· Private foundation
Think Happy Thoughts Foundation Inc
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 · FY2025
- Under $10k20 grants · $36k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $82k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Turning Point USA | $26,000 |
| Tennessee Tech Foundation | $25,000 |
| Pickett County Ministerial Association | $10,600 |
| Metz Family Foundation | $10,075 |
| Sisters Closet | $10,000 |
| fSPCA | $5,350 |
| Good Neighbors Theatre | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| Lambda Chi Alpha | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $3,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,232 |
| Bloomington Christian Church | $2,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,000 |
| Special Olypic Tenn | $1,000 |
| Hillsdale College Foundation | $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 (FY20–25, $17k) land where the poverty rate runs at 18%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 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 +74% since the first grant, against +0% for the ones you funded once.
13 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down; 16 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, 51% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $58k 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
ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC5× · 2021–2025 · $65k · revenue +74%- TPTURNING POINT USA INC5× · 2021–2025 · $31k · revenue +107%
STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION4× · 2022–2025 · $13k · revenue +83%
Funded once
- GCGospel Christian Churchone grant, 2021 · $18k
- ECEMERALD COAST FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2024 · $10k · revenue -4%
- SGSusan G Komen for the Cureone grant, 2024 · $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.
Sof is called to empower warriors to find purpose, be resilient, and live well. we develop and provide customized treatment plans for veterans through our national network of partners.
Freedom seekers international is a christian organization that exists to rescue the most severely persecuted for their religious faith in hostile and restrictive countries. through collaborative partnerships we deliver those who are…
We, holy cross hospital and trinity health, serve together in the spirit of the gospel as a compassionate and transforming healing presence within our communities. holy cross hospital is a member of trinity health.
Reaching and teaching pastors in the majority world.
The timothy initiative exists to advance christ's kingdom by multiplying disciples and disciple making churches around the world.
Our mission is to act to conserve threatened species and ecosystems worldwide, choosing solutions that are sustainable, based on sound science and take into account human needs.
To send care and comfort packages to deployed american military heroes who are stationed in active duty theaters around the world, as well as to facilitate activities that elevate morale of all veterans
The refuge foundation is a grant making organization that supports non-denominational christian retreat centers committed to the practice of silence, solitude and simplicity in a natural setting of god's creation where the participant…
Hopehouse international provides aid and housing to families adopting orphans in ukraine and adjacent european countries.
Winding branch ranch's mission is to rescue, revive, and rehome farm animals in need while educating communities about humane, ethical, and sustainable farming practices.
Samaritan servants international endeavors to rescue people as jesus mandated in luke 10 by ministering to people in destitute countries that have both physical and other needs for survival by offering food,water, shelter and hope through…
The family broadcasts the hope of jesus christ to strengthen and encourage listeners.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Wounded Warrior Project Inc and the most unlike its peers is Metz Family Foundation Inc. 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 23 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) — 7% 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.
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 76 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 JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds TURNING POINT USA INC ↗
- Who funds STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HOPE INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds SHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds THORNWELL ↗
- Who funds METZ FAMILY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds EMERALD COAST FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds TAMERLAINE FARM ANIMAL SANCTUARY ↗
- Who funds United Cajun Navy ↗
- Who funds FREEDOM FIGHTERS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GOOD NEIGHBORS THEATRE INC ↗
- Who funds Refuge International Inc ↗
- Who funds Serene Harbor Inc ↗
- Who funds TIM TEBOW FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds FLORIDA BOXER RESCUE INC ↗
- Who funds Heart For Children Inc ↗
- Who funds WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds FLORIDA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY 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: Aetna Foundation Inc · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Network for Good · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · American Endowment Foundation · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc
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 Think Happy Thoughts 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Serene Harbor Inc — 32% of income from government
- Florida Institute of Technology Inc — 3% of income from government
- Shriners Hospitals for Children — 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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