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The Holmes Charitable 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.

$35k
Granted FY2024still arriving
6
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$25k
Largest
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172024.

Civil Rights$66kScience & Tech$25kArts & Culture$17kFood & Nutrition$13kEducation$12kHuman Services$7kInternational$6kHealth$6kOther$0
02FY2024 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k5 grants · $10k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $25k
$2,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$182k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
HOPE FOR SILENT VOICES$25,000
CRESTED BUTTE FILM FESTIVAL$5,000
LIVING JOURNEYS$2,000
CRESTED BUTTE CENTER FOR ARTS$1,100
FIRST TEE COACHELLA VALLEY$1,000
XAVIER PREPATORY HIGH SCHOOL$1,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $20k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 28% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%BATTLEFIELDS TO BALLFIELDS: $2k → 12%CRESTED BUTTE FILM FESTIVAL: $5k → 10%BATTLEFIELDS TO BALLFIELDS: $1k → 12%CRESTED BUTTE FILM FESTIVAL: $3k → 10%CRESTED BUTTE FILM FESTIVAL: $3k → 10%SAFE HOUSE OF THE DESERT: $1k → 11%CRESTED BUTTE FILM FESTIVAL: $3k → 10%COACHELLA VALLEY RESCUE MISSION: $2k → 11%CRESTED BUTTE FILM FESTIVAL: $1k → 10%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

IL
MI
NY
CT
CA
CO
MD
AZ
DC
TX

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

67%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$100k · 6 repeat orgs$50k to everyone else

6 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

6
23

Total granted

$100k
$47k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+16%
+134%

Still filing today

83%
39%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesRecreation & SportsHealthPublic BenefitEnvironmentEducationOther

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

  • FI
    FOOD IN NEED OF DISTRIBUTION INC
    3× · 2020–2022 · $13k · revenue +65%
  • BT
    BATTLEFIELDS TO BALLFIELDS
    2× · 2018–2019 · $3k · revenue +253%
  • LJ
    LIVING JOURNEYS
    2× · 2023–2024 · $3k · revenue +16%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2017 · $19k
  • HF
    HOPE FOR THE SILENT VOICES
    one grant, 2021 · $6k · revenue +6%
  • HS
    HIDEAWY SCHOLARSHIP FUND
    one grant, 2020 · $5k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
New Vista Ranch Inc

New vista is committed to providing people of all ages with intellectual and developmental disabilities, equitable opportunities, and supported living arrangements so that they may experience life to the fullest.

Human Services
2
United States Veterans Initiative

The successful transition of military veterans and their families through the provision of housing, counseling, career development and comprehensive support.

Human Services
3
First Nature Foundation Inc Kerul Kassel

At first nature foundation, our mission is to help program participants grow their emotional resilience, self-confidence, and self-awareness, by partnering with nature and our wise herd of horses, who help facilitate these outcomes. at our…

Human Services
4
Coachella Valley Foster Kids

In 2019 the juvenile dependency attorneys in indio formed coachella valley foster kids. we represent on average 1200 to 1500 youths in the foster system. these kids have either been permanently removed from their parents, or are in the…

Youth Development
5
Homes for Veterans a Nj Non Profit Corporation

Our mission is to provide a holistic approach to support veterans with disabilities by removing barriers in every aspect of their lives. this includes funding customized, barrier-free home modificationssuch as wheelchair-accessible…

Housing & Shelter
6
Valkyrie Ranch Inc

Our mission at valkyrie ranch is to support special operations veterans and their families with healing, connection, and lifelong care while also giving back to the ranching community around us. through outdoor retreats, recovery programs,…

Human Services
7
Hillsides

We are a premier provider dedicated to healing children and young adults, strengthening families, and transforming communities through quality comprehensive services and advocacy. we envision a world in which children and young adults,…

Human Services
8
Safe Nesttemporary Assistance for

Safe nest's mission is to provide comprehensive, collaborative, and innovative services for everyone affected by domestic and sexual violence while passionatley working to end this shared epidemic.

Human Services
9
Covenant House California

Covenant house is dedicated to serving all of god's children with absolute respect and unconditional love to help youth experiencing homelessness and to protect and safeguard all youth in need.

Human Services
10
Swords to Plowshares Veterans Rights Organization

Swords to plowshares' mission is to heal the wounds of war, to restore dignity, hope and self-sufficiency to all veterans in need, and to significantly reduce homelessness and poverty among veterans.

Public Benefit
11
Wayfinder Family Services

The mission of Wayfinder Family Services is to ensure that children, youth and adults facing challenges always have a place to turn. Founded in 1953 as the Foundation for the Junior Blind, the organization initially enabled visually…

Human Services
12
Lead the Way Fund Inc

Army ranger lead the way fund is an active duty, casualty assistance, recovery, transition and veterans organization that provides financial support to u.s. army rangers and the families of those who have died, have been disabled or who…

Human Services

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Support the Enlisted Project Inc and the most unlike its peers is Hillsdale College. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

04the grantee network

16 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 16 of the 33 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
16/16
Grantees still filing
14/16
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

HOPE FOR SILENT VOICES — $67,000 · OtherHOPE FOR SILENT VOICESIndividual grant recipient — $19,100 · OtherIndividual grant recipientHIDEAWY SCHOLARSHIP FUND — $5,000 · Other+18 more — $14,950 · Other+18 moreCRESTED BUTTE FILM FESTIVAL — $14,500 · Human ServicesCRESTED BUTTE …BATTLEFIELDS TO BALLFIELDS — $2,900 · Human ServicesBATTLEFIELDS T…COACHELLA VALLEY RESCUE MISSION — $1,600 · Human ServicesCOACHELLA VALL…OPERATION SAFE HOUSE INC — $1,000 · Human ServicesFOOD IN NEED OF DISTRIBUTION INC — $12,500 · Food & NutritionFOOD IN N…HOPE FOR THE SILENT VOICES — $6,420 · InternationalHILLSDALE COLLEGE — $5,000 · EducationPOINT FOUNDATION — $500 · EducationLIVING JOURNEYS — $2,500 · HealthPARKINSON'S FOUNDATION INC — $500 · HealthCRESTED BUTTE SNOWSPORTS FOUNDATION — $1,000 · Recreation & SportsCOACHELLA VALLEY YOUTH GOLF FOUNDATION — $1,000 · Recreation & Sports
Other$106,050Human Services$20,000Food & Nutrition$12,500International$6,420Education$5,500Health$3,000Recreation & Sports$2,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetCRESTED BUTTE FILM FESTIVAL — $14,500 over 5y, 2.1% of budgetFOOD IN NEED OF DISTRIBUTION INC — $12,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetHOPE FOR THE SILENT VOICES — $6,420 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetHILLSDALE COLLEGE — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBATTLEFIELDS TO BALLFIELDS — $2,900 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetLIVING JOURNEYS — $2,500 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetCOACHELLA VALLEY RESCUE MISSION — $1,600 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCRESTED BUTTE SNOWSPORTS FOUNDATION — $1,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetSUPPORT THE ENLISTED PROJECT INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetOPERATION SAFE HOUSE INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOACHELLA VALLEY YOUTH GOLF FOUNDATION — $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPOINT FOUNDATION — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOPPORTUNITIES INC — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLIVING DESERT THE — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSAVE A SUIT — $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPARKINSON'S FOUNDATION INC — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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 CRESTED BUTTE FILM FESTIVAL
  • Who funds FOOD IN NEED OF DISTRIBUTION INC
  • Who funds HOPE FOR THE SILENT VOICES
  • Who funds HILLSDALE COLLEGE
  • Who funds BATTLEFIELDS TO BALLFIELDS
  • Who funds LIVING JOURNEYS
  • Who funds COACHELLA VALLEY RESCUE MISSION
  • Who funds CRESTED BUTTE SNOWSPORTS FOUNDATION
  • Who funds SUPPORT THE ENLISTED PROJECT INC
  • Who funds OPERATION SAFE HOUSE INC
  • Who funds COACHELLA VALLEY YOUTH GOLF FOUNDATION
  • Who funds POINT FOUNDATION
  • Who funds OPPORTUNITIES INC
  • Who funds LIVING DESERT THE
  • Who funds SAVE A SUIT
  • Who funds PARKINSON'S 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.

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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 Holmes Charitable 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.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%8%15%22%30%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    7report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–30%
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 33 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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