· Private foundation
The Clayton and Billie Poenisch 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 clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k10 grants · $59k
- $10k–50k9 grants · $151k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ORPHANOS FOUNDATION | $32,500 |
| SHRINERS HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN | $30,000 |
| SAMARITAN'S PURSE | $18,125 |
| GARDEN COUNTY SCHOOLS | $15,000 |
| ALICE LLOYD COLLEGE | $15,000 |
| OPERATION KIDS | $10,000 |
| TOHONO CHUL PARK INC | $10,000 |
| SALVATION ARMY OF COASTAL BEND | $10,000 |
| HILLSDALE COLLEGE | $10,000 |
| WRAY COMMUNITY HOSPITAL FOUNDATION | $9,000 |
| WRAY AREA FOUNDATION INC | $9,000 |
| WRAY VOLUNTEER FIRE & RESCUE INC | $9,000 |
| MT VERNON LADIES ASSOCIATION | $8,000 |
| VFW POST 4671 | $5,000 |
| PENCILS OF PROMISE | $5,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $56k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 73% 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +30% since the first grant, against +22% for the ones you funded once.
36 repeat relationships — 14 still active in FY2025, 22 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, 73% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $53k 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
- OFOrphanos Foundation4× · 2019–2025 · $73k · revenue +60%
THE MOUNT VERNON LADIES' ASSOCIATION OF THE UNION6× · 2020–2025 · $53k · revenue +112%- ALALICE LLOYD COLLEGE4× · 2021–2025 · $40k · revenue +63%
Funded once
- OLOGLALA LAKOTA COLLEGEone grant, 2022 · $18k · revenue -8%
- UOUNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA MEDICALone grant, 2024 · $13k
- IVIDALIA VISION FOUNDATION INCgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $13k · revenue +86% · 28% of their budget
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.
Inspiring communities to save wildlife for future generations.
Bringing arizonans together to create a stronger and brighter future for our state.
The american wild horse campaign is the nation's leading conservation organization dedicated to preserving the freedom and habitat of wild horses and burros. through its initiatives in advocacy, conservation, land preservation, and legal…
Aerial recovery's mission is to save lives and stop evil. through the creation and deployment of humanitarian special operators, aerial recovery brings together selected veterans, first responders, and mission-qualified civilians who,…
Wwf's mission is to conserve nature and reduce the most pressing threats to the diversity of life on earth. (continued on schedule o)
God's word is the foundation for all learning. our curriculum and teaching method provides students a comprhensive application of scripture in all disciplines. our goal is to assist each student in developing a biblical world view by…
Our mission: the winsor school prepares young women to pursue their aspirations and contribute to the world.
Honorhealth's mission is to improve the health and well-being of those we serve.
Colorado christian academy provides an innovative christ-centered education that prioritizes academic achievements and individual development of the whole child. in relationship with parents, we will build healthy foundations that result…
Phoenix children's hospital foundation supports phoenix children's hospital through fundraising ensuring that the hospital continues to stay on the leading edge of pediatric medicine and is equipped to fulfill its mission to advance hope,…
The mission of lowell observatory is to pursue the study of astronomy, especially the study of our solar system and its evolution; to conduct pure research in astronomical phenomena; and to maintain quality public education and outreach…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Pencils of Promise Incorporated and the most unlike its peers is Sunny Glen Children's Home Inc. 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 28 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) — 2% 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.
47 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. 47 of the 86 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 THE SHRINERS' HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds Orphanos Foundation ↗
- Who funds HILLSDALE COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds THE MOUNT VERNON LADIES' ASSOCIATION OF THE UNION ↗
- Who funds ALICE LLOYD COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds PENCILS OF PROMISE INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds TOHONO CHUL PARK INC ↗
- Who funds CHAMPION MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds FESTIVAL OF HOPE ↗
- Who funds WRAY COMMUNITY HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WRAY AREA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
- Who funds OGLALA LAKOTA COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds WRAY VOLUNTEER FIRE & RESCUE INC WRAY VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT ↗
- Who funds ARIZONA-SONORA DESERT MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds YOUTH ON THEIR OWN ↗
- Who funds Seeds of Learning ↗
- Who funds THE CHELSEA HUTCHISON FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds IDALIA VISION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Sunny Glen Children's Home Inc ↗
- Who funds HORSES FOR HEROES - NEW MEXICO INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN INITIATIVE FOR HEALTH AND ↗
- Who funds Wentworth Military Academy Museum Inc ↗
- Who funds WRAY COMMUNITY CHILD CARE CENTER ↗
- Who funds SAVE ASIAN SOULS INC ↗
- Who funds KEARNEY AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
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: Kitzmiller-Bales Trust · Nebraska Community Foundation · Colorado Gives Foundation · El Pomar Foundation · Texas Instruments Foundation · Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc · Shell USA Company Foundation · Ge Aerospace Foundation · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · American Endowment Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · The Pfizer 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 The Clayton and Billie Poenisch 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.
- The Shriners' Hospital for Children — 6% 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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