· Private foundation
The Howdy Doody Good Times Foundation Inc
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.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 72% of THE HOWDY DOODY GOOD TIMES FOUNDATION INC’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k4 grants · $8k
- $10k–50k10 grants · $118k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $131k
- $250k+1 grant · $340k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| HOLY TRINITY CATHEDRAL | $340,000 |
| THE CLAREMONT INSTITUTE | $130,500 |
| AMERICAN REFORMER | $20,000 |
| THE AMERICAN CAUSE | $15,000 |
| THE CHARLEMAGNE INSTITUTE | $12,500 |
| INDY LATIN SCHOOL | $10,184 |
| THE AMERICAN MOMENT | $10,000 |
| ST JOHN THE BAPTIST ACADEMY | $10,000 |
| ANNUNCIATION GREEK ORTHODOX CHURCH | $10,000 |
| HAMILTON LINCOLN LAW INSTITUTE | $10,000 |
| NATALISMORG | $10,000 |
| HOLY APOSTLES ORTHODOX CHURCH | $10,000 |
| ABIGAIL ADAMS INSTITUTE | $5,000 |
| BORDER HAWK NEWS CORP | $1,000 |
| KRISTINA'S HOUSE OF HOPE | $1,000 |
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 (FY21–24, $27k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, 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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +23% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
12 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $65k 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
- TCTHE CLAREMONT INSTITUTE FOR THE STUDY OF STATESMANSHIP & POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY4× · 2021–2025 · $441k · revenue +40%
- AMAmerican Moment Inc4× · 2022–2025 · $48k · revenue +83%
- TAThe Abigail Adams Institute Inc2× · 2024–2025 · $30k · revenue +23%
Funded once
- CICobb Instituteone grant, 2022 · $145k · revenue -10% · 93% of their budget
- HTHOLY TRINITY CATHEDRALone grant, 2023 · $45k
- EBEdmund Burke Foundation Incgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $25k · revenue +67%
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.
Disseminate information and education about pertinent economic, social and governmental topics, via print, web and other media to educate the public about the principles of LIbertarianism.
The organization engaged in public communications and issue education activities related to national security, the protection of life, and tax and spending issues.
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We amplify First Principles through the publishing of books and showcasing authors and their ideas using a unique communications and marketing model to re-engage the public in Americas founding ideals.
The organization promotes excellence in the scholarly study of freedom, democracy, and capitalism, as these ideas were developed and institutionalized in the united states and within the larger tradition of western civilization. the ahi…
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Claremont Institute for the Study of Statesmanship & Political Philosophy and the most unlike its peers is Paws & Think Inc. 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 8 years old; the field is 16. You back the younger end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 21% of your grantees by number, and just 6% 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.
22 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. 22 of the 41 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 THE CLAREMONT INSTITUTE FOR THE STUDY OF STATESMANSHIP & POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY ↗
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- Who funds AMERICAN REFORMER ↗
- Who funds THE AMERICAN CAUSE ↗
- Who funds The Abigail Adams Institute Inc ↗
- Who funds Edmund Burke Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds THE AMERICAN CONSERVATIVE ↗
- Who funds HILLSDALE COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds HAMILTON LINCOLN LAW INSTITUTE ↗
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- Who funds Ancient Faith Ministries Formerly Conciliar Media Ministries ↗
- Who funds The Burroughs Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds INTERCOLLEGIATE STUDIES INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds KRISTINAS HOUSE OF HOPE INC ↗
- Who funds THE CENTER FOR THE STUDY OF TECHNOLOGY AND SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds The Charlemagne Institute ↗
- Who funds INDIANA DIAPER BANK INC ↗
- Who funds PAWS & THINK INC ↗
- Who funds BORDER HAWK NEWS CORP ↗
- Who funds WARHORN MEDIA 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: Donors Trust Inc · Thomas D Klingenstein Fund · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · National Philanthropic Trust · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · 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 Howdy Doody Good Times 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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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