· Private foundation
Snow Foundation
Its FY2022 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Read this first · the figures below need context
97% of Snow Foundation’s FY2022 grant dollars went to Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2022 names 3 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2021, the last year Snow Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 11 organizations, $8k. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2021–2022.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| St Lawrence Foundation | $1,000 |
| Celebration Child Care | $1,000 |
| Lambs Farm Foundation | $500 |
| Our House of Hope | $500 |
| St Lawrence Church | $500 |
| Hope Food Pantry | $500 |
| American Red Cross | $500 |
| Glenkirk Foundation | $500 |
| Ill Restaurant Asso Ed Foudation | $500 |
| PADS Lake County | $500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $300 |
| Individual grant recipient | $300 |
| Salvation Army | $300 |
| Wounded Warrior Project | $300 |
| Smile Train | $200 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY21–22) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 14% of your 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +73% since the first grant, against +13% for the ones you funded once.
3 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2021, 0 since wound down; 21 grantees were first funded in FY2021 (too recent to call). Read against FY2021, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.
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 FY2022, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- TLTHE LAMBS FARM INC2× · 2021–2022 · $1k · revenue +73%
- PLPADS Lake County Inc2× · 2021–2022 · $1k · revenue +94%
- SOSPECIAL OLYMPICS ILLINOIS2× · 2021–2022 · $500 · revenue +34%
Funded once
- SLSt Lawrence Foundationone grant, 2021 · $1k
- CCCelebration Child Careone grant, 2021 · $1k
- OHOUR HOUSE OF HOPE INCone grant, 2021 · $500 · revenue +13%
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.
Rainforest trust saves endangered wildlife and protects our planet by creating rainforest reserves through partnerships, community engagement, and donor support.
Lincoln park zoo is dedicated to connecting people with nature by providing a free, family-oriented wildlife experience in the heart of chicago and by advancing the highest quality of animal care, horticulture, education, science and…
Water.org's goal is to bring safe water and sanitation to the world through access to small, affordable loans.
To provide opportunity for individuals with disability to live a healthy lifestyle through physical activity, research, advocacy and health promotion.
The mission of goodwill industries of southeastern wisconsin, inc. ("goodwill") is: connecting people to work. preparing people for life. goodwill is dedicated to creating collective community impact through (continued on schedule o)
To empower people with special needs to become self-sufficient through the power of work.
Our organization's mission is to raise awareness for and provide physical aid and support to disabled us military veterans. our program covers a crucial gap in the industry-a veteran operated organization, that can assist veterans with…
To engage and catalyze global seafood supply chains in rebuilding depleted fish stocks and reducing the environmental impacts of fishing and fish farming.
Common impact's mission is to strengthen the capacity of social change organizations, enabling them to better run and scale their programs. through its partnership with companies, common impact taps into the business skills and expertise…
Living Well Disability Services transforms the lives of people impacted by disabilities through the delivery of exceptional services.
With our partners, we work to improve health and create a better health care system so that people and communities will flourish.
To maintain economic vitality and quality of life in lake county, illinois by creating and retaining quality jobs, stimulating capital investment, pursuing economic diversity and improving the county's business climate.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Wounded Warrior Project Inc and the most unlike its peers is Pads Lake County Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
11 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. 11 of the 25 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 FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ↗
- Who funds THE LAMBS FARM INC ↗
- Who funds PADS Lake County Inc ↗
- Who funds OUR HOUSE OF HOPE INC ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds SPECIAL OLYMPICS ILLINOIS ↗
- Who funds WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds SMILE TRAIN INC ↗
- Who funds MainStreet Libertyville Inc ↗
- Who funds WARRIORS & QUIET WATERS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds COALITION FOR RAINFOREST NATIONS SECRETARIAT ↗
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: AbbVie 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 Snow 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.
- 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.