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The Little Family 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.
Read this first · the figures below need context
100% of The Little Family Foundation’s FY2024 grant dollars went to Mayo Clinic, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2024 names 0 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2021, the last year The Little Family Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 7 organizations, $50k. 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 · FY2021
- Under $10k9 grants · $36k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $14k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| INTERFAITH OUTREACH FOOD SHELF | $14,000 |
| FEEDING SOUTH DAKOTA | $7,000 |
| SECOND HARVEST HEARTLAND | $7,000 |
| MAYO CLINIC | $6,000 |
| SAMARITAN CENTER SIMI VALLEY | $5,000 |
| MEALS ON WHEELS AMERICA | $3,500 |
| ANGELS AND SPARROWS | $3,500 |
| SEWA INTERNATIONAL | $2,000 |
| ALZHEIMER'S ASSOCIATION | $1,000 |
| FEEDING AMERICA | $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 (FY18–18, $7k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 86% 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.
4 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2021, 1 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2021 (too recent to call). Read against FY2021, 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 FY2022, 71% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k 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
WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC2× · 2020–2022 · $55k · revenue +21%- SHSECOND HARVEST HEARTLAND2× · 2020–2021 · $11k · revenue +31%
- ASANGELS & SPARROWS SOUP KITCHEN INC2× · 2020–2021 · $7k · revenue +59%
Funded once
- TFTHE FINTRY WEST FOUNDATIONone grant, 2018 · $10k
- SCSPEARFISH COMMUNITY PANTRY INCone grant, 2020 · $7k · revenue -34%
- DHDELASALLE HIGH SCHOOLone grant, 2018 · $4k
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.
End hunger together.
Midwest dairy works with others to give consumers an excellent dairy experience increasing sales, fostering innovation, and inspiring consumer confidence of dairy products and practices.
Health care services for the people of western nebraska and eastern wyoming.
Food & water watch conducts extensive research and public education to ensure the food and water we consume is safe, accessible and sustainably produced. so we can all enjoy and trust in what we eat and drink, we help people take charge of…
Accelerate the advancement of women leaders in the food industry. we believe in limitless opportunity for all women.
Engaging the community to end hunger
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…
On a mission to connect every person facing hunger with nutritious meals by maximizing food rescue. through direct service and community partnerships, feeding san diego provides more than 26 million meals each year to children, families,…
The food bank for central & northeast missouri is a regional disaster and hunger relief network that acquires and distributes millions of meals each year to help neighbors get the food they need to thrive. (continued on schedule o)the…
Providing innovative and life-enriching services for children, adolescents, and adults with disabilities.
Marin humane transforms lives through exceptional animal care, humane education, and advocacy. every day, marin humane inspires compassion and positive relationships between people and animals.
Mercy Health will provide assistance, support and direction to all of the health care institutions and activities operated and maintained by its Subsidiaries. The mission of Mercy Health in performing these activities shall be to provide a…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Meals On Wheels America and the most unlike its peers is Western Hills Humane Society. 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 31 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 17% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 10% 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.
27 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. 27 of the 35 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 MAYO CLINIC ↗
- Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds SECOND HARVEST HEARTLAND ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds FEEDING SOUTH DAKOTA ↗
- Who funds SPEARFISH COMMUNITY PANTRY INC ↗
- Who funds ANGELS & SPARROWS SOUP KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds The Samaritan Center-Simi Valley ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATION FOR PRADER-WILLI RESEARCH INC ↗
- Who funds SENIOR COMMUNITY SERVICES ↗
- Who funds Lewy Body Dementia Association Inc ↗
- Who funds BRAIN SUPPORT NETWORK ↗
- Who funds World Savvy ↗
- Who funds MEALS ON WHEELS AMERICA ↗
- Who funds THE JAMES STOREHOUSE INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds INTERFAITH OUTREACH AND COMMUNITY PARTNERS ↗
- Who funds Western Hills Humane Society ↗
- Who funds JEREMIAH PROGRAM ↗
- Who funds Sewa International Inc ↗
- Who funds Feeding America ↗
- Who funds Ronald McDonald House Charities of Greater Charlotte Inc ↗
- Who funds POLARIS PROJECT ↗
- Who funds THE BOND BETWEEN ↗
- Who funds AIR & SPACE FORCES AID SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds CRESCENT COVE ↗
- Who funds The Western Youth Network Inc ↗
- Who funds ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION 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: The Richard M Schulze Family Foundation · Xcel Energy Foundation · The Minneapolis Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · United Way Worldwide · The US Charitable Gift Trust · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation America · Baird Foundation Inc · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust 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 Little Family 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.
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.