· Private foundation
The Damien Foundation
Its FY2024 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 FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k16 grants · $62k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $21k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| DENVER POLICE OFFICER'S FOUNDATION | $20,729 |
| COMMUNITY NEEDS AGENCY CHILLICOTHE | $9,000 |
| CHILLICOTHE PUBLIC LIBRARY | $7,000 |
| ST JUDE CATHOLIC SCHOOL | $7,000 |
| OUR LADY OF VICTORY SCHOOL | $5,000 |
| CATHOLIC DIOCES OF PEORIA | $5,000 |
| FRIENDSHIP PLACE | $5,000 |
| OUR LADY OF VICTORY CATHOLIC CHURCH | $4,000 |
| STANDING UP TO POTS | $3,365 |
| CHESAPEAKE BAY FOUNDATION | $3,364 |
| 2ND HAND RANCH | $2,729 |
| DIOCESE OF WICHITA | $2,000 |
| THE LORD'S DINER-CATHOLIC DIOCESE | $2,000 |
| THE ARK HUMANE SOCIETY | $2,000 |
| GUADALUPE CLINIC INC | $2,000 |
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 (FY20–21, $2k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% 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 +72% since the first grant, against +58% for the ones you funded once.
38 repeat relationships — 16 still active in FY2024, 22 since wound down; 1 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, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k 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
- DPDENVER POLICE BLUE HAT FOUNDATION8× · 2017–2024 · $163k · revenue +86%
- CNCommunity Needs of Chillicothe Illinois Inc8× · 2017–2024 · $63k · revenue +134%
- FPFriendship Place8× · 2017–2024 · $24k · revenue +104%
Funded once
- SEST EDWARDS CATHOLIC CHURCHone grant, 2020 · $6k
- PHPEORIA HUMANE SOCIETYgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $2k · revenue +138%
- DCDREAM CENTER OF PEORIA NFPgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $2k · revenue +58%
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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Nourishing hope provides food, mental health support, and social services to help all our neighbors thrive.
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To save lives & relieve suffering through health interventions & related activities that strengthen communities affected by conflict, natural disasters & disease outbreaks.
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The organization's mission is to build partnerships to enhance compassionate care globally. we are dedicated to improving access to hospice and palliative care worldwide.
Provide affordable, high-quality health services and remove inequities to improve the lives of all.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Parkinson's Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Community Needs of Chillicothe Illinois Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
20 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. 20 of the 47 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 DENVER POLICE BLUE HAT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Community Needs of Chillicothe Illinois Inc ↗
- Who funds Friendship Place ↗
- Who funds Guadalupe Clinic Inc ↗
- Who funds GREATER PEORIA HONOR FLIGHT ↗
- Who funds STANDING UP TO POTS INC ↗
- Who funds A R K Humane Society Ltd ↗
- Who funds CHESAPEAKE BAY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds HEART OF ILLINOIS HARVEST ↗
- Who funds SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL ROCKFORD COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds ROOM TO READ ↗
- Who funds PANCREATIC CANCER ACTION NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds PEORIA HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds FOR LOVE OF CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds DREAM CENTER OF PEORIA NFP ↗
- Who funds THE SHAKESPEARE THEATRE ↗
- Who funds International Rescue Committee 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: American Endowment Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 The Damien 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.
- Chesapeake Bay Foundation Inc — 2% 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.