· Private foundation
The Straddlefork Foundation
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
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k5 grants · $17k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $49k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CHAPEL OF THE CROSS EPISCOPAL CHURC | $24,000 |
| CAMP BRATTON GREEN GRAY CENTER | $15,000 |
| DELTA COTTON BELLES | $10,000 |
| ST VINCENT DE PAUL | $5,000 |
| GREENVILE CEMETARY ASSOCIATION | $5,000 |
| FRIENDS OF THE LIBRARY | $2,500 |
| MISSISSIPPI ANIMAL RESCUE LEAGUE | $2,000 |
| WASHINGTON COUNTY MASTER GARDNERS | $2,000 |
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 (FY22–22, $3k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 21%. 0% 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.
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.
9 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2024, 6 since wound down; 5 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, 47% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $35k 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
- GAGREENVILLE ARTS COUNCIL2× · 2022–2023 · $4k · revenue +11%
- SCSHARKEY-ISSAQUENA COUNTY LIBRARY2× · 2020–2021 · $4k · revenue +4%
- MAMISSISSIPPI ANIMAL RESCUE LEAGUE2× · 2023–2024 · $4k · revenue +1%
Funded once
- GCGREENVILLE CYPRESS PRESERVE TRUSTgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $6k · revenue +73% · 48% of their budget
- DSDELTA STATE UNIVERSITY - DULCE FUNDone grant, 2023 · $5k
- MLMISSISSIPPI LOWER DELTA PARTNERSHIPone grant, 2023 · $5k
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.
Improvement of the business conditions of agriculture and trade in the mississippi delta communities and in industrial development in the mississippi delta
To promote and assist in economic development, job creation and job training for washington county, ms and surrounding areas. to promote and assist existing businesses in the area.
Provide live theatre for all ages and abilities
The Yazoo Library Association Provides Public Library Services to the Citizens of Yazoo County, Mississippi
To promote travel and tourism within dekalb county, alabama
Preserve the history of shelby county al
Operation of county museum and preservation of museum assets
Promoting and supporting the development of quality affordable housing to the community it serves, including the acquisition, development, construction, and operation thereof.
Operate and maintain a cemetery
Community mental health center
Operate local historical museum
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United Way of Washington County Inc and the most unlike its peers is Foundation for the Mid South Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
12 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 12 of the 30 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 DELTA COTTON BELLES INC ↗
- Who funds MISSISSIPPIS LOWER DELTA PARTNERSHIP ↗
- Who funds GREENVILLE CYPRESS PRESERVE TRUST ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY COUNSELING CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds GREENVILLE ARTS COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds SHARKEY-ISSAQUENA COUNTY LIBRARY ↗
- Who funds MISSISSIPPI ANIMAL RESCUE LEAGUE ↗
- Who funds DELTA CENTER STAGE INC ↗
- Who funds GRACE HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds FORREST SPENCE FUND ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATION FOR THE MID SOUTH INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF WASHINGTON COUNTY 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: Fred Schelben Foundation · Howard & Carole Brent Foundation · Reed Family Charitable Foundation · Cortright Family Charitable Foundation · 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 Straddlefork 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.