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The Dvornak 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.

$356k
Granted FY2025still arriving
16
Grants FY2025still arriving
8
States reached
$333k
Largest
01What you fund
0197% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20192025.

Philanthropy$333kHealth$32kArts & Culture$9kHuman Services$8kPublic Benefit$5kYouth Development$5kInternational$5kEducation$3kOther$0
02FY2025 · 16 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k15 grants · $23k
  • $250k+1 grant · $333k
$1,500
Median grant
8
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
DVORNAK FAMILY FOUNDATION$333,112
ANGEL FLIGHT INC DBA ANGEL FLIGHT SOUTH CENTRAL$2,000
DELIVERING HOPE NOLA$1,500
CHILDREN'S CRANIOFACIAL ASSOCIATION$1,500
THE CHILDRENS HEART FOUNDATION$1,500
OZONE MUSIC EDUCATION FOUNDATION$1,500
HOME RUN HITTERS INTERNATIONAL INC$1,500
PTSD FOUNDATION OF AMERICA$1,500
ONE WAY LOVE INC$1,500
NATIONAL 4-H COUNCIL$1,500
FISHER HOUSE FOUNDATION$1,500
SIRE-THERAPEUTIC HORSEMANSHIP$1,500
SAMARITAN'S PURSE$1,500
ELDERHEART INC DBA MISSION 22$1,500
Individual grant recipient$1,500
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY22–24, $3k) 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.

area typical 11%FAMILIES TO FREEDOM: $2k → 14%FAMILIES TO FREEDOM: $1k → 14%FAMILIES TO FREEDOM: $500 → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

IL
OR
MD
NC
DC
LA
GA
TX

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.

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Where the work is directed

The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.

About 100% of The Dvornak Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 89% of the giving stays in TX; read by stated purpose it is 100% — more of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.

The Dvornak Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address

Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

16%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$66k · 17 repeat orgs$337k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +28% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.

17 repeat relationships — 14 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

17
2

Total granted

$66k
$2k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+28%
0%

Still filing today

76%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 6% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $335k went to new ones.

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

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
ReligionHealthArts & CulturePhilanthropyHuman ServicesPublic BenefitOther

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

  • AF
    ANGEL FLIGHT INC DBA ANGEL FLIGHT SOUTH CENTRAL
    7× · 2019–2025 · $7k · revenue +93%
  • FH
    FISHER HOUSE FOUNDATION INC
    5× · 2021–2025 · $5k · revenue +43%
  • CH
    CHILDREN'S HEART FOUNDATION
    5× · 2021–2025 · $5k · revenue +28%

Funded once

  • MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC
    one grant, 2024 · $2k · revenue 0%
  • RM
    RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE
    one grant, 2021 · $500

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

04Your field

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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Miracle Flights

Miracle flights is a national charity that provides free commercial airline tickets for u.s. residents in need of distant medical care not available in their own communities.

2
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,…

3
Hope for Hie

Hope for HIEs mission is to improve the quality of life for children and families affected by neonatal and pediatric-acquired hypoxic ischemic encephalopathy HIE through awareness advocacy education research and support.

Health
4
Shield of Faith Missions

Sof is called to empower warriors to find purpose, be resilient, and live well. we develop and provide customized treatment plans for veterans through our national network of partners.

Religion
5
Sudden Arrhythmia Death Syndromes

The organization's mission is to save the lives of children and young adults who are genetically predisposed or otherwise susceptible to sudden death to cardiac arrhythmias and to provide education and support to families and the medical…

Health
6
Horses for Healing Inc

The mission of Horses for Healing Inc is the provision of client-centered, trauma-informed, and evidence-based clinical equine psychotherapy and comlementary services that support healing from pervasive trauma.

Health
7
Afe Foundation

We are committed to identifying the cause, diagnosis, prevention, and treatment of amniotic fluid embolism and bring our information and resources to healthcare providers and impacted families through our education and support programs.We…

Health
8
Heroic Hearts Project Inc

Our mission is to provide hope and healing to military veterans that have been left hopeless by the current veteran affairs system. we seek to spread awareness in the veteran community of powerful plant-based treatments as well as other…

International
9
Helicopters for Heroes
Human Services
10
Packages From Home

To send care and comfort packages to deployed american military heroes who are stationed in active duty theaters around the world, as well as to facilitate activities that elevate morale of all veterans

Philanthropy
11
Aeroangel Inc

Since 2010, aeroangel has provided free private jet flights primarily for seriously ill children needing travel to and from distant, life-saving medical care. aeroangel is a unique, national aviation charity that uses only private jets…

Health
12
Medical Mission International - Usa

To relieve and alleviate human suffering, misery, poverty, sickness, and distress throughout the world by providing emergency medical relief, funding, and support.

Religion

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Shepherd Center Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Samaritan's Purse. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

05the grantee network

15 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 15 of the 21 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
15/15
Grantees still filing
8/15
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

DVORNAK FAMILY FOUNDATION — $333,112 · OtherDVORNAK FAMILY FOUNDATION+9 more — $25,250 · Other+9 moreANGEL FLIGHT INC DBA ANGEL FLIGHT SOUTH CENTRAL — $6,500 · HealthCHILDREN'S CRANIOFACIAL ASSOCIATION — $4,000 · HealthELDERHEART INC — $5,250 · Arts & CultureOzone Music Education Foundation Inc — $4,000 · Arts & CultureCHILDREN'S HEART FOUNDATION — $5,000 · PhilanthropySHEPHERD CENTER FOUNDATION INC — $4,000 · PhilanthropyHOME RUN HITTERS INTERNATIONAL INC — $4,000 · Human ServicesFAMILIES TO FREEDOM INC — $3,000 · Human ServicesSAMARITAN'S PURSE — $3,000 · ReligionOne Way Love Inc — $1,500 · ReligionPTSD FOUNDATION OF AMERICA — $4,000 · Public Benefit
Other$358,362Health$10,500Arts & Culture$9,250Philanthropy$9,000Human Services$7,000Religion$4,500Public Benefit$4,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetANGEL FLIGHT INC DBA ANGEL FLIGHT SOUTH CENTRAL — $6,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetELDERHEART INC — $5,250 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetFISHER HOUSE FOUNDATION INC — $5,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCHILDREN'S HEART FOUNDATION — $5,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetOzone Music Education Foundation Inc — $4,000 over 3y, 12% of budgetPTSD FOUNDATION OF AMERICA — $4,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCHILDREN'S CRANIOFACIAL ASSOCIATION — $4,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetSHEPHERD CENTER FOUNDATION INC — $4,000 over 3y, 7.7% of budgetHOME RUN HITTERS INTERNATIONAL INC — $4,000 over 3y, 3.6% of budgetSAMARITAN'S PURSE — $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNational 4-H Council — $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFAMILIES TO FREEDOM INC — $3,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetSIRE INC — $3,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC — $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOne Way Love Inc — $1,500 over 1y, 1.5% of budget
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.

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.

National Philanthropic TrustPA8.8× affinity5 shared granteesties to 5 of 5Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · 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 Dvornak 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.

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202122232425
no gov · 10%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%6%13%19%25%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–25%
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 21 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

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

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