· Private foundation
The Fruehauf Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k54 grants · $198k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $34k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $58k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| TEAM RUBICON | $57,500 |
| ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL | $24,000 |
| AMERICAN RED CROSS GREATER HOUSTON | $10,125 |
| ST MARTIN'S EPISCOPAL CHURCH | $9,800 |
| SAMARITAN'S PURSE | $9,500 |
| ACLU | $9,000 |
| FURMAN UNIVERSITY | $8,300 |
| DENVER RESCUE MISSION | $7,000 |
| FEEDING AMERICA | $7,000 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA | $7,000 |
| BUCKNELL UNIVERSITY | $6,500 |
| SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK OF CENTRAL FLORIDA | $6,000 |
| MALARIA CONSORTIUM US | $6,000 |
| ASPCA | $6,000 |
| SWEET BRIAR COLLEGE | $6,000 |
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 (FY18–24, $114k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 84% 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.
90 repeat relationships — 44 still active in FY2024, 46 since wound down; 13 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, 76% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $70k 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
- FUFURMAN UNIVERSITY7× · 2018–2024 · $92k · revenue +26%
- TRTEAM RUBICON INC7× · 2018–2024 · $91k · revenue +10%
- ANAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches7× · 2018–2024 · $74k · revenue +9%
Funded once
- ARAMERICAN RED CROSSone grant, 2018 · $21k
- OSOrlando Shakespeare Theater Incgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $15k · revenue +37%
- MAMD ANDERSON CANCER CENTERone grant, 2018 · $3k
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.
Friends of the earth strives for a more healthy and just world by defendng the environment and human health while advancing social and economic justice by conducting research and education, transforming the economy so it protects the…
Rainforest trust saves endangered wildlife and protects our planet by creating rainforest reserves through partnerships, community engagement, and donor support.
Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.
The purpose of the water research foundation (wrf) is a definitive research organization to advance the science of all things water to better meet the evolving needs of its subscribers and the water sector. to engage exclusively in…
The fsmb serves as the voice for state medical boards, supporting them through education, assessment, research and advocacy while providing services and initiatives that promote patient safety, quality health care and regulatory best…
Wwf's mission is to conserve nature and reduce the most pressing threats to the diversity of life on earth. (continued on schedule o)
To advocate for policy changes by governments and corporations in order to preserve ocean life and return the oceans to their former abundance.
American foreign service association (afsa) is both the principal advocate for the long-term institutional wellbeing of the professional career foreign service and responsible for safeguarding the interest of afsa members. (continued on…
The primary mission of the humane society is to end animal cruelty, neglect and overpopulation in south carolina.
Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.
Advance science, engineering, and innovation throughout the world for the benefit of all. the world's largest multidisciplinary scientific society and a leading publisher of cutting-edge research through its science family of journals,…
Inspired by the gift of donation from our communities, allosource responsibly provides innovative cellular and tissue allografts to advance patient healing.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Wounded Warrior Project Inc and the most unlike its peers is Harris County Friends of the Library. 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 39 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) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% 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.
84 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. 84 of the 120 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 FURMAN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds TEAM RUBICON INC ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds Bucknell University ↗
- Who funds Houston Museum of Natural Science ↗
- Who funds GORDON COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds GRAND TETON NATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Houston Zoo Inc ↗
- Who funds Lost Tree Village Charitable Foundation ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF SOUTH FLORIDA AND THE TREASURE COAST INC ↗
- Who funds SPECIAL OPERATIONS WARRIOR FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE EVERGLADES FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS ↗
- Who funds THE UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Citizens For Animal Protection Inc ↗
- Who funds SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK OF CENTRAL FLORIDA INC ↗
- Who funds HILLSDALE COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds MUSIC THEATER BAVARIA INC ↗
- Who funds INTERLOCHEN CENTER FOR THE ARTS ↗
- Who funds BLUE RIDGE AREA FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds LOGGERHEAD MARINELIFE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds The Against Malaria Foundation ↗
- Who funds PEABODY ESSEX MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds Lone Star Flight Museum ↗
- Who funds REINTEGRA INC ↗
- Who funds Orlando Shakespeare Theater Inc ↗
- Who funds LEGAL AID JUSTICE CENTER ↗
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: Charlottesville Area Community Foundation · S&P Global Foundation Fka the McGraw-Hill Research Foundation · Manning Family Foundation · Perry Foundation Inc · The Genan Foundation · Cassiopeia Foundation Inc · The Charles Fund Inc · Thomas C & Mary Ann Hays Fam Char Tr · Oakwood Foundation Charitable Trust · Dammann Fund Inc · Caplin Foundation · The Brown Foundation Inc
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 Fruehauf 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.
- Planned Parenthood of South Florida and the Treasure Coast Inc — 6% of income from government
- Peabody Essex Museum Inc — 3% of income from government
- Gordon College — 1% of income from government
- Second Harvest Food Bank of Central Florida Inc — 0% of income from government
- Wounded Warrior Project 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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