· Private foundation
The Free Lunch 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 $10k11 grants · $21k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $27k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| AMERICAN BIRD CONSERVANCY | $16,500 |
| HOLE FOOD RESCUE | $10,000 |
| FIRST IN FAMILY | $7,500 |
| NATIONAL MUSEUM OF WILDLIFE ART | $3,500 |
| COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF JACKSON HOLE | $2,700 |
| COALITION FOR LIBERTY | $2,000 |
| OFF SQUARE THEATRE | $1,000 |
| DANCER'S WORKSHOP OF JACKSON HOLE | $1,000 |
| CORNELL UNIVERSITY LAB OF ORNITHOLOGY | $1,000 |
| MAYO CLINIC FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| G&G OVEREND SCHOLARSHIP FUND | $500 |
| STATE OF IMMACULATE HEART OF MARY | $500 |
| PROVINCETOWN MA LIONS CLUB | $150 |
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 (FY17–17, $500) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 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.
27 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2024, 21 since wound down; 6 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, 54% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $21k 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
- ABAmerican Bird Conservancy6× · 2017–2024 · $271k · revenue +54%
- RBRon Burton Training Village Inc5× · 2017–2022 · $95k · revenue +447%
- AFALLIANCE FOR CHOICE IN EDUCATION2× · 2020–2021 · $60k · revenue +100%
Funded once
- AAALZHEIMER'S ASSOCIATIONone grant, 2018 · $99k
- JHJACKSON HOLE LAND TRUSTone grant, 2019 · $11k · revenue -33%
- HBHARVARD BUSINESS SCHOOLone grant, 2021 · $10k
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.
Inspire people to enjoy and protect birds through recreation, education, conservation, and restoration of the environment, upon which we all depend.
To preserve the unique character and natural resources of harvard.
The mission of the teton regional land trust is to conserve working farms and ranches, fish and wildlife habitat, and scenic open spaces in eastern idaho for this and future generations.
To conserve the unique character of tennessee's natural and historic landscapes and sites for future generations.
Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…
The mission of the association is to inspire "deeper connection, better understanding, and enduring support for our public lands."
Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.
Conservation legacy engages future leaders who protect, restore, and enhance our nation's lands through community-based service.in 2024, conservation legacy engaged 2,524 participants who completed over 1.5 million service hours on public…
Bates is a college of the liberal arts and sciences, and is a coeducational, nonsectarian, residential college with special commitments to academic rigor, and to assuring in all of its efforts the dignity of each individual, and access to…
To broaden the nature of a liberal arts education; teach critical thinking about social & environmental issues; foster understanding of & respect for natural & human communities; & cultivate a sense of place that encourages personal,…
The wyoming outdoor council's mission is to protect wyoming's environment and quality of life now and for future generations.
The mission of the montana land reliance (mlr) is to partner with landowners to provide permanent protection for private lands that are significant for agricultural production, fish and wildlife habitat, and open space.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Community Foundation of Jackson Hole and the most unlike its peers is National Museum of Wildlife Art of the United States. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 32 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% 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.
34 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. 34 of the 70 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 American Bird Conservancy ↗
- Who funds Ron Burton Training Village Inc ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF JACKSON HOLE ↗
- Who funds ALLIANCE FOR CHOICE IN EDUCATION ↗
- Who funds JACKSON HOLE CONSERVATION ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL MUSEUM OF WILDLIFE ART OF THE UNITED STATES ↗
- Who funds WICHITA COLLEGIATE SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds Park City Education Foundation ↗
- Who funds THE TRURO CONSERVATION TRUST ↗
- Who funds OFF SQUARE THEATRE COMPANY ↗
- Who funds JACKSON HOLE LAND TRUST ↗
- Who funds MASSACHUSETTS AUDUBON SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds Hole Food Rescue ↗
- Who funds JUDICIAL WATCH INC ↗
- Who funds BALLET WICHITA INC ↗
- Who funds PROVINCETOWN TENNESSEE WILLIAMS THEATER FESTIVAL INC ↗
- Who funds RUFFED GROUSE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds No One Left Behind ↗
- Who funds THE EVERGLADES TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds COALITION FOR LIBERTY INC ↗
- Who funds TETON LITERACY CENTER ↗
- Who funds Sedona International Film Festival & Workshop ↗
- Who funds TETON COUNTY SHERIFF'S AUXILIARY ↗
- Who funds TETON RAPTOR CENTER ↗
- Who funds TETON YOUTH AND FAMILY SERVICES ↗
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: Community Foundation of Jackson Hole · Kenneth and Caroline Taylor Family Foundation · The Brooks Foundation · Perkins Charitable Foundation · First Interstate BancSystem Foundation Inc · Nelson Family Foundation · The Alan J Hirschfield Family Foundation · Robert S & Grayce B Kerr Foundation · Karl M Johnson Foundation · Hughes Charitable Foundation · Hughes Charitable Foundation · Giving Brands
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 Free Lunch 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.
- The Home for Little Wanderers Inc — 38% of income from government
- Massachusetts Audubon Society Inc — 1% 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.