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Thewes 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 FY2019–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k3 grants · $18k
- $10k–50k8 grants · $158k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $205k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| LC PASTORAL SERVICES INCORPORATED | $90,000 |
| PINECREST ACADEMY | $65,000 |
| CONSECRATED WOMEN INC | $50,000 |
| SACRED HEART APOSTOLIC SCHOOL | $35,000 |
| EVEREST ACADEMY | $30,000 |
| CRC NA INC | $20,000 |
| ST THOMAS MORE ACADEMY | $20,000 |
| THE DOVE'S NEST INC | $15,000 |
| MISSIONARIES OF CHARITY | $12,500 |
| RIGHT TO LIFE - LIFESPAN EDUCATION FUND | $12,500 |
| THE DIVINE MERCY | $12,500 |
| MARY'S MANTLE | $7,500 |
| MOTHER AND UNBORN BABY CARE | $5,000 |
| THE LENNON PREGNANCY CENTER | $5,000 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY19–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 36% of your 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +33% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
20 repeat relationships — 13 still active in FY2025, 7 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, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $15k 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
- RTRight to Life - Lifespan Educational Fund6× · 2020–2025 · $73k · revenue +44%
- MRMEDIA RESEARCH CENTER2× · 2019–2020 · $42k · revenue +33%
- MAMother and Unborn Baby Care Inc7× · 2019–2025 · $37k · revenue +6%
Funded once
- CWCONSECRATE WOMEN INCone grant, 2021 · $20k
- RTRIGHT TO LIFE-LIFESPAN INCone grant, 2019 · $10k
- SHSACRED HEART MAJOR SEMINARYone grant, 2020 · $10k
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 Pregnancy Care Center is a Christian organization to promote the Gospel of Jesus Christ, and to boldly endorse the sacredness of all human life, by providing comprehensive, practical services as enduring alternatives to abortion.
Pregnancy resource center (prc) exists to prevent abortions and provide eternal truth through evidence based medical services and the gospel of jesus christ.
To provide natural integrated ob-gyn healthcare, fertilitycare, and pregnancy help services for all women while honoring life.
The Womens Pregnancy Center is a Christ-centered ministry designed to engage and inform women in unplanned pregnancies, empowering them to make life-affirming decisions.
To rescue lives from the destruction of abortion through innovative marketing, strategy, and technology solutions.
To prevent abortion by offering mothers and their families information and services that will empower them to choose life for their child and sexual intergity for themselves.
We are an outreach ministry of jesus christ committed to providing compassionate guidance, education, and help for all involved prior to, during, and following an unplanned pregnancy.
Life Matters Worldwide encourages, equips and strengthens pregnancy care workers so they can continue to provide life-affirming services.
To provide pregnancy testing (including ultrasound examinations), counseling, and referrals as needed (including post-abortion counseling) in our offices and through our 24-hour help-line.
Promoting the sanctity of human life by reaching out with christ's love through our pregnancy resource center, medical clinic, and sexual and relationship educational programs.
To provide christian based outreach to clients by providing services and information free of charge to anyone in a crisis pregnancy situation, with the goal of assisting the client to carry the pregnancy to term and with continued care…
Vindex media is a non-profit organization whose mission is to be a voice for unborn children. our purpose is to educate and expose culture to the evil of abortion until every person has the right to be born.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Live Action and the most unlike its peers is Right to Life - Lifespan Educational Fund. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
9 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. 9 of the 27 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 Right to Life - Lifespan Educational Fund ↗
- Who funds MEDIA RESEARCH CENTER ↗
- Who funds Mother and Unborn Baby Care Inc ↗
- Who funds MARY'S MANTLE ↗
- Who funds THE LENNON CENTER ↗
- Who funds THE DOVES NEST INC ↗
- Who funds LIVE ACTION ↗
- Who funds URBI ET ORBI COMMUNICATIONS INC ↗
- Who funds Acton Institute for the Study of Religion and Liberty ↗
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: Catholic Foundation of Michigan · American Endowment Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving 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 Thewes 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.
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