· Private foundation
The S Leigh Pierson & Douglas R Conant Family Cookie Jar Foundation Inc
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 clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2018–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k15 grants · $44k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $75k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY - MEN'S TENNIS | $30,000 |
| AMERICAN WRITER'S MUSEUM | $25,000 |
| TODD MARTIN YOUTH LEADERSHIP | $10,000 |
| HOPE REPERTORY THEATRE | $10,000 |
| CHIEF EXECUTIVES FOR CORPORATE PURPOSE | $6,000 |
| JUVENILE JUSTICE INITIATIVE | $6,000 |
| AGRICULTURE IMPLEMENTATION RESEARCH & EDUCATION | $5,000 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF GREATER HOLLAND | $5,000 |
| GREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY | $5,000 |
| PARTNERSHIP FOR PUBLIC SERVICE | $5,000 |
| PARK COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $4,000 |
| WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN | $1,500 |
| THE MAGIC YARN PROJECT | $1,030 |
| CAMDEN CHILDREN'S GARDEN | $1,000 |
| FORGOTTEN HARVEST | $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 (FY20–20, $500) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 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 +15% since the first grant, against -9% for the ones you funded once.
29 repeat relationships — 15 still active in FY2024, 14 since wound down; 3 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, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k 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
- TATHE AMERICAN WRITERS MUSEUM7× · 2018–2024 · $751k · revenue +58%
- PFPARTNERSHIP FOR PUBLIC SERVICE INC3× · 2020–2024 · $180k · revenue +10%
- LALOS ALAMOS HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC2× · 2018–2019 · $50k · revenue +38%
Funded once
- MFMARCH FOURTH 2Kone grant, 2023 · $84k
- ITINTERNATIONAL TENNIS HALL OF FAME INCORPORATEDgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $25k · revenue +71%
- RFRUMSFELD FOUNDATIONone grant, 2021 · $5k · revenue -9%
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.
American gas association's (the association) mission is to develop and advocate for informed, innovative, and durable policy that fulfills our nation's energy needs, environmental aspirations and economic potential. we are committed to…
Finance impacts everyone. as a socially relevant organization, the museum of american finance seeks to improve understanding of the influence of financial institutions and capital markets on the u.s. and global economies, and on…
We empower directors and transform boards to be future ready.
To provide for education, scholarships and other charitable purposes related to the culinary profession
World coffee research unites the global coffee industry to drive science-based agricultural solutions to urgently secure a diverse and sustainable supply of quality coffee today and for generations to come. our mission is to grow, protect,…
Jewelers of america, the most trusted and influential voice of the jewelry industry, empowers and unites its members through expert guidance and advocacy, driving excellence, integrity, and success in an ever-changing marketplace.
The common application is a not-for-profit membership organization of over 1,100 colleges and universities across the globe committed to access, equity, and integrity in the college admission process. every year, over 1.5 million students…
Promoting excellence, education, professionalism and collegiality in the culinary profession
To promote public health, safety, and welfare through the improvement of the quality and quantity of drinking water and the development and furtherance of understanding of the problems relating thereto.
The Detroit Historical Society tells Detroit's stories and why they matter through its exhibits, programs, outreach, and the preservation and dissemination of its artifacts and collections.
Be a catalyst! Ignite our community's passion for nature and science.
To establish and promote programs to protect the global climate, forests, wildlife and the natural environment, through research, advocacy, and investigation.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The American Exchange Project Inc and the most unlike its peers is Rumsfeld Foundation. 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 24 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 5% 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.
28 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. 28 of the 39 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 AMERICAN WRITERS MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds HIGHER AMBITION LEADERSHIP ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds PARTNERSHIP FOR PUBLIC SERVICE INC ↗
- Who funds Carter P Brown Legacy Preservation Fund ↗
- Who funds LOS ALAMOS HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds Intercollegiate Tennis Association Inc ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL ORGANIZATION ON DISABILITY ↗
- Who funds GREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY ↗
- Who funds THE SEEING EYE INC ↗
- Who funds CHIEF EXECUTIVES FOR CORPORATE PURPOSE INC ↗
- Who funds Chicago Foundation for Education ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL TENNIS HALL OF FAME INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF GREATER HOLLAND ↗
- Who funds ONE ACRE FUND ↗
- Who funds PARK COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds The Juvenile Justice Initiative Attn Elizabeth Clarke ↗
- Who funds AIRE ↗
- Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds RUMSFELD FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MILLICENT ROGERS MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds THE NEWBERRY LIBRARY ↗
- Who funds WOMEN'S BEAN PROJECT ↗
- Who funds Days For Girls International ↗
- Who funds FORGOTTEN HARVEST INC ↗
- Who funds THE AMERICAN EXCHANGE PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds SOLES4SOULS INC ↗
- Who funds CORA HARTSHORN ARBORETUM & BIRD SANCTUARY ↗
- Who funds ASIAN AMERICANS ADVANCING JUSTICE - AAJC 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 Chicago Community Trust · National Philanthropic Trust · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · American Online Giving Foundation 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 S Leigh Pierson & Douglas R Conant Family Cookie Jar 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.