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The Pelican 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.
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 · FY2024
- Under $10k14 grants · $36k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $79k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $225k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Individual grant recipient | $150,000 |
| TUMTUM TREE FOUNDATION | $75,000 |
| UVA LAW SCHOOL FOUNDATION | $34,000 |
| VA ATHLETICS FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| DOMINICAN SISTERS OF ST CECILIA | $10,000 |
| RED BARN FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| ALABAMA SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA | $7,500 |
| CATHOLIC CHARITIES | $5,000 |
| WORD ON FIRE CATHOLIC MINISTRIES | $5,000 |
| ST VINCENTS FOUNDATION | $2,500 |
| YOUNG CATHOLIC PROFESSIONALS | $2,500 |
| THE ROMAN CATHOLIC DIOCESE OF BIRMINGHAM | $2,500 |
| CHILDREN'S HARBOR | $2,500 |
| EWTN | $2,500 |
| ST FRANCIS XAVIER CATHOLIC CHURCH | $1,500 |
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 (FY17–23, $34k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 27% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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 +78% since the first grant, against +42% for the ones you funded once.
29 repeat relationships — 12 still active in FY2024, 17 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $49k 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
- TTTUM TUM TREE FOUNDATION7× · 2018–2024 · $451k · revenue +81%
- TRTHE RED BARN6× · 2017–2024 · $163k · revenue +91%
VIRGINIA STUDENT AID FOUNDATION INC2× · 2018–2023 · $83k · revenue +59%
Funded once
- VLVARGONDA LAW SCHOOL FOUNDATIONone grant, 2017 · $60k
- TFTREE FOUNDATION INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $50k · revenue +162% · 54% of their budget
- UAUVA ATHLETICS FOUNDATIONone grant, 2020 · $50k
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.
The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.
The university of virginia investment management company (uvimco) is organized to invest funds on behalf of the rector and visitors of the university of virginia (the university or uva) and university-associated organizations (uaos).
University education grounded in the traditions and faith of the roman catholic church
Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.
See schedule oustelecom exists to ensure members can compete, grow and thrive to build a world where families, enterprises and communities are connected through the power of broadband.our member companies have committed a considerable…
Evangel is a comprehensive christian university that is committed to excellence in educating and equipping students to become spirit empowered servants of god who will impact the church and society globally.
The association of catholic colleges and universities, founded in 1899, serves as the collective voice of u.s catholic higher education. through programs and services, the association strengthens and promptes the catholic identity and…
Provide post-secondary education of excellence.
See Disclosure Above.
Rooted in the liberal arts & sciences & lutheran expression of the christian faith, & is committed to offering a challenging education that develops qualities of mind, spirit, & body necessary for a rewarding life of leadership & service…
Organization's mission loyola marymount university maintains a three-fold mission: 1)the encouragement of learning, 2) the education of the whole person, and 3)the service of faith and the promotion of justice.
To generate superior long-term investment returns to support The University of Texas and Texas A&M University systems as they provide world-class teaching, push the boundaries of discovery, and achieve excellence in patient healthcare for…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Catholic Answers Inc and the most unlike its peers is Institute for Advanced Physics. 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 32 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 23% 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 14% 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.
30 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. 30 of the 72 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 TUM TUM TREE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE RED BARN ↗
- Who funds VIRGINIA STUDENT AID FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED PHYSICS ↗
- Who funds TREE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds RED MOUNTAIN THEATRE COMPANY INC ↗
- Who funds UNLESS U INC ↗
- Who funds HOLY FAMILY CRISTO REY CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds THE ALTAMONT SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S HARBOR INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL ALABAMA INC ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC ANSWERS INC ↗
- Who funds WORD ON FIRE CATHOLIC MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds LA PROMESA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ETERNAL WORD TELEVISION NETWORK 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 Community Foundation of Greater Birmingham · The Lee Bruno Foundation · Dunn-French Foundation · Susan Mott Webb Charitable Trust · Hill Crest Foundation Inc · Altecstyslinger Foundation · Alabama Power Foundation Inc · Arlington Partners Charitable Foundation Inc · The Hackney Foundation · Mike and Gillian Goodrich Foundation · The Daniel Foundation of Alabama · Thomas H Lowder Family 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 Pelican 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.
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