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The Valerious Family 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 FY2021–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k5 grants · $18k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FRIENDS OF THE CHICAGO HIGH SCHOOL FOR AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES | $10,000 |
| PROVIDENCE FARM COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| LAMBS FARMS | $5,000 |
| COUNTRYSIDE MONTESSORI SCHOOL INC | $2,500 |
| SAINT MARY'S UNIVERSITY OF MN | $2,500 |
| ASPEN HOPE CENTER | $2,500 |
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 (FY22–23, $5k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, 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.
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 +52% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
8 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down; 1 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, 56% 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
- UOUNIVERSITY OF UTAH2× · 2023–2024 · $19k
- TLTHE LAMBS FARM INC3× · 2023–2025 · $19k · revenue +52%
- QQUESTBRIDGE3× · 2022–2024 · $14k
Funded once
ST MARYS UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTAone grant, 2021 · $20k · revenue -9%- NHNEW HEIGHTS YOUTH INCone grant, 2024 · $10k · revenue 0%
- DCDEPAUL COLLEGE PREP FOUNDATIONone grant, 2024 · $5k · revenue -15%
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.
Philhaven promotes hope, healing and wholeness through the provision of behavioral resources.
St. marys university, as a catholic marianist university, fosters the formation of people in faith and educates leaders for the common good through community, integrated liberal arts and professional education, and academic excellence.
We educate the next generation of leaders to improve the health of our society.
St. paul academy and summit school (spa) is an independent college preparatory school serving students in kindergarten through grade 12 from saint paul, minneapolis, and surrounding communities. spa generates revenue from a variety of…
See schedule omonmouth university is a comprehensive institution of higher education committed to excellence and integrity in teaching, scholarship and service. through its offerings in liberal arts, sciences, and professional programs,…
As a catholic university, mount st. mary's graduates ethical leaders who are inspired by a passion for learning and lead lives of significance in service to god and others.
The mission of mount aloysius college is to respond to individual and community needs with quality programs of education in the tradition of the religious sisters of mercy.
Believing in the value of every life, mary's path empowers vulnerable teen mothers in foster care and their babies to create lives of dignity, hope and self-sufficiency.
To deliver quality and compassionate behavioral health services to individuals and families all the time through a trauma informed care philosophy and approach.
Advancing human understanding through education, research, and practice in behavioral science
Empowering children and adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities to achieve their individual potential.
Melmark is a human services provider with premier private special education schools, professional development, training, and research centers. melmark is committed to enhancing the lives of individuals within diverse communities with…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Lambs Farm Inc and the most unlike its peers is Providence Farm Community Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
14 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. 14 of the 20 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 ST MARYS UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA ↗
- Who funds THE LAMBS FARM INC ↗
- Who funds PROVIDENCE FARM COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NEW HEIGHTS YOUTH INC ↗
- Who funds COUNTRYSIDE MONTESSORI SCHOOLS INC ↗
- Who funds ASPEN HOPE CENTER ↗
- Who funds DEPAUL COLLEGE PREP FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE LORD'S PLACE INC ↗
- Who funds Adopt-A-Family of the Palm Beaches Inc ↗
- Who funds BELLA'S ANGELS INC ↗
- Who funds Maryville Academy ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF AVALANCHE PROFESSIONALS ↗
- Who funds Palm Beach County Food Bank Inc ↗
- Who funds MOUNT SOPRIS NORDIC COUNCIL 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 Pfizer Foundation Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · 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 Valerious 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Adopt-a-Family of the Palm Beaches Inc — 15% of income from government
- The Lord's Place Inc — 12% of income from government
- Palm Beach County Food Bank Inc — 0% of income from government
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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