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The Clayton and Billie Poenisch Foundation at a glance

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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.

$210k
Granted FY2025still arriving
19
Grants FY2025still arriving
14
States reached
$33k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$211kHealth$210kHuman Services$144kArts & Culture$122kInternational$93kReligion$47kCommunity Improvement$43kPublic Safety & Disaster$37kOther$0
02FY2025 · 19 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k10 grants · $59k
  • $10k–50k9 grants · $151k
$9,000
Median grant
14
States reached
$3.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%HEROES & HORSES INC: $3k → 10%SUNNY GLEN CHILDRENS HOME: $12k → 23%SAVE ASIAN SOULS: $5k → 6%HIGH PLAINS HONOR FLIGHT: $5k → 9%OGALLALA WOMENS RESOURCE CENTER: $5k → 11%SAVE ASIAN SOULS: $5k → 6%OGALLALA WOMENS RESOURCE CENTER: $3k → 11%ARCHULETA COUNTY VICTIM ASSISTANCE: $3k → 10%YOUTH ON THEIR OWN: $8k → 15%YOUTH ON THEIR OWN: $4k → 15%COWBOYS AGAINST CANCER: $1k → 12%YOUTH ON THEIR OWN: $2k → 15%YOUTH ON THEIR OWN: $2k → 15%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

MT
WI
MI
NY
WY
SD
CA
UT
CO
NE
MO
KY
VA
MD
AZ
NM
KS
TN
NC
DC
GA
TX
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

74%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$727k · 36 repeat orgs$255k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +30% since the first grant, against +22% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

36
43

Total granted

$727k
$202k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+30%
+22%

Still filing today

61%
47%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 73% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $53k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesHealthArts & CulturePhilanthropyEducationInternationalOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • OF
    Orphanos Foundation
    4× · 2019–2025 · $73k · revenue +60%
  • THE MOUNT VERNON LADIES' ASSOCIATION OF THE UNION
    6× · 2020–2025 · $53k · revenue +112%
  • AL
    ALICE LLOYD COLLEGE
    4× · 2021–2025 · $40k · revenue +63%

Funded once

  • OL
    OGLALA LAKOTA COLLEGE
    one grant, 2022 · $18k · revenue -18%
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA MEDICAL
    one grant, 2024 · $13k
  • IV
    IDALIA VISION FOUNDATION INCgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $13k · revenue +86% · 28% of their budget
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Denver Zoological Foundation

Inspiring communities to save wildlife for future generations.

Animals
2
Center for the Future of Arizona

Bringing arizonans together to create a stronger and brighter future for our state.

Community Improvement
3
American Wild Horse Preservation Campaign

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…

Animals
4
Aerial Recovery

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,…

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5
World Wildlife Fund Inc

Wwf's mission is to conserve nature and reduce the most pressing threats to the diversity of life on earth. (continued on schedule o)

Environment
6
Veritas Academy

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…

Education
7
The Winsor School

Our mission: the winsor school prepares young women to pursue their aspirations and contribute to the world.

Education
8
Honorhealth

Honorhealth's mission is to improve the health and well-being of those we serve.

Health
9
Seeds of Change Foundation
Philanthropy
10
Colorado Christian Academy

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…

Education
11
Phoenix Children's Hospital Foundation

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,…

Health
12
Lowell Observatory

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…

Science & Tech
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Pencils of Promise Incorporated; 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.
04the grantee network

47 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
13
Early backer (in before they grew)
47/47
Grantees still filing
30/47
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

AMERICAN CENTER FOR LAW AND JUSTICE: $23,000 · OtherREGIONAL WEST GARDEN COMMUNITY: $21,000 · OtherOSHKOSH WESLEYAN CHURCH: $20,000 · OtherWRAY AREA FOUNDATION INC: $19,000 · OtherVFW POST 4671: $17,500 · OtherCITY OF WRAY MUSEUM: $17,000 · OtherGARDEN COUNTY SCHOOLS: $15,000 · OtherTOHONO CHUL PARK INC: $32,500 · OtherTOHONO CHUL PARK INCCHAMPION MINISTRIES INC: $21,500 · OtherWRAY VOLUNTEER FIRE & RESCUE INC WRAY VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT: $16,000 · OtherSAMARITAN'S PURSE: $18,125 · Other+42 more: $215,959 · Other+42 moreTHE SHRINERS' HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN: $110,000 · HealthTHE SHRINERS' HOSPI…FESTIVAL OF HOPE: $19,500 · HealthFESTIVAL OF HOPEWRAY COMMUNITY HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $19,000 · HealthWRAY COMMUNITY HOSP…THE CHELSEA HUTCHISON FOUNDATION: $13,000 · HealthTHE CHELSEA HUTCHIS…HORSES FOR HEROES - NEW MEXICO INC: $11,875 · HealthHORSES FOR HEROES -…+2 more: $8,000 · HealthOrphanos Foundation: $72,500 · Human ServicesOrphanos Foun…YOUTH ON THEIR OWN: $14,500 · Human ServicesYOUTH ON THEI…Sunny Glen Children's Home Inc: $12,000 · Human ServicesSunny Glen Ch…SAVE ASIAN SOULS INC: $10,000 · Human ServicesSAVE ASIAN SO…PATHWAYS PREGNANCY CENTER OF OGALLALA: $8,000 · Human ServicesPATHWAYS PREG…High Plains Honor Flight Inc: $5,000 · Human Services+3 more: $6,500 · Human ServicesHILLSDALE COLLEGE: $55,000 · EducationHILLSDALE COL…ALICE LLOYD COLLEGE: $40,000 · EducationALICE LLOYD C…OGLALA LAKOTA COLLEGE: $17,500 · EducationOGLALA LAKOTA…Seeds of Learning: $14,000 · EducationSeeds of Lear…THE MOUNT VERNON LADIES' ASSOCIATION OF THE UNION: $53,000 · Arts & CultureTHE MOUNT…ARIZONA-SONORA DESERT MUSEUM: $15,000 · Arts & CultureARIZONA-S…Wentworth Military Academy Museum Inc: $10,500 · Arts & CultureWentworth…The Goodfellow Historical Foundation: $5,000 · Arts & CultureThe Goodf…Beyond Words International: $3,000 · Arts & CultureAMERICAN INITIATIVE FOR HEALTH AND: $11,500 · PhilanthropyWRAY COMMUNITY CHILD CARE CENTER: $10,500 · PhilanthropyKEARNEY AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $10,000 · PhilanthropyOK Foundation: $10,000 · PhilanthropyCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION BOULDER COUNTY: $5,000 · PhilanthropyPENCILS OF PROMISE INCORPORATED: $35,000 · InternationalBRIDGES OF HOPE INC: $9,000 · InternationalYOUTHLINC: $2,000 · International
Other$436,584Health$181,375Human Services$128,500Education$126,500Arts & Culture$86,500Philanthropy$47,000International$46,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTHE SHRINERS' HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN: $110,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetOrphanos Foundation: $72,500 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetHILLSDALE COLLEGE: $55,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MOUNT VERNON LADIES' ASSOCIATION OF THE UNION: $53,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetALICE LLOYD COLLEGE: $40,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetPENCILS OF PROMISE INCORPORATED: $35,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetTOHONO CHUL PARK INC: $32,500 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetCHAMPION MINISTRIES INC: $21,500 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetFESTIVAL OF HOPE: $19,500 over 6y, 1.7% of budgetWRAY COMMUNITY HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $19,000 over 2y, 94% of budgetWRAY AREA FOUNDATION INC: $19,000 over 2y, 7.8% of budgetOGLALA LAKOTA COLLEGE: $17,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWRAY VOLUNTEER FIRE & RESCUE INC WRAY VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT: $16,000 over 3y, 6.7% of budgetARIZONA-SONORA DESERT MUSEUM: $15,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetYOUTH ON THEIR OWN: $14,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetSeeds of Learning: $14,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetTHE CHELSEA HUTCHISON FOUNDATION: $13,000 over 2y, 2.8% of budgetIDALIA VISION FOUNDATION INC: $12,500 over 1y, 28% of budgetSunny Glen Children's Home Inc: $12,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetHORSES FOR HEROES - NEW MEXICO INC: $11,875 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetAMERICAN INITIATIVE FOR HEALTH AND: $11,500 over 2y, 9.8% of budgetWentworth Military Academy Museum Inc: $10,500 over 3y, 2.2% of budgetWRAY COMMUNITY CHILD CARE CENTER: $10,500 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetKEARNEY AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSAVE ASIAN SOULS INC: $10,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetBRIDGES OF HOPE INC: $9,000 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetPATHWAYS PREGNANCY CENTER OF OGALLALA: $8,000 over 2y, 5.0% of budgetThe Goodfellow Historical Foundation: $5,000 over 1y, 7.1% of budgetTHE AOPA FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLIFESTRIDERS INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetHigh Plains Honor Flight Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetST MARY'S FOOD BANK ALLIANCE: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION BOULDER COUNTY: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJUDICIAL WATCH INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNEBRASKA FFA FOUNDATION: $4,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetMULEY FANATIC FOUNDATION OF WYOMING INC: $3,750 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetARCHULETA COUNTY VICTIM ASSISTANCE PROGRAM INC: $3,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetCHILDREN'S DIABETES FOUNDATION: $3,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHEROES AND HORSES INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetYOUTHLINC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetXEROCRAFT INC: $1,500 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetCOWBOYS AGAINST CANCER: $1,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetSister Jose Women's Center: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHUMANE SOCIETY OF PAGOSA SPRINGS: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Kitzmiller-Bales TrustNebraska Community Fo…Colorado Gives Founda…El Pomar FoundationTexas Instruments Fou…Renaissance Charitabl…Shell USA Company Fou…Ge Aerospace Foundati…Raymond James Charita…American Endowment Fo…The Blackbaud Giving …The Pfizer Foundation…
Kitzmiller-Bales TrustCO13.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 2 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Clayton and Billie Poenisch Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Clayton and Billie Poenisch Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 6%
  • The Shriners' Hospital for Children: 6% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
10report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
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How do I get to The Clayton and Billie Poenisch Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Clayton and Billie Poenisch Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 86 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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