCK & WALWORTH COUNTIES ↗
- Who funds ALS THERAPY DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds AUSTIN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds PETS FOR THE ELDERLY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PORCHLIGHT INC ↗
- Who funds The Public For Animal Welfare Inc ↗
- Who funds CLEAN AIR TASK FORCE INC ↗
- Who funds Mujeres en Cambio De San Miguel De Allende ↗
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: Alliant Energy Foundation Inc · Austin Community Foundation Inc · Madison Community Foundation · Greater Green Bay Community Foundation Inc · United Way of Dane County Inc · Madison Gas and Electric Foundation Inc · Community Foundation of Southern Wisconsin Inc · Green Bay Packers Foundation · Herbert H Kohl Charities Inc · Hooper Corp Foundation · Jpc Foundation · Sub-Zero Group Foundation 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 Shomos Family Foundation Ltd 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.
- Als Therapy Development Foundation Inc — 8% of income from government
- Oxfam-America 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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