· Private foundation
The Elaine Dewey Sammons 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.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| LITERACY COALITION PALM BEACH COUNT | $30,000 |
| ASHEVILLE HUMANE SOCIETY | $23,500 |
| MANNA FOOD BANK | $10,000 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of your 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.
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 +186% since the first grant, against +38% for the ones you funded once.
5 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2024, 3 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, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k 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
- BHBethesda Hospital Foundation Inc3× · 2017–2020 · $111k · revenue +186%
- AHASHEVILLE HUMANE SOCIETY INC7× · 2017–2024 · $72k · revenue +213%
- WCWALNUT COVE MEMBERS ASSOCIATION INC4× · 2019–2023 · $28k · revenue +93%
Funded once
- PBPalm Beach County Food Bank Incgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue +48%
- NBNO BARRIERS USAone grant, 2017 · $5k · revenue -81%
- GSGEORGE SNOW SCHOLARSHIP FUND INCgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $5k · revenue +315%
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.
At unc health foundation, we inspire philanthropic support for unc health and unc school of medicine that transforms healthcare and provides hope to the people of north carolina and communities around the world.
Nourish people. build solutions. empower communities. no one goes hungry.
The mission of the usf alumni association is to foster a mutually beneficial, lifelong relationship between the university and its alumni; to inspire loyalty and pride among current and future alumni; and to advocate for excellence in…
The north carolina bar association is organized for the purposes of promoting and improving the administration of justice in north carolina; fostering and encouraging law reform when in the public interest; advancing the science of…
The mission of the atlanta community food bank is to engage, educate and empower our community to fight hunger. our bold goal is to see that all people in our service area have access to the nutritious meals they need when they need them.
To lead a network of partners to alleviate hunger, prevent food waste, and nourish the communities we serve. our vision is that all people have the nutritious food they need to thrive.
Our mission is to encourage, honor and support the human-animal bond in the suncoast region of florida. our vision is to celebrate a community whose pets are safe and loved. suncoast humane society provides sheltering, prevention and…
The outer banks community foundation helps meet local needs across dare county and the entire outer banks. we manage charitable funds for individuals and agencies, and we target grants and scholarships toward our communitys most pressing…
To improve health, elevate hope, and advance healing for all.
University of South Florida Foundation, Inc.'s mission is to provide charitable and educational aid to the University of South Florida; to promote education and other related activities of the University; and to encourage research,…
Inspiring philanthropy and strengthening our region through innovative community initiatives and quality services to donors and constituents.
To support and carry out the functions and purposes of wrmc hospital operating corporation (dba atrium health wake forest baptist wilkes medical center) to enhance the delivery of quality health care within the organization's region.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Walnut Cove Members Association Inc and the most unlike its peers is Palm Beach County Food Bank Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
10 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. 10 of the 12 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 Bethesda Hospital Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds ASHEVILLE HUMANE SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds WALNUT COVE MEMBERS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds DELRAY BEACH PUBLIC LIBRARY ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds MANNA FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds Palm Beach County Food Bank Inc ↗
- Who funds NO BARRIERS USA ↗
- Who funds GEORGE SNOW SCHOLARSHIP FUND INC ↗
- Who funds THE UNLIMBITED FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MOUNTAIN AMATEUR ATHLETIC CLUB 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: The Cuyler P and Brenda G Medore Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · 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 Elaine Dewey Sammons 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Palm Beach County Food Bank 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.
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