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The Holmes Family Foundation (De)

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$4k
Granted FY2024still arriving
8
Grants FY2024still arriving
5
States reached
$2k
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 FY20222024.

Animals$4kReligion$1kYouth Development$1kEnvironment$1kEducation$500Philanthropy$250Arts & Culture$200Health$200
02FY2024 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$250
Median grant
5
States reached
$365
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
PAWSITIVE BEGINNINGS INC$1,500
ORCAT INC$828
THE KEYS CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION$500
LOWER ST CROIX VALLEY YOUTH CENTER$250
JAMES MILLIKIN HOMESTEAD INC$200
CURE ALZHEIMER'S FUND$200
ST THOMAS' CHURCH OF ROCHESTER$200
ROCHESTER AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$150
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 (FY23–24, $1k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%THE KEYS CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION: $500 → 13%THE KEYS CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION: $500 → 13%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.

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
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
Florida Animal Protection Foundation
Animals
2
Kitty Keepers Inc

Animal shelter and rescue

Animals
3
Friends of Rescue Inc

To rescue homeless dogs and cats, place them in foster homes as they are fully vetted, spayed/neutered, and microchipped, and find permanent homes for them.

Animals
4
Furever Home Animal Rescue Inc

Animal rescue and placement

5
Fearless Kitty Rescue

As a no-kill cat rescue, serving our community of Fountain Hills, AZ and surrounding areas, we are dedicated to rescuing cats and kittens left homeless for whatever reason and placing them in a loving, responsible, permanent home.

Animals
6
Friends of Homeless Animals

Dedicated to saving homeless dogs and cats, foha provides rescue, medical care, and adoption services in the washington dc metropolitan region. more than 17,500 cats and dogs have found a safe haven with friends of homeless animals for…

Animals
7
Friends for Animal Rescue Ny Inc

Friends for animal rescue ny, inc. is a nonprofit organization that furthers the interest of animals in the new york state area and improves their quality of life by supporting medical care, enrichment activities, training and…

Animals
8
Florida Animal Friend Inc

The mission of the organizaton is to help save the lives of countless unwanted cats and dogs by supporting organizations that offer free or low- cost spay and neuter services across the state of florida.

Animals
9
Passion for Paws Inc

To provide a sanctuary for senior pets (dogs, cats, farm animals) and to provide access to vet care for indigent people

Animals
10
Friends of Strays Inc

To inspire compassion for all animals provide shelter and humane care for homeless animals, and promote adoptions and responsible pet guardianship in our community

Animals
11
Florida Keys Wild Bird Rehabilitation Center Inc

Rescue, rehabilitate, and release native and migratory wild birds harmed or displaced; provide or locate a humane shelter for those birds that cannot be released; and educate the public.

Animals
12
Rescue Pets of Florida Inc

Animal rescue

Animals

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Rochester Area Community Foundation and the most unlike its peers is James Millikin Homestead Inc. 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

9 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. 9 of the 13 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)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/9
Grantees still filing
8/9
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

PAWSITIVE BEGINNINGS — $2,500 · AnimalsPAWSITIVE BEGINNINGSORCAT INC — $828 · AnimalsORCAT INCFLORIDA KEYS SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS INC — $250 · AnimalsFLORIDA KEYS SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRU…PROTESTANT CONGREGATION AT OCEAN REEF — $1,000 · OtherPROTESTANT CONGREGATIO…THIRD PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH — $250 · OtherTHIRD PRESBYTERIAN CHU…LOWER ST CROIX VALLEY YOUTH CENTER — $250 · OtherLOWER ST CROIX VALLEY …ST THOMAS' CHURCH OF ROCHESTER — $200 · OtherST THOMAS' CHURCH OF R…FRIENDS OF THE EVERGLADES INC — $1,200 · EnvironmentFRIENDS OF THE …KEYS CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION INC — $1,000 · Human ServicesKEYS CHILDREN…STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION — $500 · EducationROCHESTER AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $250 · PhilanthropyALZHEIMER'S DISEASE RESEARCH FOUNDATION — $200 · HealthJAMES MILLIKIN HOMESTEAD INC — $200 · Arts & Culture
Animals$3,578Other$1,700Environment$1,200Human Services$1,000Education$500Philanthropy$250Health$200Arts & Culture$200

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 budgetPAWSITIVE BEGINNINGS — $2,500 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE EVERGLADES INC — $1,200 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetKEYS CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION INC — $1,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetORCAT INC — $828 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetROCHESTER AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $250 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFLORIDA KEYS SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS INC — $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetALZHEIMER'S DISEASE RESEARCH FOUNDATION — $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJAMES MILLIKIN HOMESTEAD INC — $200 over 1y, 0.5% 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.

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.

The Holmes Family Foundation IncFL17.9× affinity6 shared granteesties to 8 of 8Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Holmes Family Foundation Inc · Lovett-Woodsum Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Network for Good · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving 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 Holmes Family Foundation (De) 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.

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no gov · 50%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    5get no government money at all
    1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    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.

    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to The Holmes Family Foundation (De)?

    Find your warmest path to The Holmes Family Foundation (De) through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 13 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.

    Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports no grant expense, so the figures above are from FY2024, the most recent year this funder made grants.

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