· Private foundation
The Estes Family 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 $10k14 grants · $26k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $31k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ONE GOAT INCORPORATED | $21,400 |
| CHRISTS CHURCH OF GOD INC | $10,000 |
| PRADER-WILLI SYNDROME ASSOCIATION OF COLORADO | $4,250 |
| MAKE A WISH OF NEW HAMPSHIRE INC | $2,500 |
| CARLISLE HIGH SCHOOL BAND BOOSTERS INC | $2,500 |
| BIG BROTHERS-BIG SISTERS OF THE CAPITAL REGION INC | $2,500 |
| HOPE STATION OPPORTUNITY AREA NEIGHBORHOOD COUNCIL | $2,500 |
| CARLISLE VICTORY CIRCLE | $2,500 |
| DICKINSON COLLEGE | $2,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH | $2,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH | $1,000 |
| NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY | $1,000 |
| PROJECT SHARE OF CARLISLE | $1,000 |
| WHEATON COLLEGE | $1,000 |
| CARLISLE ARTS LEARNING CENTER INC | $1,000 |
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, $45k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 82% 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.
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 +48% since the first grant, against +4% for the ones you funded once.
11 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2024, 1 since wound down; 4 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, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $7k 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
- PSPRADER-WILLI SYNDROME ASSOCIATION OF COLORADO7× · 2017–2024 · $120k · revenue +48% · 33% of their budget
- OGOne Goat Incorporated4× · 2021–2024 · $84k · revenue +261%
- MOMAKE-A-WISH OF NEW HAMPSHIRE INC8× · 2017–2024 · $20k · revenue +63%
Funded once
- GBGREEN BERET FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $20k · revenue +119%
- SMSOUTH METRO PROFESSIONAL FIREFIGHTERS FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2019 · $17k · revenue -28%
- JCJOURNEY CHURCH COLORADOone grant, 2020 · $5k
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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The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
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Williams College strives to achieve educational excellence by fostering a community of learning in collaboration with students, faculty, staff, devoted alumni and parents.
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The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.
The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
To graduate people of uncommon integrity, competence, and maturity, who are effective lifelong learners and responsible citizens, and who are prepared to contribute substantially to the world in which they live.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Make-a-Wish of New Hampshire Inc and the most unlike its peers is William Marsh Rice University. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 31 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% 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.
18 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. 18 of the 26 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 PRADER-WILLI SYNDROME ASSOCIATION OF COLORADO ↗
- Who funds One Goat Incorporated ↗
- Who funds GREEN BERET FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MAKE-A-WISH OF NEW HAMPSHIRE INC ↗
- Who funds SOUTH METRO PROFESSIONAL FIREFIGHTERS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds HOPE STATION OPPORTUNITY AREA NEIGHBORHOOD COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds CARLISLE HIGH SCHOOL BAND BOOSTERS INC ↗
- Who funds BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF THE CAPITAL REGION ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH ↗
- Who funds WarriorNOW ↗
- Who funds CARLISLE ARTS LEARNING CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds DICKINSON COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds PROJECT SHARE OF CARLISLE ↗
- Who funds VALOR CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS ↗
- Who funds Wheaton College ↗
- Who funds NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds WORLD ORPHANS ↗
- Who funds William Marsh Rice University ↗
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: United Way of Carlisle & Cumberland County · Partnership for Better Health · American Endowment Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation 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 Estes Family 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.
- Northeastern University — 7% 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.