· Private foundation
Bess Spiva Timmons Foundation Inc
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.
Read this first · the figures below need context
100% of Bess Spiva Timmons Foundation Inc’s FY2024 grant dollars went to Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2024 names 1 organization directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2022, the last year Bess Spiva Timmons Foundation Inc named its own grantees at scale: 42 organizations, $213k. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
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 · FY2022
- Under $10k38 grants · $134k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $79k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CHRISTIANS AS FAMILY ADVOCATES | $18,300 |
| RANDALL CHILDRENS HOSPITAL FOUNDATION | $15,000 |
| LAKE AREA FREE CLINIC INC | $14,444 |
| CARING MINISTRIES INC | $11,000 |
| OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| ELIZABETH BALLARD COMMUNITY CENTER INC | $10,000 |
| OCONOMOWOC SILVER STREAK INC | $9,444 |
| WILD BIRD FUND INC | $8,888 |
| GROTTO COMMUNITY CENTER | $8,888 |
| KOMAK | $7,500 |
| TEXAS COUNTY MEMORIAL HOSPITAL HEALTHCARE FOUNDATI | $7,000 |
| ALWAYS & FUREVER MIDWEST ANIMAL SANCTUARY INC | $6,000 |
| BRIGHT FUTURES JOPLIN | $5,000 |
| FEED MY STARVING CHILDREN | $5,000 |
| FRIENDS OF HOPEWELL HOUSE | $5,000 |
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 (FY20–24, $91k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 79% 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.
29 repeat relationships — 22 still active in FY2022, 7 since wound down; 22 grantees were first funded in FY2022 (too recent to call). Read against FY2022, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.
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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
LAKE AREA FREE CLINIC INC3× · 2020–2022 · $37k · revenue +86%- EBELIZABETH BALLARD COMMUNITY CENTER INC3× · 2020–2022 · $33k · revenue +41%
- CMCARING MINISTRIES INC3× · 2020–2022 · $25k · revenue ×23
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2020 · $12k
- WVWILLAMETTE VALLEY BABE RUTH BASEBALL INCgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $8k · revenue +98%
- LFLIVING FIRE ARTS NETWORK BLUES BEHIND BARSone grant, 2021 · $7k
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.
We build relationships that enhance the development of skills, foster a sense of worth and enhance a belief in each child's individual potential.
Foster360 equips former clients of the foster care system to break the cycle of homelessness and abuse.
Border Kindness provides vulnerable populations with comprehensive services that include food, shelter, clothing, medical care, and legal services. Our programs and interventions are designed to identify, protect and nurture the most…
United Food Bank unites communities to alleviate hunger.
Foster Kinship supports all kinship families throughout Nevada. We assist grandparents, relatives, and fictive kin who are raising children through five core programs: 1- Enhanced Kinship Navigator Program - Provides intensive support to…
We help families experiencing homelessness find lasting independence and security.
In addition to rescue and adoption, pet orphans provides a wide range of services including education, medical/financial, spay/neuter, and training assistance.
Children At Risk (C@R) is a statewide nonprofit organization whose mission is to serve as a catalyst for change to improve the quality of life for children through strategic research, public policy analysis, education, collaboration, and…
Nourishing our community. the port angeles food bank is the main food bank in clallam county, providing food to 13 other area pantries and meal programs as well as providing food to over 5,000 individuals per month.
Kids crossing's vision is to provide a safe and caring home for every child. our mission is to strengthen families so they may provide the best care for those children entrusted to them.
Because of our love for God, we extend his mercy as we strive to empower and improve the lives of unsheltered adults in Pueblo, CO, through provisions of food, shelter and navigational support services.
Mama's kitchen believes that everyone is entitled to the basic necessity of life - nutritious food. our services improve the health and well-being of individuals and families vulnerable to malnutrition due to critical illness.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Feed My Starving Children Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Michael D and Margaret Ann Latta Charitable Foundation. 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 24 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) — 1% 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.
83 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. 83 of the 101 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.
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- Who funds MORGAN STANLEY GLOBAL IMPACT FUNDING TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds LAKE AREA FREE CLINIC INC ↗
- Who funds ELIZABETH BALLARD COMMUNITY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds CHRISTIANS AS FAMILY ADVOCATES ↗
- Who funds CARING MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds UrbanPromise Charlotte ↗
- Who funds THE GROTTO COMMUNITY CENTER ↗
- Who funds TEXAS COUNTY MEMORIAL HOSPITAL ↗
- Who funds E-TECH INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds Komak ↗
- Who funds OCONOMOWOC SILVER STREAK INC ↗
- Who funds WILD BIRD FUND INC ↗
- Who funds Friends of Hopewell House dba Hopewell House ↗
- Who funds RANDALL CHILDRENS HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds YOUTH ON THEIR OWN ↗
- Who funds SLAMMIN FAMINE ↗
- Who funds OREGON HEALTH & SCIENCE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE YOUNG WOMEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF YORK PA ↗
- Who funds Canelo Project Inc ↗
- Who funds WILLAMETTE VALLEY BABE RUTH BASEBALL INC ↗
- Who funds LIVING FIRE ARTS ↗
- Who funds Bright Futures Joplin ↗
- Who funds LOFT CINEMA INC FKA TUCSON CINEMA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds COLONIAL FOX THEATRE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Always & Furever Midwest Animal Sanctuary ↗
- Who funds STORE TO DOOR ↗
- Who funds FEED MY STARVING CHILDREN INC ↗
- Who funds Children's Hospital Corporation ↗
- Who funds OPERATION WILDLIFE INC ↗
- Who funds Boston Children's Heart Foundation 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: Marie Lamfrom Charitable Foundation Trust · Arizona Community Foundation · Community Foundation for Southern Arizona · The Autzen Foundation · The Robert D and Marcia H Randall Charitable Trust · Greater Kansas City Community Foundation · OCF Joseph E Weston Public Foundation · Clark Foundation · The Holzman Foundation · Hillman Family Foundations · Ash Grove Charitable Foundation · The Collins 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 Bess Spiva Timmons Foundation Inc 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.
- Kindred Partners — 42% of income from government
- Portland YouthBuilders — 35% of income from government
- Cambridge Camping Association Inc — 14% of income from government
- Children's Hospital Corporation — 10% of income from government
- Christians As Family Advocates — 10% of income from government
- Parenting Now — 1% of income from government
- Boston Children's Heart Foundation Inc — 1% of income from government
- Oregon Health & Science University Foundation — 1% of income from government
- Randall Childrens Hospital Foundation — 0% of income from government
- Help a Diabetic Child 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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